Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name

Psalms 29:2 “Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.”

I must ask this question, why do you attend church? I know it sounds rather strange to answer this question, however would you please ask yourself that question? I am saddened to know there are some who attend worship services for other reasons than to “worship the LORD”. So go ahead and ask yourself that question and give some thought before you answer yourself. I would like to know the answer and see if it truly matches why the Lord told us to attend worship. The Lord told us to “Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name;” that is to recognize Him as a sovereign God, that is to recognize the sermon in every worship service is from God to you and me. The word of God was written to us beloved for several reasons but the most important reason was so we could in a correct way understand how to worship Him. The Lord wants our focus on Him and Him only, so if anything distracts you from that worship you have failed to give the Lord His due glory. Psalms 89:7 tells us “God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.” Beloved I would venture to say God is not greatly feared or reverenced in most church services today. Today most church services are about everything except reverence and fear of the Lord. Most churches today fail to teach about a sovereign God and without a sovereign God He cannot be truly feared. The sovereignty of God teaches that He is able to do what He pleases and how He pleases, it also teaches that He and He alone saves sinners and without Him saving them they (no matter how many decisions they make) will never be saved. Just because one goes to church does not mean they will ever be saved. I must say it is my belief that most churches today are a house of foolishness rather than a house of fear and reverence of God. Ecclesiastes 5:1 “Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.” The Lord tells us here that it is better to hear, that is it is better to stop all of the foolishness and hear the word of God. I know a former pastor that the song director and some of the men of that church told him the song service was more important than the sermon was so he must shorten his sermon, beloved those men were fools. There is nothing more important in a worship service than a sermon delivered by a man called by God to do so, period. The song service has its place but not over the sermon that the Lord has sent to the church by His called man.

“worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.” That is in the beauty of who He is and not as to what we want Him to be. God is most beautiful when uplifted in His sovereign grace and not placed as a god who cannot accomplish His own will. Our God is strong and able, and beloved that makes Him most wonderful in every way. There is nothing that makes my blood pressure rise more than to hear some clueless preacher say “God cannot change our will”. Beloved God changed my will and many times in my life and if you are saved He has changed your will also. Beloved let me close on this note, if your pastor refuses to uplift the Lord as a sovereign God always doing the counsel of His own will Eph. 1:11 then may I suggest you find another church because the one you are in now does not fear and reverence the Lord.