Descriptions: Spirit and Truth

In this part of the sermon: Martin first provides a formal definition of worship as honor and homage paid to a superior being, then develops a working description from Revelation 4, 7, and 11. He concludes…

Martin compares breathing, an unconscious activity, to worship, emphasizing that worship is a conscious, deliberate activity, unlike automatic bodily functions.

Now, every one of you has been engaged very consistently in a certain activity from the time you entered this building. You have been engaged in the activity of breathing. Now, that is not a conscious activity. I doubt there's a one of you who has thought from the time you entered this building 43 minutes ago to the time I mentioned it, who sat there and thought, I am breathing.

13:58 - 14:27 Read in full sermon

Driving home: And I'm convinced with all my heart, dear ones, that this is perhaps the greatest stumbling block to true worship. We have not grasped the fact that worship is a conscious activity to which you must give yourself with ev…

He uses knitting and driving (where one can do two things at once) to illustrate that worship is not a subconscious or divided activity, but demands the wholehearted employment of all faculties.

There's no indication that these beings around the throne while they're worshiping are knitting. Now I've watched women knit. And it's amazing how they can do all that and keep the things straight. And yet it's sort of a subconscious activity.

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In this part of the sermon: Beyond mere knowledge, true worship requires a spiritual sight of God. Martin uses Psalm 119:18 to explain that just as light and sight are needed to see, so God must 'open our…

Martin describes a blind man learning about an oak tree by touch, but never truly 'seeing' it. This illustrates that intellectual knowledge of God is insufficient without spiritual sight, which reveals God's living form and beauty.

2 Corinthians 4, 4 says the God of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not. Now I might take a blind man and describe to this blind man a tree, an oak tree. And I might tell him that it's so wide and it's so tall and the leaves are of such and such a shape. And that blind man might be guided over to that tree and feel the bark and feel the leaves.

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The point: If you are a stranger to the new birth, throw yourself down and cry for mercy, asking the Lord Jesus to reveal the Father to you.

He recounts George Whitefield's frequent preaching on John 3:3, emphasizing that the reason for preaching 'you must be born again' is simply 'because you must be born again,' underscoring the absolute necessity of regeneration for spiritual perception.

God is a spirit. infinite eternal and unchangeable in his being wisdom power holiness justice goodness and truth that's fine and you ought to know that god is a spirit infinite eternal and unchangeable in his being his wisdom his power his holiness justice goodness and truth you can know all of that and never be found like those people described in the book of the revelation prostrate on your face crying worthy art thou see until we are born of the spirit so that we have spiritual eyes that perceive the beauty of this god who is spirit we will not be found worshiping him any other worship othe...

36:34 - 38:02 Read in full sermon