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Where Heaven Meets Earth: Worship as a Way of Life

Where Heaven Meets Earth · Around February 1, 2025

Matthew 6:19-21Translation not recorded

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

  • If we worship money, we’ll become a greedy person.
  • If we worship sex, we’ll become a lustful person.
  • If we worship power, we’ll become an arrogant person.
  • If we worship love and acceptance, we’ll become a slave to others.
  • If we worship external beauty, we’ll become shallow.
  • If we worship comfort, we’ll be shaped by apathy.
Matthew 22:37Translation not recorded

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind.”

Matt. 6:33NIV · Excerpt

“…Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Isaiah 29:13NIV · Excerpt

“These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”

Romans 12:1NIV

A Living Sacrifice

1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

1. Make church a priority.

Luke 4:16Translation not recorded

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read.

2. Come on time and come prepared.

Eccles. 5:1NIV

Fulfill Your Vow to God

[1] 1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

Translation notes (1)
  1. 5 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.

3. Participate in what is going on.

Ephesians 5:19Translation not recorded

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.

Psalm 150:3-6Translation not recorded

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and the lyre, praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

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