John 4:24
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
“In spirit and in truth.” Many today want to worship God in spirit, or what they think is spirit, but forget the next three words in this verse. “and in truth.” But if we are not worshiping God in truth are we truly worshiping Him in spirit? If we are worshiping in spirit but not in truth then what is this spirit in which we worship if it is not the Holy Spirit of God? Notice the word “must”. This is a command. Jesus is commanding that those who worship God worship Him in spirit and in truth. No exceptions. The only way God will except our worship is if we come to Him in spirit and in truth.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 “3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
What do we see today? People claiming to be worshiping God by celebrating the birth of His Son in spirit. But what spirit? If the day is so steeped in false doctrine and most can't even the get the story correct and then there is the addition of lying to children about a man they have made an Antichrist. How is the worshiping God in spirit and in truth as He commanded? And is it when someone makes a stand to tell the truth of this matter they are persecuted and ridiculed by those claiming to be worshiping in spirit and in truth?
Verse 4 in 2 Timothy 4 speaks volumes about what is going on within God's people today. “And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” The teaching of “fables” abound much in the Lord's very churches today. Not just in those who claim to be the Lord's churches but in the those who are truly the Lord's churches. What an abomination it is for those who stand so strongly on the truth in so many other areas but when it comes to Roman Catholic holy days they will leave the truth of God's Word and follow after the same fables taught by those who martyred our Baptist forefathers for making the same stand against the same holy days.
I will close with this. Remember the situation of God's people in Jerusalem in Jeremiah's day.
Jeremiah 5:30-31
“30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?”
Remember these words: “and my people love to have it so.”
Praise ye the Lord!!!
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