Worship and Service Pt.5
MATTHEW 2:10-11
10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. (These wise men knew that without the leadership of the star, it would have been impossible for them to have come into the true place of worship and to worship the true God)
11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. (Notice again how that worship and service go together – whatever you worship, you will show that worship by the type of service that follows your worship)
Worship and Service Pt.5
Last week we looked at why it is that people can literally be worshiping Satan, while at the same time in their minds they think that they are worshiping God. They can singing Christian songs with their lips “we worship you Lord Jesus” – “we give you praise and thanks” and brother Branham tells us that they can be doing that and actually still be worshiping the devil.
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78 And people worship the Devil, don't even know what they're doing. They worship the Devil in churches, "Teaching for Doctrine the commandments of man, creeds--creeds and traditions."
***And so we found out why that is, and that is because of who is being revealed to them. If a person has received the truth by the messenger that God has sent in this generation, then God can receive that worship from a heart that has received a true revelation of the word, but if it is a revelation that is contrary to the truth, then God cannot receive that worship because you MUST worship God in spirit and in the truth of what has been revealed by God for your time and season.
Adam worshiped God in God’s Eden because as the revelation of the word was being unfolded to him, he was growing in the revelation and the unveiling of the truth for that season and hour, the mighty God was being unveiled to him in that Eden.
***God’s only provided place of worship is from the true revelation of the word from within a believer’s heart.
***But now in contrast, the people of this Satan’s Eden are growing in the revelation of this evil age, because Satan is also unfolding himself greater and greater in his perversion of the kingdom of God, he wants to be like God, he wants to be admired and worshiped and thought of as God was thought of by Adam.
II THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (Who is being revealed in this hour – Satan, and who is being worshiped in this hour – Satan, he is the mighty devil being unveiled before the world in this hour, and the whole world is feeding on him, and loving him, and worshiping him, and they don’t even know they are worshiping him, because worship comes from an unconscious realm of the human heart and spirit)
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
***He is revealing himself in this age to the people of this age as God was revealing Himself to Adam in the Eden at the beginning.
REVELATION 13:8
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
JOHN 6:28-29
28 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
**False doctrine will never produce the correct relationship toward God. That is why Cain’s offering of worship and service was refused by God, because he had a false revelation of the word, and then he did a work that was based on that false understanding, because he thought that Eve ate apples, so he offered fruit, but it wasn’t botany life that caused the fall, it was the shedding of innocent blood that caused the fall of man.
In part 3 of this series we read this article – this is only a portion of it…
9th of November 2017- Forbes
Streaming has changed not only the music industry and how it functions, but also the lives of everyday people. Now, simply by signing up to platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio or any of the dozens of other streaming offerings out there, millions of people can discover tunes that might not otherwise have reached them, stay on top of what’s just been released and listen to as much music as they want. It seems that many are indulging in that last option, and now, Americans are spending more time listening to music than ever before.
DANIEL 3:7-18 (Recap from Part 3)
7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. (People are freely giving themselves to false worship, they are falling down in worship to Lucifer by the influence of the music of this end time age)
8 ¶ Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
(Notice how that there were informants in the land to report and “tell” on their fellow citizens knowing that they would bring about the death of innocent people)
10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. (Notice – a forced worship backed by state law, religion and politics united – in other words, you will be breaking the law of the land if you do not believe and worship like all the others)
12 There are certain (message believers) Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. (Notice again, service and worship, Babylon was demanding by the law of the land worship and services to the gods of Babylon)
13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
***These three believers had a true revelation of the true God unveiled for that hour because they had already received the prophet of whom God had sent to them, and so that is why they didn’t worship the image that the king of Babylon had set up, because under that ministry of their prophet Daniel, they had received the message that God had sent to them – the mighty God had been revealed to them through the star for that time which was Daniel the prophet, and that star prophet had led them to God’s only provided place of worship, and they were so convinced of that place of worship that they were willing to die before they would allow themselves to be involved in the false worship of that day that was being inspired by the music of that hour.
REVELATION 14:8-10
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Contemporary English Version Bible
8 A second angel followed and said, "The great city of Babylon has fallen! This is the city that made all nations drunk and immoral. Now God is angry, and Babylon has fallen." (Natural wine brings stimulation, it makes sad people feel happy, and so does music, so do movies and sport and television and worldly entertainment, they all bring about a stimulation that are making people drunk and immoral, and so the whole world is being brought into a condition of immorality by drinking the wine of Babylon.
