Why Worship?

Ephesians 5:15-20
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¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;²⁰ giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

• Be filled with the Spirit
  • Passive Command
  • Be allowed to be filled with the Spirit
• How do you allow you to be filled with the Spirit
  • Worship
  • speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord

Result of Worship: Better Human Mechanism

• Better Husband-Wife relationship
• Better Children Parents relationship

Ephesians 5:22-28
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²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, ²⁷ that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. ²⁸ Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Don’t be bound by the opinions of people

Interesting statement to Paul

• Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you
• Set free from people and their opinions to help people
  • Otherwise you cannot help people

Acts 26:15-18
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¹⁵ “I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’

“He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ¹⁶ But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; ¹⁷ delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Proverbs 29:25
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