How to Worship with Your Life
Type of Event: Worship Service: Sermon only
Date Recorded: 23 Jul, 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, PA 
Topics: Worship / Prayer / Meditation , Ritual
Description: "'...And what does Jehovah require of you
But to do justly,
To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?'"
What does the Lord require of us, when it comes to worship? Why do we come to church? Why do we pray? Why do we read the Word? All these activities make up what might be called the life of piety. This sort of worship, though, is only external. The Lord has told us several times that vain repetitions, extravagant ritual and external worship in general is not what He is chiefly concerned with. External worship is merely a representative of -- and support for -- real worship. Internal, true worship is a life of charity. It is repenting, shunning evil, being useful, and doing good works for our neighbors. This doesn't mean external ritual doesn't matter. External worship is like clothing: we need it, but it can be changed. The only requirement is that it serve internal worship. Proper external worship is whatever ritual we choose that inspires, instructs and prepares us so that we may make our daily lives into continual, true worship, which is the life of charity.
To see how this is so, read Micah 6:6-8, Matthew 6:5-8, and Secrets of Heaven 10143:3-5, 6, and then listen to the full sermon.
Text available at http://www.TheoBlog.com/
References: Mic. 6:6-8; Mat. 6:5-8; AC 10143:3-5, 6.
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1How to Worship with Your Life (Mac Frazier) - Micah 6:8 (Jul 23, 2006)17m 36s
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