Understanding Corporate Worship in 1 Kings 8
Explore the significance of corporate worship in 1 Kings 8, focusing on active participation, centering on the glory of God, and celebrating His faithfulness. Discover how worship nourishes the soul and strengthens the community, reflecting on the intrinsic beauty of God's glory. Delve into the fulfillment of promises and the rest given to His people, highlighting the importance of worship in remembering God's faithfulness.
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Corporate worship is one of the primary ways God nourishes and strengthens his people.
1. Worship is corporate in nature (vv. 1-5)
Does your mindset on Sunday mornings more often reflect that of a passive consumer or an active participant?
2. The glory of God must be at the center of our worship (vv. 1-11)
10And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD,11so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
The glory of God is the intrinsic splendor and beauty which radiates from himself (Exod 33:18-19)
3. Worship celebrates and remembers God s faithfulness (vv. 15-26, 56)
3. Worship celebrates and remembers Gods faithfulness 20Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 24you have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day. 26Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father. 56 Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.
2 Chronicles 5:13-14 13and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever, the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,14so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
And in truth we know by experience that singing has great force and vigor to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal. Care must always be taken that the song be neither light nor frivolous; but that it have weight and majesty (as St. Augustine says), and also, there is a great difference between music which one makes to entertain men at table and in their houses, and the Psalms which are sung in the Church in the presence of God and his angels. John Calvin, Preface to the Genevan Psalter, 1543
Colossians 3:16 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
4. Worship is saturated with prayer (vv. 22-53)
5. Gods purpose in worship is to draw all the nations to himself (vv. 41-43, 60)
Missions exists because worship doesn t. -John Piper
6. True worship is expressed through wholehearted devotion to the Lord (vv. 57-61)
God-centered worship fosters repentant hearts.
God-centered worship makes sin less appealing.
