Restoring True Worship – part 5
Isaiah 66:1-24 (14-17)
January 19, 2025
I want us to begin our time together this morning
With you turning to that familiar passage in Romans 1.
TURN TO: ROMANS 1:18-25
The passage of course begins with the statement,
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against…”
That statement alone
Ought to cause all of creation to sit up and pay attention.
Anything that angers God should be of tremendous concern to us.
You don’t know of anything that has anywhere close to God’s power
And therefore His anger should be of intense interest.
And first on the list of things that anger God is: IDOLATRY
FIRST STATED in verse 21, “although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks…”
The issue, as we have been discussing here in Isaiah, is BAD WORSHIP.
It is a failure to worship the true God in the right way.
The problem is EXPRESSED MORE FULLY (23) “exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.”
They traded a relationship with the true incorruptible God of the universe for a relationship with a graven image.
God has consigned them to temporal punishment to this very day.
(24-25) “Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”
Paul is there talking about idolatry.
• It is a reproach on the living God to suppress His truth and to fail to give Him
the honor He deserves.
• It is infuriating to God as He then sees the glory He deserves given to
something far less worthy.
• And it results in even a temporal punishment for those who participate in it.
I have told you before about the “Ostrich Footed People” of Zimbabwe and how their idolatry led to incest and their incest led to a mutation that gives them deformed feet that many cannot even walk on.
But our culture is no different.
The way we see the human body dishonored in our culture
Is just as prevalent.
A culture that worships self and appearance as an idol.
• Whether we are talking about the humiliation of sexual immorality and
exploitation
• Or the degradation of the body through drugs
• Or even the mutilation of the body with the current fad of extreme piercings
and tattoos and the like
• Or even the physical mutilation occurring in seeking to transition to another
gender.
God is not to be mocked.
He punishes idolatry.
And that is bad enough…
But what we are discussing in Isaiah
Is not God’s punishment of idolatry,
But rather God’s total eradication of it.
TODAY,
• God punishes idolaters.
• They bear His wrath.
THERE IS COMING A DAY
When God will totally eradicate them.
Today God patiently allows even idolaters to live.
But one day God’s patience with idolaters will expire.
Revelation 14:9-10 “Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.”
Revelation 21:8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Revelation 22:14-15 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.”
Those who practice idolatry, and who never repent of their sin,
Will spend eternity in torment under the eternal wrath of God.
Idolatry is no small sin.
Certainly the OLD TESTAMENT bears this out.
The Ten Commandments begin with these two:
Exodus 20:1-6 “Then God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. “You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
God stated it from the beginning.
Think of the multitude of run-ins God had with idols and idol worshipers.
• We think of the children of Israel dabbling with the Moabites in the wilderness and attending their pagan feasts, and Scripture says God sent a plague that killed 23,000 of them in one day.
• We think of Elijah on Mt. Carmel who ordered the slaughter of the 450 prophets of Baal.
• We think of the idolatry that ultimately led God to abandon His temple and send Israel into exile in Babylon for 70 years.
Ezekiel 8:16-18 “Then He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun. He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose. “Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”
EVEN STUDYING ISAIAH,
He has given us warning after warning regarding the danger and foolishness of idolatry.
• Lamenting the stupidity of comparing God to some graven image
• Or bowing down to some block of wood.
It is a foolish decision to worship idols.
When Paul wrote to the Corinthians
He confronted their propensity to dabble in idolatry by visiting idols temples and participating in their feasts.
1 Corinthians 10:21-22 “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?”
There is a good question:
“We are not stranger than He, are we?”
Do you really want to go to war with God?
THE WARNINGS in the New Testament then are clear and concise.
1 Corinthians 10:14 “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”
1 John 5:21 “Little children, guard yourselves from idols.”
You just don’t want to mess with that which God hates.
• He hates idolatry.
• He punishes idolatry.
• One day He will eradicate idolatry
Because He will restore true worship in this world.
And that is what we are talking about here in Isaiah 66.
• It is God’s plan for reinstituting true worship throughout the world.
We’ve already seen the first two legs of the plan.
#1 HYPOCRISY WILL BE REJECTED
Isaiah 66:1-6
God won’t accept empty hypocritical religion.
