Key Scriptures: Hebrews 13:15-16
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name. And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Lesson one: Our worship is an echo.
• Our worship should reflect the sound of heaven—namely the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, given for us
Hebrews 13:15-16, Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name. And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
1 Peter 1:3-6a, Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice…
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Lesson Two: The echo is a life of gratitude.
• Our worship isn’t something that we manufacture—it’s an echo of the sound of heaven that has changed our hearts
1 Peter 2:4-5, 9-10, As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness and into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Lesson Three: We lead with worship.
• My gratitude for the sacrifice of Jesus that has changed my heart, allows me to worship him regardless of (and prior to) the circumstances of life
• My gratitude for the sacrifice of Jesus that has changed my heart, allows me to reframe my circumstances with the character of God
1Thessalonians 5:16, Rejoice always, pray continually—and be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.