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Made to Worship | Week 1 · Rewind

Rock Point Church

Pastor Bill Bush · Oct 28, 2018 · 71 min watch · 3 min read

Made to Worship | Week 1

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In this message

Big Idea
Key points
Application

Scripture in this message

Psalm 8
Psalm 8:1
Psalm 8:3
Psalm 8:4
Colossians 1
Colossians 1:15

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

You were made by Jesus and for Jesus — and embracing both sides of that truth is what worship really is.

True worship begins when we honestly reckon with the vast gap between God's majesty and our smallness, and then marvel that the God who created billions of galaxies would still die to bring us into His presence. Colossians 1 declares that everything was created through Christ and for Christ, meaning worship is not merely an event we attend but a whole-life embrace of the truth that we were made by Jesus, for Jesus, through Jesus. When we reduce that purpose to 'made by God for good,' we make ourselves the judge of what is good, and our walk with God collapses the moment life gets hard.

Key points

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1Everyone worships — the only question is what and how, not whether.
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2Seeing the gap between God's majesty and our smallness is the starting point of worship.
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3Everything was created through Christ and for Christ — we were made by Jesus and for Jesus.
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4Replacing 'for God' with 'for good' makes us the arbiter of what is good and turns worship into a performance aimed at earning blessings.
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5Jesus holds all creation together, and He reconciled us to God through His blood on the cross, making us holy and blameless before the Father.
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6Job's story shows that God answers our most wrecked moments not with explanations but with a revelation of Himself — and that sight is what produces genuine worship.
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7Standing firm in the truth that we were made by Jesus, for Jesus, through Jesus is itself an act of worship — expressed in Bible reading, prayer, and gathered community.

The question is not if, it's what and how

My worship is gonna be as powerful and meaningful as the gap. Because the bigger the gap, the more blown away we are that he would give a rip about you

A story from life

Preacher recalls his first visit to Dodger Stadium as a child and his awe at a major-league ballpark

A story from life

Preacher recalls a family car breakdown in Northern Arizona and watching a meteor shower under an unpolluted night sky, which stirred early awareness of God

Application

The pastor's challenge is direct and personal: stop asking 'Who am I?' and start asking 'Who is He?' Genuine worship is not a Sunday event you attend or a song you sing — it is the whole-life decision to make Jesus first in everything, especially in the places where trust feels hardest. Whatever you are wrestling with right now — a relationship, a financial pressure, an unanswered question, a season where life feels wrecked — that is the holy ground where worship happens. Rather than demanding answers from God or running from Him in shame, run to Him, because He has already declared you holy and blameless through Jesus. Read your Bible, pray, and gather with other believers not out of obligation but as acts of standing firm in that truth. You were made by Jesus, for Jesus, through Jesus — and living from that reality is what you were created to do.

Take it into your week

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Scripture in this message

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“is exactly what Psalm eight kind of address. See Psalm eight in the book of Psalms, if you're not familiar with the Bible, you have one, you can turn there”
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“here's what he says in Psalms eight. It says in verse one, O Lord our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth”
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“Look at verse three, When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you set in place”
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“He says this in verse four, what are mere mortals that you should think about them? Human beings that you should care for them”
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“if you get to the book of Colossians chapter one, what's happening is we're gonna see the answer to David's conundrum of who are we”
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“So here we go. Starting in verse 15 in Colossians chapter one it says, Christ is the visible image of the invisible God”
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“In verse 17 he says, talking about Jesus, He existed before anything else, and He holds all creation together”
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“he says goes on, he goes verse 18, Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning”
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“look what it says, verse 19. For God in all of his fullness, in all of his majesty, in all of his greatness, in all of his glory, was pleased to live in Christ”
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“This includes listen to this verse 21. This includes you who were once far away from God. It's us. We were far away from God”
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“look what it says at the end. It says, we are made blameless, but there is something he asks us to do. He says in verse 23, you must continue to believe this truth, and stand firmly in it”
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“this is how Job responded at the end of the book of Job. Chapter 42 says this, Then Job replied to the Lord, I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you”
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“Verse five is one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible. If we would just get this. He says, I had only heard about you before, but now I've seen you with my own eyes”
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“you know what that caused him to do? Verse six, I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance”

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There is something quietly disorienting about standing under a clear night sky far from city lights. The sheer scale of what you see has a way of shrinking your worries — and your sense of yourself — down to something very small. Psalm 8 opens with that kind of wonder. 'O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!' It is not a statement about us. It is a statement about Him, and it starts there on purpose. The pastor pointed out that worship begins when we honestly reckon with the gap between God's majesty and our smallness. That reckoning is not meant to crush us — it is meant to reorient us. When we lead with our own questions, our own pain, our own sense of what should happen next, we quietly put ourselves at the center of the story. But the psalmist leads with God's name and God's glory, and something in that order feels right — like a compass finally finding north. Beginning the week here is not an accident. Before we get to purpose, identity, or what to do with hard seasons, we start with who God is. That is not a detour. It is the foundation everything else is built on. Let this day be one of honest, unhurried looking at Him.

