True Worship

True worship must come from the Spirit, not the body. The movements of your body and the things you do to worship with this body must come from something in your spirit. Worship must originate in your mind, in your heart and most of all in your spirit that is in tune with the Holy Spirit within you.

We never had to use our spirit for anything else in life and that makes it difficult for us to understand what worshipping God in spirit really means.

You didn’t get a job because of your spirit! If you think so, just call your boss tomorrow and tell him that your body won’t be there for the next two weeks but you will be there in spirit. What do you think he will say? You can do what you want with your spirit but your body had better be here. They didn’t hire you for your spirit; they hired you for what’s in your mind and for what your body can do.

When you got your High School Diploma, or your College Degree, if you have one, you didn’t get that because of your spirit. You got it because you made your body work, and your brain to work, and you did the work that was required. You didn’t walk into the classroom one time and start speaking in tongues or get slain in the spirit or get lost in the presence of God and then your instructor said, “You’re so spiritual! Here’s your diploma!”

But now, when you become a Christian and you must begin to learn to worship God, now you have to start allowing your spirit to be in control. There are a whole lot of Christians who have never learned the difference and that’s why we have such weak churches and even weaker Christians who are easy prey for the devil to deceive them into accepting a false style of worship.

Many of you have come from a background where you went to the night clubs and the dance halls and you loved to dance and shout to the music. Then when you come into the church, the music sounds about the same, and the excitement is about the same, and so you just trade the nightclub scene for the church scene and continue in the same groove. There’s a little bit of change in the words and a little cleaning up of the language and the life we live, but there’s no real change of heart and no real separation from the ways of the world that we have always known.

We look at the Word of God where it says in 2 Corinthians 6:17, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," and we say to ourselves, well I can still go as long as I don’t participate and act like the worldly crowd and everything will be all right. We don’t realize the true holiness of God, and the absolute separation from every appearance of evil that God requires of us. We think that we can play around with the world and worship God on Sunday and that’s enough. We don’t understand that we aren’t worshipping God at all. We are just playing like we are Christians but we aren’t really worshipping God in spirit and in truth.

We see that in people who come to church on Sunday morning but hit the nightclubs on Saturday night. We see that in the movie stars who have their drinking parties and social gatherings to celebrate the “good life”, but then have a prayer meeting and Bible study at their house after the party is over.