Friends, we turn this morning to consider the second commandment. We looked a few weeks ago at the first commandment in our study in the Law of God, and we learned on that occasion that the first commandment sets before us the proper object of our worship. It tells us who we are to worship, that we are to worship the only true God, we are to know Him as He is, We are to know Him through the Lord Jesus Christ and we are to acknowledge that One True God in all of our ways. That command is related not merely to worship, but it has an application throughout the whole of our life. It's far more comprehensive than simply worshipping officially and the acts of worship, the One True God. But it teaches us that we're not to allow anything in our life to take the place of God. Nor shall we put anything in our lives on a par with God. Nor will we even allow anything in our lives to compete with God. But God will be the supreme and the first in all of our lives. Well, the second commandment takes us that little step further. Having established who we are to worship, the second commandment deals with the manner of worship. How we are to worship God. And if you read verse 4, you'll read those familiar words, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. But note how serious a thing God deems this to be. He says, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. God is an infinitely jealous God and he is highly offended if he is not worshipped or if he is not worshipped according to his commandments. And so he appends to it a promise of blessing for those who keep this commandment. And that will be upon them and upon their seed, the thousands of them that love me and keep his commandment. And then there's also a sanction, a threat of judgment for those who will not keep this commandment. And that is covenantally structured as well. He will visit the iniquity upon the fathers. and upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." And you have all kinds of examples of this, both in the Old Testament and in the history of the New Testament Church as well. To say that this command is important is a complete understatement, therefore, due to what God says here in these verses. You go back to the time of the Reformation, and the Reformers, they understood this, John Calvin in particular, He wrote a tract on one occasion called The Necessity of Reforming the Church, and in the introductory part he summarises Christianity under two headings. And the first heading is that the Christian religion consists, first of all, in the right knowledge of the mode in which God is duly to be worshipped, and secondly, the source from which salvation is to be obtained. Now that's quite shocking to us today, because we put the emphasis on salvation, don't we? Christ crucified. Calvin says, listen, there's something far more fundamental than salvation. Something more fundamental to you as a man, as created by God, and that is worship. That as creatures created by God, We were created to give honor and glory to God. And so he puts it first, the first thing in the Christian religion is the worship of God, the right mode of the worship of God. Well then, how shall we worship God? First of all, what is required in the second commandment? You'll see that it's stated in the negative, it's one of these thou shalt not commandments. But as we said last time, each commandment has a double reference. It has a positive and it has a negative. So what does this commandment require? First of all, it requires us to observe the parts of worship that God has appointed in his word. It requires us to observe the parts of worship that He has appointed in His Word. And when we study the Scripture and we try to summarize there what God has said about worship, we discover that there are six key elements to the worship of God. First of all, if you turn with me to 1 Timothy 2, verse 1, you'll see that the first element of worship is prayer. 1 Timothy 2, And verse 1, Paul is giving directions to Timothy as to how the church shall be ordered. He says, I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men. He's speaking here in terms of the public worship of God. He goes on to say in verse 8, I will therefore that men, that is men opposed to women, men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. So prayer is a part of the worship of God. The second part is the reading of the scriptures. If you turn over in 1 Timothy to chapter 4 and verse 13, you'll find Paul saying to Timothy there, till I come give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Now he's not saying, Timothy, Wait for me till I come, and until I come, be a good student." He does say that, 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 15, study to show thyself approved unto God. But he's saying here, in public worship, here's how you're to order things. