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Speaker 2 (01:08):
What is that thing we do? What is that thing
we do? We do a lot of things, but there's
certain things we just do. We can't help ourselves.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We just do it. Ain't nothing to it, but to
do it. That thing we that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Monday, I asked my son to go on stub hub
dot com and buy some Mavericks tickets. I hadn't been
to a Mavericks game in five years. Is that pitiful?
That's some sort of a sin. I think my nephew
is in town. He's a big sports guy, and so
we went on this website. I spent a lot of
money to get some good seats to see the Mavericks play.
And it costs a lot of money if you're gonna
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have good seats at an NBA game. Have you noticed
that any sporting event, especially professional sports, you've got to
take out a loan.
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To go to a game.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I bought four seats, parking pass. We plan know
when we're gonna leave, and everything was just perfect. We
dressed the part, left with enough time, even though we
got lost several times. We made it there. All the
traffic and everything, and we made it there. We settled
into our seats, We watched the Maps play the New
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Jersey Nets.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It was quite a game.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Mark Cuban has done a really good job with the
MAVs because there's no dead time in the event, time out,
the drum line, time out, music going on time out,
the players are encouraging the fans to clap.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He's done a.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Great job of keeping you engaged and involved. And I
was watching people around me. Some were dancing with liquid encouragement.
During the game, a lot of people were shouting. I
saw one guy make a shot and I saw one
guy turned to another one go.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
That was called blooding.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
People just naturally cheer and naturally shout, and there's nothing
like a sporting event. The Mavericks have some passionate fans,
yet that passion is fueled by smart marketing, by by
a lot of excitement, and that's a good thing. It's
great to be passionate about stuff. It's great to have passion.
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We're made, aren't we to give ourselves fully to things?
Have you noticed that we want to give ourselves fully
to certain things? As I travel around and talk to people,
some people are fully into snowboarding.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's their deal.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
They dress like a snowboarder, They read snowboarding weekly. Everything
is snowboarding, snowboarding, snowboarding, and don't do anything justice snowboard
it's their lifestyle, it's their ultimate passion. Talk to someone
who's into running, marathon running. They're on marathons. They dressed
like a marathon or everything's marathon, marathon, marathon, everything's marathon,
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marathon running, always eating, checking their pulse, marathon, increasing your speed.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'm gonna run Boston, New York.
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Maybe I'll run the Honolulu Marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon. I've
run thirteen marathon, I've run five marathons. Everything is a marathon.
We're passionate if we're in the marathons, about being a
marathon runner. Others are passionate about CrossFit. Wow, CrossFit CrossFit?
How many squats? How many burpies can you do? And
pull ups? And I'm competing here, competing there. I want
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to be an athlete. And others are into other sports.
And you have to shave the hair off your arms
and legs and you can.
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Have that look.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That's that's what you are passionate about. Still, others are
passionate about shopping. Ladies passionate about it. Wow, I'm passionate
about a sale. I'm passionate about this mall. I'm passionate
about going online. Some gearheads are passionate about a new
computer program or new app. Oh have you've seen the
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new Wow? I'm I'm just passionate about it. We're passionate
about cars and clothes and things. We're passionate people. That's good.
It's a good thing. It's a god thing passion.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Could it be, though, that some of us have misplaced
our passion.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Perhaps we have gotten so passionate about all these other
things that maybe just maybe we've missed the main thing.
I'm just saying, I just want to I want to
love the question out passion.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The Bible says we should be passionate about life.
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But in our search for passion, have we allowed the
passion we have for other things to pack man our
primary passion, our primary passion, our ultimate passion, which should
be being passionate about God himself? What am I talking
about when I'm talking about passion? What am I mean
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when I say passion? I'm talking about worship. We don't
call it that. We don't say, oh, I worship triathlons,
I worship CrossFit, I worship antiquing, I worship homes, I
worship clothes. We don't call it that, but we say, oh, yeah,
I'm passionate about that. I'm into that. That's worship. A
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common definition of worship is to be passionate about a person, place,
or thing. That's just kind of a pedestrian definition of worship.
The Bible says, though, worship is something deeper. The Bible says, Yes,
we're made to worship. No one has taught me how
to worship, or no one taught you how to worship.
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I just know how to worship. I know how to
hold Wow. Did you see that shot by dark I'll
stay for the whole game. Man, the Mavericks lost by one.
