Worship Works ‘N’ 3’s Public, Personal & Problems

Sermon Text: Hebrews 13: 15 Through Jesus, therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise –the fruit of lips that confess his name.

Sermon Title: Worship Works ‘N’ 3’s Public, Personal & Problems

Definition: …the attitude and acts of reverence to a deity. The term ‘worship’ in the OT translates the Hebrew word meaning ‘to bow down, prostrate oneself,’ a posture indicating reverence and homage given to a lord, whether human or divine. The concept of worship is expressed by the term ‘serve.’

Although Israelite worship shared many of these external forms, even to calling sacrifices ‘the food of God’ (e.g., Lev. 21:6), its essence was quite different.

Context: Adopting a lifestyle of offering and sacrifice is exactly the point of Hebrews chapter 13, verses 15-16. Here, the anonymous author of this letter to a group of Hebrew believers, admonishes his readers to develop a lifestyle of offering sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving to God. But the admonition doesn’t end there, but rather only begins there. The epistle’s author, in these two short verses, is actually describing the kind of praise that pleases God.

Point 1: Public Psalms 150
Matt. 12:34: “For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.”
Paul puts it in Romans 12:1. The author of Hebrews says this: “But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”

Point 2: Personal Hebrew 13: 15 The admonition begins in verse 15 with a command for believers to make praising God an essential component of their Christian lives. “Let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God,” he says. Praising God should not just be an hour-long, Sunday activity.

Point 3: Problems Matt 15: 25 KJV The woman came and worshiped him. Lord help me she said.
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