Seattle, October 07, 2005. (100)
TRUE WORSHIP OF THE LORD WHO IS A SPIRIT. The Father, is Spirit. A living entity. A person, possessing a personality which is revealed throughout the Word of the Lord. That which is of the Spirit is forever. It is far more real than the natural, created world in which we live and partake of all the time. That which is created is but for a brief moment of time between two eternities. Man dies, animal life dies, the earth waxes old and will soon no longer exist. The Lord will prepare a new heavens and a new earth for His people. A Spiritual heavens and earth occupied by spiritual people, the redeemed of all the ages of time. The Lord will no longer be an invisible Spiritual being but His own will see His face and rejoice in His abundant presence. John 4:24 The blood washed will worship Him in Spirit and in truth, forever and forever.
INVISIBLE. Unseen, yet He is the eternal King, and the King of eternity. It is vital that He hide Himself, for could mankind see Him in all of His glory and splendor, it would frighten them to death. Consider the reaction of men who saw His glory. Ezekiel on seeing the glory of the Lord fell on his face. Eze. 44:4 John on Patmos when seeing the glory and splendor of the Lord Jesus fell before Him as dead. Rev. 1:13-17 The natural man cannot stand in just the presence of the glory of the Lord, let alone seeing Him eye to eye. As invisible as He may be, the fact of His being is clearly seen all around us by the creation which He made. There is a real move to replace evolution with “intelligent design.” How can anyone study the creation around us without coming to a knowledge that only a person of exceedingly great and perfect intelligence could design and produce a world and its contents such as we live in. Rom. 1:20.
HE HAS REVEALED HIMSELF. In the birth of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus, God was in Christ. The fullness of all that the LORD is was seen in Christ. Jesus is the image, the perfect, the exact likeness of His Father. So the invisible was revealed. Col. 1:15. So greatly and precise was the likeness that Jesus was able to say, “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” John 14:9 That did not make Him to be His own Father but emphasized the fact that the fullness of the Godhead was in Christ. So exact was the likeness in Him of His Father that He was able to consider Himself equal with His Father. Phil. 2:6 Jesus is called “the express image,” an exact copy. Having the same Spirit, the same Divine nature, the same attitude and power. Heb. 1:3.