I mean, there's Mark Cuban and going I can't.
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Play it causing at the rest flipping him off and
all that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, people are into it. I stayed for the
whole game. I'm passionate about that, so are you. No
one taught me how to do that. I just know
how to do it. I'm made that way. God made
me that way. But worship, real worship. Yes, it's passion,
but it's basically our response to the identity and activity
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of God, expressed by what we say and what we do.
You better write that down, don't miss that.
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What is worship? Oh yeah, it's.
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Being passionate about a person, place, or thing. But real
worship is our response to God's identity, who he is, right,
his activity, what he does, expressed.
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By what we say and what we do. That's worship.
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Could it be that we're wasting our worship? Could it
be that we're perverting our passion? Could it be that
things are pack manning our worship in life? Because we're
gonna worship. And if the Mavericks came, I would say, Wow,
great worship twenty thousand people who needed exercise. Watching ten
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people battle it out who don't need exercise kind of
sounds like the church, doesn't it.
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Worship?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
One hunder years ago, I went to see YouTube, and
I went to the old Houston Astronome. My brother got
us some sweet tickets, and I'm looking at YouTube watching
the Edge and Bono and Larry Mullis Junior Adam Clayton
do their thing in the name My Love, and I'm
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looking around. We're on the fourth row man and people
have their arms stretched out.
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In the name the name of.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Guys going crazy at you too, acting like maniacs at
you too. And the next morning they go to Sunday
school or church and they act like mannequins.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
How can they do that? How can we do that?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We'll go like a maniac at the Mavericks game and
Sunday we'll act like mannequins picking our nose. What's up
with that? Could it be that we're wasting our worship?
Could it be that is like okay, yeah, good worship.
Wrong object. We're made to give ourselves fully to stuff.
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Speaker 2 (10:35):
I want to open this series, this in depth series
about worship, with several statements about worship. The first one
is this, here's the first blank. Worship is not manufactured.
Worship is intrinsic. It's what we do. Worship is not manufactured.
It's intrinsic. Everybody worships. No one taught me how to worship.
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No one taught you how to worship. We just worship.
We're hard for worship. We're gonna base this series on
Psalm one hundred, Why I saw them one hundred. I'll
tell you there's one hundred and sixty eight hours in
every week, right, one sixty eight.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Hopefully we sleep eight hours.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
A night and then the rest, you know, we're getting ready, hygiene,
et cetera. It leads us about one hundred hours a
week to worship. So, as Christ followers, many of you
are Christ followers, many of you aren't. As a believer,
you don't come to fellowship church to worship, You come worshiping.
Everything we do should be worship. I'm responding to God's
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activity and identity expressed by what I say and what
I do. Everything I do should be an active worship.
If I'm going to a maps game an active worship.
If I'm antiquing, an active worship. If I'm shopping, an
act of worship. If I'm making love with my spouse.
By this experiment, I'm worshiping. Everything we do say, touch
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and feel as a Christ's follower should be an act
of worship. Well, some one hunter comes along as on
one hunter says, shout joyfully to the Lord. Now, for
two decades, I've heard this about Fellowship Church. Some people
will say, oh, man, the music is just too loud.
It's just too loud. You what the word shout means
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in the Hebrew, a piercing noise. I've never heard someone
exit the Death Star and say it was just too loud.
I've never heard someone leave you to concert and go, man,
it was just Bona was screaming so loud.
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Yeah, when it comes to church, shout.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The Bible says, joyfully to the Lord, all the earth
serve the Lord with gladness, verse two. In other words,
if I'm worshiping, it will transition into work. If I'm
really expressing my love to God, it will translate into
me serving. If you're not serving, you're swerving. We've got
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to serve within the house. When we worship, we're gonna serve.
Worship and work are always tied together. Come before him
with joyful singing. Do you know after every great spiritual
awakening study church history, it's accompanied.
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By new songs.
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Isn't it amazing that we have so many gift to
people writing these new songs. We ought to be going
crazy tapi standing ovations. When one claps, everybody claps. You
ain't clapping in the back, Yeah right there you okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
gotta be.
