New Worship

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New Worship

• John 4

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New Worship

• John 4

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Meeting the Elite Nicodemus-Theologian,
Politician
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The Outcaste-Samaritan Woman
Part of an outcaste nation the daughters of the
Samaritans are menstruants from their
cradle Within this outcaste nation she is
outcaste Comes alone
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Town of Sychar Askar today on shoulder of Mr
Ekbal
Mt Ekbal
Mt Gerizim
Nablus
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Traitors to Judah Conspired to invade Judah
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Assyrians 722 721 BC deported all the Israelites
of substance and settled the land with
foreigners. Who intermarried with them
contaminating with their religion
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The Samaritan Woman
Comes alone
John 47 7 There came a woman of Samaria to
draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
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The Samaritan Woman
John 49 9 The Samaritan woman said to him,
"How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from
me, a woman of Samaria?" ( For Jews have no
dealings with Samaritans.)
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• John 413-14 13 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who
  drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14
  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give
  him will never be thirsty forever. The water that
  I will give him will become in him a spring of
  water welling up to eternal life."

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fresh, running water from springs
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Living WaterEternal Life
The water that I will give him will become in him
a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
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The Samaritan Woman
Like Nicodemus misunderstands
John 415 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give
me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or
have to come here to draw water."
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Confronting sin

• John 416-18 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call
  your husband, and come here." 17 The woman
  answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to
  her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no
  husband' 18 for you have had five husbands, and
  the one you now have is not your husband. What
  you have said is true."

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She does not turn away

• John 419-20 19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I
  perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers
  worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in
  Jerusalem is the place where people ought to
  worship."

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Mt Gerizim
Highest in world Manasseh 330 bc
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Genesis Exodus Deuteronomy Leviticus Numbers
Judges 1-2 Kings 1-2 Chronicles Psalms Proverbs Jo
b Isaiah Ezekiel Amos etc..
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Mt Gerizim
Mount Gerazim Jerusalem
Which place true worship?
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Mt Gerizim
John 421 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe
me, the hour is coming when neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the
Father.
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Setting the record straight-worship is based on
truth

• John 422 22 You worship what you do not know
  we worship what we know, for salvation is from
  the Jews.

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• John 423 23 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.

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• John 424 24 God is spirit, and those who
  worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

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Worshiping God

• In Spirit and Truth
• Not
• In Spirit and In Truth (NIV and KJV)

Composite term to be used together Not understood
as sum of individual items
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It means more than ..

• Sincere worship
• Worship from the heart

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OT worship was meant to be sincere anyway

• Isaiah 111-17 11 "What to me is the multitude
  of your sacrifices? says the LORD I have had
  enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of
  well-fed beasts I do not delight in the blood of
  bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

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• 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my
  soul hates they have become a burden to me I am
  weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out
  your hands, I will hide my eyes from you even
  though you make many prayers, I will not listen
  your hands are full of blood. 16

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• Wash yourselves make yourselves clean remove
  the evil of your deeds from before my eyes cease
  to do evil, 17 learn to do good seek justice,
  correct oppression bring justice to the
  fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

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New WorshipImpending and current reality

• John 423 23 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.

Means that it has not happened in the past Means
it is new worship
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Worship based on Gods nature

• John 424 24 God is spirit, and those who
  worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

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Not God is a spirit like one of all other spirits
Does not mean He is just invisible ghost or not
physical not felt He is not material
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Difference between created and Creator

• Isaiah 313 3 The Egyptians are man, and not
  God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit.

Different dimension
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GOD IS SPIRIT
Love
Invisible
Divine
Light-Righteous
Life giving
Facets of what God is as revealed to us
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Implications

• Exodus 204 4 "You shall not make for yourself a
  carved image, or any likeness of anything that is
  in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
  or that is in the water under the earth.

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Apis Bull -Egyptian Fertility god
Old boyfriend
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Troubled Worship
Samaritans
Jews
Sincere
TRUTH
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Promised in OT

• Ezekiel 1119-20 19 And I will give them one
  heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I
  will remove the heart of stone from their flesh
  and give them a heart of flesh, 20 that they may
  walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey
  them. And they shall be my people, and I will be
  their God.

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Fulfilled in Jesus

• John 423 23 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.

