The Worship of God in Christ Jesus!

“These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.” – Isaiah 29:13 NIV

We should NOT be like people who worship God in the human regulations. In another words, we should not be under the laws when we worship God. For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. (1 Corinthians 15:56)

… We have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law NO one will be justified. Through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. (Galatians 2:16,19)

Therefore, we need to be born again, in order to properly worship Him and in the truth, NOT by mother’s womb, but through the Spirit; since “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24):

… He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior. We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (Titus 3:5-6, Romans 6:4)

Then we should always let the Holy Spirit guide our lives, for we have died to the law:

I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your TRUE and PROPER worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Galatians 5:16-18, Romans 12:1-2)