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Going nuts now. I'm all for tradition. But the tradition
I came from bringing in the she's. It's the joy
of the Lord bringing in the sheese.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We shall come with joy sne bringing in the shee's. Wow,
I want some of that. That sounds exciting. I would
read the entire Psalm some on one hundred. It's only
five verses, but that's next time we're gonna get into
this stuff. It's gonna be thit. I just want to
say to you that worship is not manufactured. It's intrinsic.
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It's something that we do. We can't help ourselves. You're
a worshiper. Everybody's a worshiper. And I would say, Wow,
great passion. But so often our passion is perverted. The
second statement about worship, worship is not complacent, it's competitive.
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It's not complacent, it's competitive. The enemy does not want
us to worship. The whole thing is about worship. Think
about what happened before the enemy fell back in the heavenlyes.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Lucifer was the worship leader.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
He tried to usurp God why he wanted to worship himself.
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So what did he do? He was kicked out of heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Lucifer took a third of the angels with him. They're
now the demons. A third of Heaven got kicked out.
A third of Heaven left. As I travel the world
and talked to pastors, I say, hey, people are gonna
leave your church. They even left heaven. God can keep
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a third of the angels, And you think you're gonna
keep everybody in your church. What are you smoking? It's
over worship. We're in a battle over worship. I think
about Acts Chapter seventeen. You can read it there. I
won't read it all to you. Act seventeen you had
the apostle Paul. He went to a place called Mars Hill,
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Mars Hill means a place of competition, a place of battle.
The place was literally littered with idols. The Stoics and
Epicurians that were saying this, They were saying that. And
Paul looked and he found one idol amongst the hundreds
that had this inscription.
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To an unknown God.
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And Paul used that as a springboard to talk about
the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
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We live.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
In Mars Hill, a place of competition. There's a war
going on for your worship. Have you ever wondered why
it's so difficult to come to church. There's a war
going on for your worship and mind. God commands and
demands us to come together regularly Hebrews ten twenty five
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for corporate worship. God commands us and demands us to
regularly worship him. God says in scripture, I am a
jealous God.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Always. God have some kind of self esteem issue. What's
the deal? Man, God's jealous God?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
No, no, no, God knows if we chase after anything else,
if we give anything else our primary passion.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We're gonna be gravely disappointed. There's a war going on,
a war of worship. Think about the temptation of Jesus.
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After the spiritual high point after the baptism, he was
driven out into the wilderness. After fasting forty days and
forty nights. The enemy came to him and said, hey,
turn the stones into bread. Jesus came back at him
with scripture. He said, hey, throw yourself off the temple,
because you can come back from the grave. Jesus threw
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scripture at him. Then Jesus took him to a mountain range,
maybe the Alps. I don't know where. He said, Jesus,
if you bow down and worship me, I'll give you
everything you see.
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And look what Jesus said back to him Matthew four ten.
Then Jesus said to him, go, for it's written.
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You shall worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
God is your primary passion. God must be my primary passion.
Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these things
will be at it to you. When my worship is right,
my priorities are right, my relationships are right, my finances
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are right, my emotions are right. Everything is just right.
I didn't say perfect, it's just right. What's your problem?
Unded counseling.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Maybe what's your problem.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I need more money. Maybe what's your problem? I need
a career change. Maybe what's your problem is? You know
my problem is what kind of worship problem? And the
biggest competition in my life, in your life, the biggest
God that fights the.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Lord is ourselves self worship.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's either God's will, God, I'm gonna do what you
want me to do, or my will, my will or
God's will. The third statement about world worship is not compartmentalized.
It's transcendent Psalm one hundred. Remember that we have one
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hundred hours a week roughly generally speaking, as a lawyer
would say, generally speaking, we have one hundred hours. Worship
transcends everything that we're about.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What is our primary passion? What is our God? Romans
twelfth one.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Therefore, I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God,
to present your bodies wow as a living and holy
sacrifice acceptable to God. Which is your spiritual act of worship. Again,
it's the transcendence of worship. We allowed to mentalize our lives. Right, Okay,
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this is worship. This is my spiritual life, and over
here is my corporate life, and here is my recreational life,
and my relational life. We want to compartmentalize everything.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Have these cubbies.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
God just blasts that out. He takes a chainsaw, takes
out the cubbies. It's transcendent again. Everybody worships. Everybody does,
but are they're pursuing the right person, the right thing
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in their worship.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
We can get so intense.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
About games and deals and technology and deals and clothes
and cars and homes and all that that we come
to God and just give him leftovers. Another statement, God,
I'll take a blt. This is a ginormous restaurant, a blt.
