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Heart Of Worship
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John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books , including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently What Is Saving Faith?
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Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. We’re on a mission to change that. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ.
This message is the second part of a two-part series on the “Worship God Conference.”
We ended the previous message defending that God’s self-exaltation — especially his self exaltation in the cross — is an act of love and not megalomania or egomania. It is love. It sounds egomaniacal to certain people that I quoted because they don’t have the biblical mindset to see it for what it is. Nor do they understand the main reason I gave for why God’s self-exaltation in the cross and everywhere else is an act of love — the one source of pleasure that will be deep enough to satisfy us forever is the sight of the glory of God in the face of Christ. If God in some kind of mock humility sends us away from himself to go find our pleasure somewhere else and to find a satisfying admiration somewhere else, he will hate us. It will look humble. It will be what the world thinks a God, perhaps, ought to do — make humanity central. Go find a human to be happy with. Go find a sunset to be satisfied with. Go find a canyon to be moved by. But I am not going to call any attention to myself as God.
What a tragedy that would be for us. So that is where we ended, striking the note that God’s self-exaltation, whether it be in the words of Christ — you must love me above everybody — or whether it be in the act of the cross — I am doing this to demonstrate my righteousness and vindicate my holiness that has been trampled by millions of sins that I have passed over — whichever way, it is love. I hope you can make that plain so that your people glory in God’s God-centeredness and do not feel it is a threat to their joy, but rather the ground of their joy.
Now before I tackle this theme of what is the essence, the heart essence of worship inside, I want to underline that truth, which I just articulated one or two other ways, because I think if we get that right, so much falls into place.
Turn with me to John 17 , would you? I was going to give you glimpses of how you might do this for your people if you believe it is important to get this truth across to them. Here would be a way. There are lots of ways. This is one. Here we are at the high priestly prayer. I am going to assume that you agree with me that the high priestly prayer of our Lord Jesus for his disciples and for us through them, as he says in verse 20, I am praying for those who will believe on me through their words. So he is praying for us. I am assuming that you agree with me that this prayer is an act of love. He is not hating us in this prayer. He is loving us in this prayer. So what does it sound like?
John 17:1 — “When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes and said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that the Son may glorify you.” Now isn’t that an odd way to begin a prayer for you? Father, glorify me — me. Make me glorious in this moment of my death and in the resurrection. Oh God, don’t abandon me. Make me glorious, that I may then reciprocate and show how glorious you are. This is a strange way to begin a prayer for his people. Look at verses 4 and 5. “I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the work you gave me to do” ( John 17:4 ). So God gave him a work to do that would glorify the Father. He has virtually done it. He is thinking of the cross as virtually done. “And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed” ( John 17:5 ).
So the first five verses of this prayer are a prayer for his own glory. That is so strange. So you set that up. And you say, “Now, okay, you are trying to make a case here that this is the heart and essence of his love for us, praying for his own glory to be exalted.” Why? And you go down to verse 24: “Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.” There is the closure. I am praying that I would be glorious, that the cross would work, that I would make it through, that I would hold faith, that I would be worthy of being praised in songs like this forever and ever. And I would come out of the grave and rise and assemble the people around me. Why? So that they might see my glory forever, the glory that I have had as creator forever, the glory that I now have as redeemer forever. That is the reason I am praying for my glory, because if I don’t have it, you don’t have anything. You were made to know this, to love this, to be satisfied in this, to treasure this.
The reason the world is in the mess it is in, is because it is trying to find what it’s made for in every way but this way. And worship services and a life of worship has the potential of exposing people to what they were made for. You know this. I keep saying you can’t imagine. Of course you can imagine. You can imagine better than I can. You watch people. Why are they crying? They haven’t been to church in 20 years. Why are they crying? They are crying. They can’t even explain it. They are in touch with why they were made. And Christ knows that about us. And longing to give us the fullest, deepest, longest experience of joy he prays that the Father would glorify him.
Let’s go to 2 Corinthians 4 just to give another glimpse how to do it. Bob Kauflin, in his letter to me, a year or so ago said maybe I would want to consider this text, so I am going to squeeze it in. I should have built on it, but I have built a whole book on it — God is the Gospel . It may be the most important book I have ever written. So there, I believe in it.
Now look at this. I mean, these are two of the most important verses imaginable. In 2 Corinthians 4:4 , what does Satan not want you to experience? What does Satan see in the gospel he doesn’t want you to have? Verse four. In their case the God of this world — Satan — has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from seeing “the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.” The gospel that is good news of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. He doesn’t want you to see that. And conversion is being given the capacity to see it and worship is the ongoing expression of what we feel when we see it.
