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Messages by Desiring God

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship

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Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2008

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

John Piper | The New Testament emphasizes worship as an inward, spiritual event, and the key to understanding worship is the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

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0:00.0

The woman at the whale said, our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

0:12.0

Using that word that's virtually dropped out in the epistles.

0:16.2

Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem

0:23.8

shall you worship the Father. So you can see him loosening now, worship from its outward,

0:31.5

localized connotations. The hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem show you worship the father

0:41.7

there's not going to be any geographic center to this reality called worship

0:48.0

place is not the issue neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem and then he goes on like this

0:53.8

but an hour is coming and now is neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. And then he goes on like this.

0:58.1

But an hour is coming and now he is.

1:03.6

When the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth,

1:09.0

for such people the Father seeks to be his worshippers.

1:15.7

God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

1:19.3

So in spirit and truth, in spirit and truth.

1:20.1

So here's the key.

1:26.1

It's true worship, which was anticipated for the age to come has arrived.

1:31.5

The hour is coming, age to come, and now is.

1:35.9

Here in me, Jesus is bringing the new worship.

2:04.0

And what marks this true worship that is broken into the present time from the glorious age to come is that it's not bound by localized place or outward form instead of being in this mountain or in Jerusalem is in the spirit and in truth you see the category switch mountain replaced by spirit Jerusalem replaced by spirit, Jerusalem, replaced by truth.

2:10.5

Neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem, rather, in spirit and truth.

2:11.9

That's a category shift.

2:18.1

That's not just not Jerusalem and not this mountain, but Minneapolis and northern Minnesota.

2:23.0

That would be a category evens.

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