What does it mean to worship in spirit and truth? Well, that's the question we will seek to answer. That is what Jesus said the Father is seeking, those who would worship Him in spirit and truth. So, this morning we're going to be in the gospel according to John chapter 4. We're going to look through the first 28 verses of this chapter. And I will read the verses as we work our way through it. I'm not going to read it all at the outset because we're going to cover it all during the course of our time here this morning. John's central theme in his gospel has been and will continue to be that Jesus of Nazareth is God in human flesh. John the Apostle testified to this in the very first sentence of this gospel. John the Baptist testified to Jesus' divinity. This is the foundational belief of Christianity, that Jesus is God. He's the eternal son of God. He's the lamb of God who has come down to earth to save sinners people from every nation from their sin and from the penalty of our sin Lord, as we come to your Word here this morning, I pray that you will give us understanding, that you will teach us by your Spirit, that you will deliver this Word to us in power, that we will be transformed by it. And we ask it in Christ's name. So we recall the Baptist spoke of Jesus as he who comes from above. The Apostle spoke of Jesus as he who was with God in the beginning and he who was and is God. He is the one who has come down from heaven. And both the Apostle and the Baptist have given us insight into the Trinitarian nature of the Godhead. Think of John's words at the very beginning, the Word was with God, the Word was God. The Father loves the Son. One must be born again of the Spirit. All of these testify to the triune nature of the Godhead. Now in chapter 3, Jesus had an encounter with a Pharisee named Nicodemus. And Jesus revealed to Nicodemus that he had come down from heaven. He told him that. He said, I can speak heavenly things because heaven is my true home. Jesus came down from heaven and spoke eternal heavenly truths. And Jesus told Nicodemus, if a man is to enter into the kingdom of God, he must be born again. He must be born of God. He must be born of the Spirit. There must be an inner transformation, a spiritual rebirth, which means a change in one's desires and affections, a change in one's will. And this is a work that no man can do of himself. It's a work only God can do in a sinner. So one must be born again, one must be brought into a union with the risen and exalted Christ. And Jesus revealed to Nicodemus that he was more than just a witness to the truths of heaven, that he in his human body must be lifted up, meaning he had to die on a cross. He had to shed His blood as a substitute for sinners in order for anyone to be forgiven of their sins and to be justified before God. That was the only way. There wasn't some other way. And Jesus revealed the way of salvation to Nicodemus. Whoever believes in Him shall not perish but shall have eternal life. So Jesus is not of the earth. He came down to earth from heaven. His existence did not begin at His conception or in Bethlehem. He is the eternal Son of God. Colossians 2.9, in Him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form. And we've seen all of these truths in just the first three chapters of this gospel. Now, Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus was the first in a series of several encounters that he would have with several people over the next two chapters. People of very different backgrounds and beliefs. Chapter 4, we're going to see Jesus meet with a Samaritan woman and then a royal official, a Gentile. In chapter 5, a man with a disease at a pool in Bethesda. and then an encounter with some other Pharisees. And in these encounters, Jesus is revealing his identity and his purpose in coming into the world. Chapter 4 of John's Gospel begins with Jesus and his disciples departing the Judean countryside for Galilee. And they're passing through Samaria. Now, Jews would not normally pass through Samaria on their way to Galilee. Samaria was directly north of Judea and Jerusalem, but Jews would generally avoid going through Samaria because these were two peoples who were hostile to each other. They would generally cross the Jordan River and go up to the east of the Jordan River through Perea and then cross back over into Galilee. Jesus, however, went through Samaria. And we're going to find out that the reason why he did that is because he had a divine appointment. So John 4, 1, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John. So Jesus was gaining more disciples than John was. He was becoming a popular figure in Judea. Now John tells us it wasn't Jesus himself was not baptizing, his disciples were actually doing the baptizing. But Jesus leaves Judea with his disciples and they head for Galilee. Only John's gospel tells us about Jesus baptizing during the time that John was baptizing. This was, again, a water baptism in which those who were being baptized declared their resolve to turn away from sin, to repent. They would confess their sins and turn to following the law of God. Now, this obviously was not a baptism in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but it was an act by which one sought cleansing of sin and forgiveness. Now, Jesus is about