But the hour cometh, and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for the father seeketh such to worship him.
Explanation:
Jesus teaches several things in this verse. In spirit points to the level at which true worship occurs. One must come to God in complete sincerity and with a spirit that is directed by the life and activity of the Holy Spirit. Truth is characteristic of God, incarnate in Christ, intrinsic to the Holy Spirit and at the heart of the gospel. Therefore, worship must take place according to the truth of the father that is revealed in the son and received through the spirit. Those who advocate a worship that sets aside the truth and doctrines of the word of God have in reality set aside the only foundation for true worship.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Because Christ is the truth to live in union with Christ requires speaking the truth. To claim to have fellowship with Christ and possess salvation, yet not to live and speak according to the truth is to be deceived. Untruth reveals the basic condition of one’s heart, that one is still in fundamental opposition to God and is thus ungenerated and outside of the kingdom of heaven.
The man answered and said to them, why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do no know where he is form; yet he has opened my eyes. Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he hears him.
Revelation 11: 16-17
And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God. Saying: We give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty. The one who is and who was and who is to come. Because you have taken your great power and reigned.
It is the believer’s responsibility to discover how the Lord wants to be worshipped and to explore and cultivate a relationship with him out of which sincere, Holy Spirit enabled worship will flow. Jesus instructs it; worship in spirit that is, alive through new birth and aglow with Holy Spirit enablement.
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