Learning How to Worship: An Application (Part 1 of 2)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Paul’s worship instructions seem simple: Be joyful always, pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances. Yet it can be challenging to apply these daily! Discover the source and expression of Christian joy, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	You're
0:02.0	going to
0:03.0	you
0:04.0	know The Apostle Paul's instructions for worship seem simple enough. Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, and yet it can be challenging to try to consistently apply these directives to our daily lives.
0:41.0	Today on Truth for Life, Alasturbeg focuses on the source and expression of genuine Christian joy.
0:53.3	First Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 16.
0:58.1	Paul writes,
0:59.1	Be joyful always, pray continually,
1:02.7	give thanks in all circumstances,
1:05.2	for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
1:09.7	Do not put out the Spirit's fire. Do not treat prophecies with contempt.
1:16.3	Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil. May God himself, the God of peace,
1:24.8	sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body, be kept blameless at the coming of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body
1:29.3	be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful,
1:35.8	and he will do it. Thanks be to God for His Word. And so our gracious God, we come with expectant hearts, believing that
1:49.7	you will speak to us through your word, not simply to increase our knowledge, but to change our
1:56.2	lives. And we do pray that you will find in our hearts those who are quick and ready to respond
2:05.3	whose hearts will be open to your truth and whose feet will be ready to run in the pathway of
2:12.2	obedience. For we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
2:25.6	Since verse 12 of this fifth chapter of First Thessalonians, we've been dealing with Paul's closing instructions to the church, and he has been providing for them various practical
2:31.5	pointers in relation to significant elements of what it means for God's
2:37.6	people to live together. And in verse 12 and following, he deals with the whole issue of respect for
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