Worship in truth

Worship in truth

Chapter 7
Worship in Truth

We must continue comparing scripture with scripture; line upon line, precept upon precept until we see the accurate picture of Who Jesus is and what His plan is for the church. We must learn to worship Jesus in Spirit and in Truth. We must learn that the act of worship is done in the spirit that comes from learning of Jesus – in Truth, in the scriptures.  As an example, there are some that do not believe in the doctrine of “One God in three Persons” or also know as the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. When they lift up their hands to worship Jesus they are at least in part - worshipping a false Jesus because they are not worshipping Him in truth. Now they not just SEE a false Jesus but they also WORSHIP a false Jesus. Even the simplest and most foundational doctrines will be challenged in these last days and many will abandon them for seducing doctrines.  As in the case of the "trinity" they use man's natural reasoning power to make LOGIC out of truth.  Our natural minds cannot comprehend spiritual things. Try reasoning that God has never had a beginning.  Our minds are boggled, totally dumbfounded.  Try to imagine how God can have counted the hairs on every head that ever existed, and every time you lost a hair or grew a hair it did not pass His notice.  The scripture teaches that the Father is God and Jesus is God and yet they were separate Persons capable of having a relationship with each Other.  Jesus did not pray to Himself, He prayed to His Father.  Our mind cannot fathom that God can be three Persons. Therefore many try to "FIGURE IT OUT" and therefore choose to combine the Three into One Person.  They have abandoned a True knowledge of God.  Are they born-again?  I cannot answer, but I will say that when they come to a worship service and lift up Holy hands to heaven that they are at least in part worshipping a false God.  I am making a point - knowing that as you read this, you do not believe this false doctrine.  But please hear; we all are guilty to a degree - of this same principle!  So now let us examine ourselves by looking to Jesus in light of the scripture.

Examine the Jesus that you worship - in light of scripture.

The church has entered into the act of worship and psalmistry in these last days that have been at many times - GLORIOUS. The act of worship is important and God wants us to soar to new heights in the spirit concerning worship.  However, worship will be much more glorious and much higher when you see Him that you are worshipping, as He is - in Truth!  This is a truth that cannot be ignored; you can worship the Lord everyday with the most anointed music available and still grow little or none.  How can this be?  Because, it is the seed of the Word of God that is sown in your heart - therefore only the Word of God can grow in your heart, fruit is produced from the Word. <Matt 13:23> <James 1:18> Because, it is a mind renewed by the Word that is transformed to discern the perfect will of God. <Romans 12:2> Because, it is the Word of God that cleans you and makes you one who is Holy before God. <Eph. 5:26> 

The book of Psalms is the book of worship, yet one of the longest psalms written was Psalm 119, which is a psalm about God’s Word.  Psalm 119 shows the worshipper in relationship with the Word.  It is a panting, a strong consuming desire, and a passion for God’s Word.  The worshipper of Psalm 119 did not separate God from His Word, when he desired to worship God in His presence, he desired to worship God by knowing what God spoke. Why?  Because I love God so much, I want to please God so much, that I will learn what He has spoken from His heart and I will hide it in my heart.  It is in the hiding, the planting in my heart that causes us to declare “that I might not sin against thee” even as the psalmist declared.  If we desire God’s presence, if we desire to worship God in song and yet we have little desire for what He has said, then something is amiss.  If we find ourselves in this place I am trusting in the faithfulness of our God to cause us to hunger and thirst for Him in His Word.

In some churches it would be a strange concept that you can worship God in song, lifting Holy hands and yet still have lost your first Love – Jesus Christ, but yet that is what God says.  Worship is very important, but we are living in a day where the church has no problem entering into the act of worship and has yet lost a craving for God’s Word – that they know is the manna from heaven that feeds the inner man.  A mature man is a worshipper, but a worshipper is not necessarily a mature man – in fact he can be as immature, he can be as carnal, as the day he was born again.  God speaks very loudly in Psalm 51 – “obedience is better than sacrifice”.  It is better to obey God’s Word than to offer the sacrifice of praise and worship, God wants both but the “more excellent way” is to obey His word that you have hid in your heart – even as you have meditated on it day and night. 

John R. Lucas  - 
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