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so we’re in part 6 of a series that
we’re calling charged up and I initially
plan for this series to be four weeks
and it’s turned into about nine of them
and it’s because I really believe that
as God is sharing with us how we’re
supposed to stay connected to him he’s
trying to give us practical steps and
just real life application of what we’re
supposed to do in this Christian life
and so today we’ve been using the
analogy of a cell phone and everybody
has a cell phone in here and we’ve been
talking about the simple but complex
thought that all of our cell phones no
matter the potential no matter how much
we can use them they have to stay
charged up and many of you this week
your cell phone went dead
how many people’s cell phone went dead
this week just your actual cell phone
okay
went dead this week how many of your
people your cell phone was on low
battery at some point this week okay how
many people in this room their cell
phone stay charged up the entire week
charged up the entire week come on you
ain’t getting no calls I’m just playing
I’m just playing just playing but that’s
how God intends for us to live our life
everybody say charged up but many times
we’re using our life we’re using things
that are draining us we’re surrounded by
people that drain us we’re surrounded by
situation some of y’all work at a job
that drains you by the time you get out
of there every week I saw some people
look at each other like you know like
like by the time you get out of there
every day you feel like I just want to
eat I’m gonna sleep and I’m gonna act
like nothing else exists okay some
people are in a relationship that’s
draining you some people that think that
God’s called you to the effort time and
energy you have to put into it for it to
be successful it’s draining see the
thing is life has things in it that
drain us but God is supposed to be the
ultimate supplier that continues to fill
us back up
the problem is many of us do not connect
to him daily if your cell phone is in
use every day you plug up to a charger
every day but how is it that we’re being
drained in our life in our attitude and
our stuff and many of us only plug up
once a week when we come to church and
if that some of us are running on a
charge that we got six months ago a year
ago even and we’re wondering why we
can’t be as effective why we’re not
reaching potential why ours our stuff
not moving at the speed you know my
phone has this thing where it goes into
low battery mode I don’t know if your
phone has this but what happens is like
I want to see it at a certain brightness
and it says oh no no no because if you
see it at that brightness we’re gonna
die could it be that some of the light
that God has placed on the inside of us
is not shining as bright because we
haven’t been charged up in a while and
it says no no no no you can’t shine that
bright because you don’t even have
enough energy for that and some of us I
used to be passionate about God people
used to say you are so encouraging
people used to do that but it’s almost
been like I’ve just had enough to make
it just had enough what I want to help
you that God is our power source that he
is infinite that he can give you
everything that you need to live your
hectic life your perfect life your
working life your family life and then
he gives us his word which is the
distributor of power so we have a power
source that we plug into then we get the
Word of God that distributes power and
then that has a connector which is
prayer and worship no cord ever just has
one thing in it a cord if you open it up
it has more than one cord in it and the
cord right here is prayer in worship we
talked the past two weeks about prayer
and please if you did not hear those
messages go back
and watch them online because it’ll
teach you how to pray show you why we
pray make it practical in your life and
now today we’re gonna talk about worship
but it’s all to benefit you it’s all so
you can reach potential I want you to
hear me say this very clearly that what
you’ve been leave living in your life is
not God’s maximum for your life you may
have not been told that all week but I’m
here to tell you right now there is more
for you than what you have been
experiencing so far but the only way
that you’re going to reach it be able to
sustain it and be able to walk in it is
by staying charged up so today we’re
gonna go over the simple basic
revelation of worship with the message
that I’m titling what is worship what is
worship and the reason I titled it so
simple is because we act like people
know what worship is I mean before I
became a pastor I just assumed to
everybody who went to church knew what
worship is but as I started to ask
people what is worship you would be
surprised at some of the answers that I
