Title: Worship in the Truth
I. Two Essential Elements of Worship
Worship has two most essential elements that allow us to meet God. That is the truth and the Holy Spirit. The Bible says: “The hour is coming and is now, when those who truly worship God will worship God in spirit and truth, for the Father is looking for such worshipers.” I don't give it as a gift, but sincerely' seems to have this meaning. In fact, this is a completely wrong translation. The original Greek Scriptures say, “The hour is coming when we will worship in the Spirit and in the truth.” The worship that God wants is worship in the ‘truth’ and ‘spirit’.
It became clear why, no matter how much we worship, we do not have an encounter with God. Because it is worship in the absence of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit and the truth, that is, the true revelation of God, we cannot meet God.
II. Worship in Truth
So what is the truth we are talking about here? This truth is the knowledge of God Himself.
There are rules for all life in this world, and there are laws in the lives of people, but these are facts rather than truths. We all have our own laws and rules in our lives. But this is not the truth. Because God created all this world, He left His mark everywhere, but it is so faint that it is not easy to discover what knowledge of God Himself is just by looking at it. That is why God has given us all the knowledge of who He is through the Bible. Without knowing God through the Bible, we cannot discover that we are sinners and human beings who need to be saved, the love of God revealed through the cross of Christ.
Therefore, in order for worship to be a worship service to meet God, it must be a time for the truth to be proclaimed. Therefore, the most important task of a preacher is to proclaim to the congregation the word of truth that comes from God. The preacher's concern should not be what the multitude of people sitting here want, but what God wants of him and the people gathered here.
But look at the situation in this day and age. Although there are many chapels, people worship with a heart to love and satisfy themselves, and we are living in an age in which we preach the word before God but are not interested in the truth, and even those who preach the truth are the people of this age. It's not about rejoicing, so rather than listening to God's voice and receiving His heart, we want to go into the hearts of those gathered here. The lack of a clear and clear proclamation of truth causes people to gather in the chapel but gives them the impression that there is no unified truth. This is the most painful situation we face today.
Indeed, it is the pulpit of this Fatherland Church that we must pray with tears in our eyes today. A preacher who is caught up in the truth, spit it out, but it is not a means for the success of the ministry or the gathering of the saints, but something that must be vomited out within himself.
This great power to change people who did not love God and make them love God is only the work of the Holy Spirit through the truth. The word of truth tells you what sin is in your heart and makes you realize what the consequences of life it will bring in the end, so that you can experience self-renewal that is broken and changed in the presence of the holy love of God. This is only possible through the Word of Truth. That's why many people gather in the chapel, but also many people leave the church. Because it is not the truth that holds them captive, they do not go out into this world and overcome hardships with love for God and live with faith in the truth. So the world doesn't change. The power of this amazing truth comes from the Word of God. No matter how diligently you prepare for worship and want to indulge in the thrill of worship, you cannot meet God without the Word of truth during the worship service.
When you worship, you need to focus on listening to the Word to understand it. There is only one reason why we must focus our intellect and all our senses and listen to God who speaks. To understand the truth. An attitude of unfocused worship is like pouring water into a shaking cup. Distraction during worship is the most important factor in not understanding the truth and not meeting God.
When we worship in the truth, the meaning of meeting Jesus is that he comes into the minds of those who understand the truth. God's meeting with us is not a mysterious experience that transcends human will and intellect. When God speaks to our intellect and makes Him known, and when our understanding of God comes to possess a knowledge of who He is, our hearts become angry with our sins, You will be moved by love. All of this comes through the understanding of the intellect. Therefore, the attitude of quietly closing your eyes and immersed in meditation during worship is the attitude of Ahn Ha Mumin toward God.
To be able to listen to God's word is not just to engrave the meaning of the word. A person who truly loves God and is dependent on God is the person who wants to feel the heart of God that must be spoken by being immersed in the word behind it. That attitude should be maintained throughout the worship service. Also, while listening to the word of God, if God doesn't bless you for even a moment in your heart, with the conviction that both the preacher's sermon and the listening congregation are doing nothing, keep praying with your soul before God even during the time you listen to the sermon. You should. 'I am like a donkey ignorant to understand. Even at this time, the Lord has opened my dark intellect to understand the word of the Lord, and binds my heart, which is prone to turning away from God, to the truth so that when I hear the word of the Lord, I want to obey it. This is what we have to constantly pray, 'Please give me the heart to do it.' Then God speaking in our intellect shows us His great will.
All faith comes from hearing. It comes through understanding. The difference between the spiritual experience of pagans and the spiritual experience of Christianity is that pagans have their soul and God connected, but the clear experience in Christianity is that the great God, who fills all the earth and heaven, contacts us, not in a way we do not know, but in language. Come to us with a , and show us your knowledge of yourself. In that truth, we come to understand the word of God, and in the realization of the word, we discover the beauty of God that we have never seen before.
Therefore, those who do not make an effort to understand God's Word through worship are blatantly ignoring God. When you meet God in worship, your heart changes constantly, but if you do not meet God in worship and continue to worship, your heart begins to harden in the opposite direction. Those who are really hard-hearted are not among those who do evil in this world, but among those who regularly worship in the church.
III. concluding remarks
In order to search for the truth, the preacher puts all of their heart, the members pray for the pastor for a week, and when they come to the service, they come to the service of worship and try to understand the truth with all their heart, with earnest desire to understand the truth. The gracious work of the Holy Spirit pouring out on it, through this, we meet God.
Today, God allows us to come to worship with this truth. Teach your children to focus on worship so that they too can enjoy freedom in these truths. That is how we must meet the Lord. I hope that in this worship life, you will meet the Lord every time and become believers who are supplied with the power to overcome the world.
2008-04-06