Okay, our text this evening is
taken from John chapter 4, basically verse 23 and 24. The hour cometh, John 4, 23.
The hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship
the Father, God the Father, in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to
worship Him. God is spirit. They that worship
Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Now I'm entitling
the message with one very, very important word that is mentioned
in these few verses, verse 19 down through verse 24, at least
nine times. Now that ought to catch your
attention. At least nine times in these few verses, we see this word worship or worship
mentioned in this text. What is more vital to a believer? What is more vital to a believer
than worship? There is nothing more vital to
a believer than worshiping God Almighty as he's revealed in
this book we call the Bible. Now, I want us to learn today
what true worship is all about. I desire in my heart, don't you,
to truly worship God in spirit and in truth. I want us to be
blessed of God, says the Father, seek us such to worship Him.
I want us to be blessed of God, to truly worship Him, God Almighty,
in spirit and in truth, every time we meet together, don't
you? I don't wanna just come in here,
go through the motion, sing a few songs, pray, and leave without
worship. I'm vitally, desperately interested
in worship. Says there in verse 24, God is
spirit and they that worship Him must. There's a must. There's an urgency. There's a
mandate. They must worship Him in spirit
and in truth. Now you remember from this reading
here in John chapter four, the conversion story of this woman
of Samaria. How the Lord Jesus Christ on
purpose decreed from all eternity, crossed her path. He convicted
her of her sin, not only of adultery, but idolatry. Convicted her of
her sin, and then he revealed himself unto her as her Lord
and Master and Christ. And she went out from that meeting
confessing. What did she confess? He is the
Christ. You know what that means? The
anointed of God in all of His office is prophet, priest, and
king. It says in 1 John 5, whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ,
born of God. Somehow when this woman, she
came to that well that morning, unregenerated, with no concern,
she wasn't seeking the Lord. The shepherd was seeking sheep. She came to that well that morning
with no concern for forgiveness of sin, with no concern for spiritual
life, true life in Christ Jesus, and she left her water pot and
ran back to her folk, her city folk, and declared this is the
Christ. What happened to this woman? Something happened. God,
the power of God, by the power of God the Holy Spirit invaded
her thoughts, her mind, her heart, her affection, her whole being
and made her a new creature in Christ Jesus. Now that is what
salvation is. It is God Almighty on purpose
crossing our path with the gospel and making us new creatures in
Christ Jesus. The Lord convicted her and exposed
her sin and revealed himself unto her. Now this is what the
Lord does when he crosses our path. I know I've given this
to you before, but it bears repeating. Before the Lord clothes us with
the blessed righteousness of the gospel, the blessed righteousness
that's revealed in the gospel, Christ our righteousness, he
must strip us. Strip us, I mean, right down
to the nakedness before God Almighty. To strip us bare. He must do
that before he clothes us. before the Lord heals us with
that balm of Gilead, before He pours in the oil and the wine
and heals us by His grace. You know what He does first?
He wounds us with the word, with the sword of the Spirit. He wounds
us with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Before the Lord
gives us life, in Christ Jesus and fills us with a well of water
springing up into everlasting life. You know what he does before
he fills us? He kind of empties us, doesn't
he? Empties us of all and any false hope we may have. Are you clinging on to some false
hope back here somewhere? Some decision you made, some
aisle you walked? Are you done with that stuff?
Are you clinging to any of that? Before He fills us with the water,
the well of everlasting life, He empties us of any hope but
Christ. And then He fills us with Christ
Himself. You see, there must be true Holy
Spirit conviction of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment,
according to John 16, before there is true Holy Spirit conversion. There's got to be conviction
of sin before there's conversion. Now it's sad but true. This generation in which we have
lived in for the last several hundred years, especially in
this country for the last hundred years, they have substituted
Holy Spirit conviction for aisle walking and making a decision.
They have substituted Holy Spirit conviction for coming down front
and praying at the altar, and they call that Holy Spirit conviction.
