Chapter 4: Final Exam Flashcards
Throughout the Hebrew history, the … between God and the Israelites is the dominant reference point. Covenants outlined both how God and the Jews would live out their relationship with each other.
covenant
… to covenant revealed the spiritual condition of the nation.
Obedience
For example, “ All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful, for those who keep the demands of his … “. Psalms 27:10
covenant
Exodus lays the foundation for a … of God’s revelation of his person, his redemption, his law, and his worship.
theology
The … event has great importance in the history of Israel, and according to Hill, it “implicitly foreshadows the Christ event”.
Exodus
After leaving Egypt, Israelites in the covenant ceremony at Mount … had the opportunity to accept or reject their relationship with Yahweh.
Sinai
Keeping covenant with Yahweh means obeying his … and in return the Israelites will receive his …. Deuteronomy 28:1-14
commandments
blessings
Isaiah 6:1-8
- In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a … high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
throne
- And one cried unto another, said Holy, holy,holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his …
glory
- Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone: because I am a man of unclean …, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
lips
- Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send,and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; … me.
send
This scripture, from the Psalms supports the previous statement. “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the … and the stars, which thou hast ordained: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy … in all the earth!” (Psalms 8:3-4,9)
moon
name
Worship is both … and …
revelation
response
Worship cannot take place without a response from humankind to God. Robert E. Webber stated “ Worship in its broadest sense is a meeting between God and His people in which God becomes present to His people, who respond with … and …
praise
thanksgiving
In Isaiah 6:8, God asked for a response from Isaiah, and he responded, “Here am …; … me.
I
send
Offering … to God is what worship is all about.
ourselves
In John 4, Jesus encountered a … who asked Him about the proper location for worship.
woman
God is a spirit and we must worship him in … and in … (John 4:24)
spirit
truth
Without the Spirit’s presence, there is no genuine worship or life changing …
power
The … of the Holy Spirit makes all the difference in our worship. The Holy Spirit allows Jesus’ words to come alive.
presence
The Spirit changes our hearts and energizes our wills. The Spirit can enliven our forms of worship to enable joy and spontaneity. The Spirit breaks through … limitations,and links us with God.
human
In John’s writings, “truth” is a word that he relates often to … and the truth revealed by the Holy Spirit. John 1:17 states that “grace and truth came through Jesus Christ”.
Jesus
The truth that is in Jesus will form the … on which worship styles are built.
foundation
True worship does not depend on holy … and … but upon whether the worshiper is sincere and if Jesus Christ is the … of our worship
days
places
center
Christian worship is not man-centered or event-centered, but it is … centered.
Christ
But Christ being come an high … of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the .. of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us. (Hebrews 9:11-12)
priest
blood
To think that God would passionately seek worshipers must cause us to … God created man for fellowship that was framed in worship, with obedience at the heart of that relationship.
respond
But Adam and Eve fell into sin and chose to worship the … rather than the Creator by obeying their own lust for wisdom rather than God. (Genesis 3:1-6)
creature
But by God’s … he sought to bring people back into a relationship with himself. Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind became the propitiation for our sin so we can enter into fellowship with God,
grace
It is imperative to realize the importance of worshiping God in both spirit and in truth. … says it this way “spirit without truth is helpless and truth without spirit is … without a fire.
Tozer
theology
William Hendrikson writes “worshiping in spirit and truth can only mean that the entire … enters into the act in full harmony with the truth of God as revealed in His …
heart
word
Spirit will never lead into an area the …. prohibits.
Scripture
Worship leaders must grasp the importance of both leading with their entire …(spirit) and allowing the Word(truth) to guide their worship planning.
heart
Gundry states that physically the definition of worship “means to kneel down and … one’s knee to the ground”.
bend
John had already told us that Jesus the Word was full of … and truth, John later quotes Jesus in John 14:6 saying “I am the truth”.
grace
When we abide in the Holy Spirit this connotes a closeness and permanence. True worshipers are those who maintain a … relationship to Jesus.
close
The prediction in 4:23 that true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth… in 4:24 turns into the divine necessity that those who worship Him do so in Spirit and truth. Now anything less on our part is …
unacceptable
This new kind of worship is not an …. It is something that must occur.
option
The verb worship (PROSKYNEIN) will occur only twice more in the entire Gospel, and it seems ill suited to this exchange because it means to fall down or … oneself.
prostrate
Michaels does not believe that the use of “worship: implies that one should literally fall prostrate, bur rather it is a metaphor for the state of the …
heart
In a closer examination of John 4, we find that the Samaritans were expecting the Messiah that he would be a …
prophet
Worship leaders who worship in Spirit and truth must know the truth revealed in …
Jesus
Gundry describes this as an echo of God’s commanding Moses to tell the Israelites in Egypt that “I …” had sent him. Exodus 3:14
AM
So Jesus is not only Messiah, the Christ, not only the incarnate … who speaks, but also the Word who because he was “in the beginning with God and was God, is the eternal I AM.
word
Cain and the sons of Aaron (Nadab and Abihu) are examples of those whose worship was rejected by God. The constant challenge for the worship leader is preparing … before leading others in worship.
personally
Integrity and personal … are central for a leader to be worthy to be followed.
piety
Isaiah 1:11-20
Come now, and let us … together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
reason
This scripture is a warning to worship leaders to prepare their … with repentance and cease doing actions that are evil so that their worship is pleasing to God.
heart
Worship must be more than an activity that takes place in church, but rather is must be a … of worship that includes social justice reaching out with compassion to those that are less fortunate.
lifestyle
Amos 5:21-24
Take thou away from me the … of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream .
noise
This was shocking because the things mentioned are the very things they thought pleased the Lord, but their … were far from God.
hearts
Even their hymns of praise and instrumental music had become … to God.
repulsive
The missing element from these worshipers was “justice”. A momentary flow of justice and … is required of leaders of worship in the OT.
righteousness
Only when right … is coupled with a right heart may one then sense God’s pleasure.
action
Before IWS Professor Gerald Borchert retired, I heard him state that worship that … me nothing is “worth just about that much”.
cost
This “new heart” is the spirit of piety which:
- hates every false way (Psalms 119:104)
- and makes an attempt to avoid … (Proverbs 16:6)
evil
This “new heart” will produce a lifestyle of integrity and excellent character. Rory Noland asserts that:
- Character is becoming who God wants us to be.
