The Sun is Worshipped (Deuteronomy 17: 1-7)

Summer Worship Series, June 28, 2020

Under the Sun Series, Week 3, The Sun Is Worshipped

Readings:

First Lesson and Sermon Text:  Deuteronomy 17:1-7.  The First Commandment enjoins God's people to worship and serve him only.  For the Old Testament Israelites, bowing down to other gods, including the sun, was punishable by death.

Second Lesson:  Romans 1:18-25.  Worshipping anyone or anything beside the true God amounts to worshipping what has been created over the one who created it all.

Gospel:  Matthew 6:16-24.  We have been called to faith in God who is himself unseen and who sees what people do not.  We cannot serve anything else, like mammon (an Aramaic word for wealth and property) and still serve God.

Sermon: The Sun is Worshiped.  Deuteronomy 17:1-7.

God has given us a great blessing in having a sun that offers us light and warmth, but we should not focus on only what we can see. 

God is not only the Creator of all, He is also our Savior.  Heaven is our home and our lives on earth have meaning and purpose because we know what He has done for us.

He wants us to fear, love and trust in Him above all things because He loves us.  He wants us to live with Him under His loving care, for eternity.

God invites us to love, trust, and worship Him.

So let us bow before Him, worship Him, and thank Him for all He has created for us. 

We will look forward to the day He will no longer be invisible to us and we will be with Him forever.

Pastor Nathan Kassulke