Worshiper

Worshiper

Worshiper, John 4:16-26

What is God? Can I know I believe in the true God? Can I know that me and God are good, and that I am forgiven? And if me and God are good than what does that mean? What’s my purpose? What do I do now if my relationship with God is established? How now do I live? 

  • Intro series, Ministry. 
    • John, believing life. Focusing in on “life”, specifically looking as Jesus as an example. 
    • If you believe, you ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. 1 John 2:6 / that you might follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21
  • BUT, the it’s not just about how we live, because believing actually does something to us. It changes who we are. 
    • Born again, Gospel, New covenant, changes the concept of “Priesthood” which is where we get the word minister.
      • (Believers) are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:5
  • Who are you? A minister / What do we do? Ministry What is it? It’s Work. Let’s get to work! (Jesus took naps, be like Jesus)
  • Last week; What is our posture? To serve. /  What is our proclamation? Jesus, the living water. 

This week, Worshiper 

  • What is worship? We tell the story that God alone is priority humbly and adoringly giving him the glory in all of life.
  • A minister truly worships in truth. 
  • Context, Vs. 19-20
    • Her real question? How can I be forgiven, to know that me and God are good? 
      • The location of the temple. But what took place at the temple? Atonement for sin. Forgiveness found through sacrifice. 
    • That we would have such a view. To truly see our need, that we may know that we know that we are forgiven and that things between us and our God are good. AM I truly worshiping in truth? 
  • Vs. 21, What hour? Jesus’ hour. 
    • The New Covenant changed locational worship. 
      • Making a lot of trips to Jerusalem. Few feasts, not to mention other times when the burden of sin was too much. Can’t just repent and go on a prayer walk, you’re making a trip to the Holy Land with lamb in hand. “Third trip outside of the feasts this year bob… having a tough year?” 
    • This change wasn’t simply to make things easy, it was so you and I could hear the message and be saved. “GO” 
      • Thankfully Jesus changed everything so we could truly worship in truth. 
  • Vs. 22, Jesus straight tells her, “You’re off”. 
    • Mere sincerity does not equal truth. 
      • Sincerity plus truth = true worship. 
  • Gospel of John written to align our faith with the one true God. 
    • “Salvation is of the Jews”, Samaritans only followed the Torah, first 5. 
      • Incomplete understanding of God. We will not, this side of heaven, fully understand God. St. Augustine writes, “When I am asked what God is, I think I know, but when I try to answer the question, I find I know nothing.”
    • A better question is, “Where do ere the most in our understanding of God?” 
      • What are the misguided understandings about God? Where are we misguided in our worship? 
      • How can we know if we are truly worshiping in truth? 
  • Vs. 23-24
    • Truly worship
      • In Spirit- Our spirit, to the depth of our soul, authentic, inside out, worship, not just in song but in all of life!  
    • In Truth
      • Aligned and in accordance with the truth of God. 
    • God is seeking this!!! If you are going to worship, it will be, must be, in spirit and in truth. 
      • It’s inside and outside the church, it’s gather and scatter, it’s grow and go, it’s a spring of living water welling up splashing on all those around you type of worship! 

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:9–10

  • You were the Samaritan (not a people) now you are a minister (God’s people), to what end? To proclaim the excellencies of God!  To truly worship in truth!!!

What is God? Can I know I believe in the true God? Can I know that me and God are good, and that I am forgiven? And if me and God are good than what does that mean? What’s my purpose? What do I do now if my relationship with God is established? How now do I live? 

  • Q. 4. What is God?
    • A. God is a spirit, whose being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth are infinite, eternal, and unchangeable.
  • Can I know I believe in the true God? Can I know that me and God are good, and that I am forgiven?
  • Q. 3. What does the Bible primarily teach?
    • A. The Bible primarily teaches what man must believe about God and what God requires of man.
  • And if me and God are good than what does that mean?
  • Q. 2. What authority from God directs us how to glorify and enjoy him? 
    • The only authority for glorifying and enjoying him is the Bible, which is the word of God and is made up of the Old and New Testaments.
  • Q. 1. What is man’s primary purpose?
    • Man’s primary purpose is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.
  • This is who you are… a “WORSHIPPER”
    • A minster truly worships in truth
  • Vs. 25-26
  • Lead into communion
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