Why Do We Worship Part 1 of 3

Why Do We Worship?

Part 1 of 3

Text: Psalm 150

• It’s a command: Psalm 150:6
• Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
  Praise the LORD.
• Because we need to
• Daniel 6:1-18 (Daniel in the Lion’s den)
• James 2:21-23 (Abraham being “friend of God”: Isaiah 41:8)
• ²¹Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? ²²You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. ²³And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”^[a] and he was called God’s friend.
• Psalm 42: 1-2; 5-6a; 11
• ¹As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. ²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
• ⁵Why are you downcast, O my soul?
  Why so disturbed within me?
  Put your hope in God,
  for I will yet praise him,
  my Savior and ⁶ my God.
• ¹¹Why are you downcast, O my soul?
  Why so disturbed within me?
  Put your hope in God,
  for I will yet praise him,
  my Savior and my God.
• He doesn’t need our worship, but He desires it—not for His benefit, but for ours.

“The climax of God’s happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people.” –John Piper