Biblical Study - Let's Build Our Personal Altar - The Twelve Stones of Our Communion With God - Part Iii
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ScribdTranslationsBIBLE STUDY: LET'S BUILD OUR PERSONAL ALTAR, THE TWELVE
STONES OF OUR COMMUNION WITH GOD PART III
1 Kings 18:30-31
This day we continue with the series of Bible studies for the month of April in which
We are learning about those twelve stones with which every Christian has to ...
build your personal altar, that is, build your personal relationship or communion with Him
Sir.
In the previous weeks, we have learned that when we talk about a personal altar
we are referring to our communion or personal relationship with God, and we have
mentioned that this refers to two very important words in everyone's life
Cristiano, and those words are: ENCOUNTER AND CONSECRATION.
In previous studies we have learned what those first five stones are that
we need to build our personal relationship with the Lord, and these first
Five losses are: FAITH, HUMILITY, SINCERITY, OBEDIENCE AND THE
SACRIFICE
Today we are going to study three more stones that we need to build our altar.
personal relationship with God, that is, we are going to study three actions and attitudes that everyone
Cristiano must have in order to have a good relationship with our God, these
three stones are: WORSHIP, ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH, AND SERVICE.
Let us study each one of them through the word of the Lord:
VI) SIXTH STONE OF OUR ALTAR: WORSHIP (JOHN 4:19-24)
Generally, Christians often confuse praise with worship.
many think they are the same and they are not, praise is generally seen or
Hey, but worship is something intimate, something from within the person, praise has
What to see more with the exterior but worship has to do with the heart.
The verses we have read tell us that God does not seek worship, He seeks
Worshipers, many times we think that God is pleased only with praise.
that we sing to him, but we forget that our God seeks not only praise, he
He/She is looking for worshipers.
And just as the Lord told the Samaritan woman, the worship that God seeks is not
it has to do with the place, it doesn't matter if it was on Mount Gerizim in Samaria or if it was
in the temple of Jerusalem, but instead he seeks worshipers to worship him in spirit and in
truth.
That is to say, the worship that our God seeks has nothing to do with the temple, with the
church, not with the denomination, but with our heart, it does not depend on whether we are
Pentecostals or Baptists, God does not seek Pentecostal hearts or hearts
Baptists, God seeks hearts that worship Him.
WHAT IS WORSHIP? Worship is a contemplative spiritual state in which
Human beings are awed by the greatness and power of our God.
the Greek word in the New Testament most often translated as 'worship'
proskuneo, which means 'to bow down' or 'to kneel down' that is,
bend our life and our heart before God.
Psalm 150:6 tells us that everything that breathes must praise the Lord, meaning that the
praise can flow from anyone, but worship is something special, that is why
God seeks worshipers, because not everyone worships God, anyone can sing,
Anyone can praise, but not everyone is a worshiper.
First, let's understand the main characteristics that must have the
worshipers that the Lord is looking for:
a) Your worship must be born of the spirit, not of the flesh (John 4:23) God
it is spirit and to relate to God our worship must be spiritual, with
a repentant and grateful heart for his forgiveness and his salvation, we cannot be
worshipers with a heart full of resentment, or to present ourselves before God with
hidden sins in our life (Romans 8:8)
c) Their worship must be in truth (John 4:23b) All worship is a
In response to the truth, our Lord Jesus Christ said to the Father: 'Your word is truth.'
(John 17:17). To truly worship God, we must understand who He is and what...
what he has done for us, and the only place where this has been revealed
truly who our God is and what He has done for us is the Bible.
adoration is an expression of praise from the depths of our hearts to
a God who is understood through His Word. If we do not have the truth of the
Bible, we do not know God and cannot truly worship.
VII) SEVENTH STONE OF OUR ALTAR: CONGREGATING IN THE CHURCH
(HEBREWS 10:25)
Truly, to be a Christian it is not necessary to congregate, for to be
Cristiano, the only thing needed is to receive Christ by faith as Lord and Savior of
our life, but to live as a Christian, to please him and have communion with him
we need to gather.
Unfortunately, many Christians wrongly claim that it is not necessary.
gathering in a church because God is everywhere.
GOD TRULY IS EVERYWHERE (PSALM 139:7-10) That is a
truth, it is one of his attributes he is omnipresent, he is everywhere, but also
we see in his word that he has always established specific places where his
I came to adore him.
In the Old Testament, we see that God would establish a place for Him to be
destroy their altars, break their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places. You must not worship the LORD your God in their way. But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go; there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your family shall eat and rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the LORD your God has blessed you. You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit, since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you. But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety. Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name, there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.
In the New Testament, we see that churches were established for Christians to
greet (1 Corinthians 16:19)
To understand why it is so important for us to gather in a church for our
communion with him Lord only requires recognizing this reality: THE CHRISTIAN WHO DOES NOT
THOSE WHO GATHER BECOME SPIRITUALLY COLD.
VIII) EIGHTH STONE OF OUR ALTAR: SERVICE TO GOD (1
1 THESSALONIANS 1:9
We have said that when talking about an altar, we are talking about consecration and serving God.
it means to consecrate our life to the Lord, but we have to understand that
we cannot serve God directly, for we are carnal and God
it is spirit, the only way we can serve our God is through
our neighbors, what we do for our neighbor is like doing it for our
Lord (Matthew 25:34-40)
When we serve our neighbor, we are building our fellowship with him.
Sir, for when we serve our neighbors we are showing our love.
for our Lord (1 John 4:20)
