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1 | Our Worship Ought to be Different | Deut 12:30 | DocTrinsograce | 168483 | ||
In preparation for the invasion of Canaan, our covenant God promised to destroy the nations before us (Deuteronomy 12:29). His chief complaint against the nations was their pagan worship. He warned, "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do the same.' You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. "Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it." (Deuteronomy 12:29-32 ESV) Here Scripture connects two essential Biblical principles, antithesis and worship. Antithesis means that God's people are to be clearly distinct from the surrounding pagan culture and that difference is to be expressed in worship. Not only are we not to worship the pagan gods, we are to worship the true God truly. It is significant then, that to this warning he added, "See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it." This principle is not confined to the Old Covenant Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus taught the same doctrine in Revelation 22:18-19. This is so because God's covenantal Word is united by one covenant of Grace: I will be your God, you will be my people (Genesis 17:1-14; Exodus 6:7; Jeremiah 7:23; 31;31-34.). There is only one Lord, one faith and one baptism, i.e., one covenant of grace under different administrations (Ephesians 4:5; see also ). Under Moses, this covenant was expressed in types and shadows (Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 10:1; Romans 5:14). In Jesus Christ we have the reality of what was promised. From Principles of Reformed Worship, Escondido United Reformed Church, September 2000 |
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2 | Our Worship Ought to be Different | Deut 12:30 | hobbs | 168490 | ||
Hi Doc, The fact that the reason for our very existance lies in God's desire to be glorified...that He seeks a people who will worship Him in spirit and in truth, should cause each one of us to pause and examine our own church's obediance to God's will and command regarding our form of worship. "Whatever is not commanded by Scripture in the worship of God is forbidden. The view commonly held among Protestant churches today is that anything is permitted in worship, provided it is not explicitly forbidden in the Bible." "What was it regarding Cain's offering that made it unacceptable before God? The preference for Abel's offering and the rejection of Cain's was not arbitrary, but based upon past revelation given to Adam and his family. Evidently, God revealed this information to Adam when He killed animals to make coverings for Adam and his wife (Gen. 3:21). Generations later, Noah knew that God would only accept clean animals and birds as burnt offerings to the Lord (Gen. 8:20). Cain, unlike his brother Abel, decided, apart from God's Word, that an offering of the fruit of the ground would be acceptable before the Lord. But God rejected Cain's offering, because it was a creation of his mind. God did not command it; therefore, even if Cain was sincere in his desire to please God, God still would have rejected his offering." (The above is from Brian Schwertley and may found at http://www.reformed.com/pub/xmas.htm#C2) Thanks, John |
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3 | Our Worship Ought to be Different | Deut 12:30 | DocTrinsograce | 168491 | ||
Thank you, John. Your comments did a good job of rounding out the excerpt from the EURC statement that I posted. | ||||||
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