A True Worship

True worship of God is when we love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. It's when we praise God above everything else and put Him first in our hearts.

As it says in Deuteronomy 6:4-5, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one!

True worship is any expression of obedience, praise, honor, adoration, and gratitude offered to the true God by a regenerate soul who knows the truth about God and loves him.

Ron Kenoly Quotes:

‘True worship begins in the heart and manifests in emotions and actions that are signs or evidence that God is with us’.

Everything do is for us every prayer, every offering, every sermon etc.., only thing that we offer to God is our Worship.

Michael W. Smith Says

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all. Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet. Not everyone can lead worship.

Darlene Zschech quotes

Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very principal of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.

(Jn 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.”

(Jn 4:7, 19–20)

A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” . . . 19 the woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

Jesus’s discussion with the Samaritan woman reveals a contrast between true worship and false worship.

In 722 BC, when the northern kingdom of Israel was conquered by Sargon, the Assyrian, and scores of Israelites were taken away, the only ones left in the north were the poor. Over time, these poor Israelites intermarried with idolatrous pagan people, and their descendants constituted the hybrid group known as the Samaritans. The Samaritans developed their own kind of worship at Mount Gerizim—a simple approach based on what they knew from the Pentateuch, and that alone; none of the history books or literature or prophets informed their worship. They had their own kind of worship. However, their worship was vain.

Worship Based on God’s Commands

How did this Samaritan woman, with only the Pentateuch in her religious background, know that a relationship with God was defined as worship?

She would know that because she knew the Ten Commandments, the first three of which clearly articulate the worship of God as central to a relationship with him.

Worship Based on the God’s Commandments

A. The first commandment identifies whom we are to worship: (Exod 20:1–3)

And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 You shall have no other gods before me.”

B. The second commandment addresses how God should be worshiped, (Exod 20:4–6)

Or rather, how he should not be worshiped—by means of any visual representation:

• You shall not make for yourself a carved image,

• or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,

• or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Vs: 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Vs: 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

C. The third commandment lays out very clearly the responsibility of any human being before God to make certain that he or she never takes the name of the Lord in vain: (Exod 20:7)

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

The Samaritan worship would have also known well the Shema, the central statement of faith for an Old Testament Jew:

(Deut 6:4–6)

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

The Pentateuch is clear about the importance and nature of true worship. On the negative side, do not take the name of the Lord in vain, or you will not be guiltless; on the positive side, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and might. So this woman knew that a relationship with God is defined in how that individual conceives of the divine being.