Serve (Perform Rites)

“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.

The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.

When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties.

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.

Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.