give I mean it’s like oh my god that’s
me you’re on the worship team that’s
what you thought worship was people
think that at salvation you
automatically get an understanding of
how to worship it’s many times a lot of
churches fault because we don’t teach on
worship we just expect people to come in
and do it and God really begin to deal
with me and he said Michael people don’t
really know what worship is people think
worship are the two slow songs at the
beginning of church oh yeah that’s my oh
I can’t miss worship we can forget
praise but let me get that for worship
people have seen what other people do
and what they think worship is and they
start mimicking what that is but people
aren’t worshiping with any type of
understanding so today I want you to
open your heart in your mind on a very
basic subject that you may already think
you
have a revelation of but I want you to
realize it and see a brand new and a
fresh that worship is much more than
what we think it is worship is why you
were created the reason that God made
you was so that you could worship and
even says in the word he said if my
creation won’t worship me then I gotta
get the trees and the rocks to begin to
do it
he said it’s such a part of what I want
from my people that I have to show them
what worship truly is so somebody needs
to really recognize that worship is not
just the two slow songs at the beginning
of service that worship is not just us
coming in a place and lifting up our
hands worship is not just us finding our
our secret place worship is a lifestyle
worship is how I live in response to
where God is and so today we’re going to
figure out what is worship and with
understanding proverbs four seven says
wisdom is the principal thing therefore
get wisdom and in all your getting get
an understanding let me help you many
people have knowledge but they don’t
have an understanding so they can’t walk
in wisdom I’m gonna say that again many
people have knowledge but they don’t
have an understanding so they can’t walk
in wisdom let me give you this for most
believers most believers have a
knowledge of Matthew 18:20 where two or
three believers are gathered in his name
their God is he is right there so when
we come in here every Sunday we have
knowledge that God is here
because there’s way more than two or
three people in this room right now
God is here how many people believe God
and love God in this room God is here
but that’s knowledge we don’t have an
understanding because 15 minutes ago
with the knowledge that God is here some
people stood there and it didn’t have
the wisdom to worship
I want to help you you know something
but you don’t understand its value and
so you don’t walk in wisdom to do it
their churches all over the world that
people came into the presence of God
today and stood there and judged the
song and critique the singing instead of
worshiping the king now I may not to be
talking to you but I’m talking about how
I used to be before I got an
understanding of what worship truly is
it’s the way I live my life towards God
and today I want us to see it broken
down very plainly and very clearly 0.1
what is worship worship is much more
than a song I’m gonna make it real plain
and real elementary for you today
because I want you to see this very
clearly see worship should be the
soundtrack of what our lives look like
it should be the audio to the visual let
me give you an example we just sang that
song I believe in you I believe in you
you’re the god of miracles he said I
want you to sing that but I want you to
live that he would rather you not put it
to a melody and actually believe him for
the thing that’s too big in your life
the circumstance that’s huge he would
rather you believe it than sing it when
we sing son no weapon formed against me
shall prosper say it won’t work he would
rather you not sing it and believe it
see it’s much more than a song worship
is one of the most powerful corporate
worship to melodies and songs it’s one
of the most powerful tools in the world
and I’m going to talk about that next
week but so I can get into you what
worship really is you have to understand
it’s much more than a song people sing
oceans spirit lead me where am I what’s
the words trust is Without Borders let
me walk upon the waters wherever you
would call me
I would rather you have faith to walk on
water then to sing a song about it and
stand in fear worship is much more than
the song it should be the soundtrack to
where you’re trying to align your heart
to so when I when I’m when I’m
worshiping when I put on that song
that’s supposed to be the vocal of where
my heart is so when I say I will exalt
you I will exalt you
I will it solve you you are my god I’m
saying that that’s where my heart is
today I’m frustrated but I will exalt
you I’m hurting but I will it’s on you
