John 4:16-26 How to Worship God Pt. 1: True Worshipers in Jesus Christ

Scripture Reading

Joshua 24:14-15 Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Intro

How do you worship God?

That is a question of of the utmost importance for Christians redeemed by the blood, because worship is the greatest gift and thankfulness we can offer to a God who gave us the infinite goodness of His own beloved Son.

So how do you worship? And specifically how do you worship God in a way that pleases Him?

You would think that would be an easy question to answer but there is a lot of confusion in the church today.

For most Christians, they don’t really think about it. They just assume worship is whatever they feel like it is.

But is that true?

That is the question we are going to be answer, Lord willing, over the next two weeks.

Next week, we will focus on the Method of worship, what we actually do in worship as a church body, by looking at the Regulative Principle.

But this week in John 4:16-26, we are going to focus on the Essesnce of worship.

What is worship and how do we draw near to God the first place?

And here’s the Big Idea...

The Father is seeking worshipers who worship Him in spirit and truth through Jesus Christ.

How do you worship God? In spirit and truth.

And the Father is seeking such people to worship Him.

But what does that mean? How do we do that?

Let’s start with point number 1...

I. The Father is Seeking True Worshipers in Jesus Christ

John 4:16-18 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

Let me catch you up on where we are.

Jesus was passing through Samaria on His way to Galilee and on the way, He came to a town called Sychar.

Weary as He was from His journey, Jesus sent His disciples into tow to by food while Jesus went to rest by a well and get a drink.

While there, a Samaritan woman came to draw water.

Now usually, women would go to the well together early in the morning or late in the evening but this woman was coming in the heat of the day - around 12pm.

And the reason why is in these verses: she was a sexually immoral woman.

She came alone, in the hottest part of the day to avoid the shame, the whispers, the looks of the rest of the women.

Even among Samaritans who were despised and seen as unclean by the Jews, this woman was despised and unclean.

She was a Samaritan of Samaritans. A chief of sinners.

Someone who was so far off from God, that even the people who who were far off from God, saw her as too far gone.

And this is who Jesus talked to.

She came to the well and He didn’t look the other way or get up to walk off, He said please give me a drink, and then turned around and offered her living water.

The fullness of grace and salvation erupting and overflowing in eternal life.

Christ’s Grace

I want you to again see the kindness and grace of God.

Christ is so gracious, so meek, so lowly, there is no one too far gone for His power to save.

No sinner He won’t save and wash clean in His blood.

If Christ is so gracious that He would save her, a Samaritan of Samaritans, Christ will save anyone who repents of their sin and puts their faith in Him.

That’s why Jesus calls out her sin.

She hears about this living water and said, Sir, give me this water. Will you give me a drink so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water ever again (John 4:15).

She thought Jesus was still talking about everyday, physical water.

So Jesus goes at her sin to show her, her true thirst is spiritual.

She needs forgiveness and the only way to draw that living water is through faith in Jesus Christ and repentance of all your sin.

So then...

John 4:19-20 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

Now when you read commentaries the typical answer you will hear about this verse is that this woman did not at all want to talk about her sin.

That she tries to change the subject to get Jesus off the scent by baiting Him into some theological controversy.

And that’s definitely possible.

I mean it is odd. She goes off this direction and Jesus never returns again to talking about living water and instead uses the rest of the conversation to talk about worship.

But the more I’ve studied this, the more I think something different is going on here.

John MacArthur and JC Ryle turned me on to this and I think it fits much better in the flow of the passage.

This woman wasn’t trying to change the subject. She was taking her first steps of repentance.

When she calls Jesus a prophet, that is evidence that she was confessing and repenting of her sins.

That what He said was true.

Later in verse 29 she confesses that Jesus is the Christ and then goes from their to evangelize the whole town.

Jesus as a Prophet, exposed her thirst, confronted her need for forgiveness of sin and so who better to ask than this man, What should I do next?

Where do I worship? Where do I go to offer sacrifice?

Because there was disagreement between Samaritans and Jews about where to worship the One True God.

Mount Gerizim

Remember, Jews and Samaritans were cousins.

And they both knew God had said in Deuteronomy 12:5-6 You shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name there for his dwelling. There you shall go, and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices.

Now the Jews, rightly, understood this was referring to Mount Zion in Jerusalem where Solomon built the Temple.

But, remember, the Samaritans were from the Northern Kingdom and rebelled against the throne of David, and so they rejected that Temple.

