“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “What! Am I to be put into the pulpit and to be told that I am to confine myself to certain truths only, to comfort God’s saints? I will not have it so.” Charles Spurgeon If...
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Come, Let Us Worship: A Consuming Fire
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 The great 20th -century expositor Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote, “If you want to be odd in the Christian church today, preach the New Testament gospel.” In the 21st-century, following...
Come, Let Us Worship: Though Dying, Jesus Saved
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” The formal cessation of fighting in the First World War came with the armistice signed by the Allies and Germany at...
Come, Let Us Worship: “Have You Not Read?”
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 The renowned rock-star and apparent literati, Frank Zappa, is known for his chart-topping contribution to humanity’s musical heritage which includes a song featuring the...
Come, Let Us Worship: The God Who Makes Bereans
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 R.C. Sproul, in one of those always popular, candid Q&A sessions during a Ligonier conference, once made the following comment. “You don’t have to listen to a preacher for very...
Come, Let Us Worship: The Image-Giving God
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 A Truth Suppressor's View of Personhood In December 2014, what was hailed as a landmark ruling from an Argentine court regarding the case of Sandra, a “shy, twenty-nine year old,”...
Come, Let Us Worship: The God Who Judges
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 “Gott ist tot.” “God is dead.” Such was the repugnant proclamation published by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A depraved, reputed homosexual, Nietzsche exhibited...
Come, Let Us Worship: When We’ve Sinned
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 One of the critical marks that distinguishes true Christianity from “Christianity in name only” is the lifelong struggle of believers against sin. As J.C. Ryle has said, “True...
Come, Let Us Worship: The Full Counsel of God
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 Divine Neglect It is divine neglect and reflects a willingness to intentionally cripple one’s own growth in the Lord’s grace to fail to pursue and apprehend the manifest...
Come, Let Us Worship: The Vanquished Foe
“Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.“ Psalm 95:6 Picture the following scenario. A person gets in their car, equipped with surround sound-like airbag protection, secures the seatbelt across their torso, and proceeds to their...