{"id":10735,"date":"2016-08-17T00:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/worshipreverence-love-for-god\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:54:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:37","slug":"worshipreverence-love-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/worshipreverence-love-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"WORSHIP:\nREVERENCE; LOVE FOR GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>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\u2014the 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 because of the excellence of His character.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Many of us are strictly \u201cSanta Claus\u201d Christians. We think of God as putting up the Christmas tree and putting our gifts underneath. That is only an elementary kind of love.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>We need to go on. We need to know the blessing of worshiping in the presence of God without thought of wanting to rush out again. We need to be delighted in the presence of utter, infinite excellence.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Psalm 16:11; Psalm 21:6<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Whatever Happened to Worship?,<\/i> 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014the 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/worshipreverence-love-for-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WORSHIP:<br \/>\nREVERENCE; LOVE FOR GOD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}