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I’ve always wondered why does God desire or require our worship? If He is all-powerful and self-sufficient, what does He gain from it? Additionally, why did God create humans with free will, seemingly to test whether they would choose to worship Him?
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God, who is the origin of love, desires love. That is why He sent the love of Christ to this earth and, through the blood of Christ, abolished the sacrificial worship. But then, why do those who claim to have received forgiveness of sins through the blood of Christ still practice the worship of sin offering?
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (hosea 6 : 6)
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.(Matthew 9 : 13)(Mark 12 : 33)
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.(Matthew 12 : 7)
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.(Psalms 51 : 16-17)
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;(Hebrews 9 : 25-26)
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.(Hebrews 10 : 16-18)
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.(Hebrews 7 : 27-28)
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.(Hebrews 9 : 27-28)
God is love. Therefore, He abolished imperfect worship and desired perfect love. He revealed love on this earth so that we may attain the divine nature of a God who possesses perfect love. Today, in Christian worship services where it is claimed that God is at work, there is an abundance of demonic tongues, fortune-tellers’ prophecies, false spirits, sorcery from heretical sects, corruption, depravity, lawlessness, falsehood, and ever-increasing heresies. The reason for this is that they engage in vain worship, dishonoring the atoning blood of Christ.
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?(Hebrews 10 : 29)
Instead of teaching love that nurtures the flock, shares, gives, cares for, and serves one another, they pursue abolished worship to steal tithes and offerings for their own selfish desires. In doing so, they deny the worship of Christ’s atoning blood for the forgiveness of sins. Therefore, in all churches that practice abolished worship, it is Satan and demons that are at work.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:(Hebrews 10 : 1~11)
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