Restoring True Worship – part 2
Isaiah 66:1-24 (1-4)
January 5, 2025
Tonight we want to jump back in to our study on worship as we look at Isaiah 66.
We are calling the chapter “Restoring True Worship” since that is what is occurring here.
The chapter begins with God’s disdain for hypocritical worship in verse 1-4.
We see God’s future judgment of idolatry in verses 15-17.
And we see the world return to true worship in verses 23-24.
And this morning we really just introduced the topic of worship.
I would remind you that true worship is a bending of the will to God.
It is manifested in obedience.
It is shown when we obey God over and above any other influence.
Sometimes worship is expressed as people bowing their head or raising their hands, but in reality those are only meant to be outward expressions of inward realities.
To bow the head but not the heart is unacceptable to God.
And we saw many Old Testament prophets this morning that revealed that very thing to us.
So tonight let’s begin looking at our text and God’s announcement of His plan to restore true worship in the world.
We will divide the text into 4 main points.
#1 HYPOCRISY WILL BE REJECTED
Isaiah 66:1-4
It is obvious that God is here about to expose hypocritical religion.
He makes the statement in verse 3, “But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood; He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.”
The comparison obviously throughout verse 3 is that hypocritical religion is as offensive to God as pagan religion.
A Jewish man, following the prescription of Leviticus, offering an ox to God may not be any more pleasing to God than a man who commits murder.
A Jewish man, offering to God a lamb as a sacrifice, may not be any more pleasing to God than one who offers a dog with a broken neck on the altar.
A Jewish man, offering a grain offering to God might not be any more pleasing than one who pours swine’s blood on God’s altar.
A Jewish man, burning incense to God might not be any more pleasing than one who praises a false god.
And that may be shocking to you.
After all, we are all tempted to think that there is some value in our liturgical traditions.
I mean surely going to church is better before God than going to the bar right?
Surely God is more pleased with me when I put money in the offering plate than if I had gone gambling at the casino isn’t He?
And the answer God will give, is a resounding “NO!”
The revelation here is that neither are pleasing to God.
It is the consistent calling of God to get His people to understand that the LORD looks at the heart.
Proverbs 21:27 “The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, How much more when he brings it with evil intent!”
And just take a moment and recall to your mind all of those passages we read this morning from the prophets where God specifically said that He hated their sacrifices.
We have got to get this through our heads.
God does not desire some outward form of worship.
The religious works we typically associate as pleasing to God…
Church attendance
Prayer
Giving to the offering
Singing
Bible reading
If those things are merely outward and not a reflection of a worshiping heart then they are no more pleasing to God than the immoral living of the pagan.
And I realize that sounds shocking because we put so much emphasis on the value of our works, but it is true.
Clearly in these verses God is outlining His disdain for hypocritical worship.
He even goes so far as to say that He will punish it.
(3b-4) “As they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations, So I will choose their punishments And will bring on them what they dread. Because I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. And they did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight.”
God simply says that since they did what they wanted instead of what I wanted, then I will do what I want with them.
I will punish them.
Why?
“Because I called, but no one answered;”
“I spoke, but they did not listen.”
They brought their ox, but they ignored My word.
They brought their sheep, but they disobeyed My command.
They burned incense, but they rejected My call.
You don’t get to disregard the authority of God and still get credit for having worshiped.
It is not pleasing to God just to go through the outward routines of religion if the heart is not right before Him.
We see that over and over in Scripture.
But here, in the opening verses of chapter 66 we see that even though God addresses things like their sacrifices, there is one issue that He is focusing on more than any other.
Namely that these people want to build God a house of worship.
You see it in the second half of verse 1.
“Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?”
I think this is so relevant to our day, and so fitting even to the current state of Israel.
How many Jews today would delight in the rebuilding of a temple to God?
How many would think they were doing God a real favor by rebuilding His temple?
And it is as though God speaks to them even today as He questions the purpose of it all.
You want to build Me a house so I can rest?
You want to build Me a temple so you can offering sacrifices?
You want to build Me a temple to burn incense?
Seriously?
As if God would be pleased with the sacrifices.
As if God would be pleased with the incense.
And here is the key to understanding this.
God doesn’t see the temple as a place to worship Him, God sees the temple they want to build as a place to contain and control Him.