He will expose it and He will punish it.
We even read the account last Sunday morning of God destroying Israel’s temple because the worship there was so offensive to Him.
#2 ISRAEL WILL BE REBORN
Isaiah 66:7-13
For true worship to occur,
You need a God who is worthy of worship
And you need a people committed to worshipping Him.
Israel was not, but God will transform them and cause them to be.
We know that because of their hypocrisy Israel was broken off.
But we also know that God will save them and graft them back in.
And last Sunday night we SAW THE MEANS
Through which God will accomplish that return…TRIBULATION
God compared the restoration of the nation to a woman in labor,
Who gives birth, and then rejoices in her newborn child.
So it will be with Israel.
• They will go through tribulation, such as the world has never known.
• They will be delivered by God in the midst of it.
• They will then be comforted by God in His presence forever.
God will use the pain of tribulation
To remove Israel’s idols and crush her hypocrisy.
By the time God is finished Israel will be a nation of true worshipers.
Those are the first two steps in God’s plan.
This morning we look at the third
#3 IDOLATRY WILL BE REMOVED
Isaiah 66:14-17
The timeline here is clear as well.
1. Israel was rejected in her hypocrisy.
2. Israel will be reborn by the grace of God to true worship.
3. And then the day of the Lord will come in the return of Christ to punish idolaters and to dwell among His people.
That is what we see here.
As sort of a transition verse we read verse 14
“Then you will see this, and your heart will be glad, And your bones will flourish like the new grass; And the hand of the LORD will be made known to His servants, But He will be indignant toward His enemies.”
Israel will be restored.
Israel will rejoice.
Israel will be comforted.
But that comfort will NOT be universal to the entire world.
There are some who will not know an ounce of joy or comfort.
Such is the reality of the Second Coming.
• For us it is salvation, for the wicked it is damnation.
• For us it is eternal joy, for the wicked it is eternal suffering.
• For us it is anticipated, for the wicked it is dreaded.
True worshipers hasten the day,
But false worshipers hope it never comes.
But it is coming.
I just want us to make some observations in the text this morning
As we think about the day when idolatry is eradicated.
1) GOD’S ATTITUDE TOWARD IDOLATERS
(14) “He will be indignant”
(15) “To render His anger with fury”
“indignant” comes from a Hebrew word that means “to foam at the mouth”.
• It speaks of disdain and even verbal reproach.
Psalms 7:11-12 “God is a righteous judge, And a God who has indignation every day. If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.”
“anger” is also the word for “nostril” or “nose”
• It is used of anger as in a flaring of the nostrils in anger.
Exodus 15:8 “At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.”
“fury” comes from a root word that means “heat”
• You see it translated, “fury”, “rage”, “anger”
• It is even translated as “venom” like that of a snake that burns the leg.
Isaiah is painting quite a mental picture of God here
As He relates to idolatry.
Perhaps in our day we would just say, “HE IS HOT!”
• His nostrils are flared…
• He’s foaming at the mouth…
• He is hot!
This is what idolatry provokes in God.
• He is NOT indifferent towards it.
• He is NOT amused by it.
• He is NOT simply frustrated.
• He is angry!
IF YOU WANT TO ANGER GOD.
If you want to make Him nostril flaring, mouth foaming, red-faced angry about something then just give His glory to an idol.
Let me read it again:
1 Corinthians 10:21-22 “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?”
While men today
• Do fail to honor God as God.
• Do exchange His glory for an image.
• Do think they are getting away with it.
They do not understand how angry God is about it.
This is NOT ok with Him.
Deuteronomy 16:22 “You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates.”
In fact, if you find out someone worshiped idols:
Deuteronomy 17:5 “then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them to death.”
Think of Phineas who, when God’s people intermarried with the Moabites and God sent the plague among them.
You had that one guy who brought the Moabite woman right into his tent and
Phineas took a spear and stabbed them both through to the ground.
Do you remember God’s response to Phineas’ act of judgment?
• He stopped the plague
• He credited righteousness to Phineas
• He appointed Phineas a priest perpetually
God hates idolatry.
God is angry at idolatry.
Isaiah 48:11 “For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another.”
That is God’s attitude toward idolaters.
