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Jeremiah 7

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ” Luke 19:46. Jeremiah 7. I. Brief Look at Worship Up To Christ II. Summary of Jeremiah 7 III. Specific Mistakes of Judah’s Worship IV. Lessons for Christian W orship.

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Jeremiah 7

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  1. saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”Luke 19:46

  2. Jeremiah 7 I. Brief Look at Worship Up To Christ II. Summary of Jeremiah 7 III. Specific Mistakes of Judah’s Worship IV. Lessons for Christian Worship

  3. I. Brief Look At Worship Up To Christ • Call on the Lord Gn4:26 • Abraham Call on the Lord Gn 12:9 • Moses at Sinai [obey] Ex 19:5 • The Tabernacle [sacrifice] Ex 25:8 • The First Temple, Solomon 1 Kn 8:11ff • Zerubabbel’s‘Temple’ Ezra 3:8ff • The Second Temple, Herod John 2:20

  4. II. Summary of Jeremiah 7 • The Temple Sermon 1-15 • Worship Problem #1 – Queen of Heaven 16-20 • “ ” #2 - Sacrifice For Obedience 21-28 • “ ” #3 – Child Sacrifice 29-34 • “ ” #4 – Worship Degenerates To DefilingThe Dead 8:1-3

  5. III. Specific Mistakes of Judah’s Worship • Religious hypocrisy 2-4, 8-11 • Presume [take for granted] upon the Lord 9,10 • Failing to learn from Shiloh 12-15 • Worshipping things other than God 18, 8:2 • Living in disobedience to what they heard24-28 • Losing the way of truth and ending up way, way, way off track 28-3:3

  6. IV. Lessons For Christian Worship • Christian worship services becomes a ‘house of prayer’, when Christians come to worship services honoring God with our lips and our hearts throughout the week, not just on Sunday. Mt 15:8,9 • Christians need to learn from the mistakes of the Jews at: Shiloh; the first Temple; and, the second Temple. Do not presume upon God. • Christian worship must be of the Lord alone. You cannot worship the Lord and anything else. Mt 4:10 • Christian worship must be in spirit and truth. It is not a place J4:24. Worship is a spiritual activity Ph3:3 and it should not be thought of as only on one day of the week.

  7. IV. Lessons For Christian Worship 5. The Holy Spirit indwells Christians and you become the temple i.e. the place of worship 1Co3:16. 6. Intimacy with God and depth in worship are linked with living in truth and obedience. J15 7. If you want to improve your worship, come to hear God’s Word, learn to hear God. This is closely related to 6. above – obeying what you hear. 8. Worship is not primarily music. Other elements include: hearing, giving, preaching, the Lord’s Table, …

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