Men love temples because it is a way to contain and compartmentalize God.
Remember Jeremiah’s day?
Jeremiah 7:8-11 “Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail. “Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known, then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations? “Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the LORD.”
See they just wanted a place to put God.
They didn’t want Him at the work place on Monday.
They didn’t want Him at the basketball gym on Tuesday.
They didn’t want Him at the bar on Friday.
So let’s build God a temple that will contain Him and that way we can get all cleaned up before we go before Him.
It is absolutely an abominable way of thinking!
God is not interested.
And let’s see why.
As we talk about worship, certainly some portion of our focus must be on the God who deserves the worship.
And that is how verse 1 begins.
To look at this really helps us understand how pitiful our legalistic worship is.
Look at the statement of God about Himself.
“Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool.”
Let’s think on that for a moment.
I think our first and most obvious observation would have to be in regard to THE SIZE OF GOD.
Suppose today I told you of a giant.
Like you read in those Fairy Tale books.
And I told you of a giant so big that he sits over there on the hill overlooking Swenson park, and he props his feet up on our church.
This entire building would be nothing more than an ottoman to him.
Imagine the size of such a creature.
We would say, “He is huge!”
We would certainly tremble in fear of such a man.
He would terrify us, and we would feel powerless to deal with him.
And that understanding pales in comparison to what God reveals about Himself.
“Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool.”
That is unfathomable to us.
How big is God that the entire planet is nothing more than a footstool to Him?
Isaiah gave us a picture earlier:
Isaiah 40:12 “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales?”
Can you imagine such a One?
He is huge!
Jeremiah 23:24 “Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.”
Job 11:7-11 “Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? “They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know? “Its measure is longer than the earth And broader than the sea. “If He passes by or shuts up, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?”
We are simply talking about a God who is huge!
He is utterly terrifying!
He is absolutely uncontainable!
And it is your plan to build a temple to put Him in?
Even Solomon knew better than that:
1 Kings 8:27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built!”
Paul told the Athenians:
Acts 17:24-25 “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;”
What a consistent mistake of humanity to think that they can somehow contain God.
As though you can build Him some kind of a temple, and then keep Him locked in there where He is unaware of what you do in the world, but always available whenever you need a favor.
All you have to do is provide God some nice little house and then bring Him an ox ever so often and He’ll be ready to do whatever you want.
It is utter nonsense.
God cannot be kept in a box.
God cannot be contained.
He is omnipresent, and nothing is hidden from His sight.
But that is not all the statement brings to mind.
We certainly key in on the word “throne” and thereby understand His authority.
“Heaven is My throne” God says.
This enormous God of the universe doesn’t just dwell in it, He reigns over it.
Deuteronomy 4:39 “Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.”
Deuteronomy 10:14 “Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it.”
1 Chronicles 29:11-12 “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. “Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.”
Psalms 24:1 “The earth is the LORD’S, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it.”
Psalms 89:11 “The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them.”
We are talking about the One who reigns over it all.
He is sovereign over all creation.
He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good.
He sends rain on the just and the unjust.
It is He who causes the deer to calve.
It is He who feeds the lions.
Nothing occurs outside of His sovereign prerogative.
He reigns over it all.
And your plan is to put Him inside the temple and reduce His rule to only what occurs at church?
Is it your plan to reduce God’s reign to only what happens in religious circles, while you control the rest of your destiny?
Your plan is really to put God in a box and limit the sphere of His authority.
Not hardly!
God reigns over it all.
He is in charge of it all.
And certainly we understand the significance of the word “My” in that statement.
“Heaven is MY throne and the earth is MY footstool.”
It teaches us not to presume upon those things as though they belonged to us.
You may remember what Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount.
Matthew 5:33-35 “Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.’ “But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING.”
God not only reigns over all of it, He owns all of it.
It is His.
We are the guests here, not Him.
We are the tenants, not Him.
And therefore it is God who allows us to dwell upon it, not us who allow God to dwell with us.
Exodus 19:5 “‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;”
And the opening point here from God is simple:
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO IT IS YOU ARE ADDRESSING?
Isaiah certainly figured it out back in Isaiah 6
Isaiah 6:5 “Then I said, “Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”
Peter figured it out that day on the shore:
Luke 5:8 “But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus’ feet, saying, “Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
John was reminded of it on the Island of Patmos:
Revelation 1:17 “When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man.”
