Basics: Worship

We connect Hebrews 10 to everyday loyalty and show why real worship is not emotional hype but a steady response to Jesus’ finished work. We contrast consumer worship with biblical worship, then land on a sober warning about deliberate sin that ultimately aims to drive us toward repentance, perseverance, and deep rest in Christ.

Transcript

Opening Prayer And Welcome

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Well, I just pray that we would walk that out in our lives. Each day, remembering that you are with us. God, we love you and we thank you so much. In your name we pray. And everybody's Amen.

Hebrews 10 Reading And Warning

Rest And Worship As One Coin

Consumer Worship Versus Biblical Worship

Deliberate Sin And False Assurance

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Amen. Good morning, church. Hey, all right. If you have your Bibles with you, I invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. Is there are there are there any male humans here this morning? Anyone in here with the XY chromosome? Oh, I know because I just heard a lot of ladies singing really, really, really nicely, and I didn't hear a lot of guys singing at all. Amen, ladies. We're gonna be talking about worship this morning. And men, I want you to step it up. And I want to invite any men to join us on Tuesday nights here at 6 p.m. Uh Men's Flight Club has been meeting with the guys from Redeemer Restored for a while. And what's interesting is this meeting has just kind of blossomed into this. Uh we actually have a couple of different churches here now coming to meet on Tuesday nights, Journey First Baptists. It expanded into this pretty good weekly uh session. So the next two weeks, we actually have Mr. Scotty Hart uh who's gonna be speaking. Uh does anyone know Scotty Hart? Yeah. He's gonna be speaking about forgiveness, which he will forgive me for bringing this up. But uh Tuesday nights, uh, and of course, Wednesday nights are going great. We have the students across the street at 6, we have the kids up on the second floor, and then we have an adult class that takes place right in here at 6 p.m. So if you're missing out on that, we want you to come. The now is coming up fast. Mick mentioned it. I'm gonna talk about it a little bit more. Uh that's coming up in in March, thank you. It's like two weeks. Uh and then we have a marriage reset event that's happening at the end of March, and you can find info about that out in the FOIA. I've gotten some pretty fun feedback already this morning from men and women who were not standing with their spouse. They said, we don't need that. We've been married too long to need that. Listen, let me tell you something. If if if I if you're talking to me, or if I can hear you talking, everything you say can and will be used against you from the pulpit. So if that is you, trust me, go and tell that to your spouse and say, we don't need that. And then go and sign up anyway. Come to the reset event. We got limited spots available, but I think it's gonna be worth your investment. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Lord, I pray that we would be diligent in the labor that you've called us to. You've called some of us to offices or factories or warehouses, and I pray that each of us would do our work as if you were right there watching us. And let us render heart service and not just eye service. You've called some to labor in the classroom to learn and grow in that way, uh, to prepare for a life dedicated to you and your purposes. We pray that the students among us would be diligent in learning. And you've called some to focus on the keeping of home and teaching of children. And we pray for these that you would keep their hearts and minds oriented towards you, that they would not grow weary in doing good. You've called some to retire after a lifetime of work and service, and we pray for these that their retirement would be one of consecrated service to you. And Lord, we thank you that you didn't just work, but you rested. And I pray that we would be as diligent in our rest as we are in our work. I pray that we would avoid the idolatry that says we must work every hour of every day, but that we would entrust ourselves to your provision by taking time to rest. I pray that we would set aside hours of the day and days of the week and weeks of the year to simply rest. And above all, I pray that our souls would rest in you, that we would entrust ourselves to our faithful Redeemer and rest from our fear of condemnation, our fear of alienation, our fear of hell. I pray that because we've trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ and received your forgiveness, that we would rest from trying to earn salvation and by faith that we would know beyond any doubt that we are known, that we are loved, and we're forever secure in you. And Lord, as we continue to worship, that we would live in your presence and learn to please you more and more, to live in your in your will, to to be those who are filled with the Spirit, who are joyfully glorifying Christ, that we would have love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control. But Lord, we want all of this so that we might glorify you. In Jesus' name. Amen. Hebrews 10, starting in verse 19. