![]() This wasn’t something new because God, in speaking through Jeremiah said, “ Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. I remember watching a TV show about nature and it suddenly struck me that they were actually worshiping the creatures just by the hushed, reverential tones and text they used to describe it. What hour was it that Jesus said “is coming” (John 4:21)? Worshiping CreaturesĬolossians 2:18 “ Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.” What is true worship in spirit and in truth? 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 4:21-23). You worship what you do not know we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. She was either confused about true worship or tried to change the subject by saying, “ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship” (John 4:20) so Jesus clarifies it by telling her that “ the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. In John chapter 4, Jesus had been talking to a Samaritan woman, both cultural stigmas of the Jews, but Jesus wasn’t interested in cultural stigmas but more often in shattering them, and that’s just what He did when He talked with the woman at the well, who by drawing water at the heat of the day, showed she was a woman of ill repute (John 4:16-17). John 4:24 “ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ![]() Here is a Sunday school lesson or Bible study about worship.
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