The Triune Godhead in its eternal finite being is pure Spirit. Therefore, God the Father is pure Spirit. Spirit is the nature of His eternal infinite being. The worship that He accepts and in which He takes pure delight must be spiritual worship and not carnal (fleshly) worship. When the worship of God flows through a believer who is filled with the Spirit it will be “in truth” (i.e. Bible doctrinally correct worship). The Father does not and will not ever accept worship that comes through the power and energy of the flesh (c.f. Rom. 8:8 with Isa. 64:6).

One of the titles for God is “the Lord God of Truth” (c.f. Ps. 31:5; Isa. 65:16). Truth is a transitive attribute of God and it is only as we know God that we can know absolute truth. Men may know truth only because God has revealed truth to them. Absolute truth is revealed to the believer in its relationship to Jesus Christ (cf. II Cor. 11:10). The very truth of God, truth itself resides in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ (cf. Eph. 4:20-21). We are under a mandate to learn to think like Christ and therefore we need to learn to think from divine viewpoint and not human viewpoint (cf. Phil. 2:5).

Worship must come from our human spirit and therefore it is the action of our “new nature” reaching up to God. Worship is the expression of truth about God to God by redeemed people (cf. Phil. 3:3 with Ex. 15:1-18). Worship must come from the heart of the believer as an expression of his love for God (c.f. Matt. 15:8-9 c.f. 22:37; Mk. 12:30; Lu. 10:27). True worship is a born-again and therefore saved person expressing to God the Father his personal thanksgiving, adoration, and praise. It is based upon a correct understanding of God’s essence, attributes, manifestations, and works. The more we learn about God the greater our spiritual capacity to worship Him. Worship requires the believer to be thinking about God and to be occupied with God in both his mind (Greek: nous) and heart (Greek: kardia).

“Worship is not by the eyes or the ears, but ‘in spirit,’ that is from a new nature. The more spiritual is our worship the less formal, and the less attractive to the flesh will it be. O how far astray we have come! Modern ‘worship’ (?) is chiefly designed to render it pleasing to the flesh: ‘a bright and attractive service’, with beautiful surroundings, sensuous music, and entertaining talks. What a mockery and a blasphemy! O that we would heed that pointed word in Psalm 89:7 ‘God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.’-how different things would then be.” Arthur W. Pink

“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.” Hebrews 10:7

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