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have had a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful, and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near. For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy, as the on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he sanctified, and has outraged the spirit of grace? For we know him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again the Lord will judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. This is God's word. An aspect of Southern culture that I really didn't fully grasp, I knew it existed, I didn't really grasp it until we moved here is this undying loyalty that some have to college sports in the state of Kentucky. You don't see this dedication to college sports in New England. But some folks here kind of bleed the color of their team. UK is like a religion unto itself. I mean, the dude's name is Pope. I don't know if that's why he chose that name or what. The Super Bowl was last Sunday. Let's not bring that up. It hurts a little bit still. A lot of people were on social media complaining about or praising the halftime show. I just wanted the Patriots to win. But now we move on to baseball, and of course, the best team in the world. The Boston Red Sox. You're right. Everyone who said the Boston Red Sox. They've said the Yankees, you're welcome to go to Second Baptist Church. Amen. And of course, social media has been fun for the past week. Pharisees condemning anyone who watches Super Bowl, Sadducees condemning anyone who didn't want the watch the right halftime show. Some people worship their political figure or their party so much that hatred forms for anyone with a differing viewpoint. Sometimes we worship ourselves so much that we condemn others for things that in the end really don't matter all that much. We understand worship when it comes to things that we love. Of course, rooting for the Kentucky Wildcats or the Louisville Cardinals, it doesn't make you a loyal fan because you say it does. It does when the colors and your time and your perseverance prove it. I mean, that kind of faith isn't rooted on constant success, it's rooted on identity and commitment. You don't stop being a fan because the team struggles. You don't stop wearing the colors. You always say there's always next year, or at least Yankees fans always say there's always next year. The Yankees are not a good team. So though that loyalty reveals that you truly trust and value. And so the writer of Hebrews presses that that same instinct into the spiritual realm, but with infinitely greater stakes. Worship in Christ is not blind optimism, it's not emotional hype, it's settled trust in who he is and what he has already finished for us. But Jesus doesn't lose. Jesus doesn't need an off-season to rebuild. Jesus never disappoints. So true faith and real worship shows itself by staying with him when obedience is costly and when suffering is real, or when the Christian life doesn't feel like we think it should. I mean, just as loyalty to a team is revealed over seasons, loyalty to Jesus is revealed over the course of a lifetime. Those who are truly in Christ don't drift away when things get hard. They hold fast. Because their confidence is not in a scoreboard, it's not in a season, but it's in a savior who has already secured the final victory. So with that background in mind, I want to study what is perhaps the most practiced, but perhaps the least understood aspect of the Christian faith, and that is worship. We all worship, everyone worships something. But for those who worship the living God, what does that worship look like? What should it look like? Well, let's start by asking the question: what is worship? Look at verse 19. It says, Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is through the flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our body washed with pure water. So to understand worship, we need to understand the fact that worship is not a monolithic idea. In other words, biblically, worship stands together with rest. It stands hand to hand with rest, worship and rest. If God's finished work were a coin, then on one side we would see rest, and then the other side you would see worship, because they're two sides of the same coin. We have confidence to enter the presence of God, the holy place, because of Jesus' blood. So rest is trusting. Listen, rest is trusting in God's finished work. And worship is responding to God's finished work. Rest is trusting in God's finished work. Worship is responding to God's finished work. Right worship flows out of right rest. And true rest always leads to worship. Now, what do I mean by this? Well, resting in Jesus means that when we when you're saved, when you are saved, if you are in Christ right now, you're not trying to earn anything because Jesus has already secured it for you. That's the gospel, right? That Jesus has done through his life, death, burial, and resurrection what we could never do, and through faith in him, we're declared not guilty before God. And the challenge is I I've had these conversations often, and it leads to this. People say, Well, why should I