2) GOD’S ANGER EXPRESSED
(15) “For behold, the LORD will come in fire…”
(15) “And His rebuke with flames of fire.”
(16) “For the LORD will execute judgment by fire…”
There is a common thought there.
God will come with fires of judgment on idolatry.
Twice God burned His own temple down
Because of their hypocritical worship,
Do you really think He will spare the temple of the idol?
Do you really think He will spare those who worship those idols?
He is NOT an “all bark, but no bite” kind of God.
He doesn’t just sit over in the corner stewing in anger.
When God is angry, He expresses His anger
By pouring out His wrath on those who angered Him.
We read it about idolaters earlier:
Revelation 14:9-10 “Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.”
Peter said:
2 Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.”
God will not endure idolatry forever.
God will not suppress His fury forever.
God will turn His anger lose and pour out that fury in fire.
But fire isn’t the only thing He uses.
(15) “His chariots like the whirlwind…”
As if fire wasn’t enough, how about a fire tornado!
Just ask Job what it’s like when God approaches you from a whirlwind.
I can promise your transmission
Will automatically go into reverse.
Isaiah 29:6 “From the LORD of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.”
Jeremiah 4:11-13 “In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse, a wind too strong for this—will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them. “Behold, he goes up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!”
God’s fury is not just idly silent,
It is expressed in a rage of fire and destructive wind.
He will unload all His wrath on the head of those who worship idols.
And still that is not all.
(16) “And by His sword on all flesh,”
Here is God, riding a chariot amidst a tornado of fire
His nostrils are flared, He is foaming at the mouth
He is filled with rage and He is swinging His sword violently.
Does that paint the picture for you?
Revelation 19:11-16 “And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
IT’S THE SAME PICTURE ISN’T IT?
It is the expression of God’s anger
On those who have failed to worship Him as He deserves.
God’s wrath is A MEASURABLE ACTION.
When we talk about God’s anger toward idolatry,
Do not allow His current patience with idolaters to lull you to sleep.
God is not passive when it comes to idolatry, He is active!
HE POURS OUT HIS WRATH.
• Have you read the book of Joshua and the conquest?
• Have you read of the destruction God decreed upon the pagan peoples of the land of Canaan.
When I was in seminary many years ago,
I had an Old Testament seminary professor ask us the question: “Was God ethical to command the annihilation of those tribes during the conquest?”
I almost shuttered in my seat
At the thought of even pondering such a question.
• We are the creation, He is the Creator.
• He is sovereign, we are dirt.
• He is holy and powerful and glorious.
• We are fallen and weak and rebellious.
And would we really dare to sit in judgment of Him to question His ethics?
Well the answer is that God is absolutely just and ethical
And right and good and true for His command to annihilate idolatry
The creatures of Canaan universally and totally broke rule number 1.
1. Which is to worship their Creator
2. And not give credit to their existence to some man-made deity.
It angered God and God actively ordered their annihilation.
That conquest under Joshua was but A PRE-CURSOR
To the one that will one day cover the entire globe.
God isn’t just angry at idolatry, He expresses that anger.
3) GOD’S ENEMY REVEALED
That is to say, WHO is He angry at?
(14) “indignant toward His enemies”
(17) “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the gardens, Following one in the center, Who eat swine’s flesh, detestable things and mice…”
God isn’t random in His judgments.
His wrath has a specific target.
He will pour out His wrath on those whom He calls “His enemies”
There is such a thing…
Jesus said:
Luke 11:23 “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.”
“For or against” Jesus said.
There is no neutral position.
Well who are “His enemies”?
Here it is those
• Who go through religious ceremonies of sanctification (initiation)
• So that they can attend a pagan place of worship with their peers,
• And do that which God decreed to be unclean and detestable.
I think the book of Leviticus will help us here more than any other.
TURN TO: LEVITICUS 11
Leviticus 11 is where dietary restrictions are laid out.
Now, before we get into these, I do want to make sure you understand that in Jesus Christ, all foods have been declared clean.
Mark 7:19 “because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.)”
It is nothing but a legalistic heresy
That still holds a dietary restriction over someone’s head.
Colossians 2:16-23 “Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.”
