John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
God is not a man,
Jesus Christ His Son was a man, but He was also God Incarnate. God is a Spirit
and in that Spirit are three, Father, Son, and Spirit. These three are not separate,
they are not different, They are one God. With God being a Spirit, it means that
God is without a body. Good is invisible, in every place at one time, forever Pure
and Holy. God is everything, He is everywhere, He knows every detail of
everything, He never errors, He never sins, He is never wrong, and He needs
nothing. “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the
son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or
hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19 Just as God
does not lie, He does not change, “For I am the LORD, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6 God who cannot
lie, also is One who cannot change because He is perfect, He is complete in
every point of His existence. And as His Son Jesus is also God, He will never
change either. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Hebrews 13:8 “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
every creature:” Colossians 1:15 Jesus is a separate being from the Godhead,
Jesus has a body just as we do, Jesus lived and grew, slept, eat, cried,
suffered pain, and even died as we do. But Jesus was different, He is God’s own
Son, He sits on God’s right hand, and He now has a name above all names, and
all authority is in His hands. The only way a sinner could be redeemed and
justified eternally is if God sent His own to die for the unjust. “For
Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened
by the Spirit:” 1 Peter 3:18 Jesus Christ died on that cross, the Son of
man, I cannot believe it is proper to say God died on that cross because God
cannot die, not even one part of the Godhead. Look at John 13:31 - 32 “Therefore,
when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God
is glorified in him. (32) If God be glorified in him, God shall
also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.”
Since Jesus is glorified then God is glorified in Him, it is not the Father was
glorified but the Trinity was glorified through the works of the Son of Man and
in what He do. I do not pretend to have all the answers, but this is known, God
cannot die! Since God is a Spirit He must be worshipped as a Spirit and not as
a man. It is wrong when people treat God as less than He is. God said, “For
from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall
be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto
my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen,
saith the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 1:11 God must be worshipped, Christians
and churches a like are required to “Reverence” God which means we are supposed
to fear His name, fear His eyes continually on us, and worship Him every moment
and in everything. God did not save us to be our servant, friend, or buddy, He
saved up to be His servant and for us to glorify not only our Saviour but also
Him.
