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God was this. “You are not wonderful enough, apart from Your gifts, for
anyone to trust You. You are not precious enough just in who You are, to
have anybody trust in You”. You need Your gifts. If You did not bless
people so much, You would never be trusted. Nobody would ever turn to
You, God. That is the insinuation there. There is not enough in Your
personal beauty to have man serve You for who You are.
Now, once again, we are not discussing the accusation. We are just trying
to say, who is he? He is the accuser. But again, what a penetrating
application can come from this. How would you respond if those
accusations were made about you? Now they are made about you every
day. Satan always goes before God and says, if it were not for gifts you
would never serve Him. And He is not good enough, by Himself, to be
served, to be worshiped, to be praised, apart from His blessings.
One of the things that God is going to demonstrate when He allows Satan
to tear down your hedge, is that He is lovely enough to be loved apart
from anything that He does or anything that He gives you.

WHAT IS WORSHIP?

One thing that is lacking among God’s people today, more than any other
single thing, I think, is worship. God’s people do not know how to
worship. Here is what most people think worship is. When they praise
God for what He has done. They think that is worship. “God died for me
on the cross. Praise His Holy Name. He shed His blood for me”. Or else
they will get up and give a testimony and it can range from anything, like,
God guided me, God used me, God delivered me, God helped me, God
sustained me, God chastened me, God taught me, God showed me in His
Word. Blessed be God! Look what He has done for me. Is that worship?
You see, that is a part of worship, but a very small part of worship. That
praise, that thanksgiving. There is a place for that. But that is subjective. It
is subjective to the core. That is what God has done for me. He leads me;
He guides me; He helps me; He delivers me; He opens the Word to me;
He saved me. Praise His name. Look what He did for me. Me, me, me,
me, me, and more me.
Worship, true worship, Bible worship, is praising God for Himself, apart
from my experience. If He never provides for you again, is He still the
provider? Yes or no? Sure He is. He needs to be praised because He is the
provider. I do not care if you ever get provided for or not. He needs to be
worshiped because He is the provider. If He never guides, if He never
delivers, if He never answers your prayer or helps you: He is still the
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