For reflection

When you think about your life right now, what tends to occupy the center — your circumstances and questions, or the character and majesty of God? What would it look like to genuinely start with Him today?

Pray

Pray for fresh eyes to see God's majesty — not as a concept but as something real and personal — even in the middle of wherever life finds you right now.

David looked up at the moon and the stars — things God set in place — and immediately felt the weight of his own smallness. 'What are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?' There is no self-pity in that question. It is more like awe with a hint of disbelief. The sermon made this moment a turning point: seeing the gap between God's vastness and our smallness is not the low point of faith — it is the starting point of genuine worship. We live in a world that works hard to tell us we are the main character, that our comfort matters most, that life should be arranged around our flourishing. And honestly, sometimes it is hard to argue with that impulse. But David's question opens something different: a kind of wonder that God — who made billions of galaxies — would think about us at all. That wonder does not diminish us. It actually does the opposite. It reminds us that our significance is not something we have to earn or defend. It is something given to us by a God whose attention is a gift we could never manufacture on our own. Rest in that today — not in your own impressiveness, but in the quiet miracle that He notices you.

For reflection

In what area of your life do you most need to stop trying to establish your own significance and simply receive the truth that God sees you and thinks about you?

Pray

Pray for a genuine, unhurried sense of wonder at the fact that the God who made everything still turns His attention toward you personally.

Paul's words here land with real weight: 'Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation. For through Him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth... Everything was created through Him and for Him. He existed before anything else, and He holds all creation together.' The sermon built an entire framework on this: we were made by Jesus, for Jesus, through Jesus. That is not a small claim. It means our lives are not primarily about self-discovery or even doing good in the world — they are about Him. The pastor named a subtle but significant drift: when we replace 'made for God' with 'made for good,' we quietly become the ones who decide what good means. And when life does not cooperate with our definition of good — when relationships fracture, when plans collapse, when prayers feel unanswered — our whole framework for faith starts to crack. But if we are made for Jesus, then hard seasons do not disprove the purpose. They become the very place the purpose is lived out. This is not easy to hold onto. But it is more stable than any story we could write for ourselves. The One who holds all creation together is the same One who holds you together right now.

For reflection

Where in your life have you been quietly operating as if you were made for your own version of 'good' rather than made for Jesus? What would it mean to hand that area back to Him?

Pray

Pray for an honest, unhurried willingness to let 'made for Jesus' be the real organizing principle of your life — not just a phrase but a direction you are actually moving.

The same passage that declares Christ supreme over all creation takes a sharp and personal turn. 'He is also the head of the church... and He is first in everything.' Then Paul gets even more specific: 'Once you were alienated from God... But now He has reconciled you to Himself through the death of Christ in His physical body. As a result, He has brought you into His own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him without a single fault.' This is the marvel the sermon pointed toward — that the God of billions of galaxies would go to the length of a cross to bring people like us into His presence. It would be enough to be forgiven. But Paul says more: you are holy and blameless before Him. Not eventually. Not once you get it together. Now. That declaration is not a reward for your best days — it is what Jesus secured on your behalf on your worst ones. The sermon made clear this truth is meant to be stood in, not just believed abstractly. When shame whispers that you are too far gone, or when life feels too wrecked to approach God at all, this is the ground you stand on. He brought you here. He declared you. Run to Him — not away.

For reflection

Is there an area of your life where shame or a sense of unworthiness has made you pull back from God rather than run toward Him? How does the truth that you are already declared holy and blameless through Jesus speak to that?

Pray

Pray for the courage to run toward God rather than away from Him in the specific place where shame or fear has been keeping you at a distance.

After laying out the breathtaking truth of who Christ is and what He has done, Paul gives a straightforward challenge: 'But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don't drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News.' Standing firm sounds passive, but Paul treats it as an active choice — something you have to keep deciding, especially when life makes it harder. The sermon connected this directly to ordinary practices: reading your Bible, praying, and gathering with other believers. Not as obligations to earn favor, but as the very acts of standing in what is true. It is worth sitting with that reframe. The discipline of showing up to the Word and to a community of believers is not you working your way toward God. It is you planting yourself in the truth that He has already come to you. When a season feels dry, or when community feels like effort, or when prayer feels like speaking into silence, the invitation is the same: stand anyway. Not because you feel it, but because the truth does not change with your feelings. Gathering with other believers who are also trying to stand firm is one of the most practical gifts you can give yourself — and one of the most genuine expressions of worship the sermon described.

