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De: Berni Dymet
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There is such incredible power in God's Word! Power to change. Power to make an impact in this world. That's what Christianityworks is all about – in depth teaching straight out of God's Word. Join Berni Dymet as he opens God's Word to discover what God has to say into your life, today.Christianityworks Cristianismo Espiritualidad Ministerio y Evangelismo
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  • The Fruit of Worship // Worship as a Way of Life, Part 4

    The Fruit of Worship // Worship as a Way of Life, Part 4
    Feb 15 2026
    So often we try to make changes in our lives, you know, the difficult things, those entrenched behaviours that keep ruining things for us – but try as we might, somehow we always seem to fail. But worship, well, that's something that changes us – from the inside out. Worship Sets us Free Well, welcome to this programme; it's the last programme in our four part series called, "Worship as a Way of Life". I guess the guts of it has been getting our hearts and our minds around the fact that worship is more than just going to church and singing songs on Sunday morning – so much more. And over the last three weeks we have seen that there are really two aspects to worship. Two different words used for worship in the New Testament. Worship on the inside – bowing down our lives to God, the thing that happens in our hearts, and then what we go on and do with that – living out that worship through our service, on the outside. It makes sense – look at a marriage. I love my wife, Jacqui, with all my heart – I adore her but if that's all I did it wouldn't be a very great marriage. Once a week, if I just said, "Darling, I love you", come on, what sort of a marriage would it be? I have to live out that marriage; I have to live out that love. I don't always do that perfectly, but she has to know that I love her through how I treat her and what I say to her and what I do for her and as I live out that love, it changes me on the inside and I love her even more. So this "inside", "outside" thing, well they feed off each other. The question is, is it like that in our relationship with God? Today we are going to conclude this series by asking that question. Ok, so if I worship God, what happens to me? I mean, does it change me, does it transform me, does it change the way I am on the inside and the outside? We are going to start off today back in the Book of Exodus, so if you have a Bible, go and grab it. We will go to the Book of Exodus and we are looking where Moses went up to Mount Sinai and got the Ten Commandments. Something happened to him up there. Have a look at Exodus, chapter 34, beginning at verse 29. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he wasn't aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken to the Lord. When his brother Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses his face was radiant and they were afraid to come near him but Moses called to them. So Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him and he spoke with them. Afterwards all the Israelites came near to him and he gave them all the Commandments that the Lord had given him up on the mountain. When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face but whenever he entered the Lord's presence to speak with Him he removed the veil until he came out again. And when he came out and told the Israelites what had been commanded they saw that his face was radiant again. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord again. See, when you go into God's presence, you can't help it, something happens to you. And with Moses, he went into God's presence up on Mount Sinai and then in the tabernacle (the tent), which was the tent of the meeting place. When Israel were out there in the desert for forty years in the exodus, they built a tent and in the centre of that tent; in a place called the Holy of Holies, is where the presence of God rested with them. And only Moses would go in and speak with God. And when he did that there was this radiance; something different about him, when he came out from having been in God's presence. He was transformed in a way that the people, well, they really noticed this. A few thousand years later the Apostle Paul looks back on all of that and comes up with the conclusion that when we turn to the Lord our God and worship Him, something like that happens, only much better. Let's again go to God's Word and have a look at Second Corinthians, chapter 3, beginning at verse 13. This is what Paul writes: We aren't like Moses who had to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away. Their minds were made dull for to this day, that same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day, when Moses' laws are read, a veil covers their hearts but whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. What's this thing that Paul is talking about here? I mean the Israelites in the first century, were bound up in God's law and in legalism. You know, it was all about rules – there were six hundred and thirteen commandments and prohibitions in the Torah; in the Hebrew Law that was given through Moses and they got so rule-bound and legalistic and that's the thing that Jesus came to set us free from. I mean, Moses, in the Old Testament, was able to go into the presence of God, and when ...
