Worship the Lord in truth
To
worship God in truth denotes worshiping God in accordance to the entirety of
His word as confirmed by King David and Jesus Christ who respectively stated;
“The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments
endures forever.” Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” (Psalms
119: 151,160; John 17:17).
Therefore,
in order to curb and find a solution to the divisions and disunity that exist
in the body of Christ we need to take the word of God seriously especially with
regards to the worship of the One and only True God and stop disregarding the
practical and literal things and only viewing them as metaphors. Worship the Lord in truth denotes
exactly what it says; truth is attributed to five (5) distinctive things viz.
a. God’s law
For
we have been duly admonished saying; “Your righteousness is an everlasting
righteousness, and Your law is truth.” The entirety of Your word is truth, And
every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever” (Psalms 119:142,160).
b. Jesus Christ
Jesus
said clearly, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
c. Holy Spirit
With
regards to the Holy Spirit the Lord says; “If you love Me, keep My
commandments. and I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper,
that He may abide with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He
dwells with you and will be in you” (John 14:15-17).
d. God’s word
As
alluded to by Jesus Christ in His prayer to the Father Who prayed and said;
“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the
world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify
Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth” (John 17:17-19).
e. The Gospel
As
confirmed by the apostle Paul in his defense of the gospel who wrote; “to whom
we did not yield submission even for an hour that the truth of the gospel might
continue with you. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the
truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a
Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel
Gentiles to live as Jews” (Galatians 2: 5, 14)?
Therefore,
any teaching, customs or practices that are not in compliance with the law, the
teachings of Christ, the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, God’s word and the
gospel should not be associated with the life of a believer because, everything
that are associated with truth remains the same yesterday, today and forever,
For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all
generations (John 17:17; Hebrews 13:7; Psalms 100:5).
Having
covered the two prerequisites for true worship which are, to worship the Father
in spirit and in truth, let us now look at the other five components of true
worship which describes the prescribed manner or the protocol for true worship.
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To be continued, stay tuned
With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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