A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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A Compe l l i ng Tes t imony

c. Worship as loyal service ( abad ), Exod. 5.18; Num. 8.25

d. Worship as personal ministry ( sharat ), Deut. 10.8, 18.5-7

e. Worship as expression of genuine humility ( shaha ), most common, Isa. 49.7; Gen. 47.31; Exod. 34.8 cf. Isa. 66.2

f. Worship as prostration in prayer ( segid ), Dan. 3.5-7, 10-12, 14-18, 28

g. Worship as nearness to God ( nagash ), Ps. 69.18; Isa. 58.2

3. The zenith of worship: to acknowledge and extol the excellence of God in every dimension of our lives, to give him in every facet of our lives what he is due, 1 Pet. 2.9-10 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. [10] Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

a. We were created for his glory, Isa. 43.21 – . . . the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

b. As the Lord’s presence and glory covers us, he will then use us to attract the nations to his Kingdom, Isa. 60.1-3 – Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. [2] For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the