The church is an eternal organism in the earth, doing the will of God and accomplishing the purpose

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If We Are the Body
The church is an eternal organism in the earth,
doing the will of God and accomplishing the
purpose of God.

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• 1 John 57 For there are three that bear
  record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
  Holy Ghost and these three are one.
• Hebrews 105-7 Wherefore when He cometh into
  the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou
  wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared Me
  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou
  hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in
  the volume of the book it is written of me,) to
  do Thy will, O God.

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• Ephesians 122-23 And hath put all things
  under his feet, and gave him to be the head over
  all things to the church, Which is His body, the
  fulness of Him that filleth all in all.

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• Ephesians 413 Till we all come in the unity
  of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of
  God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
  stature of the fulness of Christ
• Colossians 118 And He is the head of the
  body, the church who is the beginning, the
  firstborn from the dead that in all things he
  might have the preeminence.

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7 qualities of Christ AS THE 7 priorities of
His Church
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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God
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The word

Expository preaching
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The IMAGE

BIBLICAL Discipleship
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The power

Global missions
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The LIFE

Exponential reproduction
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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God We MUST embody the
GLORY of God
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The GLORY

SPIRITED Worship
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• John 11 In the beginning was the Word, and
  the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• John 114 And the Word was made flesh, and
  dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the
  glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
  full of grace and truth.
• 1 Corinthians 1227 Now ye are the body of
  Christ, and members in particular.

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• John 423-24 But the hour cometh, and now is,
  when the true worshippers shall worship the
  Father in spirit and in truth for the Father
  seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit and
  they that worship him must worship Him in spirit
  and in truth.

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• 1 Corinthians 110 Now I beseech you,
  brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  that ye all speak the same thing, and that there
  be no divisions among you but that ye be
  perfectly joined together in the same mind and in
  the same judgment.

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• Every person is CONNECTED in our PERSPECTIVE of
  our WORSHIP.
• (ARE YOU?)

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Shachah

• Worship (99)
• Bow down (31)
• Obeisance (9)
• Reverence (5)
• Fall Down (3)
• An attitude of heart that produces an outward
  demonstration.

Lord, I hold you in awe!
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Proskuneo

• to kiss toward
• An expression of the affection in our hearts
  toward the Lord.
• Lord, I love you!

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Worth-Ship

• -
• to ascribe valuable worth to something or
  someone.

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Worth-Ship

• -
• declaring with our words and/or demonstrating by
  our actions that for which we count the Lord
  worthy.

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Worth-Ship

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• Lord,
• you are worthy of all!

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• Every person is CONNECTED in our PERSPECTIVE of
  WORSHIP.
• Every person is CONVINCED of the PRIORITY of
  WORSHIP.
• (ARE YOU?)

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• 1 Corinthians 1031 Whether therefore ye eat,
  or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the
  glory of God.

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• Job 384-7 Where wast thou when I laid the
  foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast
  understanding. Who hath laid the measures
  thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched
  the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations
  thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone
  thereof When the morning stars sang together,
  and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

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Ezekiel 2811-17
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Isaiah 1412,13
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• Ezekiel 126-28 And above the firmament
  that was over their heads was the likeness of a
  throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone
  and upon the likeness of the throne was the
  likeness as the appearance of a man above upon
  it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the
  appearance of fire round about within it, from
  the appearance of his loins even upward, and from
  the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw
  as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
  brightness round about. As the appearance of the
  bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so
  was the appearance of the brightness round about.
  This was the appearance of the likeness of the
  glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon
  my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

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• Isaiah 61-3 In the year that king Uzziah
  died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
  high and lifted up, and his train filled the
  temple. Above it stood the seraphims each one
  had six wings with twain he covered his face,
  and with twain he covered his feet, and with
  twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and
  said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts the
  whole earth is full of his glory.

