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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

True Worship



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

True: real or genuine 

Real: actually existing or happening... not imaginary...
         not fake, false, or artificial

Genuine: sincerely and honestly felt or experienced 

Worship: reverence for God... adoring reverence or regard...
                 to feel adoring reverence or regard

Reverence:  profound adoring awed respect

Regard: a feeling of respect and admiration for someone

Adoring: to love or admire (someone) very much...
              
Admire: to feel respect for someone... to regard with admiration


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

Spirit: Holy Spirit
 
spirit: the inner quality or nature of a person... Soul

Soul: the spiritual part of a person that gives life to the body and lives forever... a person's moral nature

Truth: sincerity in action, character, and utterance


The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.  John 14:17

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. John 16:13

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth, Ephesians 5:9

Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. 1 John 3:24