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Sermon Point #1 - We All Worship Something\n\nRomans 1:21-23 - For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.\n\nSermon Point #2 - Exchange : Substitution\n\nDeuteronomy 6:14-15 - Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.\n\nSermon Point #3 - Exchange : Pride\n\nJohn 12:42-43 - Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved human praise more than praise from God.\n\nSermon Point #4 - Exchange : Spectatorism\n\nJames 4:8a - Come near to God and he will come near to you.\n\nHebrews 10:22a - let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings\u2026\n\nSermon Point #5 - Exchange : Tradition\n\nMatthew 15:3,6-9 - Jesus replied, \u201cAnd why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? \u2026they are not to \u2018honor their father or mother\u2019 with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: \u201c\u2018These people honor me with their lips,\n but their hearts are far from me.\n9 They worship me in vain;\n their teachings are merely human rules.\u2019\n\nPsalm 50:8-15 - NLT - I have no complaint about your sacrifices\n or the burnt offerings you constantly offer.\n9 But I do not need the bulls from your barns\n or the goats from your pens.\n10 For all the animals of the forest are mine,\n and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.\n11 I know every bird on the mountains,\n and all the animals of the field are mine.\n12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,\n for all the world is mine and everything in it.\n13 Do I eat the meat of bulls?\n Do I drink the blood of goats?\n14 Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God,\n and keep the vows you made to the Most High.\n15 Then call on me when you are in trouble,\n and I will rescue you,\n and you will give me glory.\u201d\n\nSermon Point #6 - What God Really Wants:\n Thank Him With Sincere Affection\n\nSermon Point #7 - What God Really Wants:\n Offer Him Control Of My Life\n\nRomans 12:1 - Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship.\n\nSermon Point #8 - What God Really Wants: \n Include Him In Every Aspect Of My Life