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• Revelation 4

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• John 423 - But the hour cometh, and now is,
  when the true worshippers shall worship the
  Father in spirit and in truth for the Father
  seeketh such to worship Him.
• 1 Peter 58 - Be sober, be vigilant because
  your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
  walketh about, seeking whom he may devour

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• 2 Corinthians 44 In whom the god of this
  world hath blinded the minds of them which
  believe not, lest the light of the glorious
  gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
  shine unto them.
• Ephesians 22 Wherein in time past ye walked
  according to the course of this world, according
  to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
  that now worketh in the children of disobedience

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• Colossians 31-2 If ye then be risen with
  Christ, seek those things which are above, where
  Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your
  affection on things above, not on things on the
  earth.

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• Psalms 274 One thing have I desired of the
  LORD, that will I seek after that I may dwell in
  the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to
  behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in
  his temple.

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• 2 Samuel 111-3 And it came to pass in an
  eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed,
  and walked upon the roof of the king's house and
  from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and
  the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And
  David sent and enquired after the woman. And one
  said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of
  Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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• Philippians 33 For we are the circumcision,
  which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in
  Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
  flesh.
• Philippians 313-14 Brethren, I count not
  myself to have apprehended but this one thing I
  do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
  reaching forth unto those things which are
  before, I press toward the mark for the prize of
  the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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• Luke 1038-42 Now it came to pass, as they
  went, that he entered into a certain village and
  a certain woman named Martha received him into
  her house. And she had a sister called Mary,
  which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his
  word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving,
  and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not
  care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?
  bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus
  answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou
  art careful and troubled about many things But
  one thing is needful and Mary hath chosen that
  good part, which shall not be taken away from
  her.

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• Luke 1042 But one thing is needful and Mary
  hath chosen that good part, which shall not be
  taken away from her.
• WORSHIP is a CHOICE.
• WORSHIP is more important than SERVICE.
• WORSHIP is ETERNAL
• WORSHIP is the MAIN THING and the MAIN SPRING

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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God We MUST embody the
GLORY of God
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• Every person is CONNECTED in our PERSPECTIVE of
  WORSHIP.
• Every person is CONVINCED of the PRIORITY of
  WORSHIP.
• Every person is CONSOLIDATED in the PRACTICE of
  worship.
• (ARE YOU?)

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Singing
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Singing

• 2/3rds of the Bible makes reference to music. (44
  of the 66 books)
• Nearly 600 references to people singing praises
  to God.
• The longest book of the Bible is Psalms. (A Song
  Book)

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• Psalms 6930-31 I will praise the name of God
  with a song, and will magnify Him with
  thanksgiving. This also shall please the LORD
  better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and
  hoofs.
• Psalms 403 And He hath put a new song in my
  mouth, even praise unto our God many shall see
  it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

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Giving
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Giving

• There are approximately 500 verses on prayer in
  the Bible.

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Giving

• There are approximately 500 verses on prayer in
  the Bible.
• There are fewer than 500 verses on faith in the
  Bible.

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Giving

• There are approximately 500 verses on prayer in
  the Bible.
• There are fewer than 500 verses on faith in the
  Bible.
• There are almost 600 verses on singing.

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Giving

• There are more than 2350 verses on handling money
  in the Bible.

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Giving

• Psalms 967-9 Give unto the LORD, O ye
  kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory
  and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due
  unto His name bring an offering, and come into
  His courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of
  holiness fear before him, all the earth.

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Why does god put so much emphasis on money?
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Why does god put so much emphasis on money?

• Money is the barometer of our hearts.

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• Jeremiah 179 The heart is deceitful above all
  things, and desperately wicked who can know it?
• Matthew 621 For where your treasure is, there
  will your heart be also.

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Why does god put so much emphasis on money?

• Money vies for the place of lordship of our
  lives.

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• Matthew 624 No man can serve two masters for
  either he will hate the one, and love the other
  or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
  other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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• Money, most common of temporal things, involves
  uncommon and eternal consequences. Even though it
  may be done quite unconsciously, money molds men
  in the process of getting it, saving it, spending
  it and giving it. Depending on how you use it, it
  proves to be a blessing or a curse to its
  possessor. Either the man becomes the master of
  his money or the money becomes the master of the
  man. Our Lord takes money, as essential as it is
  to our common life, and as sordid as it sometimes
  seems, and makes it a touchtone to test the lives
  of men and instrument to mold us into the
  likeness of Himself.