They think they have substituted easy believism for Holy Spirit
conviction. Where there's no Holy Spirit
conviction, there's no conversion. There's got to be conviction
of sin. Has the Lord ever laid your heart bare before God as
guilty, guilty, If God sent me to hell, would
he be doing right? Absolutely. I'm guilty before
God, and if he condemns me, he's just in doing so. I don't deserve
mercy. Now, I plead for mercy, but I
don't deserve mercy. Did God ever script you, made
you, shown you that you're guilty before God? That's what happened
to this woman. Look what she does. Look at verse
19. The Lord just exposed her sin,
and look what she does. She runs to a refuge. The woman
said, sir, well, you must be a prophet. You know all about
me. You must be some kind of prophet.
The woman, as many people do, when confronted with the truth
of being guilty before God, she ran to her refuge of religious
lies and said, well, man, you must be a preacher. She got religious
right away, didn't she? I've had this happen to me so
many times. I meet someone out in public, sometimes a stranger.
I've had this happen many times. And we'll get to talking and
they'll ask me, well, just where do you work and what do you do?
I said, well, I'm a pastor at church. I'm a preacher of the
gospel. Oh, and they said, oh, well, I know when I got saved,
Immediately immediately that they get very religious. Oh,
I know when I got they say I know when I got saved I Made peace with God. Yeah,
I got things all fixed up. That's exactly what this woman
did She ran to her refuge didn't
she? Oh, so I perceive you're a prophet Then look what she
says in verse 20 She makes this confession, or
rather, she expresses her opinion. She expresses her idea, doesn't
she? Verse 20, our father, she said,
well, our fathers, we go way back, you know, we have a long
line of tradition. We have religious tradition. Our fathers, they worshiped in
this mountain. And you Jews, you Jews say that
down there in Jerusalem is a place where men ought to worship. You
see anything in that? She was really confused, wasn't
she? About worship. Or rather, maybe she's saying
this. You know, it just really doesn't matter. It really doesn't
matter where we worship or what we worship. You know, just as
long, and I've heard this statement before too, those folks are so
sincere down there. Well, is the gospel preached?
No. Well, those folks are so sincere down there. You know,
and I don't doubt their sincerity. You remember when Elijah met
700 of those prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel? Those folks
gave the appearance, those prophets gave the appearance of being
sincere, didn't they? when from early morning through
noon till the evening, they jumped up and down on that altar and
called, hey, Baal, answer us, oh, Baal. And when Baal was silent,
they began to take out sharp instruments and cut themselves
and the blood gushed out, Baal, hear us now, we're bleeding.
Were they sincere? Well, they were sincerely wrong,
but they were sincere and they're idolatry, weren't they? You remember
what Elijah did? You know, he mocked him, didn't
he? Read about it, 1 Kings 18. Won't you cry a little bit louder?
Maybe your God's on vacation. Maybe he's just off in a foreign
country and he can't hear you. He mocked him. There is no true
worship without the truth of the gospel being declared and
believed. Anything less than true worship,
what is it? It's idolatry, isn't it? Ignorant
worship, even though it may be sincere ignorance. Sincere ignorance
and ignorant worship, again, what is it? It's idolatry, isn't
it? Plain and simple. Now, I'm interested
in what the Lord's gonna say to this woman, verse 21. The
next few verses the Lord's gonna tell us what true worship's all
about. Verse 21. And the Lord said to her, woman, believe me. Believe me. That's what we need to do, is
believe the word of God. That'll correct our error. That'll
help us and wean us from ignorance. Woman, Believe God the hour cometh
when you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem
God's true people are going to worship him in spirit and in
truth The first thing the Lord tells
this woman you The first thing the Lord tells
this woman is to shut up and Shut up. I don't want to hear your opinion.
The first thing he tells this woman is to hush. Woman, believe
me. Believe me. Believe me. Believe what I'm going to say.
Now how important is it to hear the Word of God? How important
is it to hear the Word of God and to believe the Word of God?
to be ready to hear what God says, rather than to express,
well, I don't really care what God's word says, after what a
lot of people say, here's what I think. Our thinking's all wrong. You remember what Naaman said?
Naaman the leper, who came who came to Elijah or Elisha for
cleansing. I thought he'd come out and see
me. He didn't come out of the house. He sent his servant. Gehazi,
was that his name? Well, I thought he would do this.
