John 4:21-24

Worship’s in the Holy Place

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.—John 4:21

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.—John 14:23

• The holy place is where the holy dwells. 
• Unless worshippers give God spiritual thing, they give Him nothing.

Worship’s through the Agency of the Spirit

“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. —John 4:23

• Genuine worship is impossible without dependence to God, the Spirit’s empowerment, and inspiration.

“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.—John 16:13

Worship’s in the Spirit

“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”—John 4:24

• Worships are privileges of those who were born of the Spirit.

for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,—Phil. 3:3

That is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.—John 14:17

• Worshippers who make God the center worship are worshiper whom God seek.

John 15:1-5

Jesus Christ is the True Giver of the Living Life

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. —John 15:1-3

The only true living life is a “branch” of Christ’s life.

The church is the true Israel because of its relationship to Jesus Christ, the true vine.

True Living Life Grows in fruitfulness

“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. —John 15:4-5 

Fruit bearing is the evidence of regenerated life.

Suffering enlarges fruit bearing, exposes hypocrisy, and keeps us dependent on God.

The ultimate purpose of suffering in the believer’s life is to develop Christlikeness.

The living life caused by true salvation is both an initial and a continuous response. 

Our daily lifestyle is a revelation of the power source of our lives.

John 17:6-26

Jesus uttered His most peculiar promulgation

• Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. —v 6
• For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. —v 8

Jesus uttered His Most peculiar petition

• I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. —v 9
• Holy Father keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. —v 11
• I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one—v 15
• Sanctify themin the truth; your word is truth. —v 17
• that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. —v 21

Jesus uttered His most peculiar passion

• Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. —v 24
• I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them—v 26

Malachi 1:2

[The bible strongly asserts that in spite of how bad situation going on around us God’s love to us remains truthful, tenacious, and triumphant.]

God Loves You Truthfully

• And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;—Deuteronomy 4:37Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.—Deuteronomy 10:15“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.—John 6:44

God Loves You Tenaciously

• The LORD appeared to him from afar: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.—Jeremiah 31:3I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.—Hosea 11:4In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.—Isaiah 63:9But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.—Romans 5:8

God Loves You Triumphantly 

• Therefore, tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.—Ezekiel 36:22Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee…—Deuteronomy 9: 4, 5but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.—Deuteronomy 7:8neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 8:39For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.—John 3:16