Worship Call 0646

Robert, what is God's will? Romans 12:1,2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. A woman once asked John Wesley what he would do if he knew that he would die at midnight the next day. "Why, Madam," he replied, "just as I intend to spend it now. I would preach this evening at Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow morning, after that I would ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the afternoon, and meet the societies in the evening. I would then go to Martin's house...talk and pray with the family as usual, retire myself to my room at 10 o'clock, commend myself to my Heavenly Father, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory." So many people wonder what God's will is for their lives. John Wesley seemed to be quite confident that He was already walking in it! We all need to work on offering our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God and no longer conforming to the pattern of this world but being transformed by the renewing of our minds. THIS, before anything else, is God's will for our lives! THEN, the Word says, we WILL be able to test and approve what His good pleasing and perfect will is! Robert, let's offer our bodies, minds, and hearts again to the Lord today and commit ourselves wholeheartedly to His perfect plan for our lives. Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah Edgewater, Florida

John 4:23 (NASB95) — 23 “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.

John 4:24 (NASB95) — 24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

what is it to worship?

What is it to have fellowship with?

God Is

the very being of God

All that God is, is made up in his divine essence. that is the attributes of his divine character. these attributes are not what God aspires to be, but it is what God is as a person.

Eternal

Sovereignty

Righteous

Just

immutable

transcendent

Love

Omnipotent

omnipresent

Omniscience

and God is veracity which means that God is truth.

He character is infinite and eternal and absolute.

So therefore God’s truth among all of the other attributes of his character is infinite eternal and absolute.

When it comes to truth there is the Motivation virtue that comes with the knowledge of the Holy one. and there is the functional or operational virtue which is living in truth.

God is truth

Truth is absolute, eternal, and infinite

lets divine Truth

TRUTH (אֱמֶת, emeth; ἀλήθεια, alētheia). Factuality, faithfulness, firmness, reality, reliability.

Old Testament

The most common term for “truth” in the Old Testament is אֱמֶת (emeth). The semantic range of אֱמֶת (emeth) includes factuality and validity as well as faithfulness, firmness and reliability. In the Septuagint, it is most often translated using ἀλήθεια (alētheia). πίστις (pistis) or δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē) are also occasionally used. Truth can be predicated of people as well as propositions.

As Factuality

When used in a factual sense, אֱמֶת (emeth) indicates a genuine state of affairs as opposed to a false one. It is used in Deuteronomy in the context of a legal investigation (Deut 13:14; 17:4; 22:20). In Daniel 10:1, “truth” is used to describe the word that Daniel received in a vision. It can also be used as an indication of honesty in speech:

Jesus said

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 14

6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

when Jesus said that He is the truth, and being equal with God and being God it is that Jesus is the very embodiment of the truth. Trusting in Jesus is standing on that embodiment.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 1

14 And the Word became flesh, and cdwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 8:32 (NASB95) — 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

John 18:37–38 (NASB95) — 37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” 38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in Him.

the world is in the state that it is in, from the very first sin to now because of the rejection of truth.

Motivational virtue is knowing the God of truth and expression our Love for God by walking, defending and upholding that truth as imagers of God.

Truth is Light.

Psalm 43:3–4 (NASB95) — 3 O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

Divine revelation is the reality and reality cannot perpetually exist without truth.

It was in Genesis 2 that the Lord gives Adam a bit of truth

Genesis 2:16–17 (NASB95) — 16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

Man could take from the tree of life and live forever. IN the garden of God, they had it all.

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