He'd strike his hand over the place and he'd make a big hocus
pocus. Elisha didn't go out the door
to meet him. You know what we need to do with our opinion?
Get rid of it. Just get rid of it. Our opinions
are always wrong. Our thoughts about God left to
ourselves are always wrong. Always wrong. We think too highly
of ourselves. Our opinion of ourselves is too
high. Therefore, our opinion of God
Almighty is always too low. The reverse of that happens after
conversion, doesn't it? We think highly of God and we
think lowly of ourselves. So he tells this woman, woman,
believe my word. Now, let me ask you a question.
This is not a trick question. I want you to listen to this
question. He tells this woman to listen to God's truth, God's
word. Have you ever learned anything
by talking? Have you ever learned? Usually
when you're talking, you're not listening. Have you ever learned
anything by talking? I haven't. I haven't. It's listening,
isn't it? Listening, listening, listening.
You know what I tell folks? Sit still. Listen to the Word
of God and all your questions will be answered in due time.
In due time, we'll get to it. In due time, God's Word will
cover it. That's why we go book by book, verse by verse, word
by word. Just sit still, listen, and wait
upon the Lord to reveal Himself unto you. James put it this way,
let us be swift to hear, slow to speak. Faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the Word of God, the Word of truth. You see, the
real issue is not where, in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem. What's about to happen in Jerusalem? The Lord said, the hour's coming
when there'll be no more Jerusalem. The temple destroyed, right? Jerusalem flattened, everybody
scattered, when Rome came through, 70 AD, and flattened the place. You see, the real issue is not
where. The real issue is not in the
mountain or in the religious center of the Jews, whether out
in the woods or among the cathedrals and the glass cathedrals and
the fancy houses of men. The real issue is who. Who do you worship? Do you approach
God? So look at verse 22. You worship. You know not what you worship. We know what we worship. We know
what we worship for salvation. Salvation. Salvation. Who was it revealed to first? The Amalekites, the Hittites,
the Jebusites, all them other ites, the electrolytes, any of
them other ites, the Philistines, no. Who is it revealed to? God's people, the Jews, the Jews,
Abraham's descendants. The Lord here exposes her idolatry. You don't know what you worship.
You remember in Acts 17 when Paul hit Athens, and his heart
was stirred when he saw the whole city given over to idolatry?
Someone said there was 30,000 different idols in that city,
and he just walked around and, what is this and what is, and
finally he came to one that said, to the unknown God, just in case
they missed one, they put one to the unknown God, wanted to
cover all their bases. Acts 17 says, these are Paul's
words, for I passed by and beheld your devotion and I found an
altar with this inscription to the unknown God whom you therefore
ignorantly worship. This one whom you don't know,
the unknown God, this is the one I'm going to declare unto
you, the one that made heaven and earth, the one who is Lord,
sovereign of all the earth. The Lord says, we know what we
worship, for salvation is of the Jews. That is, salvation
has been revealed unto his covenant people, the true Jews. I'm not
talking about just the physical. I'm talking about those true
Jews, those covenant children given to God, God gave to the
Lord Jesus Christ. That's who salvation's been revealed
to, isn't it? Not that circumcision, which
is outwardly, but that circumcision is of the heart. You see, the Lord chose these
descendants of Abraham, known as the Jews. The Lord chose these
people above all. other peoples of the earth. He
chose them to give him his word. He chose them to give him his
law. He chose the priesthood and gave the priesthood to the,
he didn't give it to the tribe of the Philistines, he gave it
to the Levitical tribe. Aaron, his sons, the priesthood,
Eleazar, the tabernacle. Who had the tabernacle? Israel
had the tabernacle. But who had the prophets of God?
You know who had the prophets of God? Israel of old. The Lord
gave the prophets, the tabernacle, the priesthood, the law. You
see, salvation that's revealed in the Word of God by God was
delivered unto His covenant people. The Lord Jesus Christ descended
from which tribe? Judah, he's a lion of the tribe
of Judah from the house of David, tribe of Judah. You see, the
Jews, God's covenant people, had the prescribed way how to
worship God, didn't they? Three things were required to
approach God, to worship God. And all these things are fulfilled
in the Lord Jesus Christ. They had the gospel in type and
picture, didn't they? and shadow. They had the gospel
in tight picture and shadow. Three things required to approach
God and to worship God. Number one was this, had to have
a sacrifice. You had to have a sacrifice.