I’m mad but I will it’s on you cuz no
matter what I feel right now you are my
god it should be the soundtrack to where
my heart is
worship is much more than a song I got
to go into worship know you don’t go
into worship you live worship I smile
it’s time for worship know I’m living
worship and until we recognize that we
will relegate our worship to God to the
band being good to my playlist being
right to say it’s sounding like Carrie
job or Tasha Cobbs or whoever like like
this can worship to that
come on we’ve all done it if it wasn’t
our style if it wasn’t our speed if for
that one and God says am i worth more
than the sound and so what I’m trying to
tell you that music is a major part of
worship okay but it’s much more than a
song look at Deuteronomy for me because
I’m gonna Deuteronomy chapter 1 and I
want to show you something that I’m
gonna spoil it right now point two and
three what is worship worship is love
0.3 worship is love expressed okay but I
haven’t given you a point that this
first point I’m still on point 1 but I
want to just let you know worship is
love expressed okay it’s us expressing
our love to God so if worship is love
and worship is expressed and I’ll talk
about that more in just a moment
Deuteronomy tells us how we worship God
in love and then how we’re supposed to
express it and I want you to see these
four things because this may
revolutionize how you view worship right
here Deuteronomy 11 verse 1 it says you
must love the Lord your God that’s the
the love part now they’re gonna tell us
how to express it and always obey his
requirements decrees regulations and
commands so what this is saying is
worship is you loving God and you
express it through obedience oh that
ain’t no song this is what God loves to
hear that’s why the scripture says that
your obedience is better than he would
rather you obey Him he says because
that’s worship so what does that look
like practically Pastor Mike because you
know I like to make everything very
practical when I tithe it’s worship
because I’m baying what God said to do
that is worship ain’t no song with that
but God says oh I love to hear is that
my child worshiping me when they sit and
they honor me with their finances before
they go and do everything else would as
some good worship right there
what does what
should look like it says loving your
enemy cuz that’s what the Word of God
says so when we love our enemy God hears
worship see he’s saying you have to obey
his commands obey his regulations obey
husband when you treat your wife right
that’s worship to God so you know that
you thought it was about you God says
I’ve put in the book what you’re
supposed to do and when you do that when
you obey my commands that is worship
to me it’s much more than a song look at
verse 13 it says if you carefully obey
the commands I’m giving you today and if
you love the Lord your God there’s the
love part again now it’s about to tell
us how to express it and serve him with
your whole with your heart and soul that
word serve right there in the Hebrew is
actually worship Him if you love the
Lord your God and you worship Him or you
serve him so what does that mean what
does worship look like that you love God
and you express it through service that
you serve that you be God’s hands and
feet on this earth that’s worship see
something else like oh I’d rather just
go back to a carry job song cuz this
sounds involved I read I should have
just been doing my thing but God says
when you serve others when you’re my
hands and feet when you’re my extension
on this earth when you look at somebody
who’s in need and you meet their need
not expecting anything back I see
worship think about miss kim van Daele
sitting right here on the front row
every Sunday morning she wouldn’t want
me to tell you this because she doesn’t
do it for any accolades but I want you
to see what worship looks like every
Sunday morning not because it’s
something that transformation church
commanded because we don’t have a
ministry for it yet but she saw homeless
people downtown that were in need and
every Sunday more every single Sunday
morning she goes down there and takes
them sandwiches in water and socks and
talks to him and speaks to them and then
she comes in the service and worships
God on this front row no
Facebook posts no Instagram posts no
height no team but she is loving God and
she’s serving you don’t think God says I
love the way Kim worships see it’s not
the melody the churches put so much
emphasis on how it comes out and in in
the vocal chords and God’s more
concerned about how it comes out how we
use our life how we use our actions how
we use our thoughts to be able to
worship God
so it’s loving God and obeying him
worship is loving God and serving him
look at verse 22 Deuteronomy 11 verse 22
it says be careful to obey these
