Who Do You Worship?

Each one of us is currently worshiping 

That which is closest to our hearts.

Worship is always from the heart. 

It is that which we give our time, money, attention and affection to. 

If we have responded to the still small voice of our God,

Then we will worship Him; Understanding that He alone is LIFE; 

All else is death.

When we embrace God, who is LIFE, we will worship Him. 

All else will be secondary: spouse, children, job, play and so on. 

God is the only person who unconditionally has our best interest at heart. 

Our spouse or a friend can also, 

But only if Christ lives in and through them; 

It still returns to the fact that only God has our best interest at heart; 

He is the only one who loves us unconditionally, 

Who accepts us unconditionally.

When we understand who God is; that He is our Father, our creator; 

The One who has given us this natural life we experience; 

That He is perfect and He offers us perfect love, we will worship Him. 

He asks us to be perfect as He is perfect;

That is, that we set all our affection on Him who is perfect, 

And who has perfect love for us. 

He created us and we are the apple of His eye. 

We are His treasured possession when we set our heart on Him.

He created us for Paradise, a perfect state of being, 

And if we love Him and worship Him, that is our destiny.

Adam and Eve fell from the grace of God 

Because the serpent convinced them 

That there was something good outside of God and His command. 

Every person has the same decision to make; 

Is there anything good outside of God and His commands?

The reality is, there is not.

Satan is a liar and the father of lies; he came to steal kill and destroy; 

He will do anything and say anything to send each of us to hell 

Where he is going. 

He will argue in our minds the same argument he made with Eve:

Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?

The woman said to the serpent,

'We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say ,

'You must not eat fruit from the tree 

That is in the middle of the garden,

And you must not touch it, or you will die.'

'You will not surely die,' the serpent said to the woman.

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,

And you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food

And pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom,

She took some and ate it.

She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, 

And they realized they were naked;

So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

(Genesis 3:1-9)

Without Christ We Are Naked

All of humanity is as Adam and Eve were, naked, before the Living God; 

Dead in sin. 

Faith in Christ Jesus alone takes that nakedness away; 

When we cloth ourselves with Christ, with His righteousness.

The apostle Paul said: 'Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ...'

(Romans 13:14)

In Revelation 6:1, each saint is given a white robe, 

A robe of righteousness.

Worship Enables Us To Overcome This World

Having been saved by faith in Christ Jesus, 

We must overcome this world and the evil one who controls it, 

By the power of the Spirit of Christ in us. 

Christ Jesus said to a saved people, 

'To him who overcomes,

I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, 

Which is in the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7)

We overcome this world by worshiping God in Spirit and in Truth.

Worship Keeps Us In Right Standing Before God

Worship is not for the benefit of God, it is for our benefit.

When from our heart, we worship Him who is perfect, who is LIFE,

We are proclaiming the Truth and the Truth sets us free 

And keeps us free.

A life of worship to God sets us free and keeps us free.

Christ Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the LIFE.

When we lift Him up in worship we come into agreement with Him.

Agreement with Christ Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the LIFE;

We have LIFE when He is our Way, our Truth and our LIFE.

Worship Guards Our Heart

When we are worshiping God who is LIFE,

We are conditioning our heart, guarding our heart, with the Truth;

We are coming into agreement with God; 

The Way, The Truth and the LIFE.

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.  

(Proverbs 4:23)

Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. (Matthew 12:34)

'Where your treasure is there your heart will be also.' (Matthew 6:21)

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.

Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,

To reward a man according to his conduct, 

According to what his deeds deserve. (Jeremiah 17:10)

Moses admonished the people of Israel:

Do not worship any other god,

For the Lord, whose name is Jealous is a jealous God. 

(Exodus 34:14)

Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness,

Tremble before him, all the earth. (Psalm 96:9)

Jesus declared, 'Believe me, woman, a time is coming

When you will worship the Father 

Neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You Samaritans worship what you do not know; 

We worship what we do know,

For salvation is from the Jews.

Yet a time is coming and has now come

When the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth,

For they are the kind of worshipers the father seeks.

God is Spirit, and his worshipers must worship in Spirit and Truth.'

(John 4:21-24)

In the Millennium:

All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord;

They will bring glory to your name.

For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. (Psalm 86:9-10)

Who Do You Bow Down To, Who Do You Worship?

Adam and Eve bowed down to the serpent

When they disobeyed God 

And ate of the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil.

Mankind has been bowing down to the serpent ever since.

The only exceptions are those who put their faith in God 

And His Christ Jesus;

Those who bow down to Him and received His Spirit,

And allowed His Spirit to live in and through them.

Everyone else is worshiping the serpent, the devil, the evil one, Satan.

There Are Two Sons That are Worshiped

There is the Son of God and the son of Satan 

Or the Beast of Revelation.

The Son of God is Christ Jesus, God in flesh.

The son of Satan is the Beast, the Antichrist, Satan in flesh.

Each has his bride.

There Are Two Brides On The Earth Today

There have always been two brides on the earth.

The bride of the Beast, the Antichrist, is Babylon,

The world system, the tower of Babel,

The so called, new world order, that is as old as the Garden of Eden.

The Bride of Christ consists of those

Who have put their faith, hope and trust in Christ.

They have been crucified with Christ to this world, and no longer live

But it is Christ who lives in and through them.

The bride of the Beast consists of those deceived by the serpent, 

Who live for this world 

And allow the spirit of the Beast to live in and through them; 

They masquerade as angels of light 

As the serpent did in the Garden of Eden.

Soon The “Mask” Will Be Pulled Off

Soon the “mask” of the masquerader,

The Beast and his bride, will be pulled off

The whole world will be “unmasked” for what it is, 

Ungodly and Antichrist.

The only ones who will remain as they are will be the Bride of Christ;

The “Remnant” who belong to Christ Jesus and live for Him.

The whole world will be “unmasked”

And will worship the Beast and his “image”

And willingly receive his “mark.”

They will, in so doing, be indelibly identified with the Beast

And thereby sentence themselves along with the Beast, to hell.

Are You Indelibly Identified With Christ?

Where do you stand today? Is it clear who you worship?

Every person worships Christ or Satan there is no in between.

Are you willingly and irrevocably, indelibly identified with Christ Jesus.

Have you been crucified with Christ to this world;

Are you a stranger and alien in this world?

Where is your home? Is it this world or Heaven?

Does Christ Jesus live in and through you?

The answer to these questions will determine your eternal destiny.

I pray that you will be found in Christ when the devil springs his “trap;”

When the Antichrist, the Beast is revealed;

When the whole world will overtly worship the Beast 

And receive his “mark;”

Pray that you will be able to stand before the Son of Man 

At His appearing, without fault and with great joy.

Remember the day that the Antichrist is revealed 

Will like any other day; As in the day of Noah,

The worldly people had no idea what was going to happen;

It will like that when the Antichrist is revealed.

Today, we are rushing toward “that day” the day the “trap” is sprung.

Remember that the German people did not understand 

The nature of Hitler until it was too late. 

He was an Antichrist.

The final Antichrist will be similar, entirely possessed by Satan.

As the Jews were Hitler's “scapegoat,”

Christians will be the final Antichrist's “scapegoat.”

Satan hates Christ Jesus and His Christians,

Because they, with Christ in them,

Are the only ones who stand in the way of his total domination.

They are the only ones who will not worship him.