Jump down two verses to verse 6, and then ask the other question, not just what Satan doesn’t want you to see, but what does God engage with creative power to enable you to see? Verse 6: “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” If you would put those two verses on top of each other, verse 4 and verse 6, they simply shed light on each other — amazing light, theological light, worship light, practical light. God enables your heart to perceive light — spiritual light. I wish you would all read Jonathan Edwards’ sermon “A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul,” which is based on this verse.
So the point of those two verses, as I focus on them here is simply, Satan doesn’t want you to see the essence of the gospel which is the glory of Christ who is the image of God . God engages himself with infinite creative power to enable us in the new birth an ongoing illumination to see the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. And this is what we want for our people and what only God can do. Only God can do it.
We are certainly, then, to join God in magnifying his glory. That is obvious. I think the text my dad probably quoted to me more than any text growing up — my dad was away from home three-fourths of the year doing evangelistic work and he would write to me and we would communicate on the phone and he would say, “Johnny, whatever you do, word and deed, do all to the glory of God” ( 1 Corinthians 10:31 ). Over and over again. Whatever you do, eat, drink, the most basic things, son, get up in the morning to the glory of God. Go to bed at night to the glory of God. Eat pizza to the glory of God. Drink pop to the glory of God. Shoot buckets to the glory of God. Son, everything you do, do to the glory of God.
What condition of the heart — what experience of the heart does that ? What experience of the heart magnifies the greatness of the glory of God? That is the question for this message. What is it? What is the experience? Now that is an important question, not because you are worship leaders and lead services of worship, but because the Bible, in Romans 12 , calls all of life worship.
Present your bodies as a living sacrifice to Christ, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. ( Romans 12:1 )
This body in all that it does, is to be worship, which means is to act from a heart condition that magnifies Jesus, that makes Jesus look good, makes him look as glorious as he really is. My body is to be moved — hugging, touching, giving, loving, rebuking, whatever this body does as it moves through the world — to be animated by the abundance of the heart. This part of the body speaks and all of the other parts of the body move. It is being animated by a heart. And my question in this message is: What is the experience of the heart that in itself shows God is infinitely valuable and beautiful and worthy and produces acts in the body which also display how valuable God is and how infinitely worthy he is?
So, as a sub question, let me ask first why I am asking that question, besides the fact that I was assigned the topic. Because I could approach it a whole lot of ways. Why do I ask the question with regard to the essence of worship, the heart of worship: What is the experience, the core, essential experience of the heart unseen, first, by anybody but God? Why do I ask that question? And my first reason is Matthew 15:8 . Worship leaders should be really, really familiar with this verse. “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” I am terrified as a pastor that God would write over our services, vain, empty . Bethlehem Baptist Church worship services: vain, empty .
There are such worship services. You should not want them. Jesus said, “This people honors me with their lips.” That means they are singing. They are preaching. They are praying for nothing. This people honors me with their lips. Why is it vain? Why is it for nothing? “ Because their heart is far from me .” That is why I am asking this question. There isn’t any more important question than to ask the heart question. What is my heart supposed to be doing while we are doing these music things, these verbal things, this preaching thing? What is my heart supposed to be doing? If it is not experiencing the right thing, this preaching is vain. The singing is vain. The music is vain, empty, useless, and it smells in God’s nose. So this is an important question. That is my first reason for asking it. Matthew 15:8 . I don't want that. I want it to be not vain.
Here is my second reason for asking the hard question: The New Testament is stunningly silent about forms of worship. The Old Testament is not stunningly silent. It is very verbal. I mean, you have got down to the threads and the colors of the threads and the tassels and days and months and seasons and endless detail of how to do it in that regime. And it is gone. Jesus is now the temple. Jesus is now the priest. Jesus is now the blood and the sacrifice. And all the geography is irrelevant and the buildings are irrelevant. I think it is a stunningly silent, frighteningly silent.
The word most commonly used for worship in the Old Testament proskuneo in the Septuagint. Proskuneo is prevalent in the gospels, prevalent in Revelation and virtually absent in the epistles. There are two little exceptions in Hebrews and one in 1 Corinthians where a person falls down.
Why is the main word for worship in the Old Testament gone out of the Church, but there in the Gospels and there in Revelation? And here is the reason I think: Jesus was there in the gospels physically and people could fall down in front of him and they did over and over again. So you got a lot of uses of the word. They ran up. They fell down. They worshipped him. In Revelation, he is right there on the throne. People are really falling down. He is right there. They are falling down. And that word is gone. It is gone. It is not in the epistles. Why? Because he is not anywhere. He is everywhere. You can meet this Jesus in worship anywhere. You don’t go anywhere. You don’t have to move one millimeter of your body to meet this Jesus while you are in a bed dying with cancer.
