According to Noland, King David regarded obedience as the highest form of worship.
In Acts 13:22, God said, “I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my __________ who will do all my
W. Tozer contends that “idolatry is simply worship directed in any direction but God’s, which is the epitome of selfishness.”
According to Timothy Keller, “A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living.
According to Noland, idolatry is often the reason we do other things that are wrong.
Every time we worship, publicly or privately, we are afforded an opportunity to renounce our idols and affirm allegiance to God.”
According to Whaley’s book, The Dynamics of Corporate Worship, Psalm 96 has three mandates for worship.
In Psalm 96, the third mandate for worship is
In Nehemiah 8:2‐12, when Ezra opened the book to read, the people “first stood, lifted their hands, then bowed down and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.”
According to Whaley’s discussion of Psalm 96, worship is all about singing, reading, and feeding on the truth of God