commands I’m giving you they’re being
remedial and telling us the same thing
it says show love to the Lord your God
there’s that love part now they’re gonna
tell us how to express it by walking in
his ways and holding tightly to him so
what does that mean practically Pastor
Mike love God and express it through
walking in his ways God has given us a
very succinct systematic way of living
our life as believers and the problem
with this part of it being worship is
the world is giving us a very different
perspective of how we can live our life
here what I’m saying to you the word
tells us very clearly as narrow as the
word Road that narrow is not a wide road
the the road that God wants us to live
in the past the world we’re supposed to
walk in it has some distinct footsteps
that we’re supposed to follow how we’re
supposed to when everybody else is doing
things to just let their feelings out
that we’re supposed to go to prayer and
fight in the in the closet first well I
don’t feel like doing it but that’s the
path that was laid out for us when
everybody is saying it’s okay to have
sex with anybody you want because you
don’t want to commit to something you
don’t know how it rides yet
well well that’s a wide road that God
told us a very specific he said I need
you to walk the way that I’ve asked you
to walk that is worship to me so every
time you make a decision not to lie on
your taxes and you’re telling the truth
he said that’s worship see I’m coming to
really present worship in a brand-new
way to you because we think worship is
those songs and God says worship is your
life I want to be worshipped in the way
you interact with your co-workers I want
to be worshipped how you respect those
who are in authority over you that don’t
like you worship me in your reaction
when they ask you to do something that
they didn’t ask nobody else to do when
they talk about you but what is your
reaction and God says I gave them a
chance to worship me I’m giving them an
opportunity right now to respond to me
in the in the way that I’ve asked them
to walk and that’s true worship and then
the last part of that says hold tightly
to him hold tightly to God so you’re
supposed to love God and express it
through staying close it’s hard to hold
tightly to something that you’re far
away from and many people when we come
to God it’s like God’s out there and
we’re right here and God’s saying I need
you to voluntarily stay close to me make
me the priority when you make me the
priority
that’s worship to me some of y’all are
coming here this morning was worship to
God he said oh my goodness
I know how late they stayed up last
night and it was watching Netflix and
chilling and I know I know that when
that alarm went off they hit it four
times but they said you know what I’m
going to get up and I’m gonna honor God
and I’m gonna put him first I’m gonna
stay close because faith comes by
hearing and hearing by the word I’m
gonna stay close to him I’m not gonna go
throughout this week trying to figure
this out
go here whatever Pastor Mike has to say
cuz I know he’s been hearing from God
and I know I’m gonna get in the presence
of God and I’m gonna honor God first he
said that’s worship my children decided
to get up and worship me this morning so
why are you saying all this Pastor Mike
because worship is much more than a song
it’s the way we live our life so the
simplest two words that I can say is
worship is love expressed okay so I’m
gonna talk about those two words give
you one more point and then we out of
here for the day so next point point
number two worship is love worship is
love the greatest thing that you can
ever do is love God and God doesn’t want
you to do things out of any other
emotion or any other decision except
love he wants to oh he wants you to obey
out of love he wants you to sacrifice
and serve out of love he wants you to to
be able to reach your potential in him
walking the narrow path out of love he
wants you to keep him close because you
love him that’s what God wants from
everybody he is not trying to get us to
do something that we don’t want to do
and that’s what many believers believe
that I got a worship God not I get to
worship God I have to go to church today
not I get to get in a place where other
people that think like me believe like
me and we get to worship our God
together and until we change that
paradigm in our mind it’s a half-two and
God wants it to become something that
you get to do
that’s where worship comes from because
worship is love and let me say this feed
you will never be able to worship God
right if you don’t love it if worship is
love expressed you you cannot worship
God out of fear expressed I’m gonna help
you cuz some people come to church and
lift their hands to somebody looking at
them I want them to think that I’m holy
