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Worship is an inward attitude, not a physical attitude but an inward attitude, and it is a state of mind and it is a sustained act. This is subject to degrees of perfection and intensity.
You cannot always worship with the same degree of wonder and love that you do at other times, but it must always be there – an attitude and a state of mind and a sustained act subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection.
(“The Chief End of Man,” Sermon # 5, Toronto, 1962)
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God is infinitely more concerned that He have worshipers then that He have workers. We have degenerated into the place where we put God on charity and make Him to be a foreman who can’t find help.
He stands at the wayside asking, “How many helpers will come to My rescue and come and do My work?”
If we could only remember that God doesn’t need anybody here – God does not need anybody in this city.
From
The Chief End of Man, Sermon #4, Toronto, 1962
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A Challenge to Worship
Every great spiritual work from Paul to this hour has sprung out of spiritual experiences that made worshipers. Unless we are worshipers, we are simply religious dancing mice, moving around in a circle getting nowhere.
God wants worshipers first. Jesus did not redeem us to make us workers; He redeemed us to make us worshipers. And then, out of the blazing worship of our hearts springs our work.
From a sermon to Youth for Christ, National Convention of YFC, Chicago
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Priority in Worship
I am going to say something to you which will sound strange. It even sounds strange to me as I say it, because we are not used to hearing it within our Christian fellowships. We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done for us in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.
There is a necessity for true worship among us. If God is who He says He is and if we are the believing people of God we claim to be, we must worship Him. I do not believe that we will ever truly delight in the adoring worship of God if we have never met Him in personal, spiritual experience through the new birth from above, wrought by the Holy Spirit of God Himself!
I have come to believe that when we are worshipping—and it could be right at the drill in the factory—if the love of God is in us and the Spirit of God is breathing praise within us, all the musical instruments in heaven are suddenly playing in full support.
From:
Whatever Happened to Worship?
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THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF GOD IN CREATION
The primary purpose of God in creation was to prepare moral beings spiritually and intellectually capable of worshipping Him.
This has been so widely accepted by theologians and Bible expositors through the centuries that I shall make no attempt to prove it here.
It is fully taught in the Scriptures and demonstrated abundantly in the lives of the saints.
We may safely receive it as axiomatic and go on from there.
(Born after Midnight, p. 123)
