“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth,” Jesus said, according to John 4:24. Regarding worshiping God in truth, here are a few over-arching truths revealed in Scripture about the God we will worship together this Sunday (with credit to the Praise Factory curriculum and Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology):
-- God knows all there is to know at all times – everything in the past, present and future.
-- God is everywhere all the time.
-- God is perfect in all the attributes He possesses at all times.
God’s perfect, unchanging holiness means even the most moral man or woman, boy or girl cannot enter His presence. Only One who was without sin can enter His presence and make a way for sinners – and that includes all of us -- to enter His presence. God the Son did so by being our substitute in His wholly righteous life and fully acceptable death.
May we gather Sunday with deep recognition of the magnificence of the only God worthy of worship and with great gratitude for Jesus and His work that makes our worship possible.
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