New WorshipNew WorshipJohn 4John 4

New WorshipNew WorshipJohn 4John 4

Meeting the Elite –Nicodemus-

Theologian, Politician

The Outcaste-Samaritan Woman

Part of an outcaste nation“the daughters of the Samaritans are menstruants from their cradle’Within this outcaste nation she is outcasteComes alone

Nablus

Mt Gerizim

Mt Ekbal

Town of Sychar – Askar today on shoulder of Mr Ekbal

Traitors to JudahConspired to invade Judah

Assyrians 722— 721 BC deported all the Israelites of substance and settled the land with foreigners. Who intermarried with them contaminating with their religion

The Samaritan Woman

John 4:7 7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Comes alone

The Samaritan Woman

John 4:9 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" ( For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

John 4:13-14 13 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

fresh, running water from springs

Living Water=Eternal Life

The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

The Samaritan Woman

John 4:15 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

Like Nicodemus misunderstands

Confronting sinJohn 4:16-18 16 Jesus said to her,

"Go, call your husband, and come here." 17 The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

She does not turn away

John 4:19-20 19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

Mt Gerizim

Highest in worldManasseh330 bc

GenesisExodusDeuteronomyLeviticusNumbers

Judges1-2 Kings1-2 ChroniclesPsalmsProverbsJobIsaiahEzekielAmosetc…..

Mt Gerizim

Mount Gerazim Jerusalem

Which place true worship?

Mt Gerizim

John 4:21 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

Setting the record straight-worship is

based on truthJohn 4:22 22 You worship what

you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:23 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

John 4:24 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

In Spirit and Truth

Not

In Spirit and In Truth (NIV and KJV)

Composite term to be used togetherNot understood as sum of individual items

Worshiping God

It means more than ..

Sincere worshipWorship from the heart

OT worship was meant to be sincere anyway

Isaiah 1:11-17 11 "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. 16

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

New Worship=Impending and current realityJohn 4:23 23 But the hour is

coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Means that it has not happened in the pastMeans it is new worship

Worship based on God’s nature

John 4:24 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Not God is a spirit like one of all other spirits

Does not mean He is just invisible –ghost or not physical not feltHe is not material

Difference between created and Creator

Isaiah 31:3 3 The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit.

Different dimension

GOD IS SPIRIT

LoveInvisible

Divine

Life giving

Light-Righteous

Facets of what God is as revealed to us

Implications

Exodus 20:4 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Apis Bull -Egyptian Fertility god

Old boyfriend

Troubled Worship

Samaritans Jews

Sincere TRUTH

Promised in OTEzekiel 11:19-20 19 And I will give

them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, 20 that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Fulfilled in Jesus

John 4:23 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Worship in Spirit and Truth

Worship that is God centered ,made possible by

the gift of the Holy SpiritAnd in personal knowledge and

conformity to God’s Word made flesh, the One who is God’s Truth

DA Carson “ The Gospel according to John, PNTC page 225

Enabled by the Holy Spirit and Based on Truth about God

revealed by Jesus

Anyone can worship

Julia Fisher-recent book 100000 Messianic Jews

Even Samaritan Woman with 5

husbands

Given the Holy Spirit-Living Water=Received

God’s natureThe water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Mt Gerizim

Not based on Location

Not limited by LocationDoes not mean worship in building more effective than at homeHoly Room in the housePilgrimage to Jerusalem

Radical shift from location to person

Church of Holy Sepulchre

House churches

Not limited by TimeWorship does not only happen in church building on Sunday

Hebrews 13:15 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

Not limited by ritual

Any time, Any Place

Both spontaneity and discipline

Based on Truth about God=Centered on

Jesus

We all Worship Supreme Being

Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day

Saints

Church of Latter day saints

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Belief that He is the Only Begotten

Son of God and the Savior and Redeemer of the world. 

He suffered for your sins, afflictions, and infirmities.  When you have faith in Christ, you accept and apply His Atonement

Joseph Smith

"The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also."

D & C 130:22 

"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man...  

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1973 ed., p. 346 -

There are many godsHierarchy of authority

1. Book of Mormon, 2. Doctrine & Covenants

3. Pearl of Great Price.  4. Speeches and writings of the current

president of the church are also authoritative 5. Bible full of errors esp where conflict with

Mormon writings

Worship in Spirit and Truth

15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 1:15

Acknowledge Sin, No hypocrisy

Ezekiel 36:27 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Based on Jesus Righteousness

1 John 1:9 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Come and enjoy the musicand worship God at same timeTwo for price of one

In most sophisticated formthe emphasis has changed tothe man leading the worship or singingCome and worship by listening to Gdfrey Birtill

Not Performance orientated

Story of a man who came out of a worship sessionAnd said that he really did not get anything out of it. Pastor said I beg your pardon , we weren’t worshipping you?

Emotional Uplift

Create music and prog so emotionsare created and upliftedThey come out up lifted

Not designed to create emotion but to express

praise

Psalm 149:1-3 Praise the LORD!Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!

2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!

Emotion is based on who He is and what He

has doneNot the music

glad in his Makerrejoice in their King

The music is the

expression3 Let them praise

his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

Does it matter if I am sad?

Psalm 55:1-4 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! 2 Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan, …….4 My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Psalm 55:1 TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A MASKIL OF DAVID.

Why we worshipPsalm 147:1 Praise the LORD!For it is good to sing praises to

our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of

praise is fitting.

John 4:23 …for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Worship

Worship is the work of acknowledging the greatness of our covenant Lord

Worship in Spirit and Truth John M. Frame

Does it matter what style it is?

It focuses all glory on Him

Wonderfully powerful words

Deep in expression of praise based on who He is

Crammed in too tightly for younger mind set

Thin on deep understanding of who He is

Man centered-evoking emotion

Contemporary genre..more appealing to younger crowd

Depth of worship

Based on Truth about God as revealed by

Jesus

Breadth of WorshipExpanded to include

whole lifeRomans 12:1 Romans 12:1 I

appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

"Worship conducted here three times daily."

Not valued because no visibility

"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you

do, do it all for the glory of God." (1 Cor

10:31 NIV)

Worship

Adoration

Action

Off all the peoples in the world

John 4:23 …for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

John 4:28 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town

She became the water pot the vessel full of the Spirit overflowing , the conduit of salvation to others