‘Exalt
the Lord our God... Make a joyful noise to the Lord’(Psalm 99:5,9;
Psalm 98:4,6; Psalm 100:1). We are to worship the Lord with joy. We are
to glorify God. We are to enjoy Him. In our worship, we must never
forget the holiness of God: ‘He is holy!... The Lord our God is holy!’(Psalm 99:5,9). In our worship, we rejoice in the love of
God: ‘His steadfast love endures for ever... He has done marvellous
things!’(Psalm 100:5; Psalm 98:1). The God of ‘awesome purity’ loves us
with the most perfect love of all: ‘No earthly father loves like
Thee...’. Let us worship Him with holy fear and heartfelt love: ‘O how I
fear Thee, living God, with deepest, tenderest fears... with trembling
hope and penitential tears! Yet I may love Thee too, O Lord, Almighty as
Thou art, for Thou hast stooped to ask of me the love of my poor
heart’(Church Hymnary, 356).
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Carl E. Braaten has written that "Serious reservations ... must be voiced against the dominant position of the idea of revelation in t...
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From the majestic perfection of God and the privileged responsibility of humanity, we now move to the evil subtlety of Satan. An intruder...
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