1 Timothy 4:1-5 “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.”
In Christ there is freedom and no more dietary restriction.
It is important you understand that before we look at Leviticus 11.
But here in Leviticus 11 we have the dietary restrictions.
And we see some verses of importance to the text we study here.
Verse 7 is of importance: “and the pig, for though it divides the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew cud, it is unclean to you.”
• God said that “swine’s flesh” is off limits.
Verse 29 should be seen, “Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,”
• So there we see that you can’t eat “detestable things and mice”
And there are many more such commands in the chapter.
But for the significance of the command:
READ VERSES 43-45
THE KEY is God’s statement, “For I am the LORD our God…”
It is God’s call for His people to be separate from the world.
If these commands don’t have any logical reasoning behind them,
Then that is kind of the point.
They are “because I said so” commands.
God is set apart from the nations as the God of Israel
So He orders His people to be set apart from the nations as well
As the people of God.
You be Mine and I will be yours.
That is the idea.
And we find out those who refuse to be His
Are regarded by Him as enemies and He will destroy them.
SO WE LEARN THAT God’s anger is felt and poured out
Upon those who refuse to bow in humble submission to Him.
• Instead of obedience they choose worldliness.
• Instead of worship they follow their own flesh.
• They are not interested in being set apart as holy to God.
NOW, those dietary restrictions may be removed in Christ,
But God’s command for our sanctification is not.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. “Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,” says the Lord. “AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you. “And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.”
1 Peter 4:1-5 “Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you; but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.”
There is still a call for you and I to be separate from the world.
We are still called to show our devotion to Christ by the sin we avoid.
YOU CAN EAT BACON,
But you can’t talk like the world, walk like the world, love like the world, etc.
James 4:4 “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
1 John 2:15 “Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
Jesus said:
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
Do you see the point?
We find out here that God is angry.
We find out that God is active in His judgment.
And here we find out who the recipients of that anger are.
• They are those whom He regards as enemies.
• They are those who are regarded as idolaters.
AND LET ME BE VERY CLEAR IN THIS STATEMENT:
God will pour it His wrath on idolatry and on idolaters
And there is no idolatry bigger today than love for this world.
• Men who will not forsake this world for Christ.
• Men who love the pleasures and treasures and comforts of this world more
than Christ.
• Men who love the entertainments, advertisements, and opportunities of this
world more than Christ.
In our culture love of the world is idol #1
And God will pour out His wrath on all those who participate in it.
God’s attitude toward idolaters
God’s anger expressed
God’s enemy revealed
4) GOD’S JUDGMENT FINISHED
(16) “And those slain by the LORD will be many”
(17) “[Idolaters] will come to an end altogether”
That word “many” is an important word.
Matthew 7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.”
Matthew 7:22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’”
Matthew 24:10 “At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.”
Luke 13:23-24 “And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
It is not the many who are being saved,
It is the many who are being judged.
It is the few who are being saved.
You cannot walk with the crowd and be pleasing to God.
Innertubes will float you right to hell.
You must swim upstream.
The “many” are headed in the wrong direction,
And none of them will escape.
God promises they “will come to an end altogether.”
Exodus 22:20 “He who sacrifices to any god, other than to the LORD alone, shall be utterly destroyed.”
ALL IDOLATERS WILL BE DESTROYED.
THIS IS GOD’S PLAN FOR RESTORING TRUE WORSHIP IN THE WORLD.
He will reject all forms of hypocritical worship,
• This was seen when He rejected Israel and destroyed their temple.
He will then cause the nation of Israel to be reborn.
• Their tribulation will be the means of purifying them to become true worshipers.
He will then return to pour out His wrath
• On all those who fail to worship Him and give their worship to false gods.
THAT IS THE PLAN.
FOR US, we must simply determine which team we’re going to be on.
You can’t play for both.
You can’t love this world and its idols and Christ.
Matthew 16:24-27 “Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? “For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.”
CHRIST WILL DESTROY IDOLATERS.
Jude 14-15 “It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
This earth is due a cleansing and Christ will cleanse it.
He will return with the sword and will slay those
Who fail to worship Him properly
Or who give the worship He deserves to some other recipient.
And His sword will be active.
We know that the blood will run through the streets