In Spirit and Truth<\/p>\n
\u201cGod is a Spirit, and they that worship Him, Must worship Him in Spirit<\/p>\n
and in Truth, (John 4:24).<\/p>\n
Here are two principles of worship without which all worship of God is<\/p>\n
vain. God must be worshipped in spirit \u2013 a heart worship \u2013 as opposed to<\/p>\n
mere forms and ceremonies, going through the motions with body and lip<\/p>\n
service, etc. If the heart does not pray it, the prayer is not accepted.<\/p>\n
IF the heart does not sing it, the song is not accepted. If the heart<\/p>\n
does not believe it, it is vain to profess it. Those who worship God,<\/p>\n
must worship in spirit (Romans 10:10).<\/p>\n
Those who worship God in spirit must also worship Him in truth. God has<\/p>\n
revealed Himself in His Word of truth as who HE is; how HE saves; by<\/p>\n
whom HE saves; the way in which any one must approach unto Him to<\/p>\n
worship. All worship that is contrary to truth is vain worship. All who<\/p>\n
worship God must worship Him in truth. Someone has said, \u201cHow<\/p>\n
astonishing is the fact, that man dares to introduce his miserable<\/p>\n
inventions to deform the scriptural simplicity of divine; as if God who<\/p>\n
makes all things perfect, had, in this most important institution,<\/p>\n
forgotten to direct the use of altars \u2013 magnificent vestment \u2013 pomp and<\/p>\n
ceremonies. When will man, with child-like simplicity, follow gospel rules?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bruce Crabtree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Spirit and Truth \u201cGod is a Spirit, and they that worship Him, Must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth, (John 4:24). Here are two principles of worship without which all worship of God is vain. God must be worshipped in spirit \u2013 a heart worship \u2013 as opposed to mere forms and ceremonies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,67,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-bruce-crabtree","category-taught-of-god","category-walking-in-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}