There was no approaching God without a blood sacrifice. What
does that blood sacrifice typify? Substitution by substitute. And we know the Lord Jesus Christ,
indeed that sacrifice that was provided by God. Behold the Lamb
of God, the Lamb. He's a fulfillment of all those
lambs under the law. Secondly, had to have an altar.
What did the altar do? The altar set the sacrifice apart
as unto God. The altar set the sacrifice apart. What sets our sacrifice of the
Lord Jesus Christ apart? It's who he is. Christ is our
altar. Now someone said this, I don't
know who said this, I don't know where it comes from, John Gill
or one of those old writers, said that he sacrificed his humanity,
and he did, on the altar of his deity. And that's a good statement. He sacrificed his humanity, his
holy, harmless humanity, without sin, without spot, without blemish,
on the altar of his deity. What makes His sacrifice so special? What makes it so special? Who
He is. God bought us with His own blood.
And then thirdly, sacrifice, altar, and then what, thirdly,
what was, what did I say? You had to have a priest. You
had to have a priest. Someone to represent you that
was anointed of God, chosen of God, anointed of God in that
office to represent you before God. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ
repeatedly in scripture, especially in the book of Hebrews is called
our great high priest, who didn't bring the typical animal sacrifice,
did he? He brought his own blood and
he obtained for us eternal redemption with his own blood. You remember
the words of the Apostle Paul, where he said, I know whom I
have believed, I know whom I have believed, and I'm persuaded he's
able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that
day. As believers today, regenerated, made new in Christ Jesus, and
taught of God, having Christ revealed unto us, we look to
the Lord Jesus Christ alone as our only sacrifice for sin. Do
we look anywhere else? Any other means by which sin
may be put away, but to the Lord Jesus Christ. He's our only altar. It's who he is that gives value
and eternal merit to that sacrifice. And we know the Lord Jesus Christ,
we look to him alone to represent us before God, don't we? He is
our great high priest. Do we need an earthly priest
to represent us? We have one that is seated in
the heavenlies. the Lord Jesus Christ. Now listen
to this statement. I've written this down, look
at it carefully. Only a true believer is capable and able
to worship God. Only a true believer is capable,
willing, and able to worship a true and living God in spirit
and in truth. It is beyond the ability of the
natural fleshly man to worship God. Matter of fact, it's impossible. It's impossible. It's beyond
the ability of the flesh. That which is born of the flesh,
what is it? Flesh. That which is born of
the Spirit is Spirit. You see, the natural man, the
carnal mind, is enmity against God. The natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God. By nature we love, by
nature we love, what? darkness, not light. You see
what I'm saying? It is an impossibility for a
natural man in the flesh, after all he is is flesh, to worship
the true and living God in spirit and in truth. Only a true believer
can worship God. Now look at verse 23. The hour
cometh and now is. The hour cometh and now is. when
true worshipers shall worship the Father, God the Father, in
spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to
worship him in spirit and in truth. Now, there is true worship,
right? There is true worship. But what's
the flip side of that? There is vain worship too, isn't
there? There's false worship. Now let me show you what the
Lord says here. Turn to Matthew chapter 15. Matthew chapter 15. Matthew 15. And then stay right
here in the book of Matthew for a minute, Matthew chapter 15.
