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FAQ # 116
QUESTION 116
: Is a Right Perception of the Godhead important?
The scripture
says, “they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth”
(John 4:24). In truth doesn’t necessarily means with a sincere heart,
but also truth about who he is. That’s why the first of all commandments
to the Jews was to know that God is one, “The first of all the commandments
is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord” (Mark 12:29); which
in the original should read, “Hear, O Israel, Yah our God, Yah is one.”
This is called the Shema. It was the pillar of their faith, they knew
who they were worshipping and it distinguished them from other people.
That’s the reason Jesus said, “Ye worship ye know not what: we know what
we worship: for salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22). Now that we Gentiles
are made to partake in this we must know whom we are worshipping. That’s
why Paul gave us this outline,
“God that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not
in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as
though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath,
and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell
on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if
haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from
every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as
certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that
the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and
man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
commandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:24-30).
He now
commands every non-Jew to repent or change their perception of God and
come to him. It is extremely important that you know who you are in relationship
with. Wouldn’t you want to know your wife before marrying to her and after
marrying to her it would be impossible not to know what she looks like
and her nature. Therefore, anyone claiming salvation and not having the
right perception of God is not married to him or not saved, because his
spirit would have revealed his nature (1 Cor 12:3). And would a woman
want to spend the rest of her life with a man that doesn’t know her? That’s
why they that worship him must do so in spirit and truth – a right perception
of who he is. Because “the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him” (John 4:23). This is how important
God wants us to have a right perception of him.
{Source: question only from
GNC}
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