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  • Don't Blame God // Worship as a Way of Life, Part 3

    Don't Blame God // Worship as a Way of Life, Part 3
    Feb 8 2026
    It's easy to worship God in the good times. Sure. But what about the bad times, when life is really tough? What does it mean to worship God in the middle of suffering? Because, quite frankly, when we're suffering, the very last thing we feel like doing is worshipping God. Job in the Face of Adversity Well, this is the third message in a series that I've called, "Worship as a Way of Life". Over the last couple of weeks we have been looking at exactly what this thing is that we call "worship". I mean we all worship something, whether its money or pleasure or career or recognition, you name it and people sacrifice their lives to worship it. Worship is ascribing worth to something; it's bowing down our lives to it and sacrificing other things for it. People will sacrifice their marriages for their careers. Why? Because they ascribe more worth to their career than they do to their husband or their wife. People will sacrifice their family and their home to adultery. Why? Because they ascribe more worth to their pleasure than to the fidelity of marriage. Last week we talked a little bit about what it means to worship God. Now the New Testament talks about two types of worship - there are two different Greek words used in the New Testament to talk about worship. One of them means "bowing our lives down" – it's the word "proskuneo" – it's the word we get "prostrate" – to prostrate ourselves. The second is the word "latrio" and it's the word that means "serving". Latreuo is the word that we get the word "lateral" from, so it's an outward form of worship. Inside worship; bowing down, prostrating ourselves and outside worship; doing things, lateral worship. It's about worshipping God, not just with our hearts and our mouths but with our lives – it's what we do, what we say, how we act and behave and treat others. It's great to sing songs in church on Sundays, but that's not the whole of worship. That form of worship is the "proskuneo" type of worship. But living worship out is something that's lateral; it goes out. Remember last week, if you were with us, we looked at Romans, chapter 12, beginning at verse 1, where Paul writes: Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, because of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship. Some translations say, "this is your spiritual act of service". It's the "latreuo". Now this is easier said than done. I mean, when life is going really well; when finances and family are going well; and work and its fun and we're cruising along, it's not too hard to be a living sacrifice. You know why? Because when everything is going well, it doesn't feel like we have to sacrifice much. Man, it's easy to worship God when it's all happening like that. 'I'm honouring God; God's blessing me – halleluiah! But what happens when things turn ugly? When all of a sudden they start falling apart – family and wealth and health – some of those things start going wrong – what happens when we are put under pressure? What happens when it hurts? What happens when it aches so bad inside that we can barely life the eyes of our soul Christ-ward? What is worship as a way of life look like then? I don't think that we can talk about worship without talking about this. You see, when things go bad, the most common response is to blame God. "God, what are You doing? Why are You letting this happen to me and we let out this guttural cry?" The most common reaction is to blame God. You know, it's funny how people who worship fame or success or money or pleasure, when all that comes tumbling down, as it inevitably will, they justify their reactions. They never blame those things that they were worshipping but we, well, when we go through some suffering, the very first thing that so often happens, is that people blame God. Jesus made a promise to His disciples - you can read it in John, chapter 16, verse 33. He promised them, "In this world you will have tribulation." You will – that's one of those promises of God we don't like standing on. And when we look at worshipping God in the midst of trial and tribulation as we are today, we'll look at it in perspective of a couple of men – Job and Paul. Now these guys both went through a lot of suffering. Now I don't like sermons that say, "Well, you know, Job did it this way and Paul did it that way and you and I should be like Job and Paul." We're not – I'm not Job; I'm not Paul, nor are you. We are us! But when we look at how these men reacted under suffering, there is some insights; there's something there where God is telling us about worship under duress – worship in times of stress. Let's have a look at Job first. Now the story of Job – if you've got a Bible, open it up - the Book of Job comes just before the Book of Psalms. Job, chapter 1, verse 1, says that Job was blameless and upright, that he feared God and that he turned away from evil. I mean, this guy was ...
