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
- Born again, Gospel, New covenant, changes the concept of “Priesthood” which is where we get the word minister.
- 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?
- Her real question? How can I be forgiven, to know that me and God are good?
- 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.
- The New Covenant changed locational worship.
- Vs. 22, Jesus straight tells her, “You’re off”.
- Mere sincerity does not equal truth.
- Sincerity plus truth = true worship.
- Mere sincerity does not equal truth.
- 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?
- “Salvation is of the Jews”, Samaritans only followed the Torah, first 5.
- 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!
- Truly 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