to leave there, though, because he knew that his popularity in Judea would bring the attention and resentment of the Jewish religious leaders in that region, and that they would be resentful of him. Their resentment might lead to a premature confrontation with them. But the hour of his cross had not yet arrived. So he sought to avoid provoking a confrontation at that time, and he went to Galilee. But he went through Samaria. Verse 4, he had to pass through Samaria. Well, he didn't have to pass through Samaria. But this was not the normal route a Jew would take. He came to a city in Samaria called Sukkar. Some pronounce it Shaykar. Some believe this was Shechem. This was near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. And Jacob's well was there. Now Jacob had been at this well 2,000 years before. So Jacob's well is there, and Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was thus sitting by the well. It's about the sixth hour, which we believe by their reckoning of time was around noon. Now in the books of Genesis and Exodus, we see water wells as popular meeting spots. They were also spots for the watering of their herds and their flocks, for the refreshment of people who were thirsty. They were also spots for divine appointments. It was at a well where Isaac's servant met Rebecca, who would become the wife of Isaac. It was at a well that Jacob met Rachel, who would become his wife. It was at a well that Moses met his wife. So this location, though, was purchased by Jacob, Genesis 33, 19, on his return from Paddan Aram for a hundred pieces of silver. In Genesis 49, we read that he later gave this to his son Joseph. In Genesis 50, verse 25, we read that when Joseph was about to die in Egypt, he requested that his bones be carried up from Egypt and buried here. And that this was actually done, we find confirmed in Joshua 24, verse 32. They brought Joseph's bones up and buried them here, in this place. Now, Samaria. This was a place where some of the northern tribes had settled hundreds of years earlier. Some had settled to the north of Samaria. But 1 Kings 16.24, there was a king in Israel named Omri, and he named the capital of this northern kingdom Samaria. And that became the name of the entire northern kingdom, which included parts of what we came to know as Galilee as well. But, of course, in 722 B.C., the northern kingdom was conquered by Assyria, and many of the Jews were scattered throughout the world to other lands. And many foreigners were brought by the Assyrians into the land of Samaria to settle there and to intermarry with the Jews who remained there. So this led to this mixed race of people, part Jew, part something else, and they came to be known as Samaritans and the Jews. What was left was the tribe of Judah and Benjamin. They had a great hostility toward these Samaritans, and that hostility was returned. So the Assyrian king then later, seeing he's got this mixed group of people, some pagan, some had formerly been Jews, he sends a Jewish priest in to the land to teach them the law of God. This led to this adulterated form of Judaism being grafted onto paganism. So he had this wicked amalgamation of Judaism and paganism. In 400 BC, the Samaritans built a temple at Mount Gerizim. This temple was destroyed during the Maccabean Wars, and actually at the end of the Maccabean Wars, around 128 BC. But the Samaritans still came to Mount Gerizim and offered sacrifices there. This offering of sacrifice was something that not only was done by the sons of Jacob, but by many of the pagan peoples of the world. They always were seeking the favor of those they imagined to be gods. So now, in the time of Christ, Samaria existed as an area, but it had no distinct political existence. The Roman procurator had joined Samaria and Judea into a single political body. And after hundreds of years, Jacob's well was still there. And at this well in Sukkar, Jesus encountered a woman, a Samaritan woman. Now, after reading many of the testimonies of the divinity of Jesus in the first three chapters of John's Gospel, now we see something of His humanity. Look what we read, He was wearied from His journey. He was thirsty because he was human as well. He's not only God, and he at no time ever ceased to be God, but he also became truly human. Why? Because only a God-man could render a perfect obedience to the law of God and thereby be an acceptable sacrifice, an unblemished offering for sins. So, look at verse 7 now. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus is sitting at the well. Jesus said to her, give me a drink. Now she's going to drop her bucket into the well and draw up and bring up some water. Verse 8, His disciples were not there at this point. They'd gone into the city to buy some food. And so the Samaritan woman, after Jesus asks her for a drink, says, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink, since I'm a Samaritan? The Jews have no dealings with Samaritans, John tells us. They're families, or social, religious, and political enemies. So she's surprised that a Jew would even speak to her, much less ask her for something. The racial division between Jews and Samaritans was such that she's taken aback here. But this opened the door for Jesus to teach this woman about a different kind of water. Now, he's using