Jun 09, 2019 |Worship

False Worship

06.09.19 | Worship

False Worship

Noel Heikkinen

Various Scriptures

Temptation in and of itself isn’t a sin, yet our response to it can lead us into sin. How do you respond to the temptation to worship created things rather than the Creator? Pastor Noel Jesse Heikkinen walks us through Jesus’ temptation in the desert and points out how we must likewise trust God when temptation comes our way. In resisting temptation we are saying that God is good and His plan is trustworthy.

Romans 1:25; Matthew4 ; Mark 1; Luke 4

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Biblical worship is the full-life response to who God is and what He has done.

 

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

Romans 1:25

 

False worship is the full-life commitment to created things over the Creator.

 

Then Jesus left the Jordan, full of the Holy Spirit, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, he was hungry.

Luke 4:1-2

 

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

Luke 4:3

 

But Jesus answered him, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone. ”

Luke 4:4

 

Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 8:2-3

 

So he took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The devil said to him, “I will give you their splendor and all this authority, because it has been given over to me, and I can give it to anyone I want. If you, then, will worship me, all will be yours.”

Luke 4:5-7

 

I will declare the LORD’s decree. He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance and the ends of the earth your possession.

Psalm 2:7-8

 

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Wasn’t it necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.

Luke 24:25-27

 

And Jesus answered him, “It is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. ” So he took him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here. For it is written: He will give his angels orders concerning you, to protect you, and they will support you with their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. ”

Luke 4:8-11

 

And Jesus answered him, “It is said: Do not test the Lord your God.”

Luke 4:12

 

After the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from him for a time.

Luke 4:13

 

“Adam and Eve, in a garden of abundance, are tempted to eat and do. Jesus, in a barren wilderness is tempted to eat and doesn’t.”

Sam Alberry

 

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.

Hebrews 4:15-16

 

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