Daniel
Pasaribu
“WOSRSHIPPING GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH”. (John 4:23-24)
Friday Sermon as of October 14, 2011
Dear Precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
How do we know that Christian believers are worshipping our Father in Heaven in spirit and truth according to His Will and Instruction which is written in John 3:23-24, for many Christian believers do not realize yet that before the foundation of the world, we were created to please Him in praising and worshipping ,for heaven and earth and its fullness and everything in the Universe are all the creation of our Father in Heaven for His Pleasure.
John 4:24 says “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in
spirit and truth”. When Jesus arrived on the scene, He proclaimed that He
Himself was the temple of God (John 2:19-21) “Jesus answered and said to them,
destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, forty
and six years was this temple in building, and will You rear it up in three days?
But He spoke of the temple of His body”; in resurrection, He would provide the
spiritual dwelling where God the Holy Spirit and people, in spirit, could have
spiritual communion. In other words, worship would no longer be in a place, but in
a person through Jesus Christ and His Spirit, the worshippers could come directly
to God (John 14:6) “Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life, no man
comes to the Father, but by Me”; and (Hebrews 10:19-20) “having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and
living way, which He has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say His
flesh”.
God said in Isaiah 29:13 “forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me,
and their reverence toward Me is taught by the precept of men”. Jesus refers to
this verse in Matthew 15:8 and Mark 7:6. Our worship should not be what we say
only but what we have to do praise and worship unto God with all your heart.
The shift in worship from physical to spiritual is the theme of John 4, a chapter
that recounts Jesus’ visit to the Samaritans. After Jesus encounter with the
Samaritan woman, she acknowledged that He must be a prophet, and then she
launched into a discussion concerning the religious debate between the Jews and
the Samaritans over which place of worship was the right one. Jesus told her that
a new age had come in which the issue no longer concerned a physical site (John
4:23) “but the hour comes and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him”.
God was worshipped in Jerusalem, but now the true Jerusalem would be in His
people’s spirit. Indeed, the church is called “the habitation of God in spirit” in
(Ephesians 2:22). True worship required His people to contact God, the Spirit, in
their spirit (Romans 8:11) “but if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by His Spirit, that dwells in you”; and (Galatians 5:16) “this I say
then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh”.
As well as people who knew truth (John 8:31-32) says “then said Jesus to those
Jews which believed on Him, if you continue in My word, then are you My disciples
indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”. He is
speaking to those who believed on Him.
Human beings possess a human spirit, which is born again when they come to
Jesus; the nature of which corresponds to God’s nature, which is spirit. Therefore
people can have fellowship with God and worship God.
In a sense John chapter 4 anticipates Revelation 21 and 22, where God provides
the river of the water of life to all the believers and where the Lamb and God are
the temple in the New Jerusalem. Hebrews 12:22 tells us we are come mount
Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
The believers receive life from God (I Corinthians 12:13) “for by one Spirit, are we
all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews of Gentiles, whether we be bond
or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit”; and are able to worship
God in spirit and truth.
This is also described in Ezekiel 47:1, which pictures the river flowing from God’s
temple as a symbol of God’s never ending supply. In John 4, Jesus provides the
living waters to all who receive the gift of God, and He directs people to a new
temple, a spiritual one, where God is worshiped in spirit and truth.
Worshipping in spirit and truth is not just an option but a command given by the Lord to every believer and to know worshipping is in the position of who you are in the Spirit.. We have to see ourselves as God sees us. God sees us in Christ, complete, redeemed, justified, sanctified, with no
condemnation “ for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death” .
(Romans 8:2) and Psalms 107:2 says “let the redeemed of the Lord Yahweh say so,
which He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy”. We have to see ourselves
as “the righteousness of God in Christ”. And repent when we fall short.
We also have to see others as God sees them, the same way that He sees us;
you can’t accept your forgiveness for sin and then judge others for their sin, we
are to know no man after the flesh, it tells us in (II Corinthians 5:16); verse 17
says “therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are
passed away, behold, all things are become new”.
Remember just as we are a work in progress, other people are too. Jesus
explains this in Matthew 7:1-5 which says “judge not, that you be not judged. For
with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged and with what measure you
mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold you the mote that is in
your brother’s eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? Or how will
you say to your brother, let me pull out the mote out of your eye, and behold, a
beam is in your own eye. You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own
eye, and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye”.
