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Aug 27, 2009

"Worship", quick study 1 - WORSHIP IS ALSO OUTWARDLY VISIBLE/EXPRESSIVE

Well, here's my first note on this (I hope you will all still share your own studies with us).
I will be sharing this tonight;
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First time some one is said to "worship";
Genesis 22:5 And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."

Classic posture regarding worship; it's clear from the fact that he repeatedly bows down that, this was considered the way to express adoration;
Genesis 24: 26 Then the man bowed down his head and worshiped the LORD.
 48 "And I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master
 52 And it came to pass, when Abraham's servant heard their words, that he worshiped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.

The next time we see people worship it is Abraham's descendants in Egypt (after a 400 year divine "silence), still reflecting their customary posture associated with indicating complete surrender;
Exodus 4:31 So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

We see that even the most extreme encounter thus far where Moses see God's glory
The same posture is evident;
Exodus 34:8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

I was excited to see this because it means the most fundamental or basic outward sign of the "inner" worship is the classic prostrating oneself by bowing down; which means that there is an overlap in our simplistic definition that Praise is visible and worship not unnecessarily; in these examples we see a very expressive outward sign visible of the persons worship. So, worship can still be very outwardly expressive - is all I'm saying (and "Praise" already existed, having begun with Judah)
WORSHIP IS ALSO OUTWARDLY VISIBLE/EXPRESSIVE.

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