Tabor Baptist Church

Introduction

• We are to respond to the invitation at the start of the service
• Ps 34, 122, 133
• A question - "What are you going to do after lockdown?"
• Heb 10 - continue to meet together apart from circumstances out of our control
• "Have we become too comfortable with the lockdown situation"
• Examples
• It is easy to become comfortable
• We must recognise the importance and value of physical/corporate worship

The Focus of Worship

• Psalm 34:3 - "Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His name together"
• The Church is not the building but the people who gather within it
• The Church is about meeting together
• The Ecclesia - the called out ones
• Some people ask what benefit do I get from church?
• Scripture teaches there is a place for personal devotion
• The example of Daniel, the Lord Jesus Christ
  
• Ps 34:3 - a corporate experience
• Who is it that we come to worship?
• The Lord
• Not about us, but all about God
• Elhoim to Yahweh
• The God who existed in eternity who has revealed Himself to His people
• An invitation to magnify and glory this God
• Example of Thomas
• We have the privilege of coming to worship this God
• Magnify
• To make bigger, to make great ...
• ... though we cannot make God greater
• To enlarge our view of God
• Make Him great and declare His glory
• The Lord of Lords
• Abba, Father
• Let us make the name of Jesus high
• Example

The Community of Worship

• Psalm 34:3 - "Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His name together"
• It is important to have our personal devotion
• You must be born again
• David is calling for unity and nearness
• Ps 133:1 - "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity"
• Reconcile yourself to the brethren
• Example
• Ps 120-134 are psalms that were sung on pilgrimages
• Example
• Ps 122:1 - "I was glad when the said to me 'Let us go to the house of the Lord'"
• Ps 122:4 - the tribes responded to this invitation
• Luke 2 - Jesus went with His family in likewise manner
• The gospel is for all nations
• Revelation 7:9, Ephesians 2:3
• We are one in Him
• Why stay at home - Psalm 122:8
• Example - Col 3:16
• Let us worship God together

The Command of Worship

• Ps 133:3c - "For there the Lord commanded the blessing - life forevermore"
• Worship should be a pleasant experience
• Example
• We preach a gospel of good news
• There the Lord - starting and finished with the Lord
• God will bless us
• The blessing of Aaron
• Explanation of Acts 2
• Obedient to the Lord Jesus Christ
• v41 - the result is that 3'000 were added to the Church
• The way, the truth and the life
• Do you have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?
• Ps 34:8 - "Taste and see the Lord is Good"