or what God says forget all that when
you worship me I want it to be your love
your love express to me that’s why when
I get up here on the front row I don’t
care what I have on I’ve had people tell
me I’d be jumping sweating if you ever
want to see
your pastor worship and praise God just
while you not worshiping anyway just
look over here for a second and you see
I’m on the ground I’m worshiping and I
don’t do it for show cuz it’s not about
you
it is my love expressed to God but with
Nona I remember a season and I’m just
being real I remember a season where I
did not love God the way I loved him
then and I couldn’t worship I would
stand in worship experience and be so
critical look at her she can’t even sing
look at him he too big to be wearing
that shirt late why I got so dark in
here
they sing this song every Sunday and
what happened is I couldn’t enter in to
what I needed
cuz the key ingredient of love what near
I love me more than I love guy that’s
why if anybody started talking about me
I could express it I could express how I
felt I could express how but without
love you can’t express anything to God
and so the first thing we have to deal
with when we talk about worship is do
you love God if you can answer that
question do I really love God then
worship should be a natural thing for
you but if you have things that are
coming to cloud your vision of your love
of God or you’ve had situation that have
made your love leak for God then what
ends up happening is when it comes time
to worship Him it’s like I just can’t
work that’s anybody can we be real hot
in here
has anybody known they were supposed to
worship but just didn’t feel it just I
mean last week yes he I want to be fake
I’m a pastor last week I went through
some stuff me and that was communicating
financial stuff different things happen
and the enemy Ephesian 6:16 tells us
that he is trying to to shoot arrows and
our heart want to make our love for God
leak out that’s why when you have
difficulties in your life it’s not aimed
at anything except to take your love for
God and that’s why we try to blame God
God I thought you was gonna be there for
me
god I thought you said the weapon will
prosper I’m bleeding I’m bleeding
do you see me I’m hurt like and what
happens is if too many of those arrows
from the enemy land we didn’t get the
scholarship we thought we were a shoo-in
for we got injured and we thought we
were going to be able to have this
career we didn’t get picked for that
promotion those things the enemy tries
to change our perception so that we can
think somehow God doesn’t love us and
God doesn’t think good over listen if it
didn’t happen that time he’s got
something better for you but what
happens is many times is we get stuck in
the moment instead of magnifying God and
worshiping him and making him bigger in
the moment then the situation becomes
bigger than our love for God leaks out
so you go one disappointment two
disappointments three disappointments
four disappointments you look up five
months later and you’re standing in a
worship experience steel and you knew
like you know how good god is you know
that God is faithful but you can’t seem
to muster up mm-hmm it’s cuz the love
that God desires for you to worship and
Express to him it’s beginning to leak
out but this is the great thing for all
believers at salvation God gave you the
love that you needed that didn’t come
natural in you let me tell you this
jesus said in Matthew 22:37 one of the
most amazing things he said you must
love the Lord your God with all your
heart all your soul and all your mind
this is the first and greatest
commandment if Jesus said that to me
I’ll be like well I’m disqualified
because you say love them with all your
heart your soul your mind that is a tall
order but look what Deuteronomy 36 says
it says the Lord God will change your
heart and the hearts of your descendants
so that you will love him with all your
heart and all your soul so you may live
don’t you aren’t you glad that we serve
a God that doesn’t require what he
doesn’t supply this is the thing you got
to realize the love of God is in you
when you get saved but now you have to
protect it you have to guard yourself
against things that come to take the
love out of your heart for God this is
the thing where it tells us in Ephesians
that we’re supposed to put up the shield
of faith which quenches all of those
fiery darts that come from the enemy to
try to discourage you depress you and
all that some know that’s why I’m so
glad you’re here this morning because
your faith is getting rebuilt right now
and when the enemy comes this week to
challenge you like God didn’t care about
you in that situation see I told you
this wasn’t going to work out I promise
you that God’s not gonna use you you’re
able to say no no no no no and matter of
