Expanding the Sermon-The Exaltedness of Jesus

Know

• The sermon manuscript below will help if you want to review references, or review what was covered.

• Worship is central to the activity of heaven. If you are interested in expanding your thinking on the subject of worship, I recommend a few resources to read:

Be

• How do our weekly gatherings affect your daily living?
• In what ways have you chosen to take any of the material that brought conviction or encouragement to your heart and begin to use it practically in your life?
• Read through Revelation 5:11-14 and review the ways Jesus”™ nature is praised by the angels and creation. In what ways have rested in the sufficiency of Jesus? In what ways have you found yourself trying to rest in something other than his sufficiency?

Do

• Read again through the passage.
• Write down how you have found Jesus”™ worthy in his:
  • Capability to handle the issues of your life
  • Wealth (spiritually and materially) ““ how would his wealth affect your attraction to earthy wealth?
  • Wisdom ““ has secular philosophies become more predominant in the way you conduct your finances, business, family, personal life? In what ways are you specifically trusting in Christ as an all sufficient and praiseworthy source of wisdom?
  • Might ““ what are you trusting the power of God to do? Or would mere self-effort be an apt description of how you live?
  • Honor ““ what/who are you finding value in to the extent that it/they have attracted your esteem more than Christ?
  • Glory ““ rehearse in prayer how central Jesus is to everything going on in your life this week. How could you acknowledge that sufficient grace and supremacy in prayer and thanksgiving?
  • Blessing ““ examine those things you have specifically been giving thanks to God recently. List them. What”™s missing that you could begin to find God”™s rich blessing in.
• Spend a moment praising God in a similar fashion to the angels and creation that you find in Revelation 5:11-14