John 4:24 - Forerunner Commentary

John 4:24

22 You worship ^awhat you do not know; we know what we worship, for ^bsalvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will ^aworship the Father in ^bspirit ^cand truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

24 ^aGod is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah ^ais coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, ^bHe will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, ^a“I who speak to you am He.”

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John 4:24

Worship, which is our response to God, is what we give in our devoted service. The worship of God involves the totality of life. Therefore, it cannot be confined to a particular location. A little bit earlier, Jesus said, "Neither in Samaria, nor in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem." He means that God is not confined to any one place, nor is the worship of Him confined to any one place; it cannot be confined to just an hour or two on a particular day—because, in a biblical sense, the worship of God is our response to Him in all of life. So He cannot be isolated to an hour or two on the Sabbath even.

We have to respond to Him in our home—in the way we speak, in the way we act towards one another, in the way we rear our children, our homemaking practices. It has to do with the way we work. It has to do with the way we drive our cars. It has to do with the way we dress. It has to do with the way we use our eyes, ears, nose, throat—everything! It involves the totality of life, because religion is a way of life. Christianity is a way of life that impacts on every area of life.

So, the second commandment deals with how we worship God. The focus of our worship is to be on imitating Him. There are to be no material aids in this, because no man can capture God in a work of art—a statue, a picture, or whatever. God wants us to concentrate on what He IS and not what He looks like.

Excerpted from The Fourth Commandment (Part 1) by John W. Ritenbaugh

John 4:24

Now, let us think about this in reference to man. We are still talking about how God is the source of this love, and man, by nature, does not have it. Man was made in the image and the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-28). But, God is described as being "spirit." "God is Spirit" (John 4:24). And we find here that God is love. Now contrast that to man. Man is flesh. You see, the image begins to change. We are not quite in the image of God, are we?

Excerpted from Love's Importance and Source by John W. Ritenbaugh

John 4:23-24

Now if we are to be true worshippers of God, then we must worship Him in spirit through baptism and receiving His Holy Spirit, and in truth, and obviously truth is what we find right here in our Bibles.

Excerpted from What Is the Church? by Ryan McClure

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