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine. Just like in the Old Testament, Moses was read in the synagogues every week. So in the New Testament, the Scriptures of God are to be read as an act of public worship. And when the Scriptures are read, friends, they are to be received as the direct voice of God to your soul. Now they are mediated to you through me in preaching, and we'll speak of that in a minute. But in the reading of the Word of God, Without comment, without exposition, God speaks directly to his congregation. Thirdly, the preaching and the hearing of the Word of God. Yes, thirdly, the preaching and the hearing of the word of God. We're still with Timothy, this time 2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 1 and 2 Paul's about to die. What does he want to impress upon this young man more than anything? He says, I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead of his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word. be instant, in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine." The preaching of the Word of God has been stated to be the central act of the worship of God. But yet the preaching of the Word of God is really only one side of this act. The preaching of the Word of God is to be accompanied with reverent hearing of the Word of God. So the Lord Jesus says, take heed how you hear. So friends, pause there and think about what we are engaged in even now at this point in our service. Sometimes we think we're worshipping God when we sing a psalm together. And that's true. But friends, we are worshipping God right now. As I preach the Word of God to you, this is worship. As you listen to that Word of God, you are to be active in receiving it and responding to it. When you leave this church this morning, you are to take the Word in which you heard with the determination to apply every syllable of that sermon to your heart and life. the preaching and the hearing of the word of God. Fourthly, the singing of praise. Psalm 149 verse 1, Praise ye the Lord, sing unto the Lord a new song and his praise in the congregation of saints. Ephesians 5 verse 18 and 19, We are to be filled with the Spirit, not be drunk with wine wherein is excess. And we are to speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs making melody within our hearts to the Lord. The fifth element are the sacraments. New Testament and baptism. These are to be received in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Members are received by baptism and members continue to communicate with the Lord through the observance of the Lord's Supper. Now there are the five ordinary parts of worship, the things that we usually do in church, the sacraments perhaps not as frequently as these other parts. But then there's a sixth thing which is more for special occasions and that is lawful oaths and vows. These are acts of worship. I can't go into them this morning with you. If you want to know more about them, read chapter 22 of the Westminster Confession of Faith. Simply for now, if you turn to Nehemiah chapter 9 and verse 29, you'll see an example of one such lawful oaths and vows. Nehemiah chapter 9 and verse 29. But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee, And testified against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them, and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear." It's the wrong verse, brethren. Perhaps it's chapter 10, verse 29. Let's see. Yes, chapter 10, verse 29. They cleaved to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his judgments and his statutes. What's happening here is a national covenant. And it's a religious act. The people are binding themselves fast to do all of the will of the Lord. But we can do that at a private level, personal covenanting before the Lord. We can do it at a family level. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We can do it at a congregational level. We can do it at a national level. These are lawful oaths and vows. We take them upon us at baptism. We take them upon us at marriage. And those of us who have been ordained into the eldership or into the gospel ministry, we take such oaths and vows upon us when we enter upon that service. These are acts of worship. But then not only are we to observe the parts of worship that God has appointed in his word, we are to engage in these parts of worship carefully and with all of our heart. That means when we come here and we do the things that we do, we are to do them zealously and with everything that we are. Now think about it in terms of this morning. I get up and in a quite mundane way, I say, now I have some intimations for you and we go through the intimations. And then I say, children, let us worship God. What does that mean? It means that immediately we stand to spiritual attention. And from the first word of that psalm, through every part of worship, to the benediction, we pour out our souls unto God. In every part, with all of the heart. So when we stand in prayer, children, And the ministers praying. You're not standing looking around you, poking in your pockets and looking out the window waiting for the minister to say Amen. Nor are you adults. But we are one united heart. Coming before God in one representative voice. And every individual heart is being poured out. in prayer unto God. Now when I was up in the Highlands I for two weeks looked after a church in Paris and the men there were very keen to pray in Gaelic and I took a prayer meeting on one occasion and the only thing that I understood in the whole prayer meeting was my own reading and my own preaching because every