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PAGE 4 THE BYRON BUZZ SECTION of The GEORGIA POST Thursday, April 4,2013 The Worship Of God God is high and holy and He is worthy of our praise and adoration. The essence of our desire to worship is expressed in Psalm 42:1 & 2, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?” For our worship to be acceptable to Him requires more than our “desire” to worship. The first prerequisite for our worship to be acceptable to God is that we must be in the Lord’s church, in Acts 2:47 we read, ’’And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.” The Bible has been provided to us by God to instruct man in his every need. From no other source can we leam satisfacto rily about matters of the sacred and divine or the answers to life’s greatest questions. One question posed to Jesus, as he paused to rest near Sychar at Jacob’s well, by the Sa maritan woman was about the proper place to worship.(John 4:19-20). “Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jeru salem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the hue worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.’” (John 4:21-24) The place we worship is not important but our relationship with God and the attitude of our heart and soul is paramount to us rendering acceptable worship to Him. God is a spirit! No one has seen God at any time. A spirit is invisible and does not have flesh and bones (Luke 24:39). God is eternal, “the same yes terday, today and forever” (Heb. 13:8), and because of this we can trust in Him. God neither needs nor requires a “local” dwelling place or temple to which we must center our wor ship. Paul says in Acts 17:24 & 25, “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.” Man is incurably religious. He is born with a feeling of helplessness and spends his life seeking a helper. Jeremiah expressed this need in the words found in Jer. 10:23, “O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.” When men do not know or will not acknowledge God’s direc tions for acceptable worship, they grope in darkness trying to find some way to placate the wrath of God in their own mind. In different periods of Bible history (Patriarchal, Mosaic, and New Testament) we can see examples of hue worship following God’s directions and the necessity of being a “hue worshiper” of God. What hap pens when man fails to follow God’s instructions? Review the stories of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:-23; Heb. 11:4); Nadab and Abihu(Lev. 10:1-3); andAnan- Bible Say About... James Earnhardt Evangelist Church of Christ ias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-14). The worship of the Almighty and Holy God of Heaven is a most holy and awesome experi ence, and is not something to be tampered with, nor carelessly entered into! Since true worship to God consists of acts of adoration offered by the worshiper, the only way one can know God will accept the worship we send forth is to follow without devia tion His directions. Yes, if we would worship God “in spirit and truth”, in this matter of holi ness, we must respond in a way that corresponds to His likeness. 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