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“Worship,” Tozer explained, “is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that majesty which philosophers call the First Cause but which we call Our Father Which Art in Heaven.”
Worship was to be pure and untainted by worldly things.
The end result of work is utter futility.
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Everything we do for a man is going to go right down into the grave with him when he dies.
Man, made more like God than any creature, has become less like God than any creature.
Redemption is to restore us back to God again; to restring that harp; to purge it, cleanse it and refurbish it by the grace of God and the blood of the Lamb.
God, who made us like that, did not give up on us.
He said, “I still want that mirror to shine in which I can look and see My glory. I still want to be admired in My people; I still want a people to enjoy Me and to love Me forever.” Out of this insatiable passion, God sent His only begotten Son, and He became incarnated in the form of a man; and when He...
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Worship is man’s full reason for existence. Worship is why we are born and why we are born again. Worship is the reason for our genesis in the first place and our regenesis that we call regeneration. Worship is why there is church, the assembly of the Redeemed, in the first place. Every Christian church in every country across the world in every generation exists to worship God first, not second; not tacking worship at the end of our service as an afterthought, but rather to worship God primarily, with everything else coming in second, at best. Worshiping God is our first call.
