The sermon, titled 'A Família que Adora Junta Ep. 02,' emphasizes the importance of adhering to the 'Regulative Principle' in worship, which insists that worship should be conducted strictly according to the guidelines provided in the Bible. The speaker argues that worship is about glorifying God rather than catering to personal preferences or innovations. Historically, the sermon references the Protestant Reformation and its response to Catholic practices, highlighting a shift towards a more scripture-centered worship approach. The speaker elaborates on the distinction between essential elements of worship prescribed by the New Testament and incidental aspects like musical instruments, which are considered auxiliary. The sermon critiques modern evangelicalism for often prioritizing personal satisfaction over scriptural fidelity in worship. Humility, obedience to God's prescribed ways, and focusing on timeless principles rather than novel innovations are emphasized as core values in true worship.

The Adorers The Adorers The Adorers The Adorers The Adorers feel that worship is mainly about them, instead of being about God. How do we know? The way God wants us to worship Him? The only way God wants us to worship Him is according to what He ordered in the Bible. And the last point.

If I think I can do anything, that the word of God does not prohibit, then I am faced with the situation of bringing anything to the church that I want, as long as I don't think it's too sinful. The regulating principle is basically a product of a generation that was forced to reflect deeply about worshiping God. The Family Who Loves Together Episode 2 How God Wants to Be Adored to be adored. We establish that God is the center of all worship and that our task, as parents and church leaders, is to bring our families and churches before the throne of God. But once God created us to worship, it is logical that we should pay attention if He gave us some guidelines on how He wants to be worshiped.

I will bring an illustration. It is really useful to go back to some of the historical writings about worship. Like Westminster, or the Baptist Confession, many of these great historical confessions address this question of worship in great detail because there is a lot of confusion about it. An example is John Owen's Catechism about worshiping God. And he asks this question, What does God demand of us in our dependence on Him so that He may be glorified by us and accepted by Him?

Answer. That we will adore Him within and through the ways of his own designate him. So he asked another question. He asks, how then are these ways and means of worship to God that were revealed to us? Answer.

Only within and by the written word, which contains a complete and immaculate revelation of the will of God. This is the question. If it is not in this way, our worship may not be truly worshiped, but may not be beyond inventions of our own minds and in fact dishonored. Therefore, the only way to know how God wants to be worshiped is to learn from Him through the Scriptures. This is to discover what He gave us in terms of specific instructions on how to worship Him.

This is the belief that the Word of God regulates the way we should worship Him, and has been called the regulating principle. Now this is really a principle that gives life, because it exalts God and His Word. It exalts what He said about worship, above, of everything that the heart of man could invent. And so we have to ask, is sincerity enough in my worship? Is it enough if my heart is right?

Does it matter what I do if only my heart is right. And what we want to suggest here in this session is that you need to consider more than just your heart. You must consider your heart. But at the same time, God orders us to worship Him in a specific way. That is exactly why Jesus said, This people honors me with their lips, But their hearts are far from me.

In vain they adore me, teaching me how to be a man's doctrine, precepts. And this is the core principle we want to communicate, which God has communicated, the ways how he wishes to be worshiped. And it is wrong for us to invent worship on our own. The Regulator Principle The Regulator Principle The Regulator Principle is basically a product of a generation that was forced to reflect very seriously about worshiping God. It is useful to remember the fact that before the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church, and here we think mainly in terms of the Roman Catholic Church, had introduced in worshiping God many activities that they had.

They had many ordinances, what they would call sacraments. They had different clothes and so on. So, when the Reformers appeared, it was necessary that they answered the question What should we keep in relation to worship? What should we not allow in the place of worship, so that they needed a principle to apply. Because the Bible is not an encyclopedia, you do not find only a list of things.

The Bible was written in the middle of life. It was relating to real situations. But the Reformers recognized that they were in a time when there were no inspired prophets. So they had to go back to the Bible and look for a principle. It was summed up in two ways.

One was, do we allow everything that the Bible does not forbid? Or do we only allow what the Bible says we should allow? And so the Reformers basically divided into two groups. Those to whom, and it was the vast majority of the Protestant faith that aligned, they chose what is called the Regulator Principle, which basically said that you only allow the elements of worship that God Himself prescribed, because it is about worshiping Him. So, certainly, He should tell us how He wishes us to worship Him.