Instead if you think they are doing something wrong, pray for them, to come to the
knowledge of the truth. If you are keeping your focus on Jesus, you wouldn’t see
what others are doing. Many people worship differently, some are quiet and still,
some shout, some run, all these are ways to praise and worship.
My Dear Precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
In closing of this message of Worshipping God in Spirit and Truth that we should always remember that the True worship should be from your heart, keeping your focus on God. Worship is
reverent devotion and allegiance pledged to God. True worship is occurred
under the inspiration of God’s Spirit. As the fruits of the Spirit flows through you,
love, joy and peace will draw you into God. It requires a personal relationship with Him, as
you worship then you can directly talk to your Heavenly Father straight from your genuine heart like. Moses talked with God face to face, and we too can talk with Him and see God in our spirit.
Worshipping is to adore, to pay divine honor to, to idolize. God tells us in
Exodus 34:14 “for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord Yahweh, whose
name is Jealous, is a jealous God”.
Worshipping can be observed many ways, by bowing down, closing our eyes,
lifting our hands, also folding our hands, singing a song or just sitting and
reflecting upon God very quietly. It is all the above, and even more. It needs
to be from the heart. As we love on God our attitude will be of honoring God
and respecting Him.
Worshipping is being obedient to God’s Word. Samuel told King Saul after he
had disobeyed God’s command to kill all of the Amalekites in I Samuel 15:20-
22 “and Saul said to Samuel, yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord Yahweh
and have gone the way which the Lord Yahweh sent me, and have brought
Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the
people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should
have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord Yahweh your God in
Gilgal. And Samuel said, has the Lord Yahweh as great delight in burned
offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord Yahweh? Behold,
to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams”.
God doesn’t want lip service, in Isaiah 29:13 He says “wherefore the Lord said,
forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips do
honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fears toward Me
is taught by the precept of men”.
We worship God by blessing His name by our actions and by our giving financially
(Proverbs 3:5-9) “trust in the Lord Yahweh with all your heart; and lean not to
your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall
direct your paths. It shall be health to our navel, and marrow to your bones.
Honor the Lord Yahweh with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your
increase. So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall
burst out with new wine”. Also in (I Chronicles 16:29) it says “give to the Lord
Yahweh the glory due to His name, bring an offering and come before Him;
worship the Lord Yahweh in the beauty of holiness”.
Worshipping Him physically see Psalms 66:4 and 95:6-7 “all the earth shall
worship You, and shall sing to You; they shall sing to Your name.
O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord Yahweh our
maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the
sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice. Harden not your heart.
Worshipping Him spiritually see (Galatians 6:1-2) “brethren, if a man be
overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of
meekness, considering yourself, less you also be tempted. Bear you one
another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ”.
Worshipping is in prayer; prayer apparently had a leading place in Christian
worship. The letters of Paul regularly open with references to prayer for fellow
Christians who are instructed to pray without ceasing.
The New Testament worship was characterized by joy and thanksgiving
because of God’s gracious redemption in Christ. This early Christian worship
focused on God’s saving work in Jesus Christ. True worship was that which
occurred under the inspiration of God’s Spirit (Philippians 3:3) “for we are the
circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
have no confidence in the flesh”.
Worshipping God by praise; our praise toward God is the means by which we
express our joy to the Lord. We are to praise God both for who He is and for
what He does. Praising God for who He is, is called adoration; praising Him for
what He does is known as thanksgiving (Psalms 100) “make a joyful noise to
the Lord Yahweh all you lands. Serve the Lord Yahweh with gladness; come
before His presence with singing. Know you that the Lord Yahweh He is God; it
is He that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the
sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His
courts with praise; be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord
Yahweh is good; His mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all
generations”.
I pray that we all, the congregation of the Lord Jesus Universal Salvation Church shall become the True Worshippers in the eyes of God, for our Father in Heaven is looking for the True Worshippers since He is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth which is clearly stated in John 4:23-24 and May the Lord Jesus impart His Wisdom and Revelation Knowledge into your heart that we all may understand how we perfectly worship Our Father, the Almighty God according to His Will in Christ Jesus let by the Holy Spirit.
My Precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
May the Lord bless you all and most of all that May His Love.joy and Peace be with you from now on and forevermore.
