In Spirit and Truth

Question 1

In John 4, Jesus encountered a … who asked Him about the proper location for worship. Jesus responded that location and style may change, but the value (which must never change) is worshiping God “in spirit and in truth” (4:23). “God is a spirit” and we must worship him “in … and in …” (Jn. 4:24). Without the Spirit’s presence, there is no genuine worship or life changing …

Answer 1

woman
spirit
truth
power

Question 2

“The … of the Holy Spirit makes all the difference in our worship. The Holy Spirit allows Jesus’ words to come alive. The Spirit changes our hearts and energizes our wills.

Answer 2

presence

Question 3

The spirit can enliven our forms of worship to enable joy and spontaneity. The Spirit breaks through … limitations, and links us with God.”

Answer 3

human

Question 4

In John’s writings, “truth” is a word that he relates often to … and the truth revealed by the Holy Spirit. John 1:17 states that “grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” The truth that is in Jesus will form the … on which worship styles are built.

Answer 4

Jesus

foundation

Question 5

True worship does not depend on holy … and … but upon whether the worshiper is sincere and if Jesus Christ is the … of our worship. Constance Cherry states that “Christian worship is always a response to truth, the truth as revealed in Jesus Christ.”

Answer 5

days
places
center

Question 6

Christian worship is not man-centered or event-centered, but it is … centered. Such Christocentric worship was established by Jesus Christ in His redemptive work which reconciled God and man, as evidenced in the following portion of scripture.

Answer 6

Christ

Question 7

“But Christ being come a high … of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the … of goats and calved, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us” (Heb. 9:11-12).

Answer 7

priest

blood

Question 8

As the “High Priest” (Heb. 2:17) and the “one mediator between God and man” (1 Tim. 2:6), Jesus led us into a reconciled relationship with God. At the core of the Bible is a God who deeply desires that and women worship him. John 4:23-24 describes the Father as seeking those who would “worship Him in spirit and truth.” To think that God would passionately seek worshipers must cause us to …

Answer 8

respond

Question 9

God created man for fellowship that was framed in worship, with obedience at the heart of that relationship (Gen 2:16-17). But Adam and Eve fell into sin and chose to worship the … rather than the Creator by obeying their own lust for wisdom rather than God (Gen. 3:1-6).

Answer 9

creature

Question 10

In the moment of the fall, sin entered man and woman, and fellowship with God was broken. But by God’s … he sought to bring people back into a relationship with himself. Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind became the propitiation for our sin so we can enter into fellowship with God.

Answer 10

grace

Question 11

It is imperative to realize the importance of worshiping God in both spirit and truth. … says it this way: “spirit without truth is helpless and truth without spirit is … without a fire.”

Answer 11

Tozer

theology

Question 12

William Hendrickson writes, “worshiping in spirit and truth can only mean.. that the entire … enters into the act.. in full harmony with the truth of God as revealed in His … . As some see it, a humble, spiritual attitude means little. According to others, truth or doctrinal soundness is of no importance. Both are one-sided, unbalanced and therefore wrong.”

Answer 12

heart

Word

Question 13

This duality(spirit and truth) is an area where Christianity must live in the tension between two necessary elements, neither overemphasizing one nor the other. Truth is found in the Word of God. Spirit and Truth must be in agreement. Spirit will never lead into an area the … prohibits.

Answer 13

Scripture

Question 14

Worship leaders must grasp the importance of both leading with their “entire …” (spirit) and allowing the Word (truth) to guide their worship planning.

Answer 14

heart

Question 15

What does it mean to worship in “spirit and truth?” Gundry states that physically the definition fo worship “Means to kneel down and … one’s knee to the ground.” One might think that Jesus was redefining worship to mean that you would prostrate your spirit instead of your body. But, He was not referring to the human spirit. Jesus did not say that “true worshipers will worship the Father in their spirits.” Earlier, in John 3:6, it is revealed that we must be born of water and Spirit. John had already told us that Jesus the Word was full of … and truth. John later quotes Jesus in John 17:6 as saying, “ I am..the truth.”

Answer 15

bend

Question 16

So, according to Gundry, “Spirit and Truth” refers here not to true worshipers”.. sincerity, but to God’s Spirit and to Jesus the truth.” We are to worship in Spirit and in truth. According to Gundry, the preposition “in” means that we are “to abide in Christ (that is, persevere in our Christian belief and conduct), so also we’re to abide in the Holy Spirit..” When we “abide in” the Holy Spirit this connotes a closeness and permanence. True worshipers are those who maintain a … relationship to Jesus.

Answer 16

close

Question 17

Jesus is seeking such worshipers. “The prediction in 4:23 that true worshipers will worship the Fathe in Spirit and Truth.. in 4:24 turns into the divine necessity that those who worship Him do so in Sprit and truth. Now, anything less.. on our part is …”

Answer 17

unacceptable

Question 18

This new kind of worship is not an … It is something that “must” occur. The Samaritan woman’s question in John 4 was not “How do we worship?” but “ Who are the true wroshippers?” Jesus’ answer was not the Jews or the Samaritans, but those who worship must “worship in Spirit and Truth.” J. Ramsey Michaels in his commentary on the Gospel of John states that “this announcement is crucial for by now it is self-evident.. that only those ‘ born of the Spirit ‘ (Jn. 3: 5, 6, 8) worship in “Spirit and truth.”

Answer 18

option

Question 19

Michaels states that “in just four verses, Jesus has used the verb ‘worship’ seven times and the noun ‘worshipers’ once. The verb ‘worship’ (proskynein) will occur only twice more in the entire Gospel (9:38; 12:20) and seems ill suited to this exchange because it means to fall down or … oneself.” Michaels does not believe that the use of “worship” implies the tone should literally fall prostrate, but rather it is a “metaphor for the state of the …”

Answer 19

prostrate

Question 20

“True worshipers” are not known by their bodily position but by the Spirit’s presence among them. In a closer examination of John 4, we find that the Samaritans were expecting the Messiah and believed that he would be a … The woman’s statement, at the well, reflects this belief. By telling the woman about her five husbands and her present man, who is not her husband, Jesu was revealing himself as the prophetic Messiah.

Answer 20

prophet

Question 21

“Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he” (Jn. 4:26). Worship leaders who worship in Spirit and Truth must know the truth revealed in … The NLT of the Bible in a footnote to John 4:26 states that the “Greek reads ‘I am, the one speaking to you.”

Answer 21

Jesus

Question 22

Gundry describes this an an “echo of God’s commanding Moses to tell the Israelites in Egypt that ‘I …” had sent him (Ex. 3:14).

Answer 22

AM

Question 23

So, Jesus is not only Messiah, the Christ, not only the incarnate … who speaks, but also the Word who because he was ‘ in the beginning.. with God’ and ‘ was God’ (Jn. 1:1) is the eternal “I AM.”

Answer 23

Word