For reflection

What is one specific practice — reading Scripture, prayer, or gathering with other believers — that you have been treating as optional lately? What would it look like to re-engage with it not out of obligation but as an act of standing firm in what is true?

Pray

Pray for a renewed sense of why the ordinary practices of faith matter — and for the genuine desire, not just the discipline, to show up to them.

Job's story is one of the most honest books in the Bible. A man loses nearly everything — not because of hidden sin, not as a punishment, but as a reality of a world that is not yet fully restored. He asks hard questions, he pushes back at God, and God does not offer him a neat explanation. Instead, God shows up. He asks Job where he was when the foundations of the earth were laid, when the morning stars sang together. And Job's response, after all of that, is not relief or an answer to his questions. It is worship: 'I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.' The sermon pointed to this as a pattern: God answers our most wrecked moments not with explanations but with a revelation of Himself — and that sight is what produces genuine worship. Job did not get his questions answered. He got something better. He got to see God more clearly than he ever had before, and that was enough. Whatever you are in the middle of right now — whatever feels unanswered, unresolved, or just hard — the invitation is not to demand an explanation. It is to let this be the moment you see Him more clearly than before.

For reflection

Is there a question you have been holding out on God — something you feel you need answered before you can fully trust Him again? What would it mean to bring that honestly to Him rather than waiting to have it resolved first?

Pray

Pray for an honest, open-handed conversation with God about whatever question or wound you have been carrying — not demanding an answer, but asking for a clearer sight of who He is.

This whole passage — from Christ as the image of the invisible God, to Creator and Sustainer of everything, to the One who reconciles us to the Father and declares us holy and blameless — is not a series of disconnected theological claims. It is one sustained argument for why Jesus is worth everything. The sermon's challenge was direct: stop asking 'Who am I?' and start asking 'Who is He?' That shift is not a one-time decision. It is the daily, sometimes hourly choice to reorient your whole life around the truth that you were made by Jesus, for Jesus, through Jesus. Worship is not an event you attend. It is the whole-life decision to make Him first — in the quiet moments, in the relationships that are costing you, in the financial pressures and unanswered prayers and seasons where everything feels uncertain. The God who created billions of galaxies went to a cross to bring you into His presence. He holds all things together, including whatever feels like it is falling apart in your life right now. You do not have to have it figured out. You just have to keep turning back toward Him. That turning — honest, repeated, unhurried — is what worship looks like when it is real. And it is what you were made for.

For reflection

Looking back over this week, where did you feel the pull to make yourself the center of the story — and where did you genuinely experience the reorientation of putting Jesus first? What is one concrete thing you want to carry forward from this week?

Pray

Pray for the long-term desire — not just the short-term intention — to live from the truth that you were made by Jesus, for Jesus, through Jesus, in the specific places where that is hardest right now.

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This message invites us to look up — at who God actually is — before we look inward at who we are. Let's start there together.

Discussion questions

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In Psalm 8:3-4, the writer looks at the scale of creation and asks, 'What are mere mortals that you should think about them?' What do you think that honest reckoning with God's size and our smallness is supposed to do to us — and why might that be where worship starts?
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Colossians 1:15-17 says everything was created through Christ and for Christ. The message draws a line between being made 'for Jesus' and being made 'for good.' What shifts when a person swaps those two — and how does that swap show up in the way people relate to God when life gets hard?
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The message describes worship not as a Sunday event but as a whole-life decision to make Jesus first in everything. What does that actually look like in the ordinary, non-Sunday parts of someone's week?
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In Job 42:1-6, after everything Job suffered, God doesn't give him an explanation — He gives Job a glimpse of Himself, and that sight produces worship. What does Job's response suggest about what people actually need most in their most wrecked moments?
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Colossians 1:22 says Jesus has made us holy and blameless before the Father. The message frames running to God — rather than demanding answers or pulling away in shame — as the fitting response to that declaration. How might holding onto that truth change the way a community like ours supports one another through hard seasons?
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Colossians 1:23 connects standing firm in the faith to practices like reading the Bible, praying, and gathering with other believers. The message describes those not as obligations but as acts of standing in the truth of who we are in Christ. How does that framing change the way we think about those habits together as a group?

Pray together

Asking God to shift our gaze from 'Who am I?' to 'Who is He?' — and thanking Him that the One who holds all creation together has declared us holy and blameless through Jesus

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