Big Thought: A life of worship consistently reveals and expresses our appropriate to the Lord on the Lord’s .
1. Appropriate response of .
a. Why does God have
i. Because of His
ii. Because of our .
God’s is absolutely to us sinners.
b. When attempting to worship on our terms, we should be .
Numbers 7:1-9 (ESV) – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils, the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers’ houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were listed, approached and brought their offerings before the LORD, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They brought them before the tabernacle. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.” So Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service. And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder.
1 Chronicles 13:7-8 (ESV) – And they carried the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinidab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart. And David and all Israel were rejoicing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
c. The of our disobedience are far reaching.
2. Appropriate response of .
1 Chronicles 13:7-8 (ESV) – And they carried the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinidab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart. And David and all Israel were rejoicing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
1 Chronicles 15:11-15 (ESV) – Then Davi summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Iriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek Him according to the rule.” So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel. And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.
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