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Worship in Spirit and Truth

• Worship that is
• God centered ,made possible by the gift of the
  Holy Spirit
• And in personal knowledge and conformity to Gods
  Word made flesh, the One who is Gods Truth

DA Carson The Gospel according to John, PNTC
page 225
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Enabled by the Holy Spirit and Based on Truth
about God revealed by Jesus
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Anyone can worship

• Julia Fisher-recent book 100000 Messianic Jews

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Even Samaritan Woman with 5 husbands
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Given the Holy Spirit-Living WaterReceived Gods
nature
The water that I will give him will become in him
a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
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Mt Gerizim
Not limited by Location Does not mean worship in
building more effective than at home Holy Room in
the house Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Not based on Location
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Radical shift from location to person
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Church of Holy Sepulchre
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House churches
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Not limited by Time Worship does not only happen
in church building on Sunday
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• Hebrews 1315 15 Through him then let us
  continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to
  God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge
  his name.

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Not limited by ritual
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Any time, Any Place
Both spontaneity and discipline
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Based on Truth about GodCentered on Jesus
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We all Worship Supreme Being
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Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints
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Church of Latter day saints

• Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Belief that He is the Only Begotten Son of God
  and the Savior and Redeemer of the world. 

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• He suffered for your sins, afflictions, and
  infirmities.  When you have faith in Christ, you
  accept and apply His Atonement

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Joseph Smith
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• "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as
  tangible as man's the Son also."

D C 13022 
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• "God himself was once as we are now, and is an
  exalted man...  

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1973 ed.,
p. 346 -
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• There are many gods
• Hierarchy of authority
• 1. Book of Mormon,
• 2. Doctrine Covenants
• 3. Pearl of Great Price. 
• 4. Speeches and writings of the current
  president of the church are also authoritative
• 5. Bible full of errors esp where conflict
  with Mormon writings

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Worship in Spirit and Truth

• 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my
  eyes from you even though you make many prayers,
  I will not listen your hands are full of blood.
• Isaiah 115

Acknowledge Sin, No hypocrisy
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• Ezekiel 3627 27 And I will put my Spirit within
  you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be
  careful to obey my rules.

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Based on Jesus Righteousness
1 John 19 9 If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Come and enjoy the music and worship God at same
time Two for price of one
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In most sophisticated form the emphasis has
changed to the man leading the worship or
singing Come and worship by listening to Gdfrey
Birtill
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Not Performance orientated
Story of a man who came out of a worship
session And said that he really did not get
anything out of it. Pastor said I beg your pardon
, we werent worshipping you?
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Emotional Uplift
Create music and prog so emotions are created
and uplifted They come out up lifted
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Not designed to create emotion but to express
praise

• Psalm 1491-3 Praise the LORD!Sing to the LORD
  a new song, his praise in the assembly of the
  godly!
• 2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker let the
  children of Zion rejoice in their King!

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Emotion is based on who He is and what He has
doneNot the music

• glad in his Maker
• rejoice in their King

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The music is the expression

• 3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making
  melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

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Does it matter if I am sad?
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• Psalm 551-4 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and
  hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! 2
  Attend to me, and answer me I am restless in my
  complaint and I moan, .4 My heart is in
  anguish within me the terrors of death have
  fallen upon me.

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• Psalm 551 TO THE CHOIRMASTER WITH STRINGED
  INSTRUMENTS. A MASKIL OF DAVID.

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Why we worship

• Psalm 1471 Praise the LORD!
• For it is good to sing praises to our God
• for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is
  fitting.
• John 423 for the Father is seeking such people
  to worship him.

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Worship

• Worship is the work of acknowledging the
  greatness of our covenant Lord

Worship in Spirit and Truth John M. Frame
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Does it matter what style it is?
It focuses all glory on Him
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• Wonderfully powerful words
• Deep in expression of praise based on who He is
• Crammed in too tightly for younger mind set

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• Thin on deep understanding of who He is
• Man centered-evoking emotion
• Contemporary genre..more appealing to younger
  crowd

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Depth of worship
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Based on Truth about God as revealed by Jesus
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Breadth of WorshipExpanded to include whole life

• Romans 121 Romans 121 I appeal to you
  therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to
  present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy
  and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
  worship.

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"Worship conducted here three times daily."
Not valued because no visibility
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"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,
do it all for the glory of God." (1 Cor 1031 NIV)
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Worship
Adoration
Action
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Off all the peoples in the world John 423 for
the Father is seeking such people to worship
him.
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John 428 28 So the woman left her water jar and
went away into town
She became the water pot the vessel full of the
Spirit overflowing , the conduit of salvation to
others