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What is Biblical Worship?
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Dr. John Bergsma investigates what worship in the Bible looks like. The Hebrew word hishtachavah, which is translated as worship, when it doesn't just mean "bow down", always involves sacrifice. So in order for there to be true biblical worship, it must involve sacrifice.

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"In the rabbinic tradition they were well aware of the fact that the Temple was built on the site on which Isaac had nearly been offered on the mount. The rabbis asked themselves a question, where do the animal sacrifices that we offer in the Temple, where do they get their effectiveness, their efficacy? There are passages in the Old Testament itself that say that animals don't take away sin, that the blood of animals is not what God really wants.

So in the rabbinic tradition they asked, if we have these Psalms that say that animal sacrifices are not the ultimate answer, then what is the meaning of these sacrifices that we offer in the Temple? And do you know what the conclusion is that the rabbis came to? They said, you know what, these animal sacrifices in the Temple are offered on the same place were Isaac once freely accepted a potential death in offering himself to God. What these animal sacrifices then are is re-presentations of that one efficacious, freely accepted sacrifice of our ancestor when he gave himself freely on the mountaintop and they just kind of draw their power from that one event."

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Worship in the Bible: What is Biblical Worship?

by John Bergsma December 12, 2018 2 Comments




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QX1 • 3 months ago

It still did not explain what is the true aim of worship? The meaning why God leads his children to worship is: In worship Holy Spirit prays in us cause we do not know what to pray. In worship Power of God comes down and changes the situations in our life. God seeks them who prays lije that.
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Lady Bird • a year ago

When I first read the sub title I assumed it would be about the fundamentalist (protestant) approach to the Bible - Scripture alone to the point of worship. Ha! After reading this article I was facinated by the threads that link Gen. 22 to the Eucharist. It's so important, as you demonstrate, to read Scripture in context and as you point out in another talk, the Four Senses.
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