fact just because you came at me I’m a
worship God all the more I’m going to
say God I love you in the midst of this
trial I love you even though I feel very
down and what happens is you’re able to
express the love that’s already in you
so I want you to hear me say this very
clearly that worship is love first and
some of you in this room need to do they
need to ask God God revitalize your love
give me a revelation of love show me
show me how to love you better sure
father God put in me put back in me coz
some of y’all like mine all the way
leaked out I’m empty god I’m thanking
you that you were adore me to the joy of
my salvation that’s what that looks like
see we say these phrases but we don’t
know what they mean God put that love
back in me and I promise you if you do
that and just ask them
the Holy Spirit is the one he’s a
teacher he can give you all things with
you ask him he begins to do it and some
of y’all gonna be like man this week I
asked God to reignite love in me I mean
I feel like worshiping all the time
I feel like I feel like going to another
put man I feel like turning off that
music that takes from me and putting on
the music that adds to me I feel like I
feel like doing doing more than what I’m
doing right now it’s because the love is
bad think about any relationship love
has to be there for you to express it so
I want you to realize that your love for
God is the primary ingredient for you to
worship so some people say okay Pastor
Mike so why does it seem like some
people love God more than others because
there are some people you can play
nothing and they’re like oh god you’re
also like you know those people that are
just like good just missed it let me
help you love grows love grows let me
ask anybody who has a teenage child or a
young adult child do you love your child
less the same or more than you did when
they were born more because love grows
you may not like them as much let me be
on your nerves but you love them because
love grows so if you’re new in the faith
I want you to realize that it’s okay
your love for God is gonna grow but
again if you don’t protect it the enemy
tries to make you so discouraged that
God doesn’t care that he doesn’t love
you that that’s why it’s so important to
watch who can speak into your life you
can’t just let anybody talk to you I’m
not talking in acid itty pumped up
prideful way but there are certain
people that I will not let your
negativity in your view of this
situation
cloud how God is trying to change my
life
cuz perspective is everything and when
you allow people to start telling you
see you thought you’d be married by now
we’re yet then you’ll start to feel like
somehow God forgot about you in that
level start to leak out then it’ll come
time to worship and you’re like ah
that’s why in your midst of trial you
gotta have people around you that’s why
you gotta get in belong groups that’s
why you gotta make a decision that I
always come to church cuz even if I
don’t feel like it I’m gonna get in the
environment that’s gonna build my faith
up and be able to add back to me I’m
telling y’all some of y’all are so
depressed cuz all you do is get
counselor by facebook that is the most
devastating place to get filled back up
because you will compare yourself and
listen to the suggestion of the enemy
y’all graduated the same year look at
her you don’t even know this girl’s you
don’t even know you Norma come on let’s
be honest so then when it says do you
come here pastor might say and all we
have to do is stay plugged up and
charged up and worship God and pray it
seems like a task because there’s no
love there what I’m encouraging you
right now is to turn down the
distraction and turn up the
magnification of who God is and you’ll
be able to worship let’s talk about this
next word expressed worship is 0.3 love
expressed okay love has to be expressed
let me give you the definition of
expressed it means to convey a thought
or feeling and words or gestures and
conduct okay
so we have to convey that means
communicate words how I speak to God
gestures lifting of my hands clocking of
my hand pumping God I love you jumping
that’s all of those things are gestures
of worship when it’s to God and conduct
the way you live what what I’m telling
everybody is that you have to do
something other than fill it on the
inside I love God
your love God I had to so I missed you
okay anyway I didn’t want to but it’s
just the way I said it it had to come
out okay watch but I weren’t into people
a lot of times would be like I love God
I’m just not expressive like ah you know
I really die deep down on the inside I’m
burning with a passion and a fire I mean
it’s whoa it’s bubbling but I just don’t
express it in the same way hear me you
don’t have to express it in the same way
but you have to express it that means