To God Be All The Glory,
Daniel Pasaribu
End of Sermon
“WOSRSHIPPING GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH”. (John 4:23-24)
Friday Sermon as of October 14, 2011
Dear Precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
How do we know that Christian believers are worshipping our Father in Heaven in spirit and truth according to His Will and Instruction which is written in John 3:23-24, for many Christian believers do not realize yet that before the foundation of the world, we were created to please Him in praising and worshipping ,for heaven and earth and its fullness and everything in the Universe are all the creation of our Father in Heaven for His Pleasure.
John 4:24 says “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in
spirit and truth”. When Jesus arrived on the scene, He proclaimed that He
Himself was the temple of God (John 2:19-21) “Jesus answered and said to them,
destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, forty
and six years was this temple in building, and will You rear it up in three days?
But He spoke of the temple of His body”; in resurrection, He would provide the
spiritual dwelling where God the Holy Spirit and people, in spirit, could have
spiritual communion. In other words, worship would no longer be in a place, but in
a person through Jesus Christ and His Spirit, the worshippers could come directly
to God (John 14:6) “Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life, no man
comes to the Father, but by Me”; and (Hebrews 10:19-20) “having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and
living way, which He has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say His
flesh”.
God said in Isaiah 29:13 “forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me,
and their reverence toward Me is taught by the precept of men”. Jesus refers to
this verse in Matthew 15:8 and Mark 7:6. Our worship should not be what we say
only but what we have to do praise and worship unto God with all your heart.
The shift in worship from physical to spiritual is the theme of John 4, a chapter
that recounts Jesus’ visit to the Samaritans. After Jesus encounter with the
Samaritan woman, she acknowledged that He must be a prophet, and then she
launched into a discussion concerning the religious debate between the Jews and
the Samaritans over which place of worship was the right one. Jesus told her that
a new age had come in which the issue no longer concerned a physical site (John
4:23) “but the hour comes and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him”.
God was worshipped in Jerusalem, but now the true Jerusalem would be in His
people’s spirit. Indeed, the church is called “the habitation of God in spirit” in
(Ephesians 2:22). True worship required His people to contact God, the Spirit, in
their spirit (Romans 8:11) “but if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by His Spirit, that dwells in you”; and (Galatians 5:16) “this I say
then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh”.
As well as people who knew truth (John 8:31-32) says “then said Jesus to those
Jews which believed on Him, if you continue in My word, then are you My disciples
indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”. He is
speaking to those who believed on Him.
Human beings possess a human spirit, which is born again when they come to
Jesus; the nature of which corresponds to God’s nature, which is spirit. Therefore
people can have fellowship with God and worship God.
In a sense John chapter 4 anticipates Revelation 21 and 22, where God provides
the river of the water of life to all the believers and where the Lamb and God are
the temple in the New Jerusalem. Hebrews 12:22 tells us we are come mount
Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
The believers receive life from God (I Corinthians 12:13) “for by one Spirit, are we
all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews of Gentiles, whether we be bond
or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit”; and are able to worship
God in spirit and truth.
This is also described in Ezekiel 47:1, which pictures the river flowing from God’s
temple as a symbol of God’s never ending supply. In John 4, Jesus provides the
living waters to all who receive the gift of God, and He directs people to a new
temple, a spiritual one, where God is worshiped in spirit and truth.
Worshipping in spirit and truth is not just an option but a command given by the Lord to every believer and to know worshipping is in the position of who you are in the Spirit.. We have to see ourselves as God sees us. God sees us in Christ, complete, redeemed, justified, sanctified, with no
condemnation “ for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death” .
(Romans 8:2) and Psalms 107:2 says “let the redeemed of the Lord Yahweh say so,
which He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy”. We have to see ourselves
as “the righteousness of God in Christ”. And repent when we fall short.
We also have to see others as God sees them, the same way that He sees us;
you can’t accept your forgiveness for sin and then judge others for their sin, we
are to know no man after the flesh, it tells us in (II Corinthians 5:16); verse 17
says “therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are
passed away, behold, all things are become new”.
Remember just as we are a work in progress, other people are too. Jesus
explains this in Matthew 7:1-5 which says “judge not, that you be not judged. For
with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged and with what measure you
mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold you the mote that is in
your brother’s eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? Or how will
you say to your brother, let me pull out the mote out of your eye, and behold, a
beam is in your own eye. You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own
eye, and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye”.