go to church on Sunday if Sunday is intended for rest? I get it. I got four kids. We had to get them ready for church every weekend. And I had to get there early because I had the key. And when I woke up and didn't want to go to church, I had to go anyway. Because I preach. But the rest of scripture, listen to me, the rest that we find in scripture is not sleeping in. It's not lounging on the couch in your PJs that you've been wearing for a few days, watching a church live stream. No, to rest in the biblical sense is to truly, fully trust in Jesus' finished work, knowing that God's acceptance is no longer fragile, it's not conditional, it's not dependent upon your performance. That's rest. Listen to me. If you're in Christ right now, are you in Christ right now? Say amen. If you're in Christ right now, you are as accepted by God as you need to be. And if you are in Christ right now, you are as accepted by God as you ever will be. There's nothing that you can do to add more, and there's nothing you could do to take away. Glory to God. You can't lose even a little bit of acceptance with God. That gives me rest. And we see this pattern from the very beginning in Genesis. God completes his creative work, then he rests. God was not weary, but because his work is finished and is good, he rests. And the first full day of humanity's existence was lived within God's rest, not in anxious labor. God acts first, and his people live and respond in light of his completed work. And because we rest in what Jesus has done, we are free to obey without fear. And we serve without needing approval, and we worship without striving to earn God's favor. So worship is a response to what God has already done. It's not emotions, it's not fervor, it's not something that we gin up within ourselves, it's not something that Mick or I are responsible to manipulate out of you. Your worship, men, listen to me, you men that weren't singing this morning, your worship is your response to what God has done for you in Christ. Don't give me the business, I'm not a good singer. Join the club. But your worship, your voice, your your response to God is a response to what Christ has done. If you can't say amen, say ouch. You guys are the men are very quiet this morning. Can't say ouch, go. There we go. You see, after Genesis 3, our fallen nature shatters rest and it fragments worship. When humanity stops resting in God and trusting his word and worship is redirected towards substitutes. So instead of worshiping the Creator, a fallen heart will worship anything that promises relief or control or security. When God is lost, the heart inevitably shifts towards something else that promises what God promises but can never deliver. That's why we have a Sabbath rest in Christ. Our pattern should be that on the seventh day we don't do what we normally do. And the problem is we tend to reduce Sunday to a checklist. Okay, we went to church, okay, now we won't do this, okay, we won't do this. But I think we missed the plot if we do that. Our Sabbath rest is Jesus. The pattern of one day and seven being our day of rest means we take that day and we set it aside for rest and worship. We gather with God's people, we are renewed by the word, we sing out in response. Can I go hiking or fishing on a Sunday afternoon after church? If you want to. I mean, go for it unless the other six days of the week your job is to hike and fish. And if it is, you're probably retired. But the point is, we set aside the normal pattern and glorify and enjoy God. How many people in here growing up, you there were certain things you couldn't do on a Sunday because mom and dad said we don't do that on Sundays? And you still hold that tradition. That's fine. But listen, the point is set aside the normal pattern. Set aside the normal pattern and glorify God. And you say, Well, what about this and what about this and what about this? Do you do those things the rest of the week? Then don't do them. Rest. Jesus restores rest and worship in himself. Jesus does not invite the weary to techniques or programs or religious effort. He invites the weary heart to himself. Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest, and you will find rest for your souls. Last time we saw in Hebrews 4 that the author speaks of entering God's rest by faith. Hebrews 10 speaks of drawing near to God in confident worship. Here's the logic. Because Christ's work is finished, we have rest if you are a believer in Christ. And because we have rest, we can draw near in worship, we can respond in worship. Worship is not the means by which rest is achieved, it's the natural expression of a heart that is already at peace with God. Worship starts with Jesus. Worship starts with Jesus. And here's something that might get your hackles up. Worship doesn't start with you. Worship starts with Jesus. So when the church assembles together like this, God speaks first through his word. He reminds us that we are his work is finished, and we he invites us to respond in prayer and praise and obedience. So this corporate time of worship, this weekly gathering, it's a recentering of our weary hearts, isn't it? This should be a reminder that believers are we're not our own saviors. That we