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Introduction and Overview of Torah Study 0:00 Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the deep dive.0:34 Deep down inside, we all know we need to get close to God. How do we do it? Can you believe that a book from 3500 years ago has a lot to say about it? Welcome in Wednesday night Bible study time, the deep0:46 dive Torah part 9. Again, I hope that you are enjoying this content. I hope it is a blessing to you. And, if it is, can you hit the like and the subscribe and the notification bell on your0:58 YouTube device right now? You'll get notified every time we go live. My name is Tim. Welcome to Tim Hatch Live. And we are studying, passages in the first 5 books of the Bible. Now 1 of the 1 of the things that's going1:10 to mark this deep dive Bible study differently than other ones is that we're not going to go chronologically or verse by verse through the text. Although we will be doing that in in1:21 certain heaps of the study, we're going to be jumping around. Like we have already, we we went to the first 10 commandments and, we also then just jumped way over to the other end of the spectrum1:33 last week with Deuteronomy 21, the female captive law. And today, we're discussing going all the way back to the end of the first 10 Commandments in Exodus chapter1:45 20 and what does God say about worship. So with that in mind, I wanna give us just a picture, like a wide angle view of what we've looked at so far. And and that is this here up on the screen,The Spectrum of Torah's Instructions 1:57 the spectrum of Torah's instructions. So there are as there is a spectrum. There's a spectrum of laws in Torah. Right? On the far left over here, don't you like how I can just bounce around and2:09 just point up like this? Isn't this cool? Is this is the, sensible eternal principles of Torah, the 10 commandments, the love your neighbor laws, the love the stranger2:21 laws, justice, faithfulness, purity. These are laws that are not negotiable. Let me move up here. These are laws that are timeless. They are sensible. They resonate for all2:33 time, for all people. But if we bounce over here to the right, now we've got the historically conditioned guidance that god gives to his ancient people Israel that we're going to2:44 enact holy war to take the land of Canaan, that we're going to have to deal with things like accidental death, such as if your axe head slips off and it hits your neighbor somehow. How are we supposed to recompense your2:56 neighbor? Who's responsible and how responsible are they? And those laws we may get to in our study. And then we're gonna get into this, in the next couple of weeks. Slaves. Why why is the Torah3:08 so visually, at least, on the surface pro slave? Like, this is 1 of the big complaints that we talked about last week when it comes to the atheist argument against the3:20 Bible is the Bible is pro slavery. Look at how it treat tells Israel to treat people. How is that possibly God's word? Right? So that's 1 of the criticisms,3:32 1 of the drawbacks of studying the Bible on your own because you will read these passage and you will say, yikes. This is definitely not with the times. But there's laws. There's3:44 certain ways that god speaks through those laws in ancient times that actually have a great deal to say to us today as his people in our context even though they are about the very difficult conversation of3:55 slavery. So that's the spectrum. Now we have covered the 2 ends of the spectrum. We covered for 3 weeks the first 10 principles, the first 10 commandments. And then last week, we talked about4:08 that crazy law about taking a woman captive in holy war. And we looked at it through those 3 lenses, the historical context, biblical context, and the gospel context. And we're gonna do4:19 those difficult sayings more and more going forward. But this week, we are bouncing all the way back, yes, to this passage. Oh, not that passage. Let me go to the passage that we are4:31 going to go to, and that is in Exodus chapter 20. So we are in Exodus chapter 20 verse 18 and we are back to4:43 the 10 Commandments. He has just finished in verse 17. You shall not covet your neighbor's house, wife, male servant, female servant. Well, look at what happens right after4:55 this. It says, the people saw the thunder, verse 18, the flashes of lightning, and and the sound of the trumpet, the mountains of smoking, the people were afraid and trembled. And they stood afar off. And they said to5:07 Moses, you speak to us, and we will listen. But do not let god speak to us, lest we die. So there is a response to god's voice here in Torah from the people of Israel and it5:18 is a telling response. It is the response of the human heart. It is the response of every person that you've ever invited to church or tried to tell about god5:30 and they say, not for me. No. I can't. Or I couldn't ever go to church. This is the human condition. And really, you may have never thought about it in this lens or in this quadrant of5:42 theology. It is a worship question. Because worship is about approaching God. Worship is about communicating to him. Worship is about loving God. And you don't love God without unknowing God and approaching God and5:54 being close to God. And ultimately, what you have to understand is that Torah has a lot to say about how God's people should approach him. And it has a lot to say to us here in the modern world about how we should6:03 approach our Lord and savior Jesus Christ and the and God the father through our Lord and savior Jesus Christ in the community and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. So tonight is about that. The worship of the Lord our6:14 God, understanding worship through Torah. And I am excited to get into this content. I hope you are too. Let us not forget that Jesus said that theProper Worship and Modern Challenges 6:26 whole law is summed up in 2 commandments. Go