What Is True Worship?

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Worship is not limited to singing, praying, fasting, giving, and serving; although these functions are essential when expressing honor to God. Thus it isn't about fulfilling a religious list but more about how you live. It is out of a pure heart and Christ-focused mind that those expressions of worship come forth. You find this balance by way of the Spirit and the Word of God. In John 4:24, Jesus said;

"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in Spirit and in truth."

According to Jesus, worship comes down to a healthy combination of accuracy and authenticity. The Spirit symbolizes sincerity, and the Word represents exactness, together these standards serve as the pillars of worship. Interestingly enough, at the heart of the antichrist's deception and reign of power in the Tribulation, will be false worship founded upon inaccuracies and unauthentic practices. The antichrist's one-world religion will manipulate and mislead people. That is the focus of Revelation 17. Here John provides a clear picture of the strategy and false worship plan of the devil. The unholy trinity of the devil, the antichrist, and the false prophet combine efforts to promote a counterfeit religion and worship upon the world that people and heads of nations sheepishly follow. Revelation 17:3-6 says;

"And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations." 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."

John continues with the metaphor of a woman/prostitute representing a false religion and worship that seduces the people of the earth into following the antichrist. "Babylon the great," refers to the antichrist's political epicenter and the origins of Babylonian paganism (Genesis 11:1-9). The mention of the harlot drinking blood pertains to the martyrdom of believers throughout the ages that would not deny the Lord and follow the enemy's false worship.

With this in mind, seek to worship Jesus in Spirit and in truth. Do not be blown around by every wind of false doctrine and fashionable activism (Ephesians 4:14). Stand on the merits of the Gospel and kneel on the promises of God.