WHOSE WORSHIP DOES GOD ACCEPT? HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED, WHOSE WORSHIP GOD ACCEPT? A CERTAIN WOMAN AY HAVE SUCH A QUESTION COME TO HER MIND WHICH SHE SPOKE WITH JESUS WITH JESUS CHRIST NEAR MOUNT GERIZIM IN SAMARIA. CALLING A DIFFERENCE THE WORSHIP OF THE SAMARIANS AND THATOF THE JEWS, SHE SAID: OUR FOREFATHERS WORSHIP IN THIS MOUNTAIN, BUT YOU PEOPE SAY THAT IN JERUSALEM IS THE PLACE WHERE PERSONS OUGHTT O WORSHIP. (JOHN 4:20 ) DID JESUS TELL THE SAMARIAN WOMAN THAT GOD ACCEPTS ALL WORSHIP? OR DID HE SAY THAT SPECIFIC THINGS ARE REQUIRED TO PLEASE GOD? JESUS STARTING REPLY WAS: THE HOUR IS. COMING WHEN NEITHER IN THIS MOUNTAIN NOR IN JERUSALEM WILL YOU PEOPLE WORSHIP THE FATHER. ( JOHN 4:21 ) THE SAMARITAN HAD LONG FEARED JEHOVAH AND HAD WORSHIP OTHER gods ON MOUNT GERIZIM ( 2 KINGS 17:33 ) NOW JESUS CHRIST SAID THAT NEITHER THAT PLACE NOR JERUSALEM WOULD BE IMPORTANT IN TRUE WORSHIP. WORSHIP WITH SPIRIT AND TRUTH JESUS WENT ON TO TELL THE SAMARITAN WOMAN: YOU WORSHIP WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW, WE WORSHIP WHAT WE KNOW, BECAUSE SALVATION ORIGINATED FROM THE JEWS. ( JOHN 4:23 ) THE SAMARITAN HAD FALSE RELIGIOUS IDEAS AND ACCEPTED ONLY THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE AS INSPIRED__AND THESE SOLELY IN THEIR OWN RECESSION KNOWN AS SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH. THEREFORE, THEY REALLY DONT KNOW GOD. HOWEVER, THE JEWS HAD BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE. ( ROMANS 3:1,2 ) THE SCRIPTURES GAVE JEWS AND ANY OTHERS WHO WOULD LISTEN WHAT THEY NEEDED IN ORDER TO KNOW GOD. ACTUALLY, JESUS SHOWED THAT BOTH JEWS AND SAMARITANS WOULD HAVE TO ADJUST THEIR WAY OF WORSHIP SO AS TO WORSHIP GOD. HE SAID: THE HOUR IS COMING, AND IT WAS NOW, WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS WILL WORSHIP THE FATHER WITH SPIRIT AND TRUTH, FOR INDEED THE FATHER IS LOOKING FOR SUCHLIKE ONES TO WORSHIP HIM. GOD IS A SPIRIT, AND THOSE WORSHIPPING HIM WILL MUST WORSHIP WITH SPIRIT AND TRUTH. ( JOHN 4:23,24 ) TO WORSHIP GOD WITH SPIRIT WE MUST HAVE HIS SPIRIT AND BE GUIDED BY THAT SPIRIT. IT IS POSSIBLE TO WORSHIP GOD WITH TRUTH BY STUDYING HIS WORD, THE BIBLE, AND BY WORSHIPPING HIM ACCORDING TO HIS REVEALED TRUTH. ARE YOU EAGER TO DO THAT? JESUS EMPHASIZE THAT GOD WANTS TRUE WORSHIP. THIS SHOWS THAT THERE ARE FORMS OF WORSHIP UNACCEPTABLE TO JEHOVAH, TO WORSHIP GOD MEANS TO GIVE HIM REVERENT HONOR AND TO RENDER SACRED SERVICE TO HIM. IF YOU WANTED TO SHOW HONOR TO A POWERFUL RULER, LIKELY YOU WOULD BE EAGER TO SERVE HOM AND TO DO WHAT WOULD PLEASE HIM. SURELY, THEN WE WANT TO PLEASE GOD, RATHER THAN MERELY SAY, MY RELIGION SUITS ME, WE THEREFORE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR WORSHIP MEETS GODS REQUIREMENTS.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 07:39:57 +0000
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