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Worship Is Never About Me (Part 4)

Gather around the one thing you have in common
Stop arguing
Lift up holy hands
- Submission to God
- Openness to each other
Men can be stubborn and prideful
- This has no place in worship
- If you must have your way; you can't submit to God's way
Put Jesus back as the Senior Pastor
When we lift up holy hands in worship, everything will fade away

Worship is not about me. I am not the center of attention
Promoting yourself amd own beauty kills worship
How you live revels who you worship
- God wants your heart
Women who love Jesus and clothe themselves in worship
- are intoxicating and contagious with Jesus' love
- instead of being a distraction to worship, bring others to worship Jesus

Hard to understand what this passage really means
- Throughout history women have been devalued by men
- Women feel they need to stick up for themselves
Do we submit to God's Word eventhough we don't always get it?
- Can we pick and choose what we will believe?
- His Truth is the only truth
- His way is always best
Trying to change what the verses say is just men trying to make the Word say what they want it to say
False teachers messed things up
- Women had to fight for recognition
- Has no place in the church. We dont leverage for power
If Jesus is the Senior Pastor, there will be no power stuggles
Command is not a vocal quietness, but a submission in worship
Adam was formed first then Eve
- Genesis 2 - Men were given the resposibillity of leadership
- Men and women are equal in value, but have different roles
She will be saved through childbearing
- From Eve's body, from her offspring, came the woman who would give birth to Jesus - Savior of the world