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Worship

Worship. An Alternative Lifestyle. Right Wing, Gay, Con Man, Thug, Uptight White Executive, Homeless, Wall Street Broker, Liberal Bible-Thumper. We make judgments Even about worth. What's most important In the people you meet?. What one thing Do you look for first?.

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Worship

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  1. Worship An Alternative Lifestyle

  2. Right Wing,Gay,Con Man,Thug,Uptight White Executive,Homeless,Wall Street Broker,LiberalBible-Thumper

  3. We make judgmentsEven about worth

  4. What's most importantIn the people you meet?

  5. What one thing Do you look for first?

  6. Who did Jesus spend most of his time with?

  7. Who did Jesus spend most of his time with?People…

  8. Who did Jesus spend most of his time with?People…But there is somethingHe's looking for…

  9. "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal"- 2 Corinthians 4:18My focus determinesMy response

  10. "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal"- 2 Corinthians 4:18Should that influenceHow we see people?

  11. Worship- to declare worth or value

  12. Christian Worship- to declare the worth or value of God as ultimateLifestyle= make his values mine

  13. Christian Worship- to declare the worth or value of God as ultimateLifestyle= make his values mineThrough a changed (submitted) heart…

  14. Worship is the natural response of the redeemed to the revelation of God

  15. Genesis…

  16. God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth”

  17. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them- Genesis 1:26-27

  18. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them- Genesis 1:26-27Positional Image= Dominion

  19. Positional Image= Dominion

  20. Positional Image= DominionFunctional Image= Multiply and Fill

  21. Positional Image= DominionFunctional Image= Multiply and FillSubstantive Image= Free Will forMoral Choices

  22. Image of God:SoWhatWhoCares?

  23. The value of an objectDerives from it's owner

  24. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed,for God made man in his own image"- Genesis 9:6

  25. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed,for God made man in his own image"- Genesis 9:6Before the Fall or after the Fall?

  26. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed,for God made man in his own image"- Genesis 9:6Image RemainsRegardless of Fallenness

  27. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed,for God made man in his own image"- Genesis 9:6Image= Intrinsic ValueRegardless of all other factors

  28. The weightiness of Gold

  29. The weightiness of GoldGlory is the "weightiness" of GodYou carry his glory

  30. The Life of Jesus

  31. "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'"- Matthew 11:19Is he a friend of sinners?

  32. "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'"- Matthew 11:19Is he a friend of sinners?Why?

  33. Sitting on the ground…teaching

  34. Sitting on the ground…teachingTemple CourtyardWoman caught in act of adultery

  35. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 

  36. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” Why respect her?

  37. She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more”- John 8:10-11

  38. Does Jesus have a right to condemn her?

  39. Rather than "sit in judgment"of herJesus stands as a friend to herAnd speaks out of love for her"Go and sin no more…"

  40. Jesus stands as a friendAnd speaks out of love…Because she was created to be A daughter of GodRegardless of what she's done

  41. You were created to be a Daughter of GodYou bear his image(That's the one that matters)

  42. Jesus is looking for peopleWilling to be his friendNot as easy as it sounds…

  43.  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you- Jesus, John 15:13-14

  44. A friend who encourages, listens toSpeaks well of to others?True…

  45. Jesus hangs with people…

  46. Jesus...said, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully.

  47. “And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”Unworthy of a meal together

  48. And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold”

  49. And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost”- Luke 19:5-10Restoration: Relationship and Image

  50. Why a tax collector?Image of God= ValueHe needs repentanceand forgiveness

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