True Worshippers


“Woman,” Jesus replied,
“Believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
John 4: 21 - 24

This is my favourite verse in the Bible.
This is very much my heart beat of what I cry out in worship.

Let's look at this again.

1) Believe me,
that a time is coming that you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem
- where location is no longer an issue.

2) Yet a time is coming & has now come when
The True Worshippers will worship the Father in the spirit & in truth.

3) For they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
It's about worship is that its no longer coming to a place
to offer the sacrifice of praise and worship that marks the criteria.
Its no longer Jerusalem nor the Holy Mountain.
Its no longer this holy altar nor a sanctuary.
Nor its in a church worship setting or a prayer room.

Jesus changed the idea of what was understood as "going to church is different from being church"
It is now to be understood as a gathering of true worshipers that ushers the Presence of God to a location. That location is now becomes holy because "true worshipers" gather and worship God.

I'm amazed when Jesus said about true worshipers.
Why True worshipers?
Why not just address as worshipers or those who worship God?
Is there a difference between true worshipers and worshipers?
Yes, there is.

A true worshiper seeks to please God.
This worshiper seeks internally and constantly give that due honor to God in worship
wholeheartedly with all that is within.
He seeks with faith and searches the scriptures, listens to God's voice and offer that holy worship.

In contrast to an ordinary worshiper who would worship God without making that sacrifice,
as in a crowd follower. That is the difference.

But above all, what overwrites everything is that God seeks for these kind of true worshipers.
It is these that God is seeking - the true worshipers,
not so much the offering of worship. God is seeking the person.

And so when these few true worshipers gathers,
the Presence of God floods the place making the place Holy for God is presence
- dwelling in the praises of his true worshipers.

And those who carry the Presence of God,
becomes the Living Ark of God.


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