Thus, this became the regulating principle, and it was almost like a filter that is used there to separate the many things that at that stage were composing the cult, and consequently they could say that this was wrong and to define what would be correct. The regulative principle of the cult means that everything you do in the cult of worship must be regulated by this principle. That this harmonizes with what the New Testament says there must be in worship. That's why there's a call, that's why there are greetings. You have reading of the Word, prayer, praise, and of course, the central point, which is the sermon.

Because all these things are in the adoration of the New Testament. And the word regulator means that we regulate all our adoration. So all adoration is centered on the word, based on the word. And anything else that is added to that is prohibited. Now the discussion begins.

What is incidental to the cult that helps worship? For example, you may have a musical instrument. In my own name, we allow an organ, but an organ is not considered part of the service of worship itself. It is only incidental to help people sing, to worship God more purely. So this is tolerated.

Therefore, there are questions of consciousness here that are not always easy to solve. What is incidental and what is really the cult itself? But certainly the cult itself must not have anything that is not totally prescribed in the New Testament. As soon as you move away from it, it enters gray areas and then it is a slippery decline. But there is room for discussion about the incidents.

But the principle is that everything about worship must be strictly biblical. The regulative principle, applying to worship, applies to absolutely everything in Christian life. What God has ordered, there is a better way than Him, or the scriptures are sufficient? And, in the Regulator Principle, you bring ten people who believe in the Regulator Principle and put them together. You will still have ten different ideas.

There will be different nuances. And everything is fine. Because what we have are ten people who are, at least seriously, about to base everything they do in the Church of Scriptures. As much as I can sit down with a man who sincerely adheres to this principle, we can make differences in our nuances. But I know that, as a believer in Christ, He is seeking to follow the Scriptures from the bottom of His heart.

In modern evangelicalism, no one even goes through the scriptures to determine what must be done in the Church. And many times I preach in places where they don't even know what the regulating principle is. And then I talk to leaders of worship, because I believe that worship is very important, and I think that many people involved in it are sincere. But I ask them, I say, have you already, as a leader of worship, opened your Bible and studied, read all the scripture of Genesis, the Apocalypse, to try to determine what kind of worship God desires and what kind of worship He condemns? And in all cases, the answer was, I never thought about it.

I never thought about doing it. So, with a glow in my eyes, because I want to be useful and loving to them, I say, you know, God almost never killed a preacher for a bad sermon, but in Leviticus, He killed two leaders of praise. Maybe you want to think about that. In fact, the Scriptures teach, from what I can understand, that we must worship God only in the ways that the Scriptures reveal to us. This was not restrictive for me.

I found it wonderful, I found it enchanting, that the Almighty God would love us enough to say, in his fallen condition, you really do not know how to adore me, but adore me in this way. Certainly there is enough margin in the way we understand the regulating principle. But these ideas that make this principle be what it is, it is certainly maintained by all those who adhere or profess to believe in this particular way of worshiping God. There must always be music that exalts God. There must always be prayer.

And there must always be faithful preaching of the word of God. It is a very simplified model compared to most of the things we see today. However, having reached the basic elements of the cult, there would be about five or six of them in total. Questions of music, the word, sacraments, etc. Or how we would refer to them as orders.

In addition, they then came to recognize that there were certain ways that these elements would take over and these ways would be... Well, let me use a typical example here. For example, when it comes to singing, you had those who insisted that it should be only the psalms. And then there were others who said that it could be psalms, hymns and spiritual chants, and consequently there was a series of ways in which the singing would be expressed. This is just an easy example that I could use.

And finally you had the circumstances. And the circumstances had to do with, for example, You must meet only once on the Lord's Day, or meet twice. If twice, at what time, and so on. So these became circumstances that were related to the ways that were then supporting the basic elements. And that is how the regulating principle, therefore, needs to be understood and applied in churches.

It is sad that nowadays the church has generally lost this principle, becoming another issue of just imitating one another. That in that Church was very pleasant. Why don't we import it to our Church too, so that we can have fun when in reality, an earlier generation had a better way of addressing this issue. One of the reasons we see what we would call aberrations, speaking of those who share our vision, is because many people believe that if they only offer something to God with an honest heart, He must receive it. And we don't believe that this is what Scriptures teach.

So that's where you see the big differences. If I believe that I can do anything that the word of God does not allow or prohibit, then I come across the idea of bringing anything to the church that I want to bring, while I do not find it extremely sinful. Is that why, perhaps, in a church that adopts the normative vision, whether they understand it or not, there would be plays or dances during the worship, While those who adhere to the regulative principle do what they can to worship God honestly according to the scriptures. Would they consider this offensive? They would even see how highly insulting to God and His Holiness.

