Biblical Worship - Abraham and Isaac.ppt

Biblical Worship - Abraham and Isaac

1. Welcome to
Bible Baptist Church
Ballincollig, Cork
Celebrating 12 Years
Today is the Lord’s Day
Sunday, 24
th
of September, 2006

2. September’s Memory Verse
God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
John 4:24

3. Announcements
Church Tonight at 7pm – beginning Hymnspiration,
Why We Sing What We Sing!
Wednesday evening Prayer meeting at 7pm - NO
Bible Study – Every Christian HERE!
Agata Swiatek heads back to Poland this week – we
will miss her!

4. True Worshippers
Abraham and Isaac
Genesis 22

5. Review –
Worshipping God in Spirit and Truth
This is a study series looking at True Worship, and
True Worshippers
So Far, we have looked at the Wrong Ways to
Worship, and then the Right Ways to Worship God
Today, we begin to look at HOW God’s people
worshipped God – starting with Abraham and his son
Isaac in Genesis 22

6. Worship … What is it?
To show someone’s worth-ship!
An act of ascribing worth/value to a person
To honour – extol, lift-up, praise
To please
To bless
To love with all the heart
To glorify – put all the attention on
To serve gladly and whole-heartedly
When a person worship’s God, these things are all
active!

7. Background
(Genesis 21:33,34; 22:1)
Abraham lived to worship God, no matter
the cost!
That determination was going to be tested
in this chapter
Abraham had seen some serious failures in
his own life - Lack of faith
Abraham had also seen God do some great
things in his life
Abraham had been learning how to worship
God, but in Genesis 22, he will learn
thoroughly, and God will show us perfectly

8. Biblical Example of Worshipping God
Abraham (Genesis 22:1-19)
God’s Test of Worship
Abraham’s Response
Abraham’s Faith
Abraham’s Worship
God’s Pleasure
Abraham’s Change – he will never be the
same

9. God’s Test of Worship
(Genesis 22:2)
What is the most important thing to you?
Your Problems?
Your Past?
Your Friends?
Your Lack of Money?
Your Prestige and Position in people’s eyes?
All of the above get in the way of our worship that is
due unto God
For the rich young ruler money was most important
For Peter, it was the Messianic kingdom
For Paul, the Jewish religion was most important
For Abraham, Isaac was most important

10. Abraham’s Response
(Genesis 22:3)
Patient Obedience
Prepared Obedience
Silent Obedience

11. Abraham’s Faith
(Genesis 22:4,5)
He saw the end from the start
He leaned only on his God to carry him
He went all this way “to worship”
He was NOT sure of what was going to
happen
He just knew God would bring BOTH
Abraham AND Isaac back down the
mount, and then back home

12. Abraham’s Worship
(Genesis 22:5-10)
It Was a Burden
It Was a Picture
(John 8:56)
It Was a Sacrifice
There is no worship without a Sacrifice
There is no worship without a Cost – a high cost!
There is no worship without Faith - he had to trust
There is no worship without Obedience
There is no worship without an Altar
There is no worship without Detail

13. God’s Pleasure
(Genesis 22:11-18; Rev 4:11)
Is in our obedience – not in what we give
(1Samuel 15:22)
Is in supplying the Sacrifice that we truly
need – Himself the Lamb!
Is in showing Himself – we learn most of
God in the fiery trials of our afflictions
(Daniel 3:23-25)
Is in blessing us (Genesis 22:15-18)

14. Abraham’s Change
(Genesis 22:19)
An unshakeable joy
A new address
A readiness for anything now
All because Abraham learned how to
truly worship his God

15. Conclusion
What is the most important thing to you?
How easy do you find it to obey when things
are rough, and God’s will is hard?
Worship is an act of faith
How Determined are we to PLEASE GOD with
our Worship, instead of please ourselves?
True Worship Will Change You
Begins with the new birth, and will follow
through a testing – are you now better ready
for that test – ready to worship? No matter the
cost?