Modern Worship? (Explained)
In the video on modern worship, the passage being read is Isaiah 1:10-20, the Lord grieving over the sinfulness of His people. Meanwhile, various images are being shown of churches and ministers who claim to be godly, but they’re false teachers – fattening themselves on the offerings of those they mislead, making themselves into celebrities. Many popular worship bands might sound like they’re praising God, but it’s vanity and heartless noise.
The Roman Catholic burning of incense is an abomination. John Hagee, Jim Staley, and Benny Hinn are false teachers. Rick Warren joked about kissing the openly gay Elton John.
For all our attempts at appointing revival, it is God who brings revival.
Though we might sing songs or pray prayers in Jesus’ name, if it’s not coming from a heart that the Spirit has regenerated, God is not listening. It is God who makes us worthy to worship Him.
The Church in America must be cleansed, broken, humbled. We must repent!
The Church must stop trying to appease the culture and instead be made holy. We must love justice, according to what God says is just: defending the fatherless, the unborn, and our widows.
In Psalm 51, David cries out:
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow…
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare Your praise.
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it…
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Do good in Zion in your good pleasure… (Psalm 51:7, 15-18)
only then is our worship acceptable
…when we understand the text.
(This video is by WWUTT. Discovered by Christian Podcast Central and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Christian Podcast Central.)