psalm was Gaelic and every prayer was Gaelic. And when those men were praying, I was standing thinking, OK, listen carefully for the Amen to come. So that I would know what would come next. But it struck me this morning that that is what we do even in English. You stand there waiting for me to finish. No. Though you're silent, yet you're active. Pouring your heart out unto the Lord. And then with respect to singing, we take the words. It's not enough that we simply just read through the words. We sing with our voice and with all of our heart unto God. And we sing with our minds unto the Lord. The poor presenter, he stands up and he's got to think about the tune. And he's got an additional problem to you because as he's singing, he's thinking, I need to keep the tune and I need to keep the time. And that's not to get in the way of the worship of the Lord. And as the pastor sits here and he thinks, well what have I got to do next? I've got to preach or I've got to read the word of God. That's not to get into the way of his singing praise unto God. And as you the people sit down there and you have your sand book, you're not to be thinking about yesterday or tomorrow or something later today. But these words are to grip your heart. And from your heart they're to be expressed unto the Lord, whether you've got a nice voice or not. you to engage in the parts of worship zealously with all of your heart. Even if you're not a Christian, you say, well, how can I? I'm not a Christian. Well, when I was in Skye, I used to have a whole row in the congregation, and they never sang a note. And I preached on it, and they still didn't sing a note. And I went back last week, and they're still not singing a note. Maybe they're self-conscious about hearing the sound of their own voice. It can happen. Or maybe they're afraid, and I think they are, that they're not Christians and therefore they shouldn't sing. Well listen, God commands every living thing that has breath to pray to Him. And our inability, due to our sin, doesn't excuse us. But rather, that inability drives us from that inability to the Lord Jesus Christ for a new heart with which to worship Him. But as men and as creatures of God, this is what the second commandment requires of us, that we observe the parts of worship God has appointed and we do so with all of our heart unto the Lord. Well then, secondly, what is forbidden? in the second commandment. Look at verse 4 and verse 5, Exodus chapter 20. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. is forbidden in the worship of God. Now there are three ways that we can think about this. First of all, the worship of images or false gods by images is obviously condemned by the second commandment. And this was very relevant to Israel because they'd just come out of Egypt. And those of you children who have studied anything about Egypt will know that they had more temples that you could number to more gods than you could count. And in those temples, you had all kinds of images of these gods to bow down and worship before. In one region, it might have been a crocodile. In another region, it could have been a cow. In Baba's days, it was what? A cat. And there they would go, and they would worship these created things or images of these created things. Now, Israel has just come out of Egypt, and God says, listen! You're not to make any graven image. You're not to bow down thyself to them. You're going to a land where they do the same thing. You've just left the land drunk with idols. You as my people understand this. The moral, eternal precepts of God. No graven images. But then secondly, it forbids the worship of the true God by images. Not just the worship of the false God. by images. And this is far more subtle than that blatant idolatry of Egypt and the Canaanite tribes. It would speak to the blending of religions that Israel often fell into in the Old Testament, how they would make their high places and so on throughout the lands. But perhaps the key examples found in Exodus chapter 32 and verse 1, when they're still Mount Sinai and God has thundered in the heavens, they're at the foot of Mount Sinai. God speaks all these words, don't make any given image and Moses goes up the mountain to receive the rest of the law. And when he's up the mountain, Exodus chapter 32 verse 1, and when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him, up make us gods which shall go before us For as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we want not what is become of him." And you read the verse and you say, well that's a clear example of idolatry. They're making to themselves a false god. Not so. Look at verse 4 and 5. And he received them at their hand and fashioned it with a graving-tool, and after he had made it a molten calf. And they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. Now do you see that? It's not that they have abandoned the true God. It's that they have mingled pagan worship with the worship of the true God. So they make themselves a cult and then try to baptise it with true religion. They build an altar and they say we'll have a feast unto Jehovah. He's the one who's brought us up out of the land of Egypt. But this is the figure by which he will be represented