have a shared practice of resting together in the finished work of Christ. And people always say, you know, I went to church and I got topped off for another week. In a sense, that's very true. Because you are being reminded of what is true. And that truth, the truth of Christ, fills us and prepares us for another week in a broken and chaotic world. And I think this is where certainly the North American church often loses the plot. Whenever we talk about musical styles, the hackles come up. But if you're listen, if if worship is truly our response to God, then it must be possible for anyone who is in Christ to worship in a church that has no instruments and only sings psalms. And it must also be possible, if you are in Christ, to worship in a church with laser lights and fog and a rock band. If worship is a response to Jesus, then worship is not primarily about music or mood or personal expression, because worship is not about us. That's why the worship wars missed the heart of biblical worship, in my opinion. If you've never heard that term before, the the late 90s, early 2000s, modern worship began to take over hymnity in most places. And the debate focused on style and preference rather than theology and purpose. Tom Rayner, I know many of you have read Autopsy of a Deceased Church. This is one of the stories from that church, uh, from that book, rather, he went and did a church consultation. A congregation had declined from 500 people to about 20. And in the very first meeting, a man stood up and said, I would rather see this church die than. Than see worship songs on the screen in my church. And you know what? It did. It did die. You see, the worship wars created this dichotomy that doesn't need to exist. Biblical worship versus consumer worship. We need to understand that biblical worship is always a response, it's never an initiative. Worship is not a musical preference or a style. Worship is a response. So we can we can compare biblical worship and consumer worship. Biblical worship asks, what glorifies God according to his word? Consumer worship says, what do the people want? Now often we reduce this to music. People want hymns and won't come unless you sing hymns. People want rock and roll and will go elsewhere to get it. And friends, we're sometimes we sing hymnity, sometimes we're but we're not rock and roll. I mean, we're Jimmy Buffett at best. Where is Jimmy? I mean, we're we're Jimmy Buffett at best. There's churches that you can throw a rock at from here that are rock and roll, man. And if you want to dance when you're worshiping, there's plenty of places for that. And there's plenty of places where if you move your toes too much, you're gonna get kicked out because that's dancing. But it doesn't only apply to songs, it applies to preaching. What glorifies God versus what do people want? Don't be too harsh when you preach. Temper what you say. Be more gentle rather than thus says the Lord. Now I'm biased, I believe worship starts not with music, but with deep, true biblical preaching. Because in preaching, God speaks first, and his people respond in faith and reverence and obedience. Worship is not merely our words directed toward God, but it's God's people addressed to it's God's word addressed to his gathered people, revealing his holiness, exposing his sin, announcing grace, or announcing our own sin and announcing his grace and calling us to trust and repentance. When Scripture is faithfully preached, Jesus is proclaimed. And our consciences are shaped, and our hearts are steadied in gospel rest. In the consumer model, preaching becomes a TED talk. I'm going to come on Sunday morning, I'm going to get 10 steps to a better marriage, or five ways to reduce anxiety, or rather than the word of God, which honestly, I think the word of God addresses those matters far more deeply than any program on a Sunday morning ever could. I have a dear brother, a guy in Connecticut, I love him very much, and he always sends me Joel Olstein links. And he came to me one Sunday morning, and I love this guy dearly. He said, Why do you always beat up old Joel? I really love listening to Joel. He says, Joel Olstein makes me feel good. I said, Well, of course he does. That's what he does. I don't know Joel Olstein, I never met the guy. But I can tell that style of preaching feels really good. And it makes you feel warm and it encourages you. But I can tell you, rarely, if ever, will Joel Olstein preach the Word of God to a point where it convicts you of your sin or renews your mind. Draws you closer to Jesus beyond a superficial emotional level. I mean, if you want to listen to Joel, go for it. But understand it's not going to shape your heart, it's not going to give you rest. It's going to make you feel good. I always call it cotton candy preaching. I love cotton candy. I have a problem. Like, for real, this is a medical condition. I can't go to a fair and buy cotton candy because I'll buy all of it. And then I'll die. But that's what that preaching does. It's so good and so, but you're gonna become anemic. And this the second issue here in biblical worship in biblical worship, God is the audience. God is our audience. In consumer worship, the people are the