Let us Worship God

 

Let us Worship God

Exo. 24:1 

          Let us notice first that worship apart from grace is far off.  Israel was bounded off and not allowed to cross the boundary at the foot of the mountain.  We Gentiles were pronounced by Paul as being far off.  Eph 2:12  "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:  Eph 2:13  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."  

               Why is it that men could not come near?  Verse 2 said, "And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him."  Men are held off by the holiness of God.  Many are held off by the failure of past commitments.  Some have committed, meaning well, as did the Israelites, yet something happened , and they failed to keep their commitments.  In verse 3 we see that Israel vowed to keep the word of God.   The fact, however is that she failed to keep it.  Still many are held off by moral inability.  In Rom. 7:18 Paul told us that in our flesh no good thing dwells. 

 

               Worship is seen representatively.  To worship is to bow, stoop, or fall prostrate.  Essentially it is bowing to the sovereign will of God.  We are accepted in the Beloved, our Mediator, Eph. 1:6, "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."  We are brought near in the blood of Another.  Just as Moses represented the people of Israel on top of that mountain, so likewise our Mediator, Jesus  Christ in Heaven represents us.  It is He who makes us willing to bow to His Lord ship.  See Eph. 2:13 "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." 

               Is your worship a bowing to His Lord Ship and enabled through our one Mediator, Jesus Christ?