Our position before GOD.

In today’s lenient society there are many different thoughts about worship. I would like to touch on subject during the next few weeks. However before we can even begin to talk about worship we have to understand our position before the Most Holy One. Our position before the LORD should be one of great humility understanding that we are in the very presence of the LORD. Many men have been killed by going into His presence unworthily. Leviticus 22:3 says, “Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.” I Chronicles 16:29 says that we are to worship Him in the “beauty of holiness.” With holiness there is cleanliness and purity and therefore it is beauty. It would be as if one had came to your house filthy dirty, with a hangover, it would not be acceptable to expose the man to your family and let him into your house. The same it is with the LORD. Sin cannot stand in the presence of the LORD. Therefore if we are to worship Him in Spirit and Truth it must be in the beauty of holiness. This is an important part of worship and ought to be considered greatly before we come to worship Him. Psalm 66:18 says that if we regard iniquity in our hearts He will not hear us. “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully” says Psalms 24:3-4. Holiness is key to the LORD, without it we are without communion with the LORD. Yes, it is true that we can come boldly before the throne of Grace, but we must be careful how boldly we go before that holy place. We shall never enter the throne room of Heaven with our prayers with a proud and haughty spirit thinking that the LORD must here us because we are someone. Remember Moses, Joshua, Jehoshaphat with all Israel, Isaiah, Daniel and all the rest of the prophets, the apostles, the twenty-four elders in Heaven, the angels, and even the devils fell to their faces when they were in the presence of the LORD GOD, JEHOVAH. Nay, my brethren, let us come, yes boldly, but also very humble and in complete recognition of our position of our GOD.