to Matthew chapter 22 37. He says, you shall love the lord your god with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the6:37 second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Now look at verse 40 of Matthew 22. On these 2 commandments depend all the law and the prophets. So there it6:49 is there it is from Jesus' own mouth. That if we can get these 2 ideas solidified in our minds, we've got the law down. But tonight, we're dealing with the7:01 first 1. How do we worship god properly And what does Torah have to say about that? Because it is not a coincidence in any respect at all that right7:12 after god gives the 10 commandments, the people of Israel are overwhelmed by the presence of god and then there's a commandment about approaching god. So that's what7:24 tonight is about. That's where we're going. How do we worship god? Now, to set the case to build the case for why you should pay attention to me for the next, 30 to 40 Or who are we kidding? 30 to 507:36 minutes. Why should you listen to me about this? Because we've got a problem in the church. And the serious problem that I wanna address is horrible worship music. And and even the idea too and let me just mark that as7:47 well. I'm gonna make a little x out of the word music. Because there's a problem in the church, horrible worship. And, yes, some horrible worship music. We don't know how to7:59 worship god. We all we we think we do by nature, but we don't. And we honestly have so many holes in worship in modern churches. There is a great divide, in the8:11 church when it comes to worship. You can go right down the cath Catholic Protestant divide. What is the Eucharist? What is the lord's supper? How are we to relate to God? Through the sacraments or through the ordinances?8:23 Right? That's the divide. And then you can go through the, Protestant denominations and it is divided by styles of music. Where is the pulpit on the8:34 stage? Have you been to a church where the pulpit is off to the left and you're like, I don't know what that's all about. Or do you go to a church where the pulpit is in the center? Or maybe there is no pulpit. There's a8:43 a podium with a flat surface and maybe there's no podium and it looks more like a TED talk. And then and then what do they use in their worship experience? Do they worship in a circle? Do they worship in an auditorium?8:55 Do they worship in a cathedral with a, you know, pitched roof? Do they worship with modern instruments? Do they worship acapella? This is really interesting stuff because it is, in many9:07 ways, the dividing line of so many Christian fellowship, so many so much of what should be Christian community and unity, we divide over this. Particularly though with worship. So even though I did cross out worship, I'm9:18 going to uncross it out because the the problem in the modern church, and I am specifically talking about my quadrant of the Christian movement globally, is which I call the cool9:29 church movement. If you're if you're new to the channel, the the cool church movement is the pastor wears ripped jeans, a cool shirt, probably a necklace, has a cool haircut and a nice beard.9:44 And then they have U2 or more modernly Coldplay style music that everybody sings to. It's look it looks like a concert. That's my9:56 quadrant. That's where I'm coming from. Just full disclosure. Okay. I am not coming from the organ music style. I am not coming from the, you know, the the high church style which is, you know, you might have a pipe10:07 organ in the front with this impressive, you know, structure in the front with all these pipes and and looks like a bunch of whistles lined up along the back wall. I've been to those churches. I understand their their,10:17 their worship style. But what I am talking about is horrible worship and particularly music in the cool church movement. I wanna give you a couple of examples to show you how often we can just drift from10:30 true worship. Because if if we're supposed to love god, we we have to love god in truth. What does Jesus say? That the father is looking for worshipers10:41 who will worship him in spirit and in truth. And so much of modern evangelicalism is devoid of both.10:53 Spirit, as in we only care about 1 spirit, and that is how is my spirit responding to this moment. And then truth, we only care about the truth that we like. So what do I11:05 feel is happening in my spirit, my emotional state based on the words that I'm expressing to God, which may or may not be prescriptive truth from God's word? This11:17 is a serious problem in the church. It is why we have such an anemic church when it comes to theology. Theology must11:29 wrap up our worship experience. We worship is response. Right? So worship must respond to god as he is and as he has called us to respond to him11:41 and for what he has done in the truth that is in Jesus Christ. In other words, worship music is not about how your day is going. And it's not11:53 about how you're feeling. And it's not about who loves you and who hates you on this planet. Worship is about god. The old English word is the root or the source of our word in12:05 English worship. Worth ship, how do we ascribe worth to god? And so there's no that it is for those reasons that there's a lot of content in Torah12:16 regarding how Israel was to worship Yahweh. So back to my point though. Let me give you some horrible worship music examples and I'm sorry, but you might get offended by12:28 these examples. You might sing these songs in your church. I don't care. You need truth. Here's example number 1. This is a song I think it's called I think it's called Let It Be or Let It Start or Let It Continue. I12:39 don't know what it's called. The it comes from the movement it comes from the band Upper Room. It was published in 20 21. And, it's oh, no. No. Sorry. This is not that this is12:51 Give Me Jesus. Sorry. The name of the song is Give Me Jesus. Now listen to the lyrics