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as Christ As Christians, corporate worship is both a privilege and a responsibility.

So how should we decide how and where to worship?

Is it better to be solemn or exuberant?

What really matters to God?

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg shares practical guidelines gleaned from the Apostle Paul's instruction to the Thessalonians.

First Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 16. Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all

circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not put out the Spirit's fire, do not treat prophecies with contempt,

test everything, hold on to the good, avoid every kind of evil. Now, what I'd like to do

in the time that is available to us this morning is to provide an introduction to

First Thessalonians 516. Let me then introduce this matter of learning how to worship. First

of all, I want to say three things regarding worship about which God is never indifferent. For God is the object of our worship,

and all worship begins with God and His glory, and does not begin with man and his interests,

or man and his need, or man and his preoccupations. So we need to be careful to understand the things about worship

concerning which God is not indifferent. Number one, God is not indifferent as to whether we

worship or not. It's not a kind of take it or leave it thing while God looks down upon us and sees whether we're worshipping or not, and he is somewhat ill of take-it-or-leave-it thing while God looks down upon us and sees whether we're

worshipping or not, and he is somewhat casually indifferent to it all, not for a moment. Nor is he

prepared to accept from us the kind of lame excuse which says, you know, others are good for this,

but I personally am just not cut out for worship.

It's something I like to leave up to others.

Myself, I just don't worship.

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