There is an incredibly strong de-externalization, internalization, intensification of worship onto the heart in the New Testament. That is the second reason why I am asking this question: What is the experience of the heart that magnifies Jesus and produces acts of the body that show Jesus is magnificent, that turns all of life into worship and makes corporate worship services not vain? That is my question.
And here is my answer. I’ll give you the answer, and then I will defend it from Scripture for a little bit, and then I will spell out four implications for our worship life and services. The answer is the experience of being satisfied with God . You know that I am a Trinitarian lover of Jesus, and when I say God, I mean Jesus and the Father and the Spirit. So don’t think I am minimizing Christ here. If you want to say being satisfied with Christ, or if you want to say being satisfied with all that God is for us in Christ, that is a good way to say it. Any way feels inadequate.
But the key word, the operative emotional word is satisfy . I will use some others as we go along, but I am going to stick with that one as the main one. The experience that I have been saying is so massively important inside in order to turn all of life into worship, and the reason a worship service is not vain is the experience of satisfaction in all that God is for us in Christ. I am so glad we are singing to the Lord a new song as well as old songs because the range of things about God that are worthy of being sung about and that bring satisfaction to the soul are infinite. We will never run out of things to write about or sing about.
Now let me give you some biblical support. Let’s go to Philippians 1 . This is my favorite place to defend this point. Let me state the thesis that I am going to defend a little more clearly. Some of you know it because I have said it a lot. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. That is the banner over my life. I think it would be pretty obvious if you knew me for just ten or twenty minutes. I don’t write about this as one who has arrived at satisfaction in God. I write as one desperately hungry, desperately thirsty. I have seen so many things in the Bible that make me want this. That is why I write.
Every now and then in a worship service or on the street talking to an unbeliever, I feel like I am almost there. I can almost see him, almost feel the way I might feel in the last day when I see him and my heart is finally content and I am not dealing with guilty feelings anymore or discouragements anymore. My life is one continuous battle against bad emotions, lots of them.
So just know that “Mr. Satisfaction Writer” is on a quest. I have seen it. I have seen it. I have tasted it. I know where it is found. But I write not having arrived at full experience. That is my life. I am a desirer. My heart is a desire factory and every day it is producing bad ones that have to be killed — “put to death what is earthly” ( Colossians 3:5 ).
I am trying to show you the biblical foundation of the sentence God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. Verse 19: “I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus, this imprisonment will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not at all be ashamed but that with full courage, now as always, Christ will be honored.” So just get that clear now. Half of my sentence — God is most glorified or Christ is most magnified — has now been stated.
Paul’s passion in all of his life for this body of his, whether it is in chains or preaching freely, is that his body would show Christ is magnificent. Christ is great. Christ is honorable. Christ is worthy. Christ satisfies the soul. Christ is more valuable than anything. That is the goal. That is the goal of your services. It is the goal of our lives. So he said it now. And now the question is: How does he think that happens? How does that happen? That is his goal. He wants his body animated by a heart of some kind to do that.
Verse 21: “For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Look for conjunctions and understand them. “So my eager expectation and hope its that Christ would be magnified in my body whether by life or by death for” — I am going to explain this. I am going to ground this. I am going to help you understand how in life and death Christ is magnified in this body. I am going to say something here that is earth shaking and life transforming. Watch, because I have just said for. For to me to live — that word live corresponds with the word life in verse 20. Make the connection. See that? For me to live corresponds with life is Christ, and to die corresponds to death in verse 20. So now you have seen he is making the connection there so that he can unpack how in life and in death Christ is magnified. And the way he explains it is I pray, hope, am expectant that in my body, in my death Christ will be magnified for to me to die is gain.
Christ will be shown to be magnificent in my dying if in my dying I experience it as gain. What does that mean? It means if I am so satisfied in Christ and all he is for me then all the satisfactions that will be taken away from me at death — my wife will never be my wife again. In the kingdom there will be no marriage or giving in marriage. I am going away. I am leaving behind everything that I have seemingly known so well and gotten so much pleasure from. I am dying. And you look up to Christ and you say, “Compare. Christ, everything. Christ, everything.” And you say, “Gain.” At that moment Christ is magnified, because you are so satisfied in him. That is it. That is my textual argument.
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