audience. Biblical worship calls us to behold God. Consumer worship invites us to evaluate our experience. I mean, listen, I want you to be happy. My mother-in-law loves me. I can't be all that bad. But if my life goal was to be liked, I'd go run an ice cream truck. Who gets mad at an ice cream truck? People who are psychotic. Sometimes worship is not a happy thing, right? Because sometimes the Holy Spirit has to clear away your sin, and the Holy Spirit has to clear away your rebellion. And when the word is preached or when the songs are sung, conviction is tough. God is our audience, and together we respond to him. I've been doing this long enough that I've had so many odd conversations with people on both extremes. Had a man say to me once as he was leaving the church for good, hey kid, too much Bible. If you want people to come here, you got to tone down the Bible part. I said, brother, there's all kinds of churches around here that don't bring pick it up at all. You're spoiled for choice. On another occasion, back at our church in Connecticut, I had a man, I'd never met this man before. He was visiting our church, and I thought the sermon was okay. But he I saw this guy like rushing up to me as soon as I was walking down off the platform, and he says, Hey, I wrote down all the points you missed in that passage. And I'd love, I would have been happier if you would have hit at least a few of these. And I said to him, first off, dude, chill. Well, in my mind I said that. But second, had I hit all that guy's points, the sermon would have been three hours long. I have to self-edit during the week so that we're not here till 6 p.m. Somebody. I know how you Baptists are. Denny's is opening at noon. Is there Denny's around here? I don't even know. Waffle House. Waffle House is always open. But third, I told him, I did say to this guy, I said, Man, you're not my audience. I wish you were happy, but your happiness is not my goal. That's a long way of saying that although I personally want people to be pleased with what I do, my goal is first to glorify God by telling you what he says in whatever passage I'm preaching through. That's all I can offer you, church. And that leads to the next point under this heading is that biblical worship is focused on formation, whereas consumer worship is focused on experience. Biblical worship will shape you over time. It slowly cultivates reverence and humility and repentance and obedience. That can be true in a church that only sings psalms and has no instruments anywhere, and it can also be true in a rock and roll church. It can be true in a Jimmy Buffett church. Biblical worship is either it in either setting will shape you over time. It's unlikely that you recall the words of the sermon that I preached from this spot two years ago. Does anybody remember two years ago? What year was that? You can go back one slide. I haven't finished that one up yet. The one I preached two years ago, it was the it was in the book of Acts. It was Paul's trial before Felix. Oh, yes, now you remember. And I only remember that because I went back and looked it up. You probably don't remember the songs from that day. But my prayer is that you are now different than you were two years ago on that day, not because of one big event, but because of the slow, steady spiritual formation of sitting under the Word of God and responding in worship. That's the goal. Life formation over years. I'm really excited. I'm a big proponent of things like D Now. I sent out a text to all the parents this week. Get your students here. There's great benefit in these things. Those big events can clear out a log jam in their hearts. And then after that, you get that consistent week after week sitting under the word that will form them into mature followers of Jesus Christ. You see, those events like D now are not there to form them. It's designed to spark something in them. Formation happens over years, and of course, that's a part of the formation. But you think about our students, our students are still talking about summer camp last year. It was amazing. It was one of those core memory makers that sparked something. We had six baptisms after that event. That sparks faith and formation happens over years. And of course, the the final under this heading is biblical worship asks, How can I offer myself to God? Whereas consumer worship asks, Did I get what I wanted? Biblical worship may feel slower, may feel heavier, but it produces something far better. Deep assurance, enduring faith, true rest in Christ, and God-centered joy. It forms worshipers, whereas consumer worship makes consumers. Right worship flows out of right rest, and true rest will always lead to worship. Okay, let's move on to the second big piece here. This is the warning that we find in this passage. Look at verse 26. It says, For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the adversary. So this is the second heading. This is the big warning that we see here. You see, every believer will struggle with sin. In fact, the struggle over sin is often a part of the evidence of that salvation. Before I was in Christ, the first 23 years of my life, I didn't have a category for sin. I didn't care if I sinned because