Salvation is of the Jews, but...
Look at John chapter four (KJV).
Verse twenty-two: Salvation is of the Jews.
The word of God did not stop there because God's
Salvation is for anyone, anywhere. The next verse
says But... Read it.
In verse twenty-two Jesus told a Samaritan woman that
she does not know what she was worshipping. She was
certain that she and her people were doing well by
going to a particular mountain to worship. See verse
twenty.
The same thing is happening to many other nations and
tribes. They have set apart a particular temple, river, city
or other things where they must go to worship. They do
not understand that God must be worshipped in spirit
and in truth (verse 23).
Even Jerusalem is not the place where God meets with
His true worshippers, just because it is called the holy
city (verse 21). Christians are also making this same
mistake. They are willing to fight and die for Jerusalem
because they think they ought to worship God there.
People who don't know God's truth are prone to
deceptions. How can they please God, who is a Spirit,
by restricting Him to a particular mountain or city?
Are you making pilgrimage to Rome, Jerusalem or some
other place to worship God? Do you think that you will get
more blessings than those who stay at home and worship
God in spirit and in truth? Think again.
God is looking at the hearts of people more than at their
outward parts and their buildings, clothes, rivers, etc. Those
who are pleasing God are presenting to Him a pure heart.
Their hearts are washed in the blood of the Lamb of God.
No one can enter into God's holy presence through a city,
a river, a mountain, or anything else, except through the
precious shed blood of Jesus Christ. It is His blood only
that can purify the hearts of people. It is only through the
cross of Jesus can sins be forgiven and sinners be made
clean to enter into the presence of a holy God.
Those who are born of the Spirit of God through faith in
Jesus Christ are living in God's Spirit and God's Spirit
is living in them. They are in God wheresoever they may
be on the Earth. They can communicate with God and
worship Him anywhere. Of course they still need places
to assemble to worship God together. Those places
should not become like the mountain in Samaria that
the Samaritans were believing to be the way to enter into
worship with God.
When you learn this truth from God's word you can make
corrections if you were not aware of this truth. You will be
able to see the folly of going to any pilgrimage to worship
the God of Heaven, who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped
in spirit and in truth. Start with this truth to refuse to worship
you know not what. Refuse to be fooled. Treat the truth of
the living God with reverence and turn to Him to guide you
into a walk with Him by faith in Jesus Christ through the
Spirit of God.
Abdool N
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posted by Abdool N @ 2:45 p.m.
