Todd Friel REACTS to the Super Bowl of "Preaching" - Wretched/Fortis Institute
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Improper worship is DANGEROUS | R.C. Sproul calls out worshiptainment
Recommended podcast: Worship Music - The Basic Principles - First the Fear of God, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Excerpt from this podcast: Pastor Swanson quotes John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress as saying: "The fear of God is the bass in the orchestra."
Below is partial transcript of a sermon I heard in the early 1980s on this same passage, or more particularly, John 4:24, and Exodus 20:25:
John 4:24: "God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
Exodus 20:25: "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it."
The minister who preached this sermon was Rev. Paul den Butter. I think this sermon was preached around 1980. Anyway, that is around the time I wrote the following excerpts down in my diary:
"...they have to be very careful that they do not make it (an alter of stone) of hewn stone. And they may not use any tool, any hammer or axe or whatever. They may not use any tool to beautify those stones. They must take simply the rock, the unadorned stones.
"But what do we see today? That in direct proportion to the loss of true spiritual life there is an increase in forms and ceremonies. And the forms and ceremonies are meant to fill the vacancies of true spiritual life. And so Satan is using tools to adorn our alters, but in the meantime, he is polluting it. He's corrupting the worship. And men are willing instruments in his hands."
