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The work of Christ in redemption, for all its mystery, has a simple and understandable end: it is to restore men to the position from which they fell and bring them around again to be admirers and lovers of the Triune God. God saves men to make them worshipers. This great central fact has been … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
SUPREMACY OF; SERVICE: WORSHIP FIRST; SALVATION: GOAL OF”

I think that God has given me a little bit of a spirit of a crusader and I am crusading where I can that Christians of all denominations and shades of theological thought might be restored again to our original purpose. We’re here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
SUPREMACY OF; WORSHIP: PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE”

Since God’s first concern for His universe is its moral health, that is, its holiness, whatever is contrary to this is necessarily under His eternal displeasure. Wherever the holiness of God confronts unholiness there is conflict. This conflict arises from the irreconcilable natures of holiness and sin. God’s attitude and action in the conflict are … Continue reading “WRATH
OF GOD; SIN: CONSEQUENCES OF”

Ultimately Abraham discovered that only God matters. He discovered in that revelation the greatest concept in the world. We might say he became a “one idea” man.… It is as if Abraham laid hold of God’s favor and promise with rejoicing, saying to himself, “When I have God, I need nothing more!” Abraham was completely … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
SUPREMACY OF; ENCOUNTER WITH GOD; PRIORITIES”

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.… Oh, how I wish I could adequately set forth the glory of that One who is worthy to be the object … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
SUPREMACY OF; NEW BELIEVER”

Sometimes evangelical Christians seem to be fuzzy and uncertain about the nature of God and His purposes in creation and redemption. In such instances, the preachers often are to blame. There are still preachers and teachers who say that Christ died so we would not drink and not smoke and not go to the theater. … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
SUPREMACY OF; SALVATION: GOAL OF”

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. It is inconceivable that a sovereign and holy God should be so hard up for workers that He would press into service anyone who had been empowered regardless of his moral qualifications. The very stones … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
SUPREMACY OF; SERVICE: WORSHIP FIRST”

I once heard Dr. George D. Watson, one of the great Bible teachers of his generation, point out that men can have two kinds of love for God—the love of gratitude or the love of excellence. He urged that we go on from gratefulness to a love of God just because He is God and … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
REVERENCE; LOVE FOR GOD”

Protestants are altogether too much inclined to take things for granted. We laugh at those on the other side of the ecclesiastical fence because they bow and scrape and kowtow in the presence of the church. But we lack reverence—not because we are free in the gospel, but because God is absent, and we have … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
REVERENCE; GOD: HIS PRESENCE”

But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible. Man’s mind is not the top peak of his nature. Higher than his mind is his spirit, that something within him which can engage the supernatural, which under the breath of the … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
SUPREMACY OF”