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VIETNAMESE ARTICLES
10 August 2007
True
Worship (Part 7)
True worship must exalt
the Lord Jesus, must be based on the Word of God, and must follow the
guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit taught, reminded, guided,
inspired and moved His prophets and apostles to write the Holy Scripture
(John 14:26; 16:13-14; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21); therefore, the
Holy Spirit is the Author of the Scripture, and the Scripture is the
very Word of God and the perfect revelation of the Creator to mankind
that no one is allowed to add anything to or subtract anything from the
Scripture (Rev 22:18-19). The Holy Spirit never contradicts the
Scripture, and He has come to “testify of” the Lord Jesus and “glorify”
the Lord Jesus (John 15:26; 16:14). Then, if any one assumes that he is
filled with the Holy Spirit while his motives, thinking, words and deeds
are not holy or according to God’s Word or glorify the Lord Jesus alone,
he is only deceiving himself.
Many are pursuing signs
and wonders without any concern about doing God’s Word. The Lord Jesus
says, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy
name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess
unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”
(Matt 7:22-23).
The Holy Spirit is God
(Acts 5:3-4), who created us (Job 33:4), regenerates and sanctifies us
(John 3:5; Rom15:16), so we must humbly submit to Him and wholeheartedly
rely on Him not on our ability, even in our worship: “worship God
in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in
the flesh” (Phil 3:3). Without the Holy Spirit, the praying,
singing and preaching in our worship profit nothing. The Lord Jesus
says, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing” (John 6:63).
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