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B bless me God, Hell love me, God, I love
me some me, and God, you love me some me too.
T take care of me God.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Well, that's a popular theology. Bless me, love me, take
care of me.
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God is therefore, so if I have enough faith, I
can make God do what I want God to do.
I can look inside of myself. I can be the
man the woman. I'll just do what I want to
do and ask God to belt me. God's not a waiter,
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he's not an errand boy, he's not.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
A ups guy. He's God.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
He's sovereign. It's not about me, it's about God. So
it's not my will, and then God give me a
blt No no, no, no, no, no, It's God's will. When we
sync up our lives and said God, I died in
myself and I live for you, then God, in his economy,
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in his framework, will bless us the way he knows
we should be blessed.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
He will show us his love.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Obviously we know that by the death, burial, and resurrection
of Jesus, his leadership and God.
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It's a recaleciliation and all that. And also God will
take care of us. But in God taking care.
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Of us, so often bad stuff happens to good people.
You're gonna have times of suffering, you gonna have times
of pain, you'd have times of betrayal, you gonna have
times of problems.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What do we do.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We worship God in the midst of it. We praise
Him in the midst of it. You know, we don't
feel like it. God, your God. I'm not I praise
you Lord. I love you, Lord. I'm gonna shout to
you Lord.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And then maturity and breakthroughs.
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And real stuff happens in our lives. Jesus said it
in Matthew twenty two.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He said it. He said it so succinctly he said,
you shall.
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all
your soul, all your mind.
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This is the great and foremost commandment.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Then the second, he said, is like it, love your
neighbor as yourself. So you can talk it. But if
you talk it, you better walk it. If we love God,
if we pursue him with the totality of who we are,
what's gonna happen, Well, We're gonna love others sacrificially and selflessly.
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Wow. Worship. See, worship is all about change.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's not just oh I got a quiver in my liver,
spring in my step, tingle in my spine.
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Oh, that must be it. It's part of it. It must
translate into life change.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
What is that thing we do? What is that thing
we do? We do a lot of things, but there's
certain things we just do. We can't help ourselves.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We just do it. Ain't nothing to it, but to
do it. That thing we that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Monday, I asked my son to go on stub hub
dot com and buy some Mavericks tickets. I hadn't been
to a Mavericks game in five years. Is that pitiful?
That's some sort of a sin. I think my nephew
is in town. He's a big sports guy, and so
we went on this website. I spent a lot of
money to get some good seats to see the Mavericks play.
And it costs a lot of money if you're gonna
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have good seats at an NBA game. Have you noticed
that any sporting event, especially professional sports, you've got to
take out a loan.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
To go to a game.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I bought four seats, parking pass. We plan know
when we're gonna leave, and everything was just perfect. We
dressed the part, left with enough time, even though we
got lost several times. We made it there. All the
traffic and everything, and we made it there. We settled
into our seats, We watched the Maps play the New
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Jersey Nets.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It was quite a game.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Mark Cuban has done a really good job with the
MAVs because there's no dead time in the event, time out,
the drum line, time out, music going on time out,
the players are encouraging the fans to clap.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
He's done a.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Great job of keeping you engaged and involved. And I
was watching people around me. Some were dancing with liquid encouragement.
During the game, a lot of people were shouting. I
saw one guy make a shot and I saw one
guy turned to another one go.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
That was called blooding.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
People just naturally cheer and naturally shout, and there's nothing
like a sporting event. The Mavericks have some passionate fans,
yet that passion is fueled by smart marketing, by by
a lot of excitement, and that's a good thing. It's
great to be passionate about stuff. It's great to have passion.
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We're made, aren't we to give ourselves fully to things?
Have you noticed that we want to give ourselves fully
to certain things? As I travel around and talk to people,
some people are fully into snowboarding.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That's their deal.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
They dress like a snowboarder, They read snowboarding weekly. Everything
is snowboarding, snowboarding, snowboarding, and don't do anything justice snowboard
it's their lifestyle, it's their ultimate passion. Talk to someone
who's into running, marathon running. They're on marathons. They dressed
like a marathon or everything's marathon, marathon, marathon, everything's marathon,
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marathon running, always eating, checking their pulse, marathon, increasing your speed.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'm gonna run Boston, New York.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Maybe I'll run the Honolulu Marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon. I've
run thirteen marathon, I've run five marathons. Everything is a marathon.
