Worship

This week we begin worship with:

John 4:23
"But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him."

The reason is given in the following verse.

John 4:24
"God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

The physical worship of the Jews must be transformed because God is spirit.  Paul wrote:

Romans 9:4
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

The"worship" (latreia) or "service" (KJV) was the sacrificial system of physical worship and atonement. Paul then wrote as the capstone verse of Romans:

Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

In this "spiritual worship" (logikos latreia) we become the sacrifice.  We become every Burnt Offering, every Grain Offering, every Peace Offering, every Sin offering, and every Guilt offering (Leviticus 1-6).

So one must ask oneself, how am I sacrificing myself today?  For this is how we worship Him in "spirit and truth.".