PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 “Worship is the consistent offering of all of one’s life, and time, and energy, and body, and resources to God.” -DA Carson

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 PERSON not a PLACE!

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 “The holiness of a Christian church belongs, not to the place, but to the body of worshipers”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 SOUGHT By God!

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Jesus with Zacchaeus

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Luke 19: And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; 10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 “Ever since Genesis 3, God has been on a manhunt.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Genesis 3:8-9 8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day,

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Conditions of True Worship: HUMILITY OF HEART!

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Romans 12:1 holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Psalm 51: For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Psalm 51: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Matthew 9:13 “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Conditions of True Worship: HUMILITY OF HEAD!

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 I know what the Bible says but…

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26 Hebrews 4:12 of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: Possibilities: ADMIRERS OF JESUS

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: Possibilities: SPIRITUAL PRETENDERS

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4: Possibilities: TRUE WORSHIPERS

PRIORITY OF WORSHIP John 4:19-26