I was ignorant of sin. I just did what felt good. But in Christ, I know what sin is, and so sin in my life now is met with struggle to overcome it and repentance if I fall into it. So the warning here is for the man or woman who would come to a place like this, sing the songs, have all of the outward appearance of holiness, but live lives in deliberate, settled, defiant sin, a willful rejection of the Lordship of Jesus Christ after clearly knowing the truth of the gospel. This is not stumbling. This is a posture of the heart. It's the decision to cling to sin while presuming upon grace, to claim Christ while functionally denying him. And this passage directly confronts the danger of the shallow, once saved, always saved mentality that can divorce assurance from perseverance. Now don't misunderstand. I fully believe if you are saved, you're always going to be saved. If you are saved, there's nothing you or I can do to change that. So in a sense, I believe that once you're saved, you're always saved. But the shallowness of that is that some say scripture never teaches that there's a that a momentary profession or a prayed prayer or a past religious experience guarantees salvation regardless. So listen, it doesn't guarantee salvation regardless of how we live our lives right now. Your life is the proof of your salvation. It is the evidence of a converted heart, or it is the evidence of a heart that is not converted. If you claim Christ today, but tomorrow you are the most vile gossip and backbiter, and the worst is the one who can do it with Christian language and a smile, you are abusing the gospel and this warning is for you. If you claim Christ today, but you are celebrating sexual perversion in your life, you are abusing the gospel, and this warning is for you. If you claim Christ today, but tomorrow you live as if Jesus is just a noble figure and you could admire him while saying, I am the captain of my own ship, I will live however I please, this warning is for you. The book of Hebrews repeatedly insists that if you belong to Christ, you will hold fast to Christ. It does not say that his sacrifice is insufficient. It says that apart from repentance and faith, there is no other sacrifice to turn to. At the same time, this warning is not meant to unsettle genuine believers who hate their sin and cling to Christ. Rather, it functions as a mercy. And what do I mean by that? Well, if you claim Christ today and tomorrow you gossip, and that gossip eats at you, and you go back to God in repentance and you seek forgiveness from the person you gossiped about, this warning is not for you. If you claim Christ today and tomorrow you fall into sexual sin, but that sin drives you to your knees in repentance and sorrow, seeking change and forgiveness from your Savior, which he gives, this warning is not for you. If you claim Christ today and tomorrow you say, God, I trust you, I'm gonna make plans, I'm gonna prepare, I'm gonna be proactive, I'm gonna work hard, but in the end, I am trusting only in you. Then this warning is not for you. When someone's in Christ, our desires begin to change, our attitudes become humbled, our relationship to sin becomes altered, and our worship is no longer self-centered. We still struggle, but we no longer have peace with our sin. Grace doesn't make us careless, it makes us watchful. Faith doesn't eliminate obedience, it fuels it. So the book of Hebrews presses us to ask not merely what we claim and worship with our mouths, but what are we, what do our lives proclaim? What do our lives tell everyone else that we worship? Do we worship our autonomy or do we worship the risen Christ? Let me end this way. The letter, of course, ends where the gospel ends, which is invitation. The call to come and rest still stands. If you're weary from guilt, Jesus is your rest. If you're exhausted from striving to earn God's favor, Jesus is your rest. If your worship feels dry and joyless, the answer is not more effort, but it is to return to the finished work of Jesus Christ. You see, the Christian life does not begin with effort and move towards rest. It begins with rest, and then effort from that flows from gratitude for what Christ has already done. So we need to lay down the burden of self-salvation, because Jesus has secured that final victory already. He doesn't need an off-season, he never loses. So we need to anchor our identity in a Savior who has already won. And true worship and true rest will flow from that identity. And those who truly belong to Christ, we hold fast, not because we're trying to win, but because in Christ He has already won. Let's pray together. Father, I pray that all of those here today that know you and love you and claim you would truly have rest in you. And that rest would translate to worship a heart filled with joy and song and praise. Lord, help us as we endeavor to do that here. Help us as we endeavor to glorify you. Help us as we seek to make disciples for your glory. And Lord, I cast this whole family upon you. I just pray that we would be drawn close to you, that we would be made more into the image of your son. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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