O Worship the King

Even though our worship time before the preaching each Sunday isn’t the most ‘beautiful’ sound you’ve ever heard nor is it the loudest sound either, I just love it! The commitment each week to continue praising the Lord through hymns and songs even though we most likely will make a mistake, sing ahead of the music or even just totally sing the wrong words makes it’s a very special time of the morning. I’m sure that the Lord would be looking down and smiling over Palmwoods Baptist Church and I’m also sure that the only reason our church can be so committed is because of the Lord and His strength, not our own!


I’d also like to publicly thank God for the air conditioning we have at church these days. It’s just hit winter and the little girl guides hut turns into a bitter cold igloo about this time every year. The split system air con that we now have keeps the hut nice and warm and helps us focus more on the Lord than on our shivers and blue finger tips! Thanks God!

Anyways onto the sermon and Pastor Simon continued his series on God being our help! He spoke on how things are still the same and that people these days are looking to other things to help them fill voids in their lives. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are still the way and the word of God is still our blue print! The house of God is a sanctuary to Christians (or anyone) and we do not need to turn to the world for help! It’s still by the grace of God that we do what we do each day, live the way we live and think the way we think.

This message became very relevant to me on Sunday evening on a trip to Mooloolaba to have coffee. People who have just been at church, praising our Lord, standing around in the street talking about disgusting topics, how drunk they got on the weekend and just generally acting as though they could do all. I asked which church a few of them attended and had I not I would have thought they were just night clubbers out for a ‘good night on the town’. At this point I need to note that this was not EVERYONE at Mooloolaba. Plenty of the people there were Christians simply enjoying their friends and coffee on a bitter cold night after worshiping our Lord.

It makes me sad though to see people who apparently love and trust in God not sharing the Lord’s wonderful news. And as Ps Simon said this morning, nothing has changed, that it is still our job as Christians! One of the most powerful ways of sharing the gospel is by action. People wonder what is ‘different’ about you and start asking questions. What a great way to talk to someone about God!

So the main message in this sermon was don’t move away from the old ways! Keep sharing the Lord with your friends, family, co-workers and even other Christians! Pray to God and ask for help to talk about Him and I’m sure if you are faithful there will be away!