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Genesis 8:20-22

The flood recedes and after approximately 377 days on the ark, Noah and his family are able to disembark. He sees no living creature or hears anything. God has separated all the wicked from off the face of the earth and the very first response from Noah, is worship.

What is worship?

There are three basis elements involved in worship.

(1) Humility. It’s focus, is on the exalting and praising of God, a sign of our submissiveness to a greater being. A good example is John the Baptist recognizing the superiority of Jesus when he said “he must increase and I must decrease”.

(2) Reverence. It’s focus, is on our recognizing the awesome majesty of God. In Rev 5, worship is given Christ for His power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. The inhabitants of heaven all break out saying “worthy is the Lamb”.

(3) Service. It’s focus is on work or labor for our Lord. In the Old Testament it involved priestly service. Today, all believers are now in the priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable unto God. This will always involve a cost of some sort.

True worship must involve all three of these elements and it is serious business in God’s sight. The church at Corinth revealed a spirit of irreverence and lack of humility and as such severe judgment was brought down upon them. Irreverence is antithetical to worship.

Rom 11:36 states “for from him and thru him are all things, to Him be glory forever”. This verse needs to be the basis for our response in worshipping the Lord God Jesus Christ..