you have to communicate outside of
yourself through words god I love you
there’s nobody like you over here I’m
gonna love you there’s nobody like you
hallelujah you can be at your sea gonna
love you there’s no why do you like you
hallelujah God still heard that see so
many times we want it in the same way
some of my old school Saints may get up
here and they yeah they don’t get up
here okay but the thing you can’t take
from them is they’re expressing so if
you’re a young person and you wanna or
you wanna do something else that’s fine
you can express it but you can’t
cuz that’s not worship because worship
always has to be love and worship always
has to be expressed
swine up here and the song comes on I’ll
lift my hands why cuz I gotta express it
it cannot stay on the inside of me it
cannot it’s gotta be like Jeremiah will
shut up in my bones and that felt like
fire when y’all fire what do you do you
and some of us we sitting here in the
presence of God and we say we love him
but we don’t express it so it’s not
worship let me tell you very clearly
worship is love everybody say express I
want to challenge you don’t ever come
into this church or any other Church if
the music’s wrong if the praise and
worship leader ain’t show style if
anything and not express your love to
God it’s why no matter how I’m feeling
lift my hands cuz this ain’t about you
and this ain’t about y’all cuz that’s
what we do whoa
I look a little I mean this suit is nice
and I don’t want to look like and God
says I’ve been beaten
I’ve been sketched I’ve been spit on to
prove my love to you to express my love
to you all I’m asking you to do is in
any moment that you have use what you
have your words your gestures the way
you live your life and tithing in
treating your family writing if I just
want you to express it to me look let me
help you because it’s amazing to me how
if I take the same non-expressive people
in church and put them at the NBA Finals
or the Super Bowl or a Taylor Swift
Beyonce Kanye Frankie Beverly amaze
concert
that’s not zap that bad bad bad Oh
everybody’s doing all of this stuff now
watch watch now that’s funny and that’s
normal in those environments but what
God sees is you worshiping something
other than him see you missed it you
missed it you come in here and you like
this but if Bieber came in but too late
to say sorry and you own your everywhere
the Beehive comes alive if Beyonce says
anything to information you like she
don’t even know you you didn’t but what
I’m saying to you is what I’m saying to
you is that there’s something that you
love that you’re willing to express for
so when God looks at it and he says
you’ve been coming here for a year not
giving not doing anything and you won’t
even express your love to me but you’ll
pay $250 to stand in the cold with your
face painted with your shirt off and
you’re overweight I mean it’s happening
every Sunday during football season
screaming your lungs out for people who
don’t know you and have never sacrificed
for you
I’m teaching good if you feel a pin or
not uneven can hear me but what I want
you to know is that I love you so much
that I don’t even ask you to do all that
I just ask you in your own way in your
own way to make it a priority to express
your love to me with your words god I
love you
what’s your gestures that’s why we lift
our hands not as a religious yoga or
exercise some people like lift your
hands okay
Lycia hands okay it’s nobody should have
to tell you to lift your hands or to
kneel or to worship why because this is
how I am expressing my love
kneeling laying prostrate there’s times
that I just said god I’m gonna looks
crazy for you and I just lay out on my
face in the presence of God why cuz it
ain’t about you and it’s not about them
it’s all about me expressing my love to
him does that make sense to you so
worship is more than a song worship is
love first and worship is a love
expressed last point worship is the
proper response worship is the proper
response the English definition of
worship is to ascribe Worth to something
or someone to assign a value to it okay
so it’s worth ship you could think about
it like that like you’re worth it like
you’re worth ship worship okay so me and
Natalie went to the movies this past
weekend and we saw a movie and it was
but before we ever got into the movie we
had to ascribe or assign worth to it so
that movie was $11 per ticket okay so we
had to assign the worth to it and that
was how we got to experience it okay
when I watch a TV show for 30 minutes or
an hour I assign worth to it I said this
TV show is worth 30 minutes of my time
so I ascribe or assigned value or worth
to it when I sit up at night and I read
to my daughter and my son and Bella
wants to look at every picture and I’m
like go to sleep like I’m saying so it’s
