The Value Of Your Worship | Steven Furtick

so let's talk about worship let's talk about the things that you wonder why see kids will ask why grown-ups just wonder yeah I never stop asking why you just stop asking it out loud in this passage the disciples were just plain about it why this waste think of the insult to their rabbi that this accusation represented now come on he's he's he's a good teacher but really the whole bottle of perfume I mean come on really like the preacher somebody asked me one time why do they stand up on the front few rows when you start preaching hard almost like well I don't know maybe you have to ask them maybe they value the Word of God like some sports fans value a touchdown by some people that they don't know we're in some spandex spandex running around the field talking about a fantasy football and somebody that will never put anything in your real life but God has given you grace and mercy with every rising of the Sun I don't know you would have to ask them y'all act like y'all want to take 10 seconds and give God worship well go ahead well anyway the word worship is not talking about music only only in modern church culture have we taken the word worship and used it to describe a genre of music okay I got my I've got my uh my rock playlist I've got my country playlist I've got my hip-hop playlist I got my worship playlist wait a minute wait a minute worship is not a genre worship doesn't start when somebody comes up and grabs a guitar on stage worship is not an activity that is confined to the realm or the expression of music when you really understand worship you understand let me say like this worth-ship what is God worth to you the problem with the disciples question is that it it devalued the woman's act because it devalued the presence of Jesus one of the reasons they may have been so exasperated by what they saw to be too much it's too much I don't understand why people have to lift their hands in worship why do they do that maybe they have something they need to give to God maybe they've been fighting all week and they're throwing up their hands to say God I need you maybe they're carrying something that is too heavy for them to carry alone would you stop judging somebody else's worship when you don't even know their warfare they came in here fighting the devil fighting depression and now they got thirty minutes to say God I glorify You baby the sea turns into a highway baby bones turned into armies why do I throw up my hands cuz I need Him I need Him like my next breath I need it more than I can my daily bread man He's my present helped He's my friend that sticks closer than a brother He's the one that never walked away He's the one that I can call to in the middle of the night when nobody else will take my call or return my texts He's the one that picks me up He's the one who's not ashamed to be identified with me He's the one who knows everything about me even the dirty little dark stuff and still says I'm the righteousness of God He's the one who spilled His blood for me excuse me if I'm excited to give Him praise yeah don't ever apologize for praising God everybody worships something why not worship the One who made you everybody worships something so apart from the practical value that Jesus only has one week to live and this woman is anointing His body for burial with this expensive perfume that she saved up for something special and she realizes now is the moment and she realizes that now is the time and she realizes that I should not look around and see what everybody else is doing because they have gotten used to Jesus He's worthy it's not a waste my dad used to walk around the house tearing the paper towels in half but I didn't get it until because at that stage of my life I thought it was just weird but one day my mom explained to me how poor he was growing up and then I got it you'll never understand what somebody does you will never understand someone's actions you will never understand see in this in this passage of Scripture this woman is doing something that the others see it wasteful maybe there's something she was responding to that they had not experienced and I'ma just go ahead and tell you right now the woman in this text was someone who knew firsthand the grace of God do you know firsthand the grace of God because people who just hear about Jesus and they haven't really owned their faith they don't understand this kind of worship the worship that starts when the songs are over the worship that begins when you reach down and say God you deserve this Your worthy of this so all of the men are at the table and the woman comes into the room who is this woman you ever wonder that like the people of the Bible that it doesn't tell us much about their background John chapter 12 I'ma show you why this woman was willing to worship as funny thing Holly is a worship stalker y'all need to know this she looks around the church for people who are worshiping and then she just watches y'all she told me about one of you you're in the room right now but I'm not gonna call you out by name she's like there's this one she if at first it sounded kind of sketchy when she says she said there's this one man in the church that I love to watch him when he worships maybe he needs to find another go to Forest Hill or something like that you know what I'm saying but she would see this particular person he's in the church right now I'm just not gonna look anywhere near him but it wasn't like that she said he just she said no matter what song we're singing it's not like a preference thing there would just be I look at him he just crying and it wasn't like he wasn't one of these he didn't bring a praise banner into the church or a shofar you know he didn't like grow up he didn't understand all of the protocol of it but she was so moved when she saw how much worship meant to him because you know at the same time you got somebody like sneaking in the back because they didn't want to really have to deal with the hassle of checking the kids and so they time it just right to come there he kids and they slip out during the invitation he wasn't like that he would be standing in line so he could get close to the front and then he had just cried through the whole worship set and do like this slate I like this song why are they singing that over and over again I don't understand okay there's nothing better than him no there's nothing there's nothing there's nothing there's nothing okay I get it there's nothing there's nothing you want me to do but he would just cry when she found out his testimony what he had been through she got it once she understood the depth John chapter 12 which follows by the way John chapter 11 this is a deep church we teach the deep stuff in John chapter 11 Jesus raised a man named Lazarus from the dead in John chapter 12 the Bible says something very interesting it says six days before the Passover Jesus arrived at Bethany where Lazarus lived whom Jesus had raised from the dead but you can't understand my chapter 12 unless you understand my chapter 11 please understand chapter 11 is a bankruptcy term in the US tax code but when I'm talking about it I'm talking about a spiritual bankruptcy that I know that I know that I know that there were dead things in my life that there was shame in my life that there was nothing else for me to do but call on the name of the Lord and the Bible says verse 2 here a dinner was given in Jesus's honor Martha served while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him then Mary took about a pint of pure nard and expensive perfume now I understand why it was such a natural thing for her to do to pour out something that was expensive and significant because she had seen Jesus do something see this is the same story John is recording it from his point of view Matthew recorded it from his point of view Matthew said it was a woman who came in and poured out the oil John said let me tell you about the woman she saw her brother in the tomb four days Jesus showed up and said roll the stone away when He said roll the stone away He called her brother out so by the time He got to Bethany and she knew this is the One who raised my brother from the dead this is the One who heard my cry and pity my groan this is the One who saw me through the deepest valley of my life this is the One who stood by me in the dark time this is the One who gave me help this is the One who gave me strength I don't give cause it makes sense it's my worship He's my God and He's worthy of it all the worshipers out real quick so so it's so important that we understand giving is worship it's worship worth ship it's saying God you you deserve so much more but out of what you've given to me here it is hey thank you for watching make sure you subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single video or live stream and share this video with a friend and don't forget you can join me live every Sunday thanks again for watching

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Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019