Instead if you think they are doing something wrong, pray for them, to come to the
knowledge of the truth. If you are keeping your focus on Jesus, you wouldn’t see
what others are doing. Many people worship differently, some are quiet and still,
some shout, some run, all these are ways to praise and worship.
My Dear Precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
In closing of this message of Worshipping God in Spirit and Truth that we should always remember that the True worship should be from your heart, keeping your focus on God. Worship is
reverent devotion and allegiance pledged to God. True worship is occurred
under the inspiration of God’s Spirit. As the fruits of the Spirit flows through you,
love, joy and peace will draw you into God. It requires a personal relationship with Him, as
you worship then you can directly talk to your Heavenly Father straight from your genuine heart like. Moses talked with God face to face, and we too can talk with Him and see God in our spirit.
Worshipping is to adore, to pay divine honor to, to idolize. God tells us in
Exodus 34:14 “for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord Yahweh, whose
name is Jealous, is a jealous God”.
Worshipping can be observed many ways, by bowing down, closing our eyes,
lifting our hands, also folding our hands, singing a song or just sitting and
reflecting upon God very quietly. It is all the above, and even more. It needs
to be from the heart. As we love on God our attitude will be of honoring God
and respecting Him.
Worshipping is being obedient to God’s Word. Samuel told King Saul after he
had disobeyed God’s command to kill all of the Amalekites in I Samuel 15:20-
22 “and Saul said to Samuel, yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord Yahweh
and have gone the way which the Lord Yahweh sent me, and have brought
Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the
people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should
have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord Yahweh your God in
Gilgal. And Samuel said, has the Lord Yahweh as great delight in burned
offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord Yahweh? Behold,
to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams”.
God doesn’t want lip service, in Isaiah 29:13 He says “wherefore the Lord said,
forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips do
honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fears toward Me
is taught by the precept of men”.
We worship God by blessing His name by our actions and by our giving financially
(Proverbs 3:5-9) “trust in the Lord Yahweh with all your heart; and lean not to
your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall
direct your paths. It shall be health to our navel, and marrow to your bones.
Honor the Lord Yahweh with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your
increase. So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall
burst out with new wine”. Also in (I Chronicles 16:29) it says “give to the Lord
Yahweh the glory due to His name, bring an offering and come before Him;
worship the Lord Yahweh in the beauty of holiness”.
Worshipping Him physically see Psalms 66:4 and 95:6-7 “all the earth shall
worship You, and shall sing to You; they shall sing to Your name.
O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord Yahweh our
maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the
sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice. Harden not your heart.
Worshipping Him spiritually see (Galatians 6:1-2) “brethren, if a man be
overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of
meekness, considering yourself, less you also be tempted. Bear you one
another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ”.
Worshipping is in prayer; prayer apparently had a leading place in Christian
worship. The letters of Paul regularly open with references to prayer for fellow
Christians who are instructed to pray without ceasing.
The New Testament worship was characterized by joy and thanksgiving
because of God’s gracious redemption in Christ. This early Christian worship
focused on God’s saving work in Jesus Christ. True worship was that which
occurred under the inspiration of God’s Spirit (Philippians 3:3) “for we are the
circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
have no confidence in the flesh”.
Worshipping God by praise; our praise toward God is the means by which we
express our joy to the Lord. We are to praise God both for who He is and for
what He does. Praising God for who He is, is called adoration; praising Him for
what He does is known as thanksgiving (Psalms 100) “make a joyful noise to
the Lord Yahweh all you lands. Serve the Lord Yahweh with gladness; come
before His presence with singing. Know you that the Lord Yahweh He is God; it
is He that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the
sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His
courts with praise; be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord
Yahweh is good; His mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all
generations”.
I pray that we all, the congregation of the Lord Jesus Universal Salvation Church shall become the True Worshippers in the eyes of God, for our Father in Heaven is looking for the True Worshippers since He is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth which is clearly stated in John 4:23-24 and May the Lord Jesus impart His Wisdom and Revelation Knowledge into your heart that we all may understand how we perfectly worship Our Father, the Almighty God according to His Will in Christ Jesus let by the Holy Spirit.
My Precious Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
May the Lord bless you all and most of all that May His Love.joy and Peace be with you from now on and forevermore.
To God Be All The Glory,
Daniel Pasaribu
End of Sermon
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