We're passionate if we're in the marathons, about being a
marathon runner. Others are passionate about CrossFit. Wow, CrossFit CrossFit?
How many squats? How many burpies can you do? And
pull ups? And I'm competing here, competing there. I want
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to be an athlete. And others are into other sports.
And you have to shave the hair off your arms
and legs and you can.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Have that look.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That's that's what you are passionate about. Still, others are
passionate about shopping. Ladies passionate about it. Wow, I'm passionate
about a sale. I'm passionate about this mall. I'm passionate
about going online. Some gearheads are passionate about a new
computer program or new app. Oh have you've seen the
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new Wow? I'm I'm just passionate about it. We're passionate
about cars and clothes and things. We're passionate people. That's good.
It's a good thing. It's a god thing passion.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Could it be, though, that some of us have misplaced
our passion.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Perhaps we have gotten so passionate about all these other
things that maybe just maybe we've missed the main thing.
I'm just saying, I just want to I want to
love the question out passion.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The Bible says we should be passionate about life.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But in our search for passion, have we allowed the
passion we have for other things to pack man our
primary passion, our primary passion, our ultimate passion, which should
be being passionate about God himself? What am I talking
about when I'm talking about passion? What am I mean
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when I say passion? I'm talking about worship. We don't
call it that. We don't say, oh, I worship triathlons,
I worship CrossFit, I worship antiquing, I worship homes, I
worship clothes. We don't call it that, but we say, oh, yeah,
I'm passionate about that. I'm into that. That's worship. A
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common definition of worship is to be passionate about a person, place,
or thing. That's just kind of a pedestrian definition of worship.
The Bible says, though, worship is something deeper. The Bible says, Yes,
we're made to worship. No one has taught me how
to worship, or no one taught you how to worship.
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I just know how to worship. I know how to
hold Wow. Did you see that shot by dark I'll
stay for the whole game. Man, the Mavericks lost by one.
I mean, there's Mark Cuban and going I can't.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Play it causing at the rest flipping him off and
all that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know, people are into it. I stayed for the
whole game. I'm passionate about that, so are you. No
one taught me how to do that. I just know
how to do it. I'm made that way. God made
me that way. But worship, real worship. Yes, it's passion,
but it's basically our response to the identity and activity
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of God, expressed by what we say and what we do.
You better write that down, don't miss that.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
What is worship? Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Being passionate about a person, place, or thing. But real
worship is our response to God's identity, who he is, right,
his activity, what he does, expressed.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
By what we say and what we do. That's worship.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Could it be that we're wasting our worship? Could it
be that we're perverting our passion? Could it be that
things are pack manning our worship in life? Because we're
gonna worship. And if the Mavericks came, I would say, Wow,
great worship twenty thousand people who needed exercise. Watching ten
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people battle it out who don't need exercise kind of
sounds like the church, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Worship?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
One hunder years ago, I went to see YouTube, and
I went to the old Houston Astronome. My brother got
us some sweet tickets, and I'm looking at YouTube watching
the Edge and Bono and Larry Mullis Junior Adam Clayton
do their thing in the name My Love, and I'm
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looking around. We're on the fourth row man and people
have their arms stretched out.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
In the name the name of.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Guys going crazy at you too, acting like maniacs at
you too. And the next morning they go to Sunday
school or church and they act like mannequins.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
How can they do that? How can we do that?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We'll go like a maniac at the Mavericks game and
Sunday we'll act like mannequins picking our nose. What's up
with that? Could it be that we're wasting our worship?
Could it be that is like okay, yeah, good worship.
Wrong object. We're made to give ourselves fully to stuff.
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Speaker 2 (10:35):
I want to open this series, this in depth series
about worship, with several statements about worship. The first one
is this, here's the first blank. Worship is not manufactured.
Worship is intrinsic. It's what we do. Worship is not manufactured.
It's intrinsic. Everybody worships. No one taught me how to worship.
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No one taught you how to worship. We just worship.
