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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher, John MacArthur.

And now we come to really most important part of our worship,

and that is when we hear from heaven, from the Word of the Living God, and we find ourselves in Revelation

Chapter 4, so I would invite you to open your Bible to the fourth chapter of Revelation.

We're working our way through, and I want to keep moving, but this particular section of chapters 4 and 5 demands some very

careful attention in order for us to absorb the magnificence of this theme, which is heavenly

worship. And since we have been redeemed to worship, John 4 says that the Father

seeks true worshipers who worship him in spirit and truth. Salvation is to make us into true

worshippers, everlasting worshippers. That is what we are to do here on earth. It is

what we will do forever in heaven, as we will see in these two chapters. And I think these two

chapters are really the foundation for our understanding of worship. There's so much discussion about worship

in the church these days, and you hear a lot about worship wars and people debating as to

what style or what kind of music or whatever should be used in worship. I don't think you start

by looking at the world and picking and choosing

from them. I think you have to start in heaven because that's where perfect worship takes place.

So what we're going to see in chapters four and five is heavenly worship. This is worship in heaven, perfect worship, precisely as God designed it and

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