The Priority of Worship

The glorious good news of the gospel is that the sin-devastated relationship between lost sinners and the holy God can be restored. That at first glance seems impossible. God’s perfect, infinite, righteous justice demands the punishment of all who violate His law. Standing before the bar of His justice are helpless, guilty sinners, unable either to satisfy God or to change their condition. But through God’s plan of reconciliation all the hostility, animosity, and alienation separating the Holy One and sinners vanishes, and those who were once His enemies become His friends. The high calling and noble privilege of preaching this message of reconciliation is the most important duty in the world, since it deals with eternal destinations.

John MacArthur

Worship 15

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Worship 15 .HEAD 1 + Title: The Priority of Worship Text: Selected Tracing: Preached December 29, 1991 AM at SDCC. .HEAD 1 + INTRO Have you enjoyed the Christmas season?…

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Worship 25 .HEAD 1 + Title: The Six Most Important Words about Worship Text: John 4:23-24 Tracing: Preached January 5, 1992 AM at SDCC. .HEAD 1 + INTRO Today my…

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Worship 35 .HEAD 1 + Title: The Dangers of Worship Text: Selected Tracing: Preached January 12, 1992 AM at SDCC. .HEAD 1 + INTRO Last week, after the morning service,…

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Worship 45 .HEAD 1 + Title: Preparing to Worship Text: Selected Tracing: Preached January 19, 1992 AM at SDCC. .HEAD 1 + INTRO We have discussed how vitally important worship…

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Worship 55 .HEAD 1 + Title: Designing a Service for Worship Text: Selected Tracing: Preached January 26, 1992 AM at SDCC .HEAD 1 + INTRO An Experiment today! Last week…

In books for spiritual edification, much depends upon the manner in which they are read. If taken up carelessly and read in a light mood, they are likely to do little good. The attention will not be fixed, nor the heart engaged, nor the conscience awakened. You must be somewhere alone with God – where you can have leisure and opportunity to commune with your own heart and with Him – where you can pause, reflect, and pray, unobserved by a single fellow-creature – where you can stop, examine, meditate, and it may be, weep. Before you read another chapter, put down the volume, fall upon your knees and agonize in prayer, that the perusal may be blessed to your soul. Take the book with you into your closet. Read it in your most serious hours, in your greatest privacy, and in the most solemn manner.

John Angell James