The worshipers have the impression that worship is mainly about them, instead of being about God. So they go to church, for example, thinking mainly about having a good time, about being pleased, when in fact the cult should be about manifesting something of God's dignity? It has to do with revealing something about who God is. And consequently, although it is true that, as pious men and women, they participate in this act, find a lot of blessing and blessing, but it really is not mainly about them, it is mainly about God. For me, this has been the biggest mistake of the cult in evangelicalism today, and there is a great need to reverse this trend.

On the contrary, we are with people who have the mentality of going, let's say, to a soccer stadium to have fun, when in fact this is not the point. You are going to a place where you are thinking mainly in terms of God and describing something of his value? Many missionaries arriving with new ideas, new trends, a style of worship. I think we need to go back to Scripture and look at David. We must look at Daniel.

We must look at... ...The Apostle Paul. We need to look to Christ Himself. Look to John when he wrote the Apocalypse. I call the book of the Apocalypse the Gospel of the Apocalypse.

The message in the book of Revelation is about the Church, it's your story. You will sing these hymns. You will glorify God in heaven. If, for all eternity, We will glorify God in the way God wants us to glorify Him. So, why not do this while we are here and do it to please Him?

We will please Him as He orders us to do. We obey His command. How do we know? How does God want us to adore Him? The only way God wants us to adore Him is according to what He ordered in the Bible.

It's not so hard to understand that we don't believe in situational ethics. As evangelicals, we don't believe that everything depends on the situation to determine what is right and wrong. There are absolute morals in the Bible, like the Ten Commandments. But all of us, or rather, most of the evangelical Christians, practice situational worship. What makes me feel good?

What makes me feel close to God? What do I think we should do in a cult. This has become the principle that regulates the cult. What the preacher thinks the congregation needs. Now, how can you use it as the principle that regulates the cult, my feelings, when the final focus of worship is the sovereignty of Almighty God.

That is to say, we must confess the sovereignty of God in all areas of life, but in worship is the main moment. When we say that we confess before God, that we are His preachers and that we are saved by His grace, but God, here is how we are going to do it. Here is how we feel that you must be worshiped. You see the great contradiction in this, as well as blasphemy. That God wishes to be worshiped according to what he has ordered in the Bible.

And everything we need to worship God, God has already ordered. We don't need to add anything. That's why the Bible says, and I'll put it in a solo accent, God says, do not add, do not remove, just do what I say. For it is not necessary to add to this or subtract from this. Everything God wants us to know to worship Him, He commanded in the Scriptures, whether by express declaration, or by some inevitable deduction of the Scriptures.

But God is the standard, not only for ethics, but for worship. And it is the word of God that is the regulating principle of worship. How then does God want us to worship Him? According to His command in the Bible. And period.

If He did not order in the Bible, we cannot do it. This is to add the word of God. Basically, there are three sentences. But if you remember these three sentences, all your worship will change. Personal home, public, congregational.

First, what God says is forbidden in worship is forbidden. All the evangelicals I trust agree on this. If God says it can't be done, it can't be done. Secondly, what God says should be done is mandatory. In worship, we sing, we pray, we offer, we preach and we confess.

All these various things, because God ordered them. Now, if there is something that we are doing that God did not order, someone says, Well, it is allowed, God did not say he could not. It means, God did not say I should not make the cross. God did not say that I should not take it off. Take off the shoes.

That everything that God did not order is forbidden, because it is to add the word of God. So, if God did not order, we should not do it. It does not matter how much it makes us feel close to God. Now, the important thing to keep in mind is that if God did not order us to do something, and we do it, This can make us feel close to God, but it doesn't bring us closer to Him. Because only obedience to God in worship puts us in close contact with Him.

No. Our feelings. When a preacher told me, There is no Levitical book in the New Testament, Which has all the details about how God should be worshiped? And my answer to them is, no, maybe there is no Levitical book in the New Testament, but there is a Levitical book in the Bible. So, in the New Testament, we have freedom in Christ, Not to disobey the law of God, not to follow our own rules, but freedom or freedom in the Bible is the capacity to do what God wants us to do with our hearts.