the term water symbolically here. Now notice, first of all, though, Jesus has just been speaking to Nicodemus. He was a learned and respected, orthodox, theologically trained ruler in Israel. She's a Samaritan woman regarded by the Jews as not only an outcast, but as an immoral woman. And yet both needed Jesus, as we all do, as all men do. So he asked for a drink. She says, you're asking me, a Samaritan woman? And he said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. If she knew who she was talking to, God Himself in human flesh, she'd have asked for that which only He can give. The gift of God is what? It's eternal life. It's spiritual life. And it's a gift that only the Spirit of God can bestow. He tells us this right here. In speaking of this gift of God, Jesus used the metaphor living water. Now, do we see living water, water as a metaphor in Scripture? We do. We see water as a metaphor for the Word of God, the Word of regeneration, washing by the Word of regeneration in Titus. We see it as a metaphor for the Spirit of God. We see it as a metaphor for life itself, which is imparted by God the Holy Spirit. So this Samaritan woman was speaking as though she thought Jesus was speaking of some water that could be brought up from the spring into the well. And she said she couldn't understand how this stranger could provide water. He doesn't even have a bucket or a rope. Look what she says to him in verse 11. Sir, you have nothing to draw with. The well is deep. Where do you then get that living water? Now, it's not clear whether she's mocking him, whether she's confused. But she says, you're not greater than our father Jacob, are you? And aren't the words, our father Jacob, interesting here? Because the Samaritans regarded themselves as the true Jews. You're not greater than our father Jacob, are you? He's the one who gave us this well. He drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle. At first, this woman seems to be speaking to Jesus in a demeaning tone, maybe ridiculing him. Did she not understand he was speaking figuratively? Was she insinuating that he was promising more than he could deliver? That he was exalting himself above the great patriarch Jacob? Maybe. She says, this water was good enough for Jacob and his sons and his cattle, and you say you have better water? Well, of course, the woman had missed Jesus' point completely. But this happens in evangelism, because her question provided an opening for Jesus to tell her what? The good news of eternal life that is in Him, that is through faith in Him. Now he says to her, verse 13, everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, this water from the well. And that's true. A person's bodily need for water is permanent. You always have to have water to survive. Can't live without water. But then Jesus said, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst. This is water you receive and never thirst again. The water that I will give Him will become in Him a well of water springing up to eternal life. So Jesus is contrasting now the well water that sustains temporal bodily life with the water that I will give. Water that sustains eternal spiritual life. The spirit of life. This water is the spirit of life. And He told her, He's far more than just a man. I am the source of eternal life. It's in me that you can find this living water. So what's he doing here? Well, he's one he's appealing to her need and her desire for Arrest that she's not even aware. She is in need of and desiring a satisfaction of a deeper thirst of which you may not have even been conscious. That thirst is not quenched by any earthly water. That thirst that's in every human being is quenched only by an outpouring of the Spirit of God. Where did we come from? Where are we going? What does it all mean? Am I right before God? The only way, the only way to receive this, to know this, and to believe this is through this outpouring of this living water that's given by the Spirit of God that is the Spirit of life. This living water of which Jesus spoke is a continually flowing fountain. It never stops. He was saying that those who've been renewed by His Spirit will never run dry. If you've been born again, you will never run dry. And so, yes, we may have times when we thirst spiritually during our lives, but we who have received the Holy Spirit of God will never run dry, because He's an endless fountain who will never fail us. And He's the only way. The woman seems to have still been confused. And she said to him, verse 15, Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw. Now clearly she's not hearing our Lord. Her mind and her thoughts were still earthbound. They're looking at this water in a well. She asked for the living water, but didn't understand what she was asking for. Some believe she was mocking Jesus here, sneering at his claims. And Jesus, his response to her, he doesn't appear to respond directly to her request, but maybe he was. He said to her, go and call your husband and come here. Now on the surface, these words of our Lord seem to have no connection to her request for this living water. But Jesus' words had a purpose. He was now going to reveal two things to her. First, his omniscience. And second, he was going to pierce her heart, which would ultimately lead to her