5th Sunday: Prone To Wander, "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" - John Hodges

Psalm 34:1-4The best worship songs are the ones that preach the gospelWorship is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory activityWorship is War- There is a very real spiritual war taking place and the battle is for your soul, your family, your time, your emotions, your money, your attention, and your worship.WORSHIP DOES 5 THINGS FOR BELIEVERS:1. It honors and glorifies God. - Psalm 29:2 2. It reminds us of God’s goodness and Jesus’s sacrifice. - Psalm 103:2-4 3. It reorients our priorities - Psalm 115:1 4. It crushes fear and silences the enemy - Psalm 27:15. It Anticipates Eternity - Revelation 5:13- You have an eternal inheritance“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” | Robert RobinsonVERSE 1Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace- Isaiah 53:6- Proverbs 14:12- Proverbs 28:26- Your feelings make a terrible God- Your feelings are only as trustworthy as you are and you are sinful.Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praiseTeach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above;- Isaiah 6:3Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of Thy redeeming love.VERSE 2Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by thy help I’m come;- What gets celebrated gets repeatedAnd I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home.Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God;- Luke 15:4-7He, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.VERSE 3O to grace how great a debtor, daily I’m constrained to be.Let that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee.Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love;- Romans 7:15- Romans 7:18-19- Romans 7:7-8Here’s my heart; O take and seal it; seal it for thy courts above.A.W. Tozer:- “We cannot afford to let our emotions run our worship. Our emotions must be brought under the control of truth.”- “Emotions in worship are fine — provided they are the fruit of truth and not a substitute for it.”