On top of that, they also rejected all the Old Testament Scriptures of the Jews outside of the the first five books of the Old Testament, also known as the Pentateuch.

So when the Samaritans were looking for where they would worship God and offer sacrifices they used the Pentateuch as their only source of authority.

And Looking at the Pentateuch, the Samaritans chose Mount Gerizim.

Gerizim was the place where God’s people renewed their covenant with the Lord and proclaimed the blessings of obedience for life in the Promise Land. (Deuteronomy 11:29)

And it was also nearby a place called Shechem where Abraham built the first altar to to the Lord when he crossed over into the Promise Land after God promised that in him all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Gen. 12:1-7).

And so they built their Temple there.

So, being convicted of her sin, the woman looks at Jesus and says, Its obvious you are a prophet. Where do I go to worship the Lord and repent of my sins?

And Jesus’ answer is peculiar.

She asks Him where to worship, and He instead answers her with how to worship.

John 4:21-22 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.”

Notice Jesus tells her basically, you need to turn away from all your Samaritan ways. Turn away from your old life.

You worship what you do not know.

Samaritan worship, as sincere as it was was false worship because it was not rooted in true knowledge of God’s revelation of Himself through the revelation of Scripture.

And then Jesus says, we worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews.

Notice Jesus’ answer isn’t, “Well you go worship on our mountain.”

He bypasses the mountain and the Temple to what they actually pointed to which was Himself.

Salvation is from the Jews.

Salvation was from the Jews in the sense that God gave the Jews the promise of the Messiah through Abraham.

In your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed (Acts 3:25).

As Paul said in Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Where can I worship God and have my sins forgiven?

Answer: In the Messiah.

Not on that mountain or this mountain but in the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World (John 1:29).

John 4:23 “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.”

Here is where we start to get into the meat of how to worship God.

Father Seeking

Here’s what I want you to see.

The Father is seeking such people to worship Him.

Earlier we highlight the grace of Christ, and here I want you to see the grace of the Father.

John Owen talks about how Christians struggle with having “hard thoughts” about God the Father (Owen, Communion with God, Banner of Truth, 35-36).

They see Christ as the loving brother, but the Father as a stern and hard man who only loves us begrudgingly because He has to in the Son.

That God is always upset and always disappointed with us.

But nothing could be further from the truth.

Remember:

John 1:14, 18 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth....No one has ever seen God…[but] He has made Him known.

Hebrews 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature.

Everything Christ is reveals the glory of God the Father.

When you see Christ’s love, Christ’s grace, Christ’s gentleness, patience, and mercy, you are seeing the glory of God!

When Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends, Christ was showing us just what kind of love the Father has for us in Him (John 15:13).

No greater love.

Remember how John told us in John 4 verse 4 Jesus had to pass through Samaria.

He did have to to get where He was going. Jews went around Samaria all the time to avoid it.

But does Jesus say later in John 4:34? My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Jesus had to pass through Samaria because the Father had work for Him to do there.

To find this Samaritan Woman to give her living water and ultimately to find the whole town and give them living water as well.

This was the Father’s work.

As Jesus said in John 5:19 Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

If you see the grace of Jesus in the Samaritan woman, than see the grace of the Father.

And then, that grace is even more amazing when you remember who the Samaritan woman was.

As a Samaritan she was unclean and as an adulteress she was far from God.

But that is who the Father was seeking to worship Him!

No one is outside of the grace of God.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10).

And, as the glory of the Father, Jesus was showing us that the Father was seeking to save the lost through Him.

God sent His Son to seek after those who did not seek Him in return.

Romans 3:11 No one understands; no one seeks for God.

But while we were still sinners, God showed His love for us in this, that Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

How gracious is God to seek such sinners to worship Him?

In Christ, God is seeking to reconcile sinners to Himself. To forgive their sins and adopt them as His own beloved sons and daughters.

That is the good news of the gospel.

And that is why True Worshipers must worship God in Jesus Christ.

Notice throughout this passage Jesus calls God the Father.

True worshipers will worship the Father....The Father is seeking such people to worship Him.

If you want to worship God as Father, the only way is through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.

I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).

Outside of Christ, we might know God is a Righteous Judge.

We might Him as Holy Lord. The One Transcendent in Majesty.

But only through Christ can we know Him as a Father.

And only through Christ, the beloved Son, can we know Him as our loving Father who loved us and gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

So if you want to be a True Worshiper of God, first and foremost, you must worship God in and through Jesus Christ.

