Worship in the Bible and Lessons in Theology 🙌 Romans 11:33-36

A study of a humbling and healing worship passage in Romans. This song is beautiful in how it is the overflow of theology into worship. As we study it we learn how to humbly trust in God’s goodness, knowledge and wisdom. We take note of how important worship is in the Church as well as learning some priceless lessons about not thinking we know more than we do and letting God’s glory be our ultimate purpose.

[speedlearner]

You have a good point. If you sing a lyric in a worship song that you don't agree with, you could be inadvertently teaching someone false doctrine. And no Christian wants to do this.

[weedeeohguy]

Thanks Mike for all the prep you put into these teachings. Blessings to you for rightly dividing the word of truth. Refreshing!

[nicethingsoc]

My son (19 yo) and I just watched this together. I told him I feel comfortable with him listening to more of your videos. This was very good and articulated some truths that I thought about before but hadn't completely fleshed out. Glory to God.

[nancycali]

I was about to skip this because it was so short. Priae God I didn’t. You made me think and stop all I was doing while hearing you preach. Man oh man. God’s glory is everything and learned truly learned not to try to figure things out. Glory to God!!!! Amen!

[iw]

Please pray for my heart attitude towards my spouse. Excellent teaching, blessings to you and your family

[SimplyDafDaf]

As someone who raised singing in choirs, specifically African American gospel music, I noticed when I would hear silly songs with a gospel tune and feel some sort of “worship centered” emotion similar to what I would feel in church, I knew something was wrong lol. So much focused on the emotional aspect of the music as opposed to the purpose of singing the song in the first place (worshipping God).

[linasafar]

Came across this when searching for what worship really is. Blessed teaching and was so accurate that true understanding of theology stirs within our hearts to worship God, which I ended up doing after you said to meditate on the knowledge and wisdom of God in the first verse. This teaching was confirmation. Hallelujah, thank you for using your gift that God's people may benefit from it and glorify God because of it.

[robertpatterson]

I like 👍 the phrase "apart from me(Jesus) I can do nothing". Jesus is everything to me.

[bevp]

Thank you so much for what you said about the music. I have been becoming more sensitive to this and sometimes wish I hadn't! I love a good mix of modern and traditional, but two things really bug me. A chorus of 3 words, repeated 4 times, then the chorus is repeated 2 or 3 times and all I hear in my head is "vain and useless repitition"! The other one is what I refer to is "Me worship" which is when the song is all about how I feel about God and really says nothing about His glory or His love or His majesty or any of His other atributes. I visited a church that I was very much interested in joining, but backed out because of this. The only line about God during worship was in the context of ME! "I will live in such a way that all will know that You alone are God and there is no other." Honestly, I could only take two weeks of that! I lived my life long enough just singing the songs, and praise God that somewhere along the way it actually became worship. I realize not everybody has the same journey, but this is how it came for me. It's good to hear someone else address it.

[davidhancock]

This is my favorite passage in the entire Bible.
Before today, I had never heard anybody preach or teach it.
God-willing, I shall teach it in "Sunday school, " the day after tomorrow.
By the way, is that Psalm 62:8 behind Mike? By God's grace, I set that verse to music, years ago.

[hayleylawson]

Great Study Mike! Thank you for sharing this. I think you hit the bulls-eye.

[corinneperegrini]

Thank you Pastor Mike fort this entire series on Romans; its very helpfull.
This particle one on worship is close to my heart as I'v been part of the worship team in 2 different church (I play the flute) and in my former church I was raising those concerns with the worship leaders, meaning we must be more carefull about the lyrics as God wants us to worship in spirit and in truth; and toward the end, the worship leader was picking songs more on feelings&emotions than biblical truth...not good.
So hearing this teaching is conforting and reassuring me that I'm understanding the Word of God.
Thank you. God bless you.

[speedlearner]

Another good point. If you're singing about something that you don't practice yourself, you could appear to others as a hypocrite. And no Christian wants anyone to think they are a hypocrite.

[cbak]

I think and feel the same way! Thoughtful worship.. Yah love that

[odec]

You have a video for everything!
I was looking for some talks on worship a little while ago and I found an old Reasonable Faith podcast from 2008, listened to that, then I was about to ask ask Cameron Bertuzzi to do a podcast on it, but who else do I come across with an hour long teaching on it other than you haha! good deal!

[speedlearner]

I agree that you shouldn't spend every waking hour trying to figure out God's wisdom and knowledge in a particular situation. However, if you have a lull in your life, you could spend that time trying to figure it out. You probably won't succeed, but it will give you something to do until the lull in your life is over. Who knows? It might keep you from committing a sin during your lull.

[mizzylicious]

You've blessed me so much with this teaching❤

[caroleimani]

The Church I "belong to" sings what I have come to call "goofy choruses." I don't mean to disrespect God, but sometimes I think, "If I have to sing one more of these choruses, I don't know what I'm going to do." I have started bringing my cellphone and ear buds. I never thought it would come to this. I have resorted to going to the Baptist Church down the street sometimes. I'm not a Baptist, but I like the old hymns and expository preaching. Also, they are friendly, growing, and they have an emphasis on evangelism. I wonder if going to 2 Churches is wrong??

[sweethometreasures]

Praising God that you listened to the Lord about your teaching gift!

[ferventheat]

Here after checking out another church in town. My ears and body said enough after 3mins of highly amplified music where I couldn't understand the lyrics. I felt physically nauseate, my ears still hurt. As you point out elsewhere, music is a vehicle to change how church functions and what it believes. Dangerous stuff.
In God's wisdom he led me to listen to your teaching and it really helped me see my need to be both less critical and more aware of how to worship God theologically and (hopefully Jesus-led emotionally) . Praise God for whom all blessings flow.