Getting God's Permission (Part 3) | Pleasing God in Worship
Pleasing God in Worship
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From the very beginning of human history, God has required people to structure their behavior based upon His will, and therefore we human beings have no right to formulate our own ideas concerning religious truth. We must have God's approval for everything we do. Another way to say this is: “Are we going to allow God to govern our lives or not?” In Acts 4:7 the Jewish authorities asked the apostles, “By what power or by what name have you done this?” Can we answer, as the apostles did, that our actions in worship have their authority from Christ?
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