Is Our Worship Pleasing to God?

3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering
to the LORD of the fruit of the ground. 4 Abel, on his part also brought
of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had
regard for Abel and for his offering; 5 but for Cain and for his offering
He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance
fell.
- Genesis 4:3-5 NASB
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By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which
he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about
his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.
- Hebrews 11:4 NASB
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So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
- Romans 10:17 NASB
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Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that
we may be justified by faith
- Galatians 3:24 NASB
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Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them,
‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.'
- Leviticus 19:2 NASB
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The Lord then spoke to Aaron, saying, “Do not drink wine or strong
drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent
of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout
your generations— and so as to make a distinction between the holy
and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean, and so as to
teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to
them through Moses.”
- Leviticus 10:8-11 NASB
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1 Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective
firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered
strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.
2And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed
them, and they died before the LORD.
- Leviticus 10:1-2 NASB
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Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the Lord spoke, saying,
‘By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy,
And before all the people I will be honored.’”
So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.
- Leviticus 10:3 NASB
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6“ ‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father,
where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the
LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How
have we despised Your name?’ 7 “You are presenting defiled food upon My
altar. But you say, ‘How have we defiled You?’ In that you say, ‘The table of
the LORD is to be despised.’ 8 “But when you present the blind for sacrifice,
is it not evil? And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil? Why not
offer it to your governor? Would he be pleased with you? Or would he receive
you kindly?” says the LORD of hosts. 9 “But now will you not entreat God’s
favor, that He may be gracious to us? With such an offering on your part, will
He receive any of you kindly?” says the LORD of hosts. 10 “Oh that there
were one among you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly
kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of hosts,
“nor will I accept an offering from you.
- Malachi 1:6-10 NASB
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13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. 14 And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen
and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.
15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the
temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of
the money changers and overturned their tables; 16 and to those who
were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making
My Father’s house a place of business.” 17 His disciples remembered
that it was written, “ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME.”
- John 2:13-17 NASB
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12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were
buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the
money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
13And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED
A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
- Matthew 21:12-13 NASB
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Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to
be pleasing to Him
- 2 Corinthians 5:9 NASB
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17 But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you
come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, in the first
place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist
among you; and in part I believe it. 19 For there must also be factions
among you, so that those who are approved may become evident
among you. 20 Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the
Lord’s Supper, 21 for in your eating each one takes his own supper
first; and one is hungry and another is drunk. 22 What! Do you not
have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church
of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you?
Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.
- 1 Corinthians 11:17-22 NASB
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On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break
bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and
he prolonged his message until midnight.
- Acts 20:7 NASB
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When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and some other
brothers before the city officials and shouted, “These fellows who have
turned the world upside down have come here, too.
- Acts 17:6 NASB
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46 United in purpose, they went to the Temple every day, ate at each
other’s homes, and shared their food with glad and humble hearts.
47They were praising God and enjoying the good will of all the people.
Every day the Lord was adding to their number those who were being
saved.
- Acts 2:46-47 NASB
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4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by
men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, 5 you also, as
living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through
Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 2:4-5 NASB
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8 After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE
BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT
DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are
offered according to the Law), 9 then He said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE
COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to
establish the second. 10 By this will we have been sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 10:8-10 NASB
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