Bible
Study - Are You Worshipping God In Spirit And In Truth?
Lesson 7
We Must Give Our Best To
God
As we worship God, we give
Him ourselves. Romans 12:1 says, "I
beseech you therefore, brethern, by the mercies of God, that
you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
to God which is your reasonable service." Under
the Old Testament some of the Jews were not offering their
best and were condemned for it. In Malachi 1:8 we read,
"And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not
evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil?"
Is it not just as evil today when we do not give God our best?
Under the New Testament we
do not offer animal sacrifices as the Jews did under the Old
Testament; but we give Him our lives in service to Him as
a living sacrifice. In doing this we must give Him our all.
Anything we do for God must be our very best. Jesus tells
us in Matthew 22:37, "You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all
your soul, and all your mind." All
our heart, soul, and mind, or in other words, our total being
must be in our worship.
How do we show our love to
God? Our Lord says in John 14:21, "He
who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves
Me." We show our love to God when we keep His
commandments. We do not show our love to God if we only keep
the commandments we want to keep or if we add some of our
own commandments.
In Matthew 28:18, before Christ
ascended into heaven, He was giving His apostles some last
minute instructions concerning those they would baptize. Jesus
said, "Teaching them to observe
all things that I have commanded you." Everything
the Lord has commanded us is to be observed. We are to do
all that God says and in the way He says to do it. Jesus says
in Luke 6:46, "But why do you
call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
In worship we must do all
God has commanded and we must not do anything He has not authorized.
Our worship must be from the heart with all reverence and
sincerity. We must give Him our very best. Then and only then
will we be worshipping God "in spirit and in truth".
The purpose and holiness of true worship to God is a precious
privilege available only to those who are obedient to the
will of God.
Questions Lesson 7
We Must Give Our Best To God
(click on the button of the
answer of your choice)
1) (Romans 12:1) We are to give
our bodies to God
After we die as a dead sacrifice.
Now as a living sacrifice.
As we please.
2)
As we present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God,
they must be holy and acceptable to God.
3) (Malachi 1:8) When we
do not give God our best
It is evil.
It is good.
God will accept what we give Him.
4)
God is well pleased even when we give less than our best
to Him.
5) (Matthew 22:37) How
must we love God?
When we feel like it.
Only partially.
With all of our heart, all of our mind, and all of
our soul.
6)
We must love God with our total being.
7) (John 14:21) We show
our love for Christ by
Keeping His commandments.
Not keeping His commandments.
Keeping the commandments we want to keep.
8)
Those who do not keep Christ’s commandments still love
Him.
9) (Matthew 28:18) Those
who are baptized are to be taught
The church’s creed.
Nothng else.
To observe all things Christ has commanded.
10)
Everything Christ has commanded is to be observed.