- and … is doing what God wants us to do.
integrity
Key elements in this loving relationship with God that produces a lifestyle of integrity include:
- a spirit of humility
- an open heart
- a … spirit
and a willingness to learn, …, and …
contrite
grow
obey
As worship leaders, we need to ask ourselves as we plan, “What can we sing this Sunday to help us … God, to hear him, and to respond to him”.
meet
Worship leaders have a great responsibility! The challenge of the worship leader is twofold:
- To eliminate …
- To aid the worshiper to think vertically about the Lord.
distractions
This can become creature worship (focusing on distractions) rather than Creator worship. This motivates the worship leader to do all possible to ensure good preparation and to develop … in quality of delivery.
excellence
The more we prepare for a celebration, the more we … and anticipate it . But all too often for worship services, we prepare little, expect little, give little, and receive little.
expect
We are not just fulfilling a duty, although it certainly is a duty because we were … to worship God.
created
The proper attitude of worship comes through the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Without the Spirit’s presence, there is no genuine worship or life changing …
power
The Spirit breaks through human … and links us with God.
limitations
As we relate to God, we become aware not just of his immanence( his …), but also his transcendence (his existence above and beyond our …)
closeness
understanding
We can understand his presence with us, at least in part, but his transcendence is incomprehensible. “ For my … are not your …., neither are your … my … saith the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8)
thoughts
thoughts
ways
ways
He is not limited to time or space. He is infinite and omniscient. What a great mystery! He is so near, closer than a … and yet so above and beyond anything we can imagine or understand!
brother
God reveals his presence when his Word is …
preached
In those moments has God’s presence come down to us? Have we been led into God’s presence? No. God was present from the beginning. We’ve just become more … of it.
aware
Even though God is always with us, there are times when we are more aware of the presence of God, and we experience God’s intimate presence in a … capacity.
greater
When God is pleased with our worship his presence is …
evident
2 Chronicles 5:11-14
And it came to pass, when the … were come out of the holy place…..
For he is good; for his mercy endureth forever: that then the house was filled with a …, even the house of the Lord.
priests
cloud
The challenge for worship leaders is to recognize that their role as a … is constant, not just when they are on the … leading worship.
leader
platform
God should receive all the … for any beauty, or admirable quality in the gift.
glory
The Lord promised the kingdom of heaven and the blessings of God for those who do not follow the ways of the world, but instead model … in worship and life by accepting the legitimacy of humility, mercifulness, poverty, suffering, and other such patterns of life, not merely as human misfortunes to be rejected but as qualities to be employed for God’s glory.
integrity
Not everyone who declares that “Jesus is Lord” is in fact a … worshiper of God.
true
The life and teachings of Jesus epitomize the integration between authentic worship and a pure heart that is reflective of a life of … to God’s commandments.
obedience
Our … in worship is to:
- give glory to God
- to celebrate him
- to know him better
- and to minister to him
purpose
If our worship does not drive us to more intense devotion to the covenant we have made with God: if it does not turn our attention outward, then it is simply a self absorbed … that is not acceptable to the one who is supposed to be the … of our worship.
activity
subject
We will be fed by His word, we will be filled with His Spirit, we will be strengthened, but the … is different, the attitude is one of giving rather than getting.
focus
- How can we … him?
2. What will please him and declare his glory?
serve
When we exalt him and see how great he is, we begin to see ourselves for who we really are, sinful and need of … and forgiveness
Grace
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness : according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and … me from my sin. Psalms 51:1-2
Cleanse
The impact of meeting him produces a changed …, one of the serving the world with love, giving a drink of water in his name, caring for the poor, and working for justice.
Life
On the day of Pentecost, when … preached to the crowd and they were made aware of who Jesus was, “they were pricked in their heart, and said, men and brethren, what shall we do? (Acts 2:37) When we begin to comprehend the … of our God we become keenly aware of our sinfulness.
Peter
Greatness
Some wonder if … will somehow get lost if the Church focuses on worship.
Evangelism
Corporate worship … evangelism …, including evangelism, is the natural by product of worship.
Fuels
Service
When planning the content of a worship service, it is important to be very thoughtful and intentional to make sure the content is the good news that:
- God can … us
- … us
- And transform our lives
Save
Heal
Peterson expresses the significance of worship and responsibility of worship architects as follows : “ … is the supreme and only indispensable activity of the Church.
worship
God-focused worship is no worship service in this life will ever rival the splendor of …
Heaven
Soon and very soon we will be an audience before the majesty and glory of God for all …
Eternity
We will take our place among the throngs of heaven, made up of people from every tribe, language, people, and tongue who have been purchased by the blood of the …
Lamb
We will worship for all … joining the many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders saying with a loud voice, … is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, glory, and blessing.
Eternity
Worthy
Worship is …
Eternal
