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Worshipping in Sprit and Truth – Goal of series is to worship Jesus in spirit and in truth.
· Evaluate this statement – everyone is a fully devoted worshipper.
· Goal of series – to worship rightly in spirit and in truth.
John 4:1-26 Context – A discussion about worship.
John 4:19-20 What are her assumptions about worship? (discuss)
· Specific to a location. “Our fathers worship on this mountain.”
· Probably assumes it happens when she is at the location. It doesn’t define her life.
· Different from the Jews way of worship.
· What do people think of when they hear the word “worship”? Word Association…
John 4:21-24 Jesus challenges her misconceptions… Worshipping in spirit and in truth.
· Proskyneo (falling to your knees) - to express in attitude or gesture one’s complete dependence on or submission to a high authority figure, (fall down and) worship, prostrate oneself before, do reverence to, welcome respectfully
· Latreia (what you do when you get off your knees) – act of service.
· Keller - Definition of Worship – Worship is ascribing ultimate value to an object by engaging your mind, your heart, and your will, the whole being, as you do it.
Everyone worships. Not everyone worships in spirit and in truth.
· What does the women ascribe ultimate worth (worship) to? (John 4:16-18)
· What do you worship really? Questions that reveal what we really ultimately value…
o What do I worry about most?
o What, if I failed or lost it, would cause me to feel that I did not even want to live?
o What keeps me going?
o What do I rely on or comfort myself with when things go bad or get difficult?
o What do I think most easily about? What preoccupies me?
o What unanswered prayer would make me seriously think about turning away from God?
o What makes me feel the most self-worth? What am I the proudest of?
John 4:25-26 True worship begins with the right object. I am he…
· I am the savior. The woman had looked to other men to save her. Jesus is that man.
· I am he. We look to a million other things to justify our existence. Jesus is our justification.
Pray…