We think of those present at Mt. Sinai
Exodus 20:18-19 “All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance. Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”
But these people are going to build God a house.
They have no idea who they are dealing with.
It is absurd to think that we could build God a little temple here on earth by which we will contain Him, restrict Him, and keep Him at our beck and call.
God Himself resists such foolishness.
And based on the revelation of Himself He asks:
“Where then is a house you could build for Me?”
Where do you think you are going to put Me?
But it’s more even than just sticking God in a house to contain Him.
God understands their purpose and their motive.
He asks:
“And where is the place that I may rest?”
There it is!
You understand the reference to “rest” right?
Genesis 2:1-3 “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”
Rest denotes a state of God being fully satisfied.
The work was finished.
There was nothing left to do.
And God rested.
For us it carries foreshadows of atonement.
For it is Christ who said, “It is finished!” and “sat down at the right hand of the majesty on High”
To denote rest for God denotes the satisfaction of His holiness.
It is the appeasement of His wrath.
It is the propitiation which only occurs in Christ, for “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”
And God here addresses a people who have the strangest idea.
They are going to build this house (in which God won’t fit)
They’re going to offer it to God (as though He doesn’t own all things)
They’re going to give Him this small realm of authority (as though He is not sovereign over all)
And they’re going to bring Him an ox or a sheep to settle Him down so He can be at rest there.
Think about that.
The omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient God.
The God who reigns in perfect holiness.
And your plan to satisfy Him and appease Him and to put Him to rest is to build a temple, and bring a goat to it so that He will be able to rest?
That is the plan?
As we saw this morning, the prophets continually noted the absurdity of such a plan.
Micah 6:6-8 “With what shall I come to the LORD And bow myself before the God on high? Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings, With yearling calves? Does the LORD take delight in thousands of rams, In ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?”
Psalms 50:7-12 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God. “I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me. “I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds. “For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. “I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine. “If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains.”
God later saying:
Psalms 50:13-15 “Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats? “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High; Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”
Paul reminding the Athenians:
Acts 17:25 “nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;”
There is nothing God could want that He can’t supply.
(2) “For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the LORD.”
He doesn’t need you building Him a house and bringing Him a sheep to calm Him down.
He is not some pagan deity that can be so easily contained or appeased.
He is the holy God of the universe and such a plan is stupid.
God has said what He will accept.
(2b) “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.”
God wants worship…true worship.
God wants the one who bows the will to Him.
He is not interested in a house…
He is not interested in a goat…
He is not interested in incense…
He is not interested in a song…
HE WANTS YOUR HEART.
And if you bring Him everything else, but not that, He will not be pleased.
(3-4) “But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood; He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations, So I will choose their punishments And will bring on them what they dread. Because I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. And they did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight.”
You see His point don’t you?
He is not some gullible God who can be so easily tricked by our phony worship display.
He is not some giddy school girl who will believe you love Him just because you sang those words out of a hymnal.
He is Lord of Heaven and Earth and He knows those whose heart is fully His.
He will not accept some surface-level worship.
He wants the heart.
He wants the bending of the will.
Hypocritical worship will be rejected.
And what will be accepted?
“But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.”
That’s certainly worth examining.
“humble” is the Hebrew word AWNI
It means “poor; lowly; wretched”
In the New Testament Jesus described it as being “poor in spirit” or spiritually bankrupt.
It is a keen awareness that I have nothing to bring.
It is a keen awareness that I have nothing God wants.
I am fallen and wretched and poor and miserable and blind and naked.
I have corrupted everything I have ever touched.
I would be nothing but a blemish in God’s courts.
It is the heart of that tax collector “standing some distance away, unwilling to lift his eyes to heaven, saying, ‘God be merciful to me the sinner.’”
That is the person God is willing to accept.
He also mentions one who is:
“contrite of spirit”
“contrite” is the Hebrew word MAW-KEN
It means “crippled, afflicted, broken”
Remember Saul’s son Mephibosheth?
2 Samuel 9:3 “The king said, “Is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the kindness of God?” And Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan who is crippled in both feet.”
This is the man who has nothing to offer and no means of bringing it even if he did.