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Why does god put so much emphasis on money?

• Money is the gauge that reveals whether we can
  handle true riches.

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• Luke 1610-11 He that is faithful in that
  which is least is faithful also in much and he
  that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
  much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in
  the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your
  trust the true riches?

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• 1 Corinthians 161-2 Now concerning the
  collection for the saints, as I have given order
  to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon
  the first day of the week let every one of you
  lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him,
  that there be no gatherings when I come.

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praying
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• Psalms 51-3 -Give ear to my words, O LORD,
  consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of
  my cry, my King, and my God for unto thee will I
  pray. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O
  LORD in the morning will I direct my prayer unto
  thee, and will look up.

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• Mark 1230 And thou shalt love the Lord thy
  God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
  and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength
  this is the first commandment.
• John 423 But the hour cometh, and now is,
  when the true worshippers shall worship the
  Father in spirit and in truth for the Father
  seeketh such to worship Him.

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• Luke 1910 For the Son of man is come to seek
  and to save that which was lost.
• Luke 111-2 And it came to pass, that, as He
  was praying in a certain place, when He ceased,
  one of His disciples said unto Him, Lord, teach
  us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
  And He said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our
  Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven,
  so in earth.

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listening
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• Psalms 44 Stand in awe, and sin not commune
  with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
  Selah.
• Psalms 4610 Be still, and know that I am God
  I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be
  exalted in the earth.
• Ecclesiastes 51-2 Keep thy foot when thou
  goest to the house of God, and be more ready to
  hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools for
  they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash
  with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty
  to utter any thing before God for God is in
  heaven, and thou upon earth therefore let thy
  words be few.

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• Habakkuk 220 But the LORD is in His holy
  temple let all the earth keep silence before
  Him.
• Zephaniah 17 Hold thy peace at the presence
  of the Lord GOD for the day of the LORD is at
  hand for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he
  hath bid his guests.
• Zechariah 213 Be silent, O all flesh, before
  the LORD for he is raised up out of his holy
  habitation.
• James 119 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let
  every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow
  to wrath

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• 1 Thessalonians 411 And that ye study to be
  quiet, and to do your own business, and to work
  with your own hands, as we commanded you
• Luke 1039 And she had a sister called Mary,
  which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard His
  word.

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living
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living
bearing Fruit
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• John 155-8 I am the vine, ye are the
  branches He that abideth in Me, and I in him,
  the same bringeth forth much fruit for without
  Me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in Me,
  he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered
  and men gather them, and cast them into the fire,
  and they are burned. If ye abide in Me, and My
  words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
  and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my
  Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit so
  shall ye be My disciples.

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• Psalms 9213-15 Those that be planted in the
  house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of
  our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in
  old age they shall be fat and flourishing To
  shew that the LORD is upright He is my rock, and
  there is no unrighteousness in Him.
• Psalms 4517 I will make thy name to be
  remembered in all generations therefore shall
  the people praise thee for ever and ever.

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• Psalms 9017 And let the beauty of the LORD
  our God be upon us and establish thou the work
  of our hands upon us yea, the work of our hands
  establish thou it.
• Acts 413 Now when they saw the boldness of
  Peter and John, and perceived that they were
  unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled and
  they took knowledge of them, that they had been
  with Jesus.
• Psalms 661-4 - Make a joyful noise unto God,
  all ye lands Sing forth the honour of His name
  make His praise glorious. Say unto God, How
  terrible art thou in thy works! through the
  greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit
  themselves unto thee. All the earth shall
  worship thee, and shall sing unto thee they
  shall sing to thy name. Selah.

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Singing
Giving
praying
listening
living
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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God We MUST embody the
GLORY of God