The people of the world are not being stimulated by the wine of the revelation of the word of God that has been released in this end time hour through the message of Malachi 4, but their stimulation is coming from another source, by the wine of music and music videos and television and all these other forms of false worship so that the whole world has become drunk with it.
They are drunk with sport, drunk with fashion, drunk with Hollywood, drunk with sin, drunk with natural wine, drunk with everything outside of the truth of this hour, so their worship and praise is directed completely toward the devil – and oh how he loves to receive it.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, (Your forehead is your thinking, so their thinking has been marked by the deceptiveness of this end time age. And your hand represents your service to do the will of the system – worship and service)
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Nebuchadnezzar burned with fire these ones that would not worship his image, but now God will burn Babylon with fire all those involved with false worship in this hour.
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The false church groups will come together in a world council of churches. This world council of churches is the IMAGE ERECTED TO THE BEAST.
…Now remember, it was Imperial Pagan Rome that fell by the sword. But she was healed of her death stroke when she joined to the nominal Christian church of Rome and incorporated paganism and Christianity, and thereby became the Holy Roman Empire which was to endure until Jesus came and destroyed her. But Rome is not going it alone. Her daughters are right with her and she will take over absolute authority by the World Council of Churches.
This may seem far fetched to some but actually it is very plain for all to see because right now the churches are controlling politics and at the opportune time will manifest exactly how great is that control. This ecumenical move will end up with Rome at the head even though the people did not envision it that way. This is so because in Revelation 17:3-6 it states that the whore, Mystery Babylon is seated on the beast. She is controlling the last, or fourth empire. This Roman Church is doing that. With the world church system under her Rome will be controlling, and this image (church system) will be obedient to Rome because Rome controls the gold of the world.
Thus all the people have to belong to the world church system or be at the mercy of the elements for they cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast in the hand or head. This mark in the head means that they will have to take the doctrine of the world church system which is trinitarianism, etc., and the mark in the hand which means to do the will of the world church. With this great power the church systems will persecute the true bride. This image will try to keep the bride from preaching and teaching, etc. Her ministers will be forbidden to give comfort and truth to the people who need it. But before the antichrist (in person) takes over this complete world system of churches the true church will be taken away from this world to be with the Lord. God will catch away His bride for the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
There are Five “Musts” that you must do to do the will and the service of God that He requires for your day.
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108 Now notice, there, in following God. Now I want you to kind of jot this in your mind. To keep God's commandments, to do anything right for God, to do--do God a service correctly, there is five musts, to do God's service correctly.
109 Now David was doing God a service. He was doing everything he knowed to do, except leaving off God. See? He was doing something was right, something good for the people, something good for the church.
110 But there is five musts. I want you to remember these. No matter how sincere a man may be in doing it, doing God a service, this, these five must be there.
First, it must be His time to do it.
111 What if--if Moses would come, say, "We'll build an ark and float up the Nile, like Noah did"? Noah's time was all right for an ark, but not his time.
112 What if Jesus would come, said, "Now I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll just go up on the mount, like Moses did, and get a new declaration of laws"? See? Huh-uh! He was that law. See?
113 You must be in His time. It must be in His season. You got that now? Must be in His time. It must be in His season, time and season.
114 And it must be according to His Word that has been spoken. It must. I don't care how well you say this ought to be, or that ought to be, or this ought to be. It's got to be according to His Word; according to His time and His season.
And it must be given according, to the person He has chosen to do it by.
115 I don't care how much dignitaries. There is king David, just as great as any of them. He was king over the nation. But He had a way of doing it, and He had told them how He would do it. But they failed to do it.
116 It must be according to His Word; according to His time, according to His program.
117 And it must be by the person He has chose to give it and to do it. Moses tried to run from it, "Take somebody else." But God chose Moses to do it. Many of them; Paul tried to get out of it; many others. But it's got to be by the one He chooses to do it.
And it must come, first, to His prophets. The Word of God must come to His prophets. Amos 3:7, "The Lord God will do nothing until first He reveals It to His servant the prophet." Four.
118 And the prophet must be a vindicated by the Word of God.
119 There is your five musts. It's got to be that way. His time, His season, when He said it would be; and the man that He chose; and it must come to the prophet; and the prophet must be a vindicated prophet.
DANIEL 3:19-28
19 ¶ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
28 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
This is a prophecy of a people in this end time age that will not bend or bow to the pressure of the false worship and service of this evil age because they have received a true revelation of the true God that has been unveiled to them in this hour by the message of a true prophet star that God has sent in this hour – wise men follow the star to God’s only provided place of true worship.
This is the pathway that every true believer of the message of this hour must follow.