to us. It's an instance of the paganising of religion in the Old Testament, and it speaks to us today of the paganising of religion by the Roman Catholic Church in the New Testament period. How they would have men bow down before idols, worship saints and things and men and women that have been created by God. If you ever go to the island of Uist, drive around the North part and then just drive to the South part and the distinction couldn't be clearer. The Reformation laid hold of the North part, the Reformation barely untouched the South part. And you just cross over a little bridge and into the South part, immediately you see statues of the Virgin Mary at the side of the road with wee kneeling stools to pray by. You've got a huge monument of Mary holding a baby, stuck on the highest point of the island. It's a statue called Our Lady of the Islands. There's the distinction between Reformation doctrine and Roman Catholic doctrine. The paganization of Christianity over many, many years by the Roman Catholic Church. It's idolatrous. But for us this morning, The main thing that I want to press upon our minds is that the second commandment forbids the worship of the true God by any other way not appointed in his word. It's a very simplistic reading of the second commandment to think, well, as long as I don't make myself an idol and bow down to it, then I'm okay. Now we summarise the moral teaching from all of the Bible and we learn that the worship of God by any other way, not appointed in His Word, is idolatry. And friends, this is a message that the Church of Jesus Christ needs to hear today. Not the Roman Catholic Church, though they do need to hear it, but I'm speaking now about the Protestant Church, and not merely the Liberal Protestant Churches, but the Evangelical Protestant Churches, and the professedly reformed Protestant churches. The worship of God by any other way not appointed in his word is idolatry. Now think of all the worship wars that are going on. Shall we have contemporary worship or shall we have traditional worship? Shall we have the organ or shall we have the contemporary priest band? Shall we have liturgical worship or shall we have non-liturgical worship? Shall we have high church worship? Shall we have low church worship? And the answer is simple. We will have biblical worship. And we're stuck here this morning and people come in and they sit in our worship and they think, you know, this is quite plain. They don't stop to ask the question, what's biblical? They know what they like, and they don't like this. The pressure, therefore, is upon us to change. It's happened for many years. Churches have given in to it, and churches have fallen prey to many other problems because of that. Well, what does the Bible teach? The Bible teaches that everything we offer to God as worship, everything, must have positive warrant in His Word. In other words, God prescribes worship. He doesn't merely permit worship. Let me establish this for you, first of all, from the Old Testament, in a very solemn passage found in Leviticus chapter 10. And read with me just now verse 1 of Leviticus chapter 10. And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. The result of this was God was so jealous for his worship, I am a jealous God, that he visited their iniquity on the spot, and he killed them. Now, what was the problem? You say, well, he offered, or Nadab and Abihu offered something that God told them not to offer. That's not what the text says. Look at the end of the verse. They offered strange fire before the Lord, which He commanded them not. That doesn't mean He forbade them. It means that He never commanded them. He struck them down because they did something in worship that He never told them to do. You say, well, I'm not convinced by that. Okay, let's turn to Jeremiah. And he's going to kneel, this kneel, right down into the depths of our minds so we cannot begin to try and avoid it. First of all, Jeremiah chapter 7 and verse 30 and 31. Jeremiah 7 in verse 30 and 31. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name to pollute it. And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire. Now look at that. They brought all kinds of things into the temple. They've created themselves high places and worship places elsewhere that God told them not to do. They're offering their children as sacrifices unto God. But God does not say, I told you not to do this. Look what he says at the end of verse 31. Which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. He says, did I tell you to do this? The thought that you would do such a thing never entered into my mind. Jeremiah chapter 19 and verse 5, you'll find the same thing. Jeremiah chapter 19 and verse 5, they have built also the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor speak it, neither came it into my mind. It's the same thing. He says, I didn't tell you to do it, and that's the violation. Finally, chapter 32 and verse 35. Jeremiah 32 and verse 35. And they built the high places of Beel, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech, which I commanded them not, Neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin." Now, do you get the principle? It's very clearly stated. God requires