Noah’s worship of God – Part 2
Genesis 8:20-22
God expects His creatures to worship Him and Him alone.He has revealed himself and instructed us how we are to worship.
We respond in three ways: adoration, sacrifice and proclamation.
Adoration. We praise Him for who He is and for what He has done, and is the way in which we show our humbleness before Him. The psalms gives us the pattern of adoration with the phrase “Praise the Lordâ€.
Sacrifice. This always will involve a cost of some kind on our part. Today we don’t sacrifice animals, but we are to be a living sacrifice, showing our reverance to our awesome, majestic God.
Proclamation. This is the response to the service element in worship. When Abraham built an altar for worship, it is stated that “he called upon the name of Lordâ€. We need to do the same for all to see and observe that we worship the Lord God.
We can define worship as: the humble response of regenerate man to the self-disclosure of the Most High God. It is based upon the work of God. It is achieved through the activity of God. It is directed to God. It is expressed by the lips in praise and by the life in service.
Saddly, today worship has degenerated into a “it’s all about me†type of exercise. But Noah, the very first thing he does when he steps off the ark, is to worship God. Praising God for what He has done in protecting him from the destructuive flood. Giving us a pattern for our worship of this almighty, all powerfull, all knowing God.
Those amoung us today, who write off the church are writing off worship as unimportant. They are either not saved or have never grasped the implication of their salvation. They live their lives in the temporal mode as if it was eternal, unaware of the danger that they are in.