Our Lord Jesus declares to the lost Samaritan woman at the well that His Father has the preeminence of worship in her life. What, you might say?

In most every assembly of believers (the called out ones vs. “church”) I’ve been in over the last two decades or so, they all worship (“worth-ship”) and live for Jesus the Son. This is all well and good…but what does Jesus command as the Father’s Messiah, and viceroy?

Worship the Father. Three times in these few sentences. Are we taking notice, dear ones?

John 4:21-24 (NASB)   Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the 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.” [Read more…]