He is the only way to worship the Father as your Father who loved you and gave His Son for you.

That is why one of the most fundamental confessions of the Christian faith is that Jesus is the Son of God (John 20:31).

When we believe that Jesus is the Son, we worship God as the Father.

And the Father is seeking such people to worship Him.

Number 2...

II. True Worshipers Worship God in Spirit

John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Throughout the Gospel of John, whenever Jesus or John talks about the hour they are specifically referring to the Passion of Christ.

His betrayal, trial, cross, and resurrection.

John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.

And that purpose was to save sinners.

So what Jesus was saying was that through the death and resurrection of Christ, worship would be radically transformed, and that hour was already starting to break in as people put their faith in Him.

People are no longer going to worship on that mountain or this mountain because true worshipers were going to worship God in Jesus Christ.

Everything we just talked about.

And then Jesus says the way people will worship the Father in Christ will be in spirit and truth.

What does that mean?

Now the preposition, in, governs both words. Its not in spirit and in truth. Its spirit and truth.

But for the sake of this sermon we are going to look at one, then the other, and then bring the both back together to show you why that small detail matters in how we worship God.

So what does it mean that we worship God in spirit?

Two things...

1. Spiritual Worship is Born Again Worship

The word spirit is not a capital S for the Holy Spirit, but a lower case s for our spirit.

The inner spiritual man. Our heart and inner being.

This is not to say that true worship is independent of the Holy Spirit.

The only way to worship God in spirit and in a spiritual way is if we are born again of the Holy Spirit.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit [the Holy Spirit] is spirit.

So first and foremost, worshiping God in spirit means we need to be born again by the power of the Holy Spirit through faith in Christ.

Jesus said Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5).

Water is the cleansing of sin and forgiveness in the New Covenant, and the Spirit is the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit who breaths life into our dead stony hearts and makes us alive again in Christ.

Number 2...

2. Spiritual Worship is Spiritual and from the Heart

We worship God in a spiritual way.

That is to say we worship God in the inner man from the heart.

That true worship is not primarily focused on external, physical rituals and actions.

That is not to say there are not physical aspects of our worship.

We sing, we pray, we take the Lord’s Supper, listen to the Word preached, but we must do those things in a spiritual way engaged in the physical work and manifestation of our worship with our hearts.

In other words, true worship is not just going through the motions of outward, external, physical acts.

True worship is not just doing a bunch of religious things.

Its doing those religious things from the heart. In spirit.

God is not honored and we do not worship Him, when we just go through the motions.

In Amos 5:21 God says I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Jesus says in vain do they worship me quoting Isaiah 29:13 that says This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me (Matthew 15:8).

Worship without heart is vain and worthless.

Prayer without heart…worthless.

Songs without heart...worthless.

Confession, the Lord’s Supper, sermons and the reading of Scripture, if we are not engaging in those things spiritually with the inner man, we offer God nothing.

I hate your feasts…I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Worship that just goes through the motions is dead, lifeless religion.

Its not authentic faith.

True worship only happens spiritually.

Its the overflow of our love and adoration for God and what He has done for us in Jesus Christ.

Spiritual worship engages the religious activity that we do with a heart that is filled with awe, love, fear, adoration for God and all that He is so that we might offer Him a sacrifice of praise to His Name.

True worship is a heart on fire for God.

Now that doesn’t mean there is a certain emotional feeling you have to have for it to be really worship.

What it means is that there is an intentional effort from the heart to respond to all that God is and what God has done for us in Christ adoration, thanksgiving, and praise.

Not just singing about God’s love, but praising God for His love.

Not just having a snack in the middle of church but remembering Christ’s body and blood broken and shed for you.

Engaging in the sermon and praying God thank you for giving me that grace in Christ.

Forgive me for that sin. Help me to live that truth out and put it into practice for your own glory.

So when you come to church on Sunday is your heart in it?

Do you worship God spiritually or are you just go through the motions?

When we sing or read Scripture, are you just mouthing words or are you proclaiming them and taking them to heart?

Planting the seeds of those songs deep in your soul so that their fruit might burst out and overflow in a love of God.

When we bow our head in prayer before the Lord’s Supper, do you just sit there?

Or do you examine your heart. Root out your sin. And treasure the blood of Christ shed for you?

What about your personal worship and personal devotion.

When you read, when you pray at home or around the dinner table, when you repent and confess your sins are you just getting through the verses, going through the motions or is there a soberness that this is drawing near to the Lord in worship?

