Worship

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

The LORD directed Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD; otherwise many of them will die.

Even the priests who come near the LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out in anger against them.”

Moses responded to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since you warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consecrate it.”

And the LORD replied to him, “Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or he will break out in anger against them.”

Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; bring an offering and come before him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness;

The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: For he is good; his faithful love endures forever. The temple, the LORD’s temple, was filled with a cloud.

And because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the LORD filled God’s temple.

Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, and their prayer came into his holy dwelling place in heaven.

But I enter your house by the abundance of your faithful love; I bow down toward your holy temple in reverential awe of you.

I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters; I will praise you in the assembly.

Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not appealed to what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.

He will receive blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Such is the generation of those who inquire of him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah

I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the LORD and seeking him in his temple.

I will praise you in the great assembly; I will exalt you among many people.

I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

Should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, rain will not fall on them.

And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the LORD inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

Then Jesus told him, “See that you don’t tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

The God who made the world and everything in it  — he is Lord of heaven and earth  — does not live in shrines made by hands.

Neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing praise with the spirit, and I will also sing praise with my understanding.

Otherwise, if you praise with the spirit, how will the outsider say “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.