of the song. If you're listening, I'll I'll read them to you. But if you if you're watching on video, you already see them.13:03 I don't want anything but you. You're more than every dream come true. All the things I thought I wanted don't come close to knowing you. Now that I'm yours and you are mine, our love is the secret13:15 that I find, I'll spend forever in the pleasure I found in looking in your eyes. Okay. Problem? Do do you already want vomit to13:27 come up into your mouth? Because I do. When I when I read these lyrics, I say to myself, where is Christ? Where is the blood? Where is the sacrifice for our sins? Where is our where is holiness? Where is honor? Where is13:39 reverence for a god who is holy other than me, who is beyond me? And, yes, he desires intimacy and he dwells with the lowly and the meek in heart and absolutely. And Jesus walked among us and dwelt among us and loved us13:51 and loved us fully. But love is not an ethereal, emotional thing with God. It is a demonstrative thing. It is a demonstrative action with God. Love is not14:03 something that God just says, man, you guys really, you know, get my heart beating fast. No. Love is expressed as Romans chapter 5 says. It14:15 says in chapter 5 verse 8, god shows his love or the word could also be translated demonstrates his love for us. And it's that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. There is God's love. God's love is14:26 demonstrated, not emotionally experienced. Even if you go to John chapter 3 and you go to verse 16, the most famous verse in the bible first, let me take my note little those little14:39 icons off. Okay. John chapter 3 verse 16. For God so loved the world and the word so is not is not a quantitative term. It is a qualitative term. It is not it14:50 is not saying God so much loved us. It is saying this is how God. God so loved the world. This this is the way God loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.15:03 He gave the he gave his son to die for our sins. There is a demonstrative nature to the love of God. So back to bad worship music. The problem that I have with the song,15:15 and you probably can identify with this as well, is that if Taylor Swift can sing this without telling her audience that this is a worship song written by a Christian band and nobody is15:27 the wiser and everybody just starts raising their hands as they do at Taylor Swift's concerts and singing along with her, thinking that she's speaking about a guy, there is a serious problem with the song.15:38 Understand? If the song does let me put it this way. No. You know what? Before I get ahead of myself, let me give you another example because I've got a I've got a story15:50 about it. The the the second example that I have is Let It Happen by United Pursuit. This is a bit of an older song. I think it's from 2013. So16:02 here's the lyrics for those of you listening. You're full of life now and full of passion. That's how he made you just let it happen. And he calls each 1 of us by our names to come away and he whispers to your heart to16:13 let it go and to be alive. Be alive, be alive, be alive, be alive, come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive. This is like this is like applause by Lady Gaga. Anyway, so take me back back to the beginning when I was16:25 young running through the fields with you. Okay. Taylor Swift could sing the song in her concert and no 1 would have a clue that it was about the Lord Jesus Christ. No 1 would have a clue that it was16:36 responsive for a blood sacrifice that happened 2000 years ago in human history for your salvation, for your cleansing internally, to take16:48 away your offensive sins before the eyes of god. And this is the point. So I went to look up this song because I remember from many years ago and I I really hit this song17:00 hard years ago in my church and the band never played it again. Because there is this idea that you just keep singing that song, that that refrain over and over17:12 again. So take me back back to the beginning when I was young running through the fields with you. Okay. This is this is infantile worship. This is emotional teeny bopper worship. It needs to be cut out of the church.17:23 And I know I'm offending somebody. I know I'm offending somebody. And hopefully, I'm offending a few people who need to come to their senses when it comes to what kind of songs do we sing to the Lord. How do we respond17:33 to him? And I know worship is not about singing alone. I understand that. But a huge part of it is reflected in our singing. And I think that our singing is a17:45 reflection of how we relate to God ordinarily. Right? So our songs are writings of our response to God. And too much of modern Christian experience of17:57 God is emotive. It is ethereal. It is ephemeral. It is feminine. It is feelings oriented, and it is not grounded in truth. It is18:08 not testimonial. You have to look for worship. You have to look for churches that in their worship are testimonial. Here is what god has done for us. Here is what Jesus laid down for18:20 us. Here is the glory of God. Here is who he is. Here is who we are in the light of him. Now there are some very good examples from modern Christian music. I'm just picking 2 bad ones. And I'm sure18:32 that United Pursuit and, I forget who the who who was the other band that I mentioned? Upper Room. I'm sure that they have great examples of good music. This is just 2 bad ones. And I always say this to our worship18:43 leaders that we sing maybe about 10 songs that Charles Wesley wrote back in the 17 hundreds in America. We still sing about 10 of his songs. The guy wrote 3000 songs. Okay. WeShow more In this video 0:00 Introduction and Overview of Torah Study1:50 The Spectrum of Torah's Instructions6:15 Proper Worship and Modern Challenges18:44 Understanding Worship Through Torah47:39 Conclusion and Call to Worship
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