John 4:23 - 24 “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. (24) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
It is good for all Christians to understand how to worship God. So much worship today is false and for show. One absolute truth is that non-believers will never worship God because God is worshipped thru our spirit and not outwardly, lost people have dead spirits. Lost people only have an outwardly form of worship because their dead spirit is dead. Now please understand, I did not say believers has not outwardly worship at all, God’s people most certainly in their worship of God should show outward emotions. However, that outward emotion will be an outward passionate response of joy in our inward spirit or spiritual heart. Personally, I think churches lack in outward responses to the inward spirit in today times. Today we look at it as Pentecostalism to show much of an outward response. We have allowed the heathen to control our worship service and our external spiritual response. How can a happy and excited inward spirit be so contained without an outward response? Paul wrote in Romans 8:14 - 15 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (15) For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” The word “cry” means - to “croak” (as a raven) or scream, that is, (generally) to call aloud” – My word you have been saved by God thru the working of the Holy Spirit, scream it to the world in praise to God. Our outward emotion is our showing what the Holy Spirit is doing inwardly. Robert Hawker said “The leadings of the Spirit, and the witnessings of the Spirit, all manifest in their daily tokens of grace, the sonship and privileges of the regenerate in Christ. It is they, and they only, which have freeness of access to the throne, and to the pardon-office of Christ; and can, and do say, Abba, Father! No servants, no bonds-men, no unregenerate; none but of the family of God in Christ, who are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; can so approach, or claim such a relationship. An union with Christ is the only foundation for enjoying communion with the heirship of Christ.” How can this salvation not be exciting, how can the proclaiming of the word of God in Truth not be exciting? As Christians we have reason to cry out aloud and praise the Lord. Paul also wrote these words, Galatians 4:6 “And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” Men, lift-up your voices to God in song, worship and prayer, folks let us lift the roof in praise to God for His grace in salvation, let our “hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” Where the truth of God is preached there should be much rejoicing among the saints of God, AMEN! We cannot allow the heretics of false outward worship control our inward true worship of God and Jesus Christ as Saviour.
