Made For Worship

God desires true worship from his followers But what is true worship. There are two kinds of worship true worship and false worship. WHAT IS WORSHIP lets take a look at both the original language and the origin of the word in English will help us understand the meaning.

1 The primary Hebrew word for worship.

a. Sha-chah -to depress , prostrate(in homage to the royalty or god, to bow self down, crouch, fall down flat,humbly beseech, make to stoop, worship

2 Three Greek words

a. Proskuneo -means to kiss like a dog liking his masters hand .

b. Se-bo-mai- means to reverence.

c. La-tre-uo-to render religious service, homage.

The Samaritans were Jewish half breeds, true Jews couldn’t stand the Samaritans because they saw then as turn coats. In the Jewish community you were not suppose to marry outside of the faith.

Samaria was the capital of the northern kingdom , when GOD begin the kingdom of Israel it was one But when Solomon son Rehoboam took the thorn the kingdom split and there was a civil war. Now you have 10 tribes in the north and 2 tribes in the south. Judah and Benjamin and there capital is Jerusalem and the 10 tribes that split there capital was Samaria. King Ahab was there king when Samaria became the Capital and the had there own form of worship and they had there on place to worship. BUT GOD chose Jerusalem Mount Zion

God desires true worship that is pleasing to him; its not about a place its about your heart. You cant truly worship God holding on to sin and pretend that it don’t matter.in Worship is not about a

Jesus ignored the woman’s comment about Jews and Samaritans and cut straight to the chase: Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.’ Jesus drew the woman’s attention to two important matters—who he was and the gift of God that he was able to give. These two things form the major themes of the conversation that ensues: in 4:10–15 ‘the gift of God’, and in 4:16–26 ‘who it is that asks you for a drink’.

The gift of God that Jesus gives is living water, and this was the initial topic of their conversation. The word ‘gift’ (dōrea) is found only here in the Gospels, but it is used four times in Acts, always in reference to the gift of the Holy Spirit (; ; ; ). In the OT God is described as the source of ‘living water’ (; ) and also of the Holy Spirit (). The Samaritan woman would not have picked up these allusions even if she knew the Samaritan Bible, because it contained only the Pentateuch (Genesis–Deuteronomy), but Jesus’ mind was soaked in the whole OT. The living water of which he spoke is the gift of the Holy Spirit. He spoke to Nicodemus about being born of the Spirit, to the woman of Samaria he spoke of drinking the living water of the Spirit, and during the Feast of Tabernacles he invited the crowds in Jerusalem to come to him and drink, referring again to the gift of the Spirit (7:37–39).

11–12. The woman’s response revealed she did not understand what Jesus was offering her: ‘Sir,’ the woman said, ‘you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?’ Perhaps she understood his reference to ‘living water’ to mean water from the underground spring that fed the well. She reminded him how deep the well was (about 100 feet) and pointed out that he had nothing to draw with, implying it was impossible for him to give her ‘living water’. This led her to ask, Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds? The form of the question in the original language indicates a negative answer is expected (‘You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you?’). She implied that Jesus thought too highly of himself, as if he were greater even than Jacob who gave them the well and drank from it himself together with his children and animals.

Kruse, C. G. (2003). John: an introduction and commentary (Vol. 4, pp. 130–131). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.