If God were to attack, this man couldn’t appease God or escape Him.
He is helpless and hopeless.
His body is broken…
His sheep is smelly…
His incense is rotten…
His money is gone…
He has nothing of value to offer God and he knows it.
And God will look to that person.
He also mentions one who:
“trembles at My word”
“trembles” is KHA-RADE
Ezra 9:4 “Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered to me, and I sat appalled until the evening offering.”
Ezra 10:3 “So now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.”
It is a holy fear.
That filthy beggar with nothing to offer and no way to escape understands the danger he is in before a holy God.
And this is the one to whom God will look.
God delights in mercy, but only when you really know you need it.
God delights in grace, but only when you are aware of how valuable it is.
God delights in compassion, but only when you know you don’t deserve it.
But when you are poor and broken and trembling, God is pleased to save.
God will not be deceived.
He will not accept less than your total submission to Him.
Mark 12:28-34 “One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’ “The second is this, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” The scribe said to Him, “Right, Teacher; You have truly stated that HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM; AND TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE HEART AND WITH ALL THE UNDERSTANDING AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH, AND TO LOVE ONE’S NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions.”
Do you understand that?
Do you understand the type of worship God accepts and the type He rejects?
How about if I ask you about your humility?
Do you know that you have nothing to offer?
How about if I ask you about your weakness?
Do you know that you cannot escape the presence of God?
How about if I ask you about your trembling?
Do you tremble before God?
Do you fear Him?
Look, there is a warning here, and one which we see even in the New Testament.
The warning is that you be careful that your worship of Him does not replace humility, weakness, and trembling with some sort of complacent religious ceremony.
Listen to the writer of Hebrews:
Hebrews 3:7-12 “Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS, WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me, AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS. “THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SAID, ‘THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS’; AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.’ ” Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.”
How did those people in the wilderness fall away from God?
They didn’t leave the wilderness…
They didn’t quit going through the motions of religion…
They tried God and tested God and refused to fear God.
They did their own thing and tried to relegate God to some corner of their lives.
They withheld their heart from Him.
They refused to bend their will to Him.
God saw that as apostasy and it made all their other religion useless in His eyes.
The writer of Hebrews goes on:
Hebrews 3:16-19 “For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.”
These were people whom God delivered out of Egypt.
These were people whom God fed in the wilderness.
And yet God was so angry at their lack of humility and contrition and trembling that He refused to let them enter the land of promise.
Do you see the warning there?
Here it is:
Hebrews 4:1-2 “Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.”
There is the warning!
You need to heed the good news of God.
You need to believe the good news of God.
You need to obey the good news of God.
You need to tremble before Him and submit to Him.
And do not think that you can substitute a little church attendance on the weekends for that kind of devotion.
God rejects it.
In fact the book of Hebrews is filled with those types of warnings:
Hebrews 10:26-31 “For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.” It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
Or again:
Hebrews 12:25 “See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.”
You see the danger don’t you.
And let me show it to you with Israel.
They insisted on giving God ritual instead of true humility.
They rejected God’s Christ in favor of their own religion.
And what did God do?
He REJECTED their worship.
In fact, He rejected them.
Israel was broken off.
And it was Stephen who told them why.
Listen to this:
Acts 7:47-53 “But it was Solomon who built a house for Him. “However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says: ‘HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS THE FOOTSTOOL OF MY FEET; WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME?’ says the Lord, ‘OR WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR MY REPOSE? ‘WAS IT NOT MY HAND WHICH MADE ALL THESE THINGS?’ “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did. “Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”
Did you hear what Stephen quoted to them just before he exposed their futile worship?
He quoted Isaiah 66:1-2.
He told them that God rejected their worship and He rejected them for giving it.
Learn lesson #1 about worship.
HYPOCRISY WILL BE REJECTED
If you are playing games with God.
If you are going through the motions thinking no one sees.
If you are living for yourself 6 days a week and then coming here on Sunday and thinking you’ve done a good thing.
If you have everyone fooled.
You don’t have God fooled.
He is not some puny, pathetic, short-sighted idol that you can cram in a temple and keep Him in the dark.
And He will not be mocked!
Your only hope is to humble yourself before Him, to confess your weakness, to tremble at His presence as you submit yourself to Him and beg for His mercy.
John 4:23 “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.”
