In our regular everyday life, there are essentials, things we must have to continue. Things like breath, food, water, and shelter are obvious essentials. But things like purpose, relationships, and belonging are also essentials to a thriving life. Worship is an essential element of our new life in Christ. As one song says, this is the air we breathe.
The thought of Essential Worship is like a multifaceted jewel. Worship is an activity and impact with a variety of means, modes, and expressions. While worship has only one focus and purpose, it has a multitude of benefits.
But here we must also take care not to worship the worship. It is a common error in the body of Christ for faith, love, community, or tradition to become the object instead of the conduit. It is a mistake that goes all the way back to the wilderness when the Hebrew children worshiped an idol of God instead of God Himself. Our only object of worship is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Our key scripture for our study is Revelation 7:9-11. It is a scene in heaven before God’s throne. “After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb! All the angels stood around the throne, and along with the elders and the four living creatures they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,” (Revelation 7:9–11, CSB)
We are shown earlier what the worship of the elders looked like. “Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one seated on the throne, the one who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before the one seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne and say, Our Lord and God, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all things, and by your will they exist and were created.” (Revelation 4:9–11, CSB)
Everyone is invited to worship. Jesus Christ made the way; salvation belongs to our God and to the Lamb! He is the holy and worthy one. “Our Lord and God, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all things, and by your will they exist and were created.” That, my friends, is essential worship we will explore.
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