The heart of Worship

Sermon Passage: Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Sermon Title: The heart of Worship
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:​

1. Loving the Lord is the heart of worship
   1. Love the Lord with all your heart
   2. Love the Lord with all your soul
   3. Love the Lord with all your strength
2. Compromise will lead to apathy
   1. Worship in the Garden of Eden versus Tabernacle worship
      1. Worship before sin versus after the fall
      2. Christ restores worship
   2. This is a command for both His glory and our benefit
3. God is not an egomaniac or megalomaniac (John Piper)
   1. Our call/command to worship is a call to be satisfied
      
   2. “God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving. The reason God seeks our praise is not because he won’t be fully God until he gets it, but that we won’t be happy until we give it.” John Piper