We're hard for worship. We're gonna base this series on
Psalm one hundred, Why I saw them one hundred. I'll
tell you there's one hundred and sixty eight hours in
every week, right, one sixty eight.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Hopefully we sleep eight hours.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
A night and then the rest, you know, we're getting ready, hygiene,
et cetera. It leads us about one hundred hours a
week to worship. So, as Christ followers, many of you
are Christ followers, many of you aren't. As a believer,
you don't come to fellowship church to worship, You come worshiping.
Everything we do should be worship. I'm responding to God's
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activity and identity expressed by what I say and what
I do. Everything I do should be an active worship.
If I'm going to a maps game an active worship.
If I'm antiquing, an active worship. If I'm shopping, an
act of worship. If I'm making love with my spouse.
By this experiment, I'm worshiping. Everything we do say, touch
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and feel as a Christ's follower should be an act
of worship. Well, some one hunter comes along as on
one hunter says, shout joyfully to the Lord. Now, for
two decades, I've heard this about Fellowship Church. Some people
will say, oh, man, the music is just too loud.
It's just too loud. You what the word shout means
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in the Hebrew, a piercing noise. I've never heard someone
exit the Death Star and say it was just too loud.
I've never heard someone leave you to concert and go, man,
it was just Bona was screaming so loud.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, when it comes to church, shout.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The Bible says, joyfully to the Lord, all the earth
serve the Lord with gladness, verse two. In other words,
if I'm worshiping, it will transition into work. If I'm
really expressing my love to God, it will translate into
me serving. If you're not serving, you're swerving. We've got
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to serve within the house. When we worship, we're gonna serve.
Worship and work are always tied together. Come before him
with joyful singing. Do you know after every great spiritual
awakening study church history, it's accompanied.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
By new songs.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Isn't it amazing that we have so many gift to
people writing these new songs. We ought to be going
crazy tapi standing ovations. When one claps, everybody claps. You
ain't clapping in the back, Yeah right there you okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
gotta be.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Going nuts now. I'm all for tradition. But the tradition
I came from bringing in the she's. It's the joy
of the Lord bringing in the sheese.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We shall come with joy sne bringing in the shee's. Wow,
I want some of that. That sounds exciting. I would
read the entire Psalm some on one hundred. It's only
five verses, but that's next time we're gonna get into
this stuff. It's gonna be thit. I just want to
say to you that worship is not manufactured. It's intrinsic.
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It's something that we do. We can't help ourselves. You're
a worshiper. Everybody's a worshiper. And I would say, Wow,
great passion. But so often our passion is perverted. The
second statement about worship, worship is not complacent, it's competitive.
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It's not complacent, it's competitive. The enemy does not want
us to worship. The whole thing is about worship. Think
about what happened before the enemy fell back in the heavenlyes.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Lucifer was the worship leader.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
He tried to usurp God why he wanted to worship himself.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
So what did he do? He was kicked out of heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Lucifer took a third of the angels with him. They're
now the demons. A third of Heaven got kicked out.
A third of Heaven left. As I travel the world
and talked to pastors, I say, hey, people are gonna
leave your church. They even left heaven. God can keep
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a third of the angels, And you think you're gonna
keep everybody in your church. What are you smoking? It's
over worship. We're in a battle over worship. I think
about Acts Chapter seventeen. You can read it there. I
won't read it all to you. Act seventeen you had
the apostle Paul. He went to a place called Mars Hill,
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Mars Hill means a place of competition, a place of battle.
The place was literally littered with idols. The Stoics and
Epicurians that were saying this, They were saying that. And
Paul looked and he found one idol amongst the hundreds
that had this inscription.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
To an unknown God.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And Paul used that as a springboard to talk about
the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We live.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
In Mars Hill, a place of competition. There's a war
going on for your worship. Have you ever wondered why
it's so difficult to come to church. There's a war
going on for your worship and mind. God commands and
demands us to come together regularly Hebrews ten twenty five
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for corporate worship. God commands us and demands us to
regularly worship him. God says in scripture, I am a
jealous God.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Always. God have some kind of self esteem issue. What's
the deal? Man, God's jealous God?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
No, no, no, God knows if we chase after anything else,
if we give anything else our primary passion.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We're gonna be gravely disappointed. There's a war going on,
a war of worship. Think about the temptation of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
After the spiritual high point after the baptism, he was
driven out into the wilderness. After fasting forty days and
forty nights. The enemy came to him and said, hey,
turn the stones into bread. Jesus came back at him
with scripture. He said, hey, throw yourself off the temple,
because you can come back from the grave. Jesus threw
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scripture at him. Then Jesus took him to a mountain range,
maybe the Alps. I don't know where. He said, Jesus,
if you bow down and worship me, I'll give you
everything you see.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And look what Jesus said back to him Matthew four ten.
