Welcome to

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Welcome to
Bible Baptist ChurchBallincollig,
Cork Celebrating 12 Years
Today is the Lords Day Sunday, 8th of October,
2006
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Octobers Memory Verse

• Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
  wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in
  psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
  with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Colossians 316

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Announcements

• Church Tonight at 7pm continuing Hymnspiration,
  Why We Sing What We Sing!
• Wednesday evening Prayer meeting at 7pm Matthew
  27!
• Ladies meeting, this Thursday at 8pm at Eileen
  OKeeffes
• 31st Oct, Rise and Shine Church Activity Night
  starting at 7pm

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True Worshippers

• Job

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Review Worshipping Godin Spirit and Truth

• This is a study series looking at True Worship,
  and True Worshippers
• We have been looking at HOW Gods people
  worshipped God
• The test of ones worship is what happens when
  everything goes wrong?

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Who Was Job? (Job 11,2)

• A Believing Man (Job 11)
• A Blessed Man (Job 12,3James 117)
• A Burdened Man (Job 14,5)

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What Happened To Job?

• The same thing that happens to absolutely
  everybody in this life disasters (Job 325)
• You can be dotting your is, and perfectly
  crossing your ts and yet STILL get horrendously
  side-swiped by disaster!
• Four of the worst disasters that can happen to
  any of us, all happened at once
• Loss of all income and security
• Loss of his children - a tornado kills all 10 of
  his children
• Loss of his health a crippling, devastating
  disease
• Loss of support his own wife wants to just die

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• How Did Job Respond(Job 120-22 29-11)?
• Job shows us How to Really Worship God

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His Worship Was A Choice

• It was NOT based on feelings, fortune, on being
  forced
• It was a CHOICE that he made
• Job was tested, tempted
• To stop believing in God
• To commit suicide
• To NOT praise God
• To NOT accept from God what God gives us
  sovereignty
• Yet Job worshipped
• Just as Daniel did!

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His Worship Was In Weakness

• Grieving
• Alone
• Sick, Dying no hope, except in God
• Satans purpose of our trial or testing as a
  Christian to get us to stop worshipping God
• Satan HATES the worship of God the giving of
  honour and glory to God and not to HIM he is
  consumed with the desire to STOP us from
  worshipping God
• Worship, praise is NOT because we feel good
  praise is not something I do on the basis of my
  feelings or my circumstances
• Job determines to worship the Lord no matter what

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The Bible Says

• Philippians 44
• Rejoice in the Lord alway and again I say,
  Rejoice.

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The Bible Says

• 1 Thessalonians 518
• In every thing give thanks for this is the will
  of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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The Bible Says

• Ephesians 431
• Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
  clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you,
  with all malice

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The Bible Says

• Ephesians 429
• Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
  mouth, but that which is good to the use of
  edifying, that it may minister grace unto the
  hearers.

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The Bible Says

• Psalm 341
• I will bless the LORD at all times his praise
  shall continually be in my mouth.

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The Bible Says

• Hebrews 1315
• By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of
  praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of
  our lips giving thanks to his name.

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The Bible Says

• Psalm 1071
• O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good for
  his mercy endureth for ever.
• Psalm 1459
• The LORD is good to all and his tender mercies
  are over all his works.

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His Worship Was of God

• Not of the good times, prosperity
• Not of what God WAS in history, or in your past
• Not of what he needed we make what we need more
  important than God
• But just of who God IS - God IS so worthy of
  worship

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His Worship Was for Others

• For his wife first she needed GOD, and the only
  way for her to get the encouragement to believe
  God again was to see her husband believe God
• For his friends who didnt have a clue
• For Satan he didnt believe Job would be able
  to NOT curse God
• For God to be shown worthy
• For US (Rom 154)

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Concluding Principles

• The Power of Worship - it kept Job from
• Being suicidal
• From blaming God
• From hating God
• From abandoning his relationship with God

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Concluding Principles

• The Person of our Worship
• Job is being pulled by TWO extremes
• Job did not realize this was a spiritual battle
• He didnt know he was being used to teach us
  about GOD
• Job is NOT the hero here!
• Job teaches us NOT about the strength aspect of
  OUR faith what WE can do when we believe, and
  all that rubbish!
• Paul found out in his infirmities (2Cor 12), he
  did not find strength, he SAW the strength of God
  in his weakness

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Concluding Principles

• The Result of our Worship.
• Stacks of Blessings (Job 4210-17)
• Sanity Job AND his wife got through all this by
  worshipping, not complaining, and griping, and
  getting bitter and angry
• Scripture was written
• Saints are encouraged, even 4,000 years later!
• Satan is defeated over and over again!

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Conclusion

• WHY do you worship and praise God?
• WHEN do you worship and praise God?
• How easy do you find it to STOP your worship and
  praise of God?
• How far will you go for the truth, and for your
  Lord?
• Worship is not only for the mountain-tops, but
  also for the valleys, and even the ash-heaps.
• Check your heart is it full of sin and the
  world, or full of God? It will show itself in
  times of troubles
• Starts with the new birth