This is what Galatians 5 says, Be firm in the freedom with which Christ has freed you, and do not submit yourselves to slavery of the rules, regulations, traditions, innovations and suggestions of men. So, freedom in Christ means freedom, the capacity to obey God, now that we are saved, changed and that we believe in Jesus Christ, the Lord. So in the New Testament, and this is important, in the New Testament, a Christian has no more freedom, and nor freedom to worship God in the Old Testament. That is, he cannot add or remove. But All those various embellishments in the Old Testament, which were rites and ceremonial rituals, such as the sacrifice of animals, or the sacerdotal vests of the Levite priests, all these things had as purpose to point to Christ.

The ceremonial laws of the Old Testament were for the believers of the Old Testament what the preaching of the Gospel is today. They preached the Gospel. And now that we have Christ, all those rites and rituals, although the underlying principles are still real, are no longer required of us to a simplicity in the worship of the New Testament, which was not in the worship of the temple of the Old Testament. Not because the law is smaller, but because there were certain laws that should be left aside, ceremonial rituals, when reality arrived, when Lord Jesus Christ came. And now that we have it, those basic principles of worship that have always governed worship of God are still in force, except for the ceremonial rituals of the Old Testament that pointed to Christ.

Now we have Christ. But the underlying principles of these ancient rituals still remain. You need to have a sacrifice to reach God. But they are not lambs, goats and bulls. They are Christ.

You have to have a priest to reach God. But it is not a levitical priest. It is the Lord Jesus Christ. So even those ancient ceremonial rituals, the fundamental principle of the Gospel, which they intended to illustrate, still remains. Although the ancient rites and rituals have disappeared.

And that is why there is a simplicity in the worship of the New Testament that cannot be seen in the worship of the temple. And this is because Christ came and the symbols were gone. I think it's the root of everything and all of its manifestations. It's just that people today, and the Church today, often think that they can regulate the worship according to their desires, instead of according to what the New Testament prescribes. And once you move in that direction, there is no limit to where you can go, because then you can say what the man wants, is what we will do, as long as it does not offend the conscience of many people.

Then the Church becomes aware of what is allowed in the cult. Instead of letting the scriptures be the guide, in the 16th century there was a debate, an extensive debate about worship, also between the Anglicans and the Puritans in England. And the term the diaphora, indifferent things, came into play. And the Puritans tended to stay away from those who said that there are very few things that are indifferent when it comes to worship, because the New Testament is clear about what is ordered, and therefore everything else is forbidden. The Anglicans said, Yes, we should follow the adoration of the New Testament, but they were more relaxed.

And they said that there are more indifferent things that we can add. Why? Is it a custom or does it edify the Church? We don't need to find them exactly in the New Testament, in such a precise way. So their definition of the diaphora would include several liturgical things that were not in the New Testament, but that they felt only added to Scripture.

Not Scripture, but to the cult. So they were saying, We have more things than you, Puritans. In our category, we call it the diaphora, particularly in the area of liturgy. So they could include several liturgical elements in the cult, which are not found directly in the New Testament. They could do this with a calm consciousness, saying that it is not essential to the cult.

It is something different. We add this to the cult to edify the people. But the Puritans were more rigid in maintaining their cult according to the Scriptures of the New Testament. And this principle of the Puritans proved to be very good today, because today we see churches going in different directions, including all kinds of Things under the Adiaphora. Indifferent things, where it is much better to put them in the way the Puritans did.

That there are only a few incidents in the cult that help to worship. But you be careful not to bring too many things to the Adiaphora. When we consider how we should worship, the most important quality is humility. It is humility that says what the true children always say in their hearts. Not my will, but yours is done.

This is what Our Lord Jesus Christ said to His Father. And it is a representation of happiness, satisfaction in God who says, I have the pleasure of doing His will. It is humility that says, Lord, I want to do what You want me to do. Your ways are the best ways. It is the heart that says, Lord, I want to replace my ways with Yours.

And this means that the highest value in worship is not our creativity, but our humility that brings obedience. Not innovation with new things, but the veneration of timeless things. Here is an illustration of this. When the children of Israel made the Golden Bazaar, they did it to do something super fantastic, to worship God. With Nadab and Abiu, when they offered him strange fire, they wanted to do something unusual, something incredible.

Because they wanted to worship God in a new way, and better yet, it seemed exciting to their senses. And when they did that, they moved away from the sweet waters of life that God had provided for them, defining how they should worship. The inventions in the cult are the opposite of how God wants us to worship him. Therefore, we must be content with the ways God gave us to worship him. This is the path of life, in relation to the theme of worship.