repentance. He mentioned her husband because her thirst for the living water that only he could give will never be truly awakened unless and until there arises in her a consciousness of her sin, a recognition of her guilt. This is the critical step in evangelism that so many in the modern church seem to skip over. And this leaves many without any genuine conversion or genuine repentance. We need Christ because we're sinners and we can't do anything about the penalty of that sin. We can't do anything to cleanse ourselves of that sin. Only through faith in Him can we be cleansed and declared right before God. So the mention by Christ of her husband is a means of reminding her of her sin, of her immoral life. So in asking her to go call your husband, he was beginning to awaken her conscience to her true condition and to his omniscience. So she answered, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you've correctly said I have no husband, for you've had five husbands. And the one to whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly." Now, just imagine her standing there. How does he know all this? Now, most read these words as saying the woman was living with a man to whom she was not married. She had had five husbands, now had a paramour who was not her husband. But notice, Jesus did not simply tell her, you're a sinner, you're in real trouble, you've got to do something about this. No, He reminded her of her own life, awakened her conscience, and led her to come to that conclusion on her own. Because we can tell people they're sinners, but if they don't really believe it, if they don't feel the weight, the guilt of their sin, they're not going to long for the Savior. As Jesus told her these things, she could see He had some special insight into her life, perhaps supernatural knowledge. Jesus had indeed set aside His divine glory when He came into this world, but He did not set aside His divine attributes. And He used His divine powers in the course of performing His saving work whenever it was appropriate and necessary. And so when He spoke these words to her, He revealed to her that somehow He knew all about her. And she said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. You're a prophet of God, which to her meant God Himself revealed things to him. So maybe the next thing she said to him shouldn't be a big surprise to us It seems like another change of subject, but you know she's in them in the presence of a messenger of God She believes she is and so she thinks perhaps I should inquire into matters that have long been on my mind If I can find out Important things about God. This is my opportunity And so she said to Jesus in verse 20 our fathers worshipped in this mountain referring to Mount Gerizim And you people, you Jews, say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Now this was really a question put in the form of a statement. Was she seeking to change the subject regarding her husband's? Or was she seeking to take advantage of these few moments with one she believed had been sent by God? Well, John doesn't tell us. But remember, God had permitted Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to erect altars in many places, because he'd not yet fixed a place of worship in the tabernacle. So they would worship wherever they were, including a place called Bethel. Abraham went to Mount Moriah. Noah worshiped when he got out of the boat. But then God gave Moses instruction at Mount Sinai on building a tabernacle, a place where and only where God was to be worshiped, where sacrifices were to be offered. And God said, only there are you to worship me. And from the time that the temple was built on Mount Zion around 950 B.C., about 500 years after the tabernacle was first constructed, The temple on Mount Zion had been the only acceptable place of the worship of God. Now the Samaritans though, they believed the rightful place of worship was not at Mount Zion, but rather at Mount Gerizim in Samaria. They argued that this was the site where the first Israelites offered sacrifice in the land. Deuteronomy 27 verse 4. And they argued that this continued to be the center of the sacrificial worship of Israel's patriarchs. And there was truth in that. This was the place where blessings were pronounced by the ancient Israelites. And the Samaritans, at least some of them, believed that Bethel, where Jacob had offered sacrifice, Mount Moriah, where Abraham had offered sacrifice after offering his son Isaac, and Mount Gerizim were all names for the same place. Samaritans believed that the people who called themselves Jews had taken the wrong path in their religious practice By importing novelties into the land after they'd been returned from exile in Babylon so we read in scripture that the Assyrians had brought people from foreign nations to intermarry with the Jews who remained in Samaria the Samaritans were saying well after you came back from Babylon the same thing happened So there was this conflict between the two. The Samaritans, this mixed race, which incorporated both Judaistic and pagan ideas of worship, were worshiping their several gods at Mount Gerizim. She wants to know which place is the right place to worship. And now she's got this man who she perceives to be a prophet of God in her presence, and she saw an