If we are going to worship God in spirit, there must be an intentional effort on our part to not let our worship fall into going through the motions.

And how you do that can be as simple as a quick prayer. God focus my heart. Let this time be devoted and consecrated to you.

Help me to draw near worship you for all that your worth with love, adoration, and praise.

True Worshipers worship God in spirit.

Anything less is worthless and does not honor God.

But spiritual worship offered to God in faith and from the heart offers God a sacrifice of praise that acknowledges Him and honors His Name (Heb. 13:15).

Main point number 3...

True worshipers not only worship God in Spirit, they also worship God in Truth.

III. True Worshipers Worship God in Truth

When we talk about worshiping God in truth, what we are saying is that we are to worship God according to True Knowledge.

That is we are to worship God for who He is and how He has revealed himself in His Word...

And tha we are to worship God as He has commanded, which Lord willing, will be the focus of our sermon next week.

This week I want to focus on worshiping God in Truth as worshiping God for who He truly is as revealed in His Word and most ultimately in His Son, the Incarnate Word, Jesus Christ.

First...

1. We must worship God as who He has revealed Himself to be in Scripture.

The second commandment is You shall not make for yourself any carved image, and that includes any image of God Himself (Exodus 20:4).

We do not make God into an image of our own design. A picture of our own making.

We worship God as He is.

The Word of God is our highest authority and the only rule for faith and practice.

We don’t get to cut out or ignore the parts of the Bible we don’t like.

All Scripture is God-breathed (2 Tim. 3:16).

It is God’s own word to tell us who He is and what He’s done for us in Jesus Christ.

We cannot truly worship God unless we know who we worship and the only way to know who we worship is in Holy Scripture as God has revealed Himself to be.

So when God says He’s Holy. Sovereign. Creator. Lord. Righteous. Good. Love. That is who we worship God as.

We are not free to take away God’s wrath, judgement, Hell, His standards of holiness and righteousness just because they make us uncomfortable or we don’t like them.

In fact, not loving God for all that He is, says that we don’t actually love God at all but an idol of our own making.

We must worship God in Truth. Worship for who He is as He has revealed himself in His Word, and we must worship God for that all that He is glorifying Him for all that He’s worth.

So to worship God in truth, we must worship God as He has truly revealed Himself to be in His Word.

And that does not just include Scripture, because to worship God in truth, we must also worship God in the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ (John 1:14).

2. We must worship God in and Through Jesus Christ

Jesus is the Word incarnate. We looked at these verses earlier.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Hebrews 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature.

Jesus is the full revelation of the Father. The full revelation of who God is.

Remember how in John 14, Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

Show us God! Show us who God is!

And What was Jesus’ answer?

Whoever has seen me has seen the Father (John 14:8-9).

In Christ we see all the glory that God is.

We see His love, patience, mercy and grace.

His kindness, gentleness, goodness.

Forgiveness, righteousness, holiness, justice and wrath.

All that God is shines forth in the Son.

And the radiant brilliance of Christ shines forth most clearly with blinding light in His death and resurrection.

You want to know who God is? Look no further than the cross.

Moses asked show me your glory and God told him His name...

The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty (Ex. 34:5-7).

And God showed us who He is on the cross where God poured out His wrath on the Son and punished our sins, that he might be merciful and gracious to us.

Its not wonder that Jesus said I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).

Without Christ, we cannot worship God in truth.

True Temple/Sacrifice

And don’t forget how this conversation started.

She was convicted of her sin and she asked, “Where do I go to worship? Where do I go to offer sacrifice and find atonement for my sin. Where is the Temple where I can draw near to God?

Not on that mountain or this mountain, but in spirit and truth.

Christ is the True Sacrifice and the True Temple.

All these themes are coming up again that we’ve already seen in the gospel of John.

John 1:29 Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 2:19 Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Jesus is the Truth.

He is the true sacrifice that can take away your sins.

And He is the true temple where you can draw near to God.

If you want to worship God there is no other way than Jesus Christ.

And for all that have put their faith in Him

Ephesians 2:18 Through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

We who were far off are brought near, cleansed and forgiven of all our sin.

He is the Truth and the only way to draw near to the Father.

And lest we ever forget, like we talked about earlier, as the Son, the Incarnate Word, first and foremost reveals who God is by revealing God as Father who loved us and sent His own Son to die for us and save us from our sin so that we might be adopted as His own beloved sons and daughters.

