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WORSHIP: The heartfelt offering up of praise, adoration and thanksgiving to God through singing, prayer, giving, partaking of the Lord's Supper, and Bible study. Worship is primarily vertical but may also be horizontal in that worship is meant to edify others (Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; 1 Cor 14:26). God desires worshippers who will worship in spirit and in truth (Jn 4:23,24).
Singing-Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; Jas 5:13;
Giving-1 Cor 16:1-2; 2 Cor 9:7,13; 8:12-13; Acts 20:35;
Prayer-1 Tim 2:1-2; Rom 12:12; Lk 18:1; Col 4:2; 1 Thes 5:17-18; 1 Jn 5:14;
Lord's Supper-Matt 26:26-28; Mk 14:22-26; Lk 22:14-20; 1 Cor 11:23-29; Acts 2:42; 20:7;
Preaching-Acts 20:7; 2 Tim 4:1-5; Rom 1:14-16; 1 Cor 1:21: Rom 10:12-1
In Spirit and in Truth – 1 Jn 4:24. The object of our worship is God. We are to have the right attitude of heart as said in the word “Spirit”. Then we must worship according to the “Truth” which refers to the proper standard – The Word of God (Jn 17:17).
Is everything we do worship to God? NO!!! The Bible clearly distinguishes between service and worship. Gen 22:1-14; Deut 4:19, 8:19, 29:26; 1 Kings 9:6, 9:9; Jer 8:2, 16:11, 25:6. Would those who teach and hold that hygienic and bathroom functions constitute worship? What about sexual relations between husband and wife? ABSURD!!! The position is neither logical nor scriptural.
Worship that pleases God must be according to truth, that is based on the Word of God. Specifically, true worship must be based on the teaching of Christ that is found in the New Testament. Is the use of mechanical instruments in the worship of the church according to Jesus truth? If so, where is the passage? Jesus instructed His apostles to teach men to observe all things that He commanded them (Matt 28:20). Is the use of such instruments in worship to God part of what Jesus commanded the apostles? If so, where is it written. Does the Lord command us to use mechanical instruments of music when singing spiritual songs? NO. Does God give us a direct statement that shows that such instruments are allowed? NO. Is there an approved example of such in the New Testament? NO. Is there any implication in Jesus doctrine that shows that the church has the right to worship God with mechanical instruments of music? NO. Thus, the use of mechanical instruments of music in worship to God is NOT part of Jesus doctrine. If that is so, then using them in the worship of the church did not come from Jesus, but from men. Do you remember Jesus question to the Jewish leaders about John the Baptists Baptism? “The Baptism of John, whence was it! From Heaven or of Men” (Matt 21:25)? If you will substitute in that question the words “the use of mechanical instruments of music in the worship of the church” for ”the baptism of John” then you will have the question that we need to answer. Is it (mechanical instruments in the worship of the church) from Heaven or men? FROM MEN.
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Key KJV Scriptures:
John 4:23-24; Acts 2:42; 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29; 14:15,26,40; 16:1-2; Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16-17
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
449 indexed verses · Showing 81–120. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Deuteronomy 33:19 (KJV)
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Joshua 5:15 (KJV)
And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
Joshua 8:32 (KJV)
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Joshua 8:33 (KJV)
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Joshua 8:34 (KJV)
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
Joshua 8:35 (KJV)
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
1 Kings 8:3 (KJV)
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
1 Kings 8:4 (KJV)
And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
1 Kings 8:5 (KJV)
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
1 Kings 8:6 (KJV)
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
1 Kings 8:7 (KJV)
For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
1 Kings 8:8 (KJV)
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
1 Kings 8:9 (KJV)
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:10 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
1 Kings 8:11 (KJV)
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 17:36 (KJV)
But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
2 Kings 23:1 (KJV)
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:2 (KJV)
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 23:3 (KJV)
And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
1 Chronicles 16:29 (KJV)
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
1 Chronicles 23:1 (KJV)
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
1 Chronicles 23:2 (KJV)
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
1 Chronicles 23:3 (KJV)
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23:4 (KJV)
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
1 Chronicles 23:5 (KJV)
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
1 Chronicles 23:6 (KJV)
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 23:7 (KJV)
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23:8 (KJV)
The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
1 Chronicles 23:9 (KJV)
The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
1 Chronicles 23:10 (KJV)
And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23:11 (KJV)
And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.
1 Chronicles 23:12 (KJV)
The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
1 Chronicles 23:13 (KJV)
The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.
1 Chronicles 23:14 (KJV)
Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.
1 Chronicles 23:15 (KJV)
The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.
1 Chronicles 23:16 (KJV)
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
1 Chronicles 23:17 (KJV)
And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
1 Chronicles 23:18 (KJV)
Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
1 Chronicles 23:19 (KJV)
Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 23:20 (KJV)
Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.
Reference selections include Orville J. Nave’s public-domain topical index, via Brady Stephenson’s bible-data (CC BY 4.0). Titles and references have been normalized, duplicates merged, and references checked against the site’s KJV. This is a passage-finding aid; its classifications do not establish doctrine.