WORSHIP HIS MAJESTY

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For TUESDAY, 21ST MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: WORSHIP HIS MAJESTY

MEMORIZE: “And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10.

SCRIPTURE READING: Rev. 4:8-11.

“8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.  9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

EXPOSITION: 

"Worship" is sometimes used of the form of homage paid by subjects to kings, or of honor to one held entitled to it, “Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.” Da 2:46; Lu 14:10.  In the East, this is still often rendered by prostrating the body and touching the forehead to the ground, Genesis 33:3; Matthew 18:26.

Worship of God is the homage rendered to God which it is sinful (idolatry) when render to any created being (Ex. 34:14; Isa. 2:8). Such worship was refused by Peter (Acts 10:25, 26) and by an angel (Rev. 22:8, 9). It is both spiritual and visible, private and public, by individuals, families, and communities. It is not only a self-evident duty for all who believe in God, but is abundantly commanded in his word. 

The Lord revealed what is happening in heaven regarding the worship to Apostle John. He heard the song of the four living creatures, of the ministers of the church, which refers to the prophet Isaiah's vision, Revelation 6.  He heard the adoration of the four-and-twenty elders, that is, of the Christian people represented by them; the ministers led, and the people followed, in the praises of God, Re 4:10,11. Here observe, 

 

THE OBJECT OF THEIR WORSHIP, WHOM THE MINISTERS ADORED: 

The true church of God has one and the same object of worship: Him that sat on the throne, the eternal ever-living God. It is unlawful to join in divine worship with those who multiply the object. There is but one God, and he alone, as God, is worshipped by the church on earth and in heaven. 

 

THE ACTS OF ADORATION.

(1.) They fell down before him that sat on the throne; they discovered the most profound humility, reverence, and godly fear. 

(2.) They cast their crowns before the throne; they gave God the glory of the holiness wherewith he had crowned their souls on earth and the honour and happiness with which he crowns them in heaven. They owe all their graces and all their glories to him, and acknowledge that his crown is infinitely more glorious than theirs, and that it is their glory to be glorifying God. 

 

THE WORDS OF ADORATION: 

They said, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power,” Revelation 4:11. 

(1.) They do not say, We give thee glory, and honour, and power; for what can any creature pretend to give unto God? But they say, Thou art worthy to receive glory. 

 (2.) In this they tacitly acknowledge that God is exalted far above all blessing and praise. He was worthy to receive glory, but they were not worthy to praise, nor able to do it according to his infinite excellences. 

 

THREEFOLD GROUND AND REASONS FOR ADORING:-- 

(1.) He is the Creator of all things, the first cause; and none but the Creator of all things should be adored; no made thing can be the object of religious worship. 

 (2.) He is the preserver of all things, and his preservation is a continual creation; they are created still by the sustaining power of God. All beings but God are dependent upon the will and power of God, and no dependent being must be set up as an object of religious worship. It is the part of the best dependent beings to be worshippers, not to be worshipped. 

(3.) He is the final cause of all things: For thy pleasure they are and were created. It was his will and pleasure to create all things; he was not put upon it by the will of another; there is no such thing as a subordinate creator, that acts under and by the will and power of another; and, if there were, he ought not to be worshipped. As God made all things at his pleasure, so he made them for his pleasure, to deal with them as he pleases and to glorify himself by them one way or other. Though he delights not in the death of sinners, but rather that they should turn and live, yet he hath made all things for himself, Pr 16:4. Now if these be true and sufficient grounds for religious worship, as they are proper to God alone, Christ must needs be God, one with the Father and Spirit, and be worshipped as such; for we find the same causality ascribed to him. Col 1:16,17, All things were created by him and for him, and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

ACTION POINT: Join the heavenly hosts and the saints on earth to worship God’s Majesty. He is worthy of our worship.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Samuel 19 - 21.

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