Worshiping God in truth means worshiping God for who He is as He has truly revealed Himself in His Word and His Son Jesus Christ.

Number 4, last and final point...

IV. True Worshipers Worship God in Spirit and Truth

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

“In”

Didn’t we just say that?

Yes. But now we are bringing them back together.

Remember “in” dominates both words: spirit and truth.

We don’t worship God in spirit and in truth as if they can be taken apart.

True worship is offered to God in spirit and truth. You need one and the other.

Worshiping God in only spirit leads to emotional, man centered worship that doesn’t even know or recognize the God they are worshiping.

And worshiping God in only truth is nothing more than dead, lifeless religion.

This people honor me with their lips but their heart is far from me (Matthew 15:8).

Heartfelt worship is not enough without true and proper worship.

And true and proper worship is nothing without the heart.

And Jesus says those who worship Him, must worship in spirit and truth.

It is the only worship God will accept.

Spirit

Why? Because God is spirit.

A. God is invisible and dwells in unapproachable light (1 Tim. 6:16).

The only way to worship Him is to worship Him as He has revealed Himself in Scripture and Christ. Truth.

And B. as spirit, He must be worshiped spiritually in Christ.

We must be born again by the Holy Spirit and draw near through spiritual faith because how else will you draw near to a spiritual God who is no idol limited to time and space.

So when you come to worship, we don’t come in either spirit or either truth.

We come to worship in spirit and truth together in and through Jesus Christ who pours out the Holy Spirit and reveals the glory of the Father.

Because that is true worship, and the only worship God accepts.

John 4:25-26 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When He comes, He will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

Going along with the conversation, the woman says, I know the One who’s coming, who will tell us all things.

Who will tell us who God is.

Who will tell us what true worship is.

Who will reveal God in all of His glory make Him known.

And Jesus says I who speak to you am He.

Literally, Jesus does not say I who speak to you am He.

He says I who speak to you, I am.

God’s own divine name that He gave to Moses at the burning bush.

Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you (Ex. 3:14).

I AM sent Moses to deliver His people from slavery in Egypt and lead them out to worship God.

To give them the Law. Give them the Tabernacle. Give them the sacrifices and make them His people.

Everything Christ came to do once and for all to save us from our sin.

He delivers us.

Reveals the glory of God.

Raises up the True Temple in His resurrection.

And offered His life as a sacrifice once and for all to forgive all our sin.

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29).

He is the Messiah, the Son of God, God incarnate and the only way to draw near to God and worship Him in spirit and truth forgiven of all our sin.

Conclusion

The Father is seeking worshipers who worship Him in spirit and truth through Jesus Christ.

Jesus conversation with the woman at the well shows us how to truly and rightly worship God in a way that is pleasing to Him.

First and foremost it is knowing God and praising Him as our gracious Father and Savior who loved us and gave His Son on the cross for our sins.

The Father is seeking such people to worship Him.

And we must worship God in spirit and truth.

In Spirit...

From the heart.

We must be born again through faith in Christ…That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:6).

And in being born again we joyfully worship God for all that He’s worth and all that He’s done for us in Jesus Christ, by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

True spiritual worship is Trinitarian.

And it is impossible to worship God for all that He’s worth if we do not worship Him in Truth.

We must worship God as He is and the fullness of all that He is as revealed in Scripture and in the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ.

He is the glory of the Father, the way the truth and the life and no one draws near to the Father except through Him.

Piper

John Piper gives a great illustration of what we are talking and how we might worship God.

Piper, John Piper, “God Seeks People to Worship Him in Spirit and Truth,” 1984, Sermons from John Piper (1980–1989) (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2007).

Worship is Fuel, Furnace, Fire, and Heat.

Fuel

The fuel of worship is truth.

The truth of a gracious and sovereign God saving us in Jesus Christ.

Furnace

The furnace is our spirit.

Its where the worship happens.

Fire

The Fire is the Holy Spirit who communicates the truth, glory, and love of God to our hearts and overflow our hearts with love for God in return.

Heat

And the heat of worship is the love, fear, reverence, awe, adoration, confession, trust, joy, hope, and gratitude that erupts out of us to the praise and glory of God in prayers, singing, tears, lifting of hands, bowing down, and obedient lives.

That should be our worship.

White hot for the glory of God.

But we can only have it in spirit and truth.

True worship is offered to God in spirit and truth in and through Jesus Christ.

And Therefore, Hebrews 12:29, let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Let’s Pray