Look at verse 7. He said, You hypocrites, well
did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh to me
with their mouth, they honor me with their lips, but their
heart, their heart, they're going through the motions. I mean they're
going through the motions. But he calls it hypocrisy, doesn't
he? Your heart's far from me. God looks on the heart. In vain
they do worship me. Why? Teaching for doctrine the
commandments of men. Vain worship. You remember from
our study in the Psalms, O come, let us worship, Psalm 95, and
bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is
our God, we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of
his hand. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. True worshipers. I turn to Matthew
8. Matthew 8. True worshipers shall
worship the Father, That is God the Father. Behold what manner
of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called
sons of God. God the Father who is holy, almighty. Only true worshippers shall worship
the Father. God who was holy, God our Father,
in and by and only by the power of God the Holy Spirit, in and
by the Lord Jesus Christ who is the truth. The truth of all
of salvation. Now look at Matthew 8. Let me
give you two examples of those who worship God in spirit and
in truth. Matthew 8 1 when he was come
down from the mountain great multitudes followed him and behold
there came a leper and Worshipped him They worshipped him saying
Lord Lord if you will Salvations of your will if you will you
can make me clean and the Lord put forth his hand and touched
him Saying I will be thou clean I will be thou clean." Here's
another example. I could give you many examples,
but these two. Turn to Matthew 28. True worshippers
shall worship God the Father only by the power of God the
Holy Spirit, only in and by the Lord Jesus Christ who is truth. In Matthew 28, when the women
went to the grave, the tomb, to anoint the body of the Lord,
not knowing that on that third morning He had already been raised
from the dead. Matthew 28 verse 8 said, They
departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy the Lord
was not there they were fearful but joyful which did run to bring
his disciples word and as they went to tell his disciples behold
the Lord risen glorified Christ met them saying all hail and
they came and hailed him by the feet and worshipped him. They
were at his feet worshiping him. Now if you would look at the
definition of the word worship, it gives us a good indication
of what is involved. It means great respect for, total
reverence of, a complete submission to, heart love for, it's assigning
to God his true worth. Matter of fact, the word worship
comes from two old English words, which means worth and ship, worship. It's assigning to God his true
worth, acknowledging who he is, bowing before his sovereign throne. The only place we will truly
worship is at the throne of a sovereign God. Any God that you can manipulate
and change, It's not God. The only place
we will truly worship is at the throne of the sovereign God. To fall at His feet in reverence,
awe, and adoration. You can't worship a peanut God,
can you? A God who wants to and can't, who's tried and failed?
There's no worship going on there. Not at all. But if God would
teach us who He is, Almighty and sovereign and who we are
and what He has done for us in Christ Jesus. Doesn't that inspire
and inflame your heart to worship Him in spirit and in truth? It
says here, the Father seeketh such, the Father seeketh such
to worship Him. Do you know what that means?
Worship is a work of grace in our heart. If we truly worship
Him in spirit and truth, it's because He sought us out. It's because He has chosen us
and caused us to approach unto Him. The Father seeketh such
to worship Him in spirit and in truth. Now look at it. Let's
look at these two things, in spirit and in truth. I won't keep you much longer,
so stay with me. I want you to hear this. In spirit and in truth. The Father seeketh such In spirit,
what does this mean? It is worshiping Almighty God
in the power of and under the influence of God, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit not only convicts
us of sin, but also reveals the gospel of Christ unto us. Our
Lord said, when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he'll take
the things of Christ and show them, reveal them unto you. True
worship is the fruit of the new birth. Turn back to John chapter
3. Without regeneration, being raised
from the dead, there's no true worship, not in our heart. Our
Lord said, John 3, 3, except a man is born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God. He's in the dark. Verse 5, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of water, that
is the word of God, and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom
of God. Verse six, that which is born
of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the spirit
is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, you must, you must,
you must be born again without the birth from above. We're dead
in sin. We cannot enter the kingdom of
God. We cannot see, understand, perceive
the kingdom of God, nor can we worship. That's right. There is no true worship without
being raised from the dead. It is that new divine nature
that is implanted within us that incites and inflames our regenerated
heart. That new heart given in the new
birth that causes the new heart, regenerated heart, to worship
the true and living God. That's what true worship is all
about. It takes place in here. You know, it's not as most religious
folks say, well, we have to create an atmosphere of worship. You
ever seen those atmosphere? You ever been around those atmosphere?
They say, we got to create an atmosphere of worship. Soft music,
candles burning, stained glass. We got to have stained glass
windows. Now you got to do something here. These windows now, we got
to have stained glass windows. We've got to have soft music.
We've got to have the biggest organ. We've got to have the
biggest pipe organ in town. We've got to have a building
with the tallest steeple. I mean, we've got to create atmosphere.