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  • Living a Life of Worship // Worship as a Way of Life, Part 2

    Living a Life of Worship // Worship as a Way of Life, Part 2
    Feb 1 2026
    Sometimes we keep our faith and our day-to-day lives in separate boxes. But it turns out that "worship" is something that brings them back together again. Worship does just happen once a week when we sing a few songs. Worship as things turn out, was always meant to be, a way of life. Connecting Inside and Out Well, this is the second message in a series that I've called, "Living a Life of Worship". Something that we love to do and it seems to come naturally to us, is to have a disconnect between our faith in Christ and our lives. I mean, Sunday you may go to church – this kind of sacred zone – and we go there and we sing songs and we worship. "O God, You are so wonderful and I love You so much and I exalt You above all. Lord, I worship You and praise You and all of that stuff". Brilliant! Great! We are going to talk about that later on today in the programme. But then on Monday morning we go back to work – the same old, same old – back in the groove. Mum is maybe getting the kids off to school or maybe rushing out the door to work, dad's on the train or in the car or on the bus doing the commute. Or perhaps you're unemployed or retired or whatever, sitting at home alone and that thing that we call "worship" that happened back there on Sunday morning, it can seem a million miles away. Somehow it's not connected to the reality of life. It was great while it lasted but now it's back down to earth with a thud – it's Monday morning! Ever felt like that, that there's some disconnect between faith and life? Worship is that thing that happens over there but back in the real world it's hard, you know; it's tough. It's the grind; it's the pressure; it's the issues to deal with; it's the compromises people make. Well, you're not alone because in the West many Christ followers experience that. The fact that faith and worship and all that stuff over here, is somehow in a separate box from life over there. In the East, in Asia and places like Africa, people's upbringing in culture means that their spirituality is a lot more connected to their lives – but not in the West. Anyway, wherever or whatever, it's important that we understand what worship is all about. It's not just something we put in a box and take out on Sundays. Worship is a way of life – that's the name of this series, "Worship as a Way of Life". When we understand what worship is in God's heart, then all of a sudden life and spirituality become inseparable. Last week we began to look at the fact that the New Testament talks about two different forms of worship. One verse where they both appear is Luke, chapter 4 and verse 8. Grab your Bible. Jesus had been out in the desert; the Holy Spirit had let Him out in the desert for forty days of fasting, so by the end of it He was weakened; He was starved; He was at a low point. This was part of God's plan, in fact, next year we will be doing a whole four week series on this wilderness passage in Like chapter 4. Today I just want to look briefly at the second temptation because at the end of the forty days the devil comes along and tempts Jesus. And this second temptation is a grand delusion. If you have a Bible, open it up at Luke, chapter 4 beginning at verse 5. This is what it says: The devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to Jesus, "I will give You all their authority and splendour for it has been given to me and I can give it to anyone I want, so if You worship me, it will all be yours. Jesus answered, "It is written, worship the Lord, your God and serve Him only." Here is a standard temptation of the devil - look at this wonderful world that I have control of. You don't have to look very far to see what an influence the devil has. I mean, Jesus called him the prince of the air. "What are you doing," says the devil, "in this wilderness for God? Look, just worship me and all this can be yours." Yea, right! Listen to what the devil says to Jesus – "so if you worship me, it will all be yours." Now the Greek word that's used here for the word "worship" is "proskuneo" - it's the word from which we get "prostrate", so to prostrate ourselves; to lie down; to bow down; to kiss someone's hand; to fall down on our knees, face down and worship. That's the sort of worship I guess we do on Sunday morning in church. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 28, talks about worshipping God with awe and reverence – it's a heart of worship – it's expressing our allegiance and our gratefulness and our awe and reverence and wonder of God, by singing songs of worship and bowing down to Him. The devil says to Jesus, "Now bow down to me as You would to God." But look at Jesus' reply! Jesus answered, "It is written, 'Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only." Jesus here is quoting the Old Testament – Deuteronomy chapter 6, verse 13 and there are two verbs in this sentence – worship and serve. Now the word "worship", the English word, is ...
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