True Worshipper.

True Worshipper.

John 4:23-24

23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. 

24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

John 14:6‭-‬7, 16‭-‬17 NIV

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 

7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 

17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

John 3:5‭-‬7

5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. 

6 Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. 

7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’

Exodus 20:2‭-‬5

“I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery. “You must not have any other god but me. “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.

Revelation 4:8‭-‬11

8 Each of these living beings had six wings, and their wings were covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day after day and night after night they keep on saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty— the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.” 

9 Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever), 

10 the twenty-four elders fall down and worship the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever). And they lay their crowns before the throne and say,

11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.”

Genesis 22:5

“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”

Matthew 2:2 & 11

2 “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose, and we have come to worship him.”

11 They entered the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Luke 2:13‭-‬14, 20

13 Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying, 

14 “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.”

20 The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:9-11

Amos 5:21‭-‬24

21 “I hate all your show and pretense— the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies. 

22 I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings. 

23 Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 

24 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living.

Amos 8:4‭-‬6

4 Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy! 

5 You can’t wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. 

6 You measure out grain with dishonest measures and cheat the buyer with dishonest scales. And you mix the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Romans 12:1‭-‬2

1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 

2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Colossians 3:5‭-‬9

5 So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. 

6 Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming. 

7 You used to do these things when your life was still part of this world. 

8 But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language. 

9 Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds.

Ephesians 4:22‭-‬24

22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 

23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 

24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

Hosea 4:6

My people are being destroyed because they don’t know me. Since you priests refuse to know me, I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.

2 Peter 3:18

Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen.

Philippians 3:8-10

8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ 

9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. 

10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death,

Revelation 22:8‭-‬9

8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw all these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me. 

9 But he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers the prophets, as well as all who obey what is written in this book. Worship only God!”

The end of teaching.