Genuine Worship (John 4:23–24)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on John 4:23–24, David Platt explains God’s standard of adoration for those called to worship Him.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.7 | John chapter 4 verses 23 and 24, but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers |
| 0:12.2 | will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such people to worship Him. |
| 0:19.0 | God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. |
| 0:25.6 | There is so much here in this conversation Jesus is having with this woman at the well about |
| 0:31.1 | living water that springs up, wells up into eternal light, just a reminder to you today that |
| 0:39.1 | Jesus is a living water for your soul that will never ever run dry. So to seek Him over and above |
| 0:47.3 | everything in this world, but then you get later on in the conversations Jesus having with this |
| 0:52.7 | woman and he starts talking about worship of God in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking |
| 1:00.0 | such people to worship Him. Just think about those two together. In John chapter 1 we see |
| 1:05.6 | Jesus full of grace and truth, not just grace, not just truth, but grace and truth together. |
| 1:12.6 | Here worship is described by Jesus as being marked by spirit and truth because God is spirit and |
| 1:21.8 | God is true. So we want to make sure our worship of God, whether our everyday worship as we offer |
| 1:29.3 | our bodies as living sacrifices before God, right? Romans chapter 12 verse 1 or our gathering with |
| 1:35.8 | God's people for worship is marked by both of these things by truth and the truth about who God is |
| 1:42.1 | anchored to the truth of God's word and that we are led by the spirit in our everyday lives and |
| 1:49.2 | when we gather together for worship, this is not just mechanical motion, this is spirit led |
| 1:56.1 | worship that we give to God. And so when we gather in our churches, let's make sure that they are |
| 2:02.9 | marked. Let's make sure that our gatherings are marked by worship in spirit and truth, that it's |
| 2:10.4 | clear the Holy Spirit is leading us and guiding us and directing our worship. I think about these |
| 2:17.3 | prayer gatherings we've been having in our church family and I'm not against planning, |
| 2:21.9 | in any way I actually love planning and prefer planning, but I think about how God's spirit has |
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