opportunity to ask him about all this. Where is the true and right place of worship? And we wonder, was the Holy Spirit working in her heart here? Jesus is talking about her five husbands, and she's talking about, where are we supposed to worship? And now Jesus would reveal divine truth to her. The doors opened through the way He had spoken to her. Not only did He lead her to see her own sin, but He did it in a compassionate way. So He says to her, verse 21, She wants to know where should we worship. He says, woman, believe me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. So much for another temple. You worship what you do not know. The Samaritans were not worshiping the true God. They didn't know the true God. But then he said, we worship what we know. Salvation is coming from the Jews. Christ would be the seed of Abraham, the seed of David. But an hour is coming, Jesus said, and now is, it has arrived, when true worshipers will worship the Father. He now speaks of God as His Father. In spirit and truth, for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. See, the place doesn't matter. We've got her conversion going on, but now he's teaching us about worship in spirit and truth. And that's what I want to talk about in our last part of this sermon this morning. What does it mean to worship in spirit and truth? The old way of worship in Jerusalem was now going to be rendered obsolete. We started off as they could worship by offering sacrifices, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, wherever they were. And then God gave instruction to Moses to create this tabernacle, worship here. And then Solomon built a temple, worship here. Now Jesus says the place doesn't matter. It's not about the place. And all of that that went before is now obsolete, including those ceremonies and sacrifices that God had commanded. The old way of worship would be rendered obsolete, and Calvin writes, to continue them would be a shocking sacrilege. This is why we reject any notion of there being future sacrifices in some future earthly kingdom. Jesus came to bring the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. Jesus declared that the repeal of all that law given by Moses was now at hand, insofar as it related to the temple, to any priesthood, and to all their ceremonies. No more priests, no more ceremonies, no more sacrifices. And Jesus said, the Samaritan's form of worship, which was a sinful amalgamation of Judaism with pagan practices, had always been displeasing to God. You worship what you do not know, He said, because you didn't know God. And so your worship could not be pleasing to God. And so the one who was supposed to be the object of the Samaritan worship, was in fact unknown to them. We cannot worship that which we do not know. We cannot worship Him who we do not know. They didn't know God, so they could not truly worship Him. So their way clearly was not what God desired, and God no longer desired the sacrifices of Judaism. God had revealed Himself only to the sons of Jacob. So Israel did know and worship the true God for a time. And their form of worship was lawful for that time because it is what had been commanded by God and it was done in obedience to God. It didn't gain them eternal life, but it did foreshadow the coming of Christ. That's why it was given to them. It foreshadowed Christ's offering of Himself on a cross. Under the Old Covenant, we had incense, and candles, and holy garments, and an altar, and vessels, and ceremonies. And God looked favorably upon those for a time, not because of anything inherently valuable in them, but because those rituals were what He had commanded. Now a new command has come. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. The old covenant worship of God through rituals and the sacrifices of animals was now ending. This is a pretty monumental announcement. In Christ, the kingdom of God had come down to earth and He would be the one and only true offering for sins. Only He could atone for sins. And the new covenant was now being inaugurated. The new covenant of which Jesus spoke at the Lord's Supper. In the New Covenant, the true worship of God has nothing to do with ceremonies or objects or a particular place. No. It's not about what you do or where you do it. It's about what's in your heart. So Jesus reminded her salvation would come from the Jews. The true knowledge of God had been given through the Jews. The Old Testament shows us the rescue from the guilt and stain and punishment of sin would come to the whole world through the Jews. But now even their form of worship was ending. It's not where one worships that matters, he said to her. It's the attitude of the heart and mind. And that means it is knowing God and believing in the truth revealed by God. That's the foundation of the true worship of him. If you don't know God, how would you worship him? Would you really be worshipful of a God you don't even know? Of course not. So the place doesn't matter. Rather, are you worshiping the God who has revealed Himself in Scripture? Let's start there. Men, men are flesh, fleshly, earthly. So men contrive many things in the worship of God. They've been doing it all over the world for as long as mankind has been on the earth. They contrive forms of worship that are fleshly, earthly, that