us to give to Him in worship only that which He tells us to give Him. Now we move into the New Testament. And everybody gets confused because there is a liberty preached in the New Testament. And so they come into the New Testament and they say, well, we have the Spirit, we have liberty. God has given us a blank slate to do whatever we want in worship. But not so, friends. You see, the liberty that we have in the New Testament is not the freedom to do as we please. The liberty that we have is freedom from the ceremonial bondage of the Old Testament law. So we don't have to offer incense and we don't have to offer sacrifices. We don't have orchestras and we don't have choirs. We don't have vestments and robes. We don't have all of the ceremonies of the tabernacle and the temple. All of that is done away with. But friends, not this principle. That God alone must appoint His worship. The New Testament does not give the creature the right to tell the Creator what will be done in worship. It preaches a spirituality in worship, and a simplicity in worship, but it does not preach to us lawlessness in worship. And it's fitting for the New Testament, if you were there yesterday at the Reformation conference, David Silversides went into this. Why do we have simplicity of worship in the New Testament? Because all of the types and shadows of the Old Testament are gone. And we have the full revelation of God. We don't need all of the paraphernalia. We don't need the robes. We don't need the vestments. We don't need the incense. We don't need the stained glass windows. We have the full, clear revelation of Christ in His Word. And we have the outpouring of the Spirit of God. And we have preaching, and reading, and prayer, and the sacrament, and lawful oaths and vows, and the singing of praise to God. And that's it. Does the New Testament explicitly condemn anything else? We'll turn please to the book of Colossians in chapter 2. Colossians chapter 2 in the verse 23. It's the only time in the New Testament that you have this phrase found. Colossians 2 verse 23, which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh. Paul's saying there's a kind of worship and it seems to be humble and it seems to be sincere, but it is will worship. It has been invented by the brain of man. And God is against it. My friends, take that and apply it to the debates that we've all had at one time or another, or perhaps even with our own conscience over this issue of worship. And you say, well, why is it that the church worships in so many different ways? Is there a right way to worship? Is there a wrong way to worship? How are we going to worship God? So we all sit down together and somebody says, well I think, and there's the first problem. It's not God saying it, it's I think. And what do they think? Well I think, as long as you're sincere, God will accept worship. So Tom, Dick, Harry and Jane, they all have a gift. One's good at the violin and somebody else is good in the bagpipes. So well They've got a guest, so let's bring it into the church. Tom can play his bagpipes, and Jane can play her violin. Unto the Lord, in the worship of God. And somebody raises a question. Ah, but God hasn't said that. Now you in the corner, legalists, keep quiet. Who are you to condemn their sincerity? And God says, we'll worship. Idolatry. I never asked you for this thing. This never even came into my head, that Tom will get up and play his bagpipes in the public worship of God. Never entered into my head for a moment. Secondly, they say, well, I think God will allow it. Not just sincere, but we're taking it a step forward. You're not telling me that God wouldn't allow hymns in the public worship of God, are you? I think that's outrageous. Well, Does he allow it? Can you prove it in scripture? And is it not a strange thing to think that there is some worship of God that is allowed but not commanded? A kind of take it or leave it thing. God says, well listen, I don't really care. You can sing if you want, or you can leave it out. You can preach the word if you want, or you can leave it out. You can read the scriptures if you want, or if you just prefer to read Calvin's Institutes today, I don't mind. Is there some worship of God that is allowed, but not required? And then they say, well, you sir, we've had enough with you in this discussion. You are a terrible legalist. And if I were to go to your church, I couldn't imagine being in any more bondage. And Christ has set me free. Listen friends, that's the language of bondage. When men set away the principles of God's Word, and the clear appointed means and parts of God's worship. And they start saying, I think, and I think. And you go to one church and they do it one way. You go to another church and they're even more wacky. And you go to another church and they're very conservative. But the things that they do, you'll not find in Scripture. Friends, that is bondage. You see all of the professed liberty of Pentecostalism? It's tyranny and bondage. Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men, and binding the consciences of men, and leading their congregations through all kinds of unbiblical worship. John Knox said, Anything in the worship of God invented by the brain of man is idolatry. That's the second commandment. Not just the image on the shelf. Not just the statue of the Virgin Mary. Anything that we intrude upon the worship of God which we do not have direct warrant for in Scripture. Well then thirdly, Christ and the second commandment. We noted with the first commandment that Jesus Christ fulfilled it on our behalf and we could say that of all of the commandments of God. We are a sinner and Christ comes to fulfill the law in order that we might have a righteousness before God. But there are a whole variety of ways that we can find Jesus Christ in the commandments. And the first way that we can find Christ here with respect to the second commandment is that Jesus Christ is the image of God. Why do you think God was so concerned about this in the Old Testament? He says, listen, I don't want you to make an image of anything, anything creative. Whether it's in the heaven above, whether it's in the earth a cow, whether it's in the waters under the earth a fish, like the fish god Dagon of the Philistines, nothing. I don't want you to make any image and representation of God. Maybe you say, well, wait a minute, what about all of the Old Testament worship? It was full of images, but none of them were images of God. They were all symbols and types and they were full of spiritual meaning. But God reminded his people again and again, you saw no image. You saw no similitude. Don't even attempt to make an image of me. Why? Because in the fullness of time, Jesus Christ would come, who is the image of the invisible God. And Jesus Christ is the only image of God that we are permitted to worship. We can go further. Jesus Christ, as he is revealed in Scripture alone, is the only image of God that we are to worship. Not a statue of Christ. Not a picture of Christ. Not an image of Christ. Because every one of those statues, images, pictures or films are necessarily a distortion of Christ. And we make unto ourselves an idol. Now I want you to see something here friends. That this commandment is of so great importance that it guards the purity of the Gospel. No other image. Why? Because you start making yourself an image and you distort the view of the true God. You start inventing elements of worship yourself that God has not given and God knows best how He is to be worshipped and why He is to be worshipped in that way in order that we might have right views of God in our minds. And the moment we start intruding our ideas of God into the worship of God, God begins to get distorted. And the gospel of Jesus Christ begins to get distorted. And in the end, as the process develops, the gospel of Jesus Christ gets buried. That's another reason why Calvin said, the mode in which we worship God first, the means by which we obtain salvation second, because the first preserves the second. That we know God through Jesus Christ whom He has sent. And the second commandment preaches to us this morning, Jesus Christ alone, by the Word of God alone. that you and I as sinners can come unto God only by this way, Jesus Christ. Secondly, we see Jesus Christ as the King of the Church. If God alone has the right to appoint the worship of His Church, and Jesus Christ in Scripture clearly appoints elements of worship for His Church, like baptism and the Lord's Supper, how can He do that? Well because he is God on the one hand and because secondly he is the mediator king and head of his church. You go back to 1638 and the English church send up a liturgical prayer book to be received by the church in Scotland at the king's command and he is determined to impose that prayer book upon the Church of Scotland. You know what happened children? riots in Edinburgh. Jenny Garris picks the stool up, throws it at the prelate and says, you'll not say mass in my log. Now why was that? The Scots don't really like the English. Was it something to do with that? No, it wasn't prejudice. Was it because they didn't like the Anglican church and they just wanted to have their own church? No, it wasn't to do with that. It was because they saw that prayer book. as an unwarranted imposition into the worship of God and a direct attack of the kingship of Jesus Christ. And they said, we will have no other king in this church but Jesus. He as king alone had the right to abolish all of the ceremonies of the Old Testament and put them to death by his cross. He alone had the right to appoint the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper and so Paul says, I received of the Lord what I now pass on to you. And he alone commissioned his church as king and head of the church saying, go preach, baptise and teach them to observe. all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the earth." There's Jesus Christ exercising His divine right as Lawgiver and King of the Church. What I say, and only what I say, get on with it, O my people, and be content with everything that I have provided for the worship of God. So friends, is Christ your King this morning? Then you're going to study what He says about worship, you're going to submit to what He requires, and by His grace you're going to give Him what He requires with all of your heart, with all of your soul and strength and mind. Let us stand together.