We've got to... Why do they put those steeples
on those buildings anyway? You know what we have on top
of our building at Zebulon? We don't have steeples. You know
what we have? Shingles. You know what you have on this
building here? I checked this before I came in. Ain't no steeple
out there, is there? I didn't see one. What do you
have? Shingles. You see, it's not atmosphere,
is it? You can have all the atmosphere.
You can have all the choirs with the robes. You can have all the
atmosphere, but if the truth of God is denied, There is no
worship. Where sinners have not been regenerated
by the power of God and the gospel of God, there's no worship, is
there? The more we depend upon visual
aids, we don't have any worship. It
must be by the power of God the Holy Spirit. Paul said in Philippians,
we are the true Israel which worship God in the Spirit, that
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and we have no confidence in the
flesh. So, it must be by the Spirit in the power of God the
Holy Spirit being made new creatures in Christ Jesus. And the second
thing he mentions here is the truth. The truth. What do you
reckon that means? Now you know what it means, don't
you? Our worship must be in the truth. Truly sincere as the truth is
revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
true God. He's the absolute truth of all
things relating to the gospel of God concerning the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's called the way, the truth,
the life. Christ is the truth. Christ crucified
is the truth of how sin is put away. Did he really put away
sin or was it just an effort? Did he make salvation a possibility
for all men if they would do certain things or did he actually
accomplish salvation by the sacrifice of himself? Now you know what
it is. He appeared once in the end of the age to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself and he didn't fail. He's the truth
of how sin's put away. His blood does cleanse from all
sin. Christ is the truth about the
way of salvation. About the way of salvation. He's
just not a way, is He? He's the way. Salvation by the
grace of God alone. Neither is there salvation in
any other. For by grace are you saved. calling grace, fetching grace,
electing grace, sovereign grace, grace from A to Z, Alpha to Omega. Christ is the truth about how
we are made righteous in God's sight. How are we made righteous
in God's sight? Who does the justifying anyway?
Blessed is the man whom the Lord imputeth righteousness with how
it works. Christ is true revelation of
the true and living God. He said, I and my Father are
one. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has
shined in our heart to give us the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God. The light of the knowledge of
the glory of God that shines where? In the face of the Lord
Jesus Christ, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, I
want to worship him in spirit. and in truth. God, verse 24,
God is spirit. They that worship Him must worship
Him in spirit and in truth. God is spirit. The only way we
can truly worship Him is in the way that He has prescribed. If we come some other way, is
that worship? No. It's vain. Now this He says
in verse 24, is a must. You see that in verse 24? This
is a must. God is spirit. They that worship
him must, must worship him in spirit and in truth. This is
a must. That is, it's not optional. It's a mandate of God, command
of God. Now listen to this. Wash your
ears out with this. I'll be through. I just got a
couple more statements. where the gospel of God's grace
in Christ is denied, where his effectual atonement by his redeeming
blood is ridiculed, where the electing grace of God is mocked,
where the perseverance of saints is scorned, where the glory of
God, the glory of God's salvation and his glory is belittled, where
the gospel truth of the Lord Jesus Christ is denied, What's
going on over there? There is no true worship going
on where the gospel is denied and belittled, ridiculed, and
scorned. They may be going through the
motions. They may have the biggest steeple in town. They may have
the biggest crowd. Does a big crowd constitute worship? Where two or three are gathered
in my name, I'm in their midst. You know, Abraham, the first
time the word worship is in the Bible is Genesis 22. It says,
Abraham believed God and worshiped. where the gospel truth is denied,
there's no true worship going on. Faith and conduct cannot
be separated, neither can true faith and obedience and worship
be separated. Mark it down, write it in the
lead, with lead in the rock forever. The father seeketh such to worship
him in spirit and in truth. This is a must. Now, God help
us. God help us. I want to worship
Him, don't you? I want to worship the true and
living God. God help us to truly worship
our blessed God and Savior right now. Right now. And forever. To ascribe unto
Him all honor and glory both now and forever. You've read that in the revelation,
I know you have. The occupation of God's saints
glorified in Christ Jesus is one thing. It's an eternal worship. Worthy is a lamb that was slain
to receive all honor, glory, and blessing both now and forever. And what did they say? Amen.