why true worship must be sincere, genuine, and honest. In the previous chapter, we saw that sacrifice was the central element of Old Testament worship. We saw that this emphasis on sacrifice can be traced back to Cain and Abel, and that God was pleased with Abel’s sacrifice but that He rejected Cain’s. The difference was that Abel worshiped from a heart that was trusting in God alone. The sacrifices that were made in the Old Testament were to be sacrifices of praise, and praise is an attempt to express
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