TITLE: We Need Ebenezer
TEXT: 1 Corinthians 14:13-17
PROPOSITION: Proper worship demands a correct spirit and precise understanding.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Examples
Introduction
1. Worship requires participation.
2. It requires proper activity – Do what God demands.
3. It also requires the proper attitude and understanding.
4. Today – we will focus on these two parts of our worship.
1. Not “Spirit” (capital S) for the Holy Spirit.
2. Small “s” meaning the spirit – our attitude, our emotion.
3. We describe a “spirited animal” – life, active, kicking, etc.
4.
Our
worship MUST be with life, activity, volume,
Child opens present – “oh boy, this is nice.”
Aren’t you excited? Yes, I am excited – (like Eore in Winnie the Pooh)
5.
Happy songs – sing them happy, Marching songs – feel like marching
Songs about heaven – with joy, hope, gladness
1. Ebenezer = “stone of Help” 1 Samuel 7:8-12 O Thou Fount of Every Blessing
2. Sabaoth = Lord of hosts, armies Rom. 9:29; James 5:4 A Mighty Fortress
3. Betide = Happen to, to befall Be Not Dismayed
4. Enraptured = Joy, happy, ecstatic He’s My King
5. Seraph = singular of Seraphim, rank of angels The Great Physician
6. Cherubim, Seraphim = High rank of angels, just under archangels Holy, Holy, Holy
7. Lays = Poems set to music Wonderful Love of Jesus
8. Aloes = bitter plant, drug – close to Aloe Vera (burn plant) Ivory Palaces
9. Panoply = Full dress, décor, full armor uniform Soldiers of Christ, Arise
10. Verdant = Green, covered with vegetation My God and I
11. Waft = To cause to go gently over water, gentle breeze We have heard the Joyful Sound
12. Ebon Pinion =
Ebon = dark, night, ebony
Pinion = a) gear, b) flight feathers, clip these feathers to prevent escape = c) metaphorically – to bind, hold down, shackle, closed in, confined
A night of dark confinement
1. We must participate in worship.
2. We must do so with feeling, emotion, and spirit.
3. We must also understand what we are doing, saying, teaching.