Then Jesus said to him, go, for it's written.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You shall worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
God is your primary passion. God must be my primary passion.
Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these things
will be at it to you. When my worship is right,
my priorities are right, my relationships are right, my finances
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are right, my emotions are right. Everything is just right.
I didn't say perfect, it's just right. What's your problem?
Unded counseling.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Maybe what's your problem.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I need more money. Maybe what's your problem? I need
a career change. Maybe what's your problem is? You know
my problem is what kind of worship problem? And the
biggest competition in my life, in your life, the biggest
God that fights the.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Lord is ourselves self worship.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's either God's will, God, I'm gonna do what you
want me to do, or my will, my will or
God's will. The third statement about world worship is not compartmentalized.
It's transcendent Psalm one hundred. Remember that we have one
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hundred hours a week roughly generally speaking, as a lawyer
would say, generally speaking, we have one hundred hours. Worship
transcends everything that we're about.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What is our primary passion? What is our God? Romans
twelfth one.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Therefore, I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God,
to present your bodies wow as a living and holy
sacrifice acceptable to God. Which is your spiritual act of worship. Again,
it's the transcendence of worship. We allowed to mentalize our lives. Right, Okay,
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this is worship. This is my spiritual life, and over
here is my corporate life, and here is my recreational life,
and my relational life. We want to compartmentalize everything.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Have these cubbies.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
God just blasts that out. He takes a chainsaw, takes
out the cubbies. It's transcendent again. Everybody worships. Everybody does,
but are they're pursuing the right person, the right thing
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in their worship.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
We can get so intense.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
About games and deals and technology and deals and clothes
and cars and homes and all that that we come
to God and just give him leftovers. Another statement, God,
I'll take a blt. This is a ginormous restaurant, a blt.
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B bless me God, Hell love me, God, I love
me some me, and God, you love me some me too.
T take care of me God.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Well, that's a popular theology. Bless me, love me, take
care of me.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
God is therefore, so if I have enough faith, I
can make God do what I want God to do.
I can look inside of myself. I can be the
man the woman. I'll just do what I want to
do and ask God to belt me. God's not a waiter,
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he's not an errand boy, he's not.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
A ups guy. He's God.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
He's sovereign. It's not about me, it's about God. So
it's not my will, and then God give me a
blt No no, no, no, no, no, It's God's will. When we
sync up our lives and said God, I died in
myself and I live for you, then God, in his economy,
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in his framework, will bless us the way he knows
we should be blessed.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
He will show us his love.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Obviously we know that by the death, burial, and resurrection
of Jesus, his leadership and God.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
It's a recaleciliation and all that. And also God will
take care of us. But in God taking care.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Of us, so often bad stuff happens to good people.
You're gonna have times of suffering, you gonna have times
of pain, you'd have times of betrayal, you gonna have
times of problems.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What do we do.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We worship God in the midst of it. We praise
Him in the midst of it. You know, we don't
feel like it. God, your God. I'm not I praise
you Lord. I love you, Lord. I'm gonna shout to
you Lord.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And then maturity and breakthroughs.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And real stuff happens in our lives. Jesus said it
in Matthew twenty two.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He said it. He said it so succinctly he said,
you shall.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all
your soul, all your mind.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
This is the great and foremost commandment.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Then the second, he said, is like it, love your
neighbor as yourself. So you can talk it. But if
you talk it, you better walk it. If we love God,
if we pursue him with the totality of who we are,
what's gonna happen, Well, We're gonna love others sacrificially and selflessly.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Wow. Worship. See, worship is all about change.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's not just oh I got a quiver in my liver,
spring in my step, tingle in my spine.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh, that must be it. It's part of it. It must
translate into life change.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Thanks for joining us today on the Creative Connection with
Ed Young. We hope you've been encouraged as Ed's shown
you how you can connect your faith to everyday life.
We'd love to help you even more in your spiritual
journey by sending you at on Lisa Young's book A
Path through Pain. This resource will help you see God's presence,
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love and care in the middle of your suffering, and
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the Creative Connection.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
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