are outward, external displays, but without any foundation in the truth. The truth is revealed by God. But fleshly, earthly attempts to worship gods of men's imaginations, as the pagans have always done and as many still do today, don't honor God for who He is and are not acceptable to Him. Even those ceremonies and sacrifices of Judaism, Paul would now speak of them, Galatians 4.9, as weak and worthless elemental things, which are fading away. So what constitutes worship that is in spirit and truth? First, what is worship? What's worship? Worship is honor given to the one who stands above us. worship of God must begin with recognizing and acknowledging that He stands above us, that He is our Creator. In worship, we honor His authority over us. We express gratitude for His love for us. And we honor Him as the one who made us and who is in authority over us. How? By our obedience to Him. That's number one. We honor Him. We worship Him by our obedience to Him. All that we do in obedience to God, are acts of worship. Worship isn't limited to just music. It begins with acknowledging Him for who He is and obeying Him. This is why it's such a great crime for men to invent gods of their own design, for men to invent Christs of their own design. And not only that, but only one who has been born again of the Spirit, only one who is spiritually alive can worship God in spirit. How would a spiritually dead man worship anything? He can't. Once one is made spiritually alive by God, that spiritual life is eternal. Jesus said as he prayed to his father on the night before he died in John chapter 17 verse 3 He said this is eternal life that they know you The only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent True worship doesn't emanate from stone and mortar buildings. True worship emanates from human temples, from human hearts. Worship flows not from the mouth and songs necessarily, but from the spirit of a man who has been made spiritually alive by God. Worship is directed to God has nothing to do with our likes and dislikes has nothing to do with what gratifies us I remember once I was talking to some people about the music in the church and One person said to me. Well, you know the music that ministers to me and I thought The music is not to minister to people. It is to worship God. Our singing is to worship God. And, of course, we receive a blessing in that. But the purpose is not the gratification of the musical likes and dislikes of the people. It's to worship God. God is Spirit, Jesus said. And so the offering of anything physical to Him, whether it's an animal sacrifice or something else, some work of charity, could never be of the true essence of worship. True worship has to come from a living Spirit to God, who is Spirit. In sum, one must be made spiritually alive before he can know God, and one must know God before he can truly worship God. Simple proposition, but manifestly true. Only one who is indwelt by the Spirit of God and who believes in the Christ whom he has sent can worship Him truly, whether that worship is by prayer, by preaching, hearing preaching, by music, or by simple obedience to Him. which I suspect is the highest form of worship. The woman's response to Jesus' words and the action she then took were remarkable. She was not a Jew and yet she knew Messiah was coming. And she knew that Messiah would declare the things of God to us. Now isn't this amazing? This is a Samaritan woman. There's enough of the vestiges of the promises of God in Samaria that she knew these things. And you have to wonder, is she asking, you're not the Messiah, are you? Well, his response to her was a direct declaration that he is indeed the long-awaited Messiah. Verse 26, Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he, I am. On the woman's response to Jesus' words and the actions that she then took, which we will look at next week, we're going to see the fruit of this work of our Lord in her heart. She left the well, didn't even take her water pot. She left her water pot at the well. She headed into the city where she found the men of the city and told them of this divine appointment by which she had just been blessed. But that account must await our gathering in worship next Lord's Day. But let us not miss the great lesson in evangelism that our Lord has shown us here. Not only, of course, the lesson in what it is to worship in spirit and truth, but this great lesson in evangelism and the way He led this woman to see her sin and come to believe in Him, the one who could provide forgiveness to her and eternal life through believing in Him. But for now, let's take a moment, meditate on this Word spoken to us this morning. Let us bow before the Savior in worship, and then let us examine ourselves, and then we will gather at His table. O Lord, Your Word is such a treasure. We are so blessed to have it. We're so blessed that you have opened our hearts to receive it, to hear you, to believe you, to believe the saving truth that you've revealed to us. Lord, I pray you would continually bring us conviction Guide us by your Spirit in those areas where we fall short into a path, Lord, that is pleasing to you, that our lives would be lives of worship of you in all that we think, say, and do. For your kingdom and for your glory, in Christ's name, amen.