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Fellow believers, does our congregational worship reflect a people who have seen the King of Glory? Who is the King of Glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle!… The LORD of Hosts, he is the King of Glory!” (Psalm 24) At Northwest we value worship. The ultimate act of worship is to love the Lord Jesus with all our heart, soul, and mind (Matthew 22:37). Paul refers to this as presenting ourselves to God as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable- this is our spiritual act of worship (Romans 12:1-2)!

In the Law of Moses, Israel was instructed, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart…” (Deuteronomy 6:5). Unfortunately, this proved to be an impossible task for Israel and for us. Jeremiah described the dilemma, “the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick…” (Jeremiah 17:9). The idea conveyed by the prophet is deliberate duplicity. This is bad news. Not only are we born diseased, but our natural inclination is to choose to be deceitful. With these things in mind, how is it possible to have a pure heart in worship of the Lord?