like an hour but I do it because I’m
assigning value to my children do you
understand what I’m saying okay so this
is the beautiful thing about about God
and about you and I want you to write
this phrase down it’s a little long but
I want you to write it down my life and
the way I live ascribe Worth to
everything that I live for my life and
the way I live ascribe Worth to
everything that I live for how much time
energy and effort you put or the value
you put on it
that shows what you worship Sayla what
do you spend the most time doing value
on how what do you sacrifice for that
shows you what you worship the reason
that I tithe is not because the church
needs my money
I can’t that ain’t a good enough reason
for me just not and I’m the pastor of
the church the reason I tie because it
puts value on my relationship with God
he asked me to do it because I love him
I don’t do it because I’m scared I’m
doing it because he told me to and he’s
the one that I call father and he knows
the plan that he has for me and he’s the
one that’s from Jehovah Jireh my
provider anyway so God I you can do more
with 90 then I can do with a hundred
what I’m doing right now is I’m
ascribing value to him you understand
what I’m saying so let’s pull this
analogy because I think you understand
it as I close if a man is proposing to a
woman okay
no smart man ever shows up to a proposal
without one thing the ring look all the
lady said the ring duh okay it’s because
when that girl goes back to her
co-workers or her friends she don’t want
us to have to say oh I got engaged this
weekend so you don’t want to even have
to say that she wants to be able to walk
in and give the international sign of
engagement like you see you know that
she don’t even want to see just wants to
ah and listen the friend don’t even care
about him all the friend cares about is
seeing the ring because that ring is
ascribing value to that woman how much
does he love you
ha I’m telling you this is what happens
how much did he spend how many burgers
did he flip how many how many I know
dudes in this room I got you John John
that baby wrote a bike too chick-fil-a
he doesn’t serve more chick-fil-a
sandwiches to propose to johnnesha why
cuz he wanted to prove to her that he
loved her and that she was worth the
sacrifice I’m gonna need a tip for this
later doc okay hear me so the ring in
our day is the sign of worth that a man
has for his wife how much does the groom
love his bride
well if I bring that to spiritual terms
the cross is the engagement ring
of the Bride of Christ God God God
sacrificed everything he could to prove
to you and me that we were worth it so
when we look at the cross that should
let us know that God’s already ascribed
a sign so much worth to our lives and we
have to respond accordingly can I say it
like this the cross shows heaven hail
and all of Earth how much the groom
loves the bride worship shows heaven
hail and all of Earth how much the bride
loves the groom so when you stand in the
presence of God and don’t worship don’t
clap don’t talk don’t lift your hands
don’t um live your life properly you’re
saying I don’t value your sacrifice so
if a man came up right now and proposed
to a woman with a six carat diamond ring
but some of the some of y’all just got
the Holy Ghost for the first time today
and the woman stood there and said
thanks you’re good
everybody in this audience would think
not what’s wrong with the groom
what’s wrong with the bride so when we
look at the sacrifice that Christ made
on the cross and we stand in the
presence of God and say oh thanks that
was good
we’re sure the Angels aren’t saying
what’s wrong with the groom saying
what’s wrong with the bride the Prince
of all heaven has sacrificed everything
for this ungrateful unattractive dirty
bride made of dirt water and salt and
they won’t even respond properly to what
he’s done it’s why would we created
y’all to respond back to God in worship
that’s why I’ll never come in the
presence of God I don’t care if two dogs
are singing it’s not about who’s singing
it’s about me giving and responding to
what God has done for me they understand
what I’m saying that’s why I can go into
the Presbyterian Church the Baptist
Church I can go into anything and they
start singing some Jesus on them again
but you turn for me
what happens on the inside of me though
that’s not the go-to on my playlist I
start remembering and I start lifting up
my hands and I start declaring who he is
by my words my gestures and the way I
live my life my conduct worship is more
than a song worship is obeying God
serving God staying close to God walking
in his way worship is our love and it’s
our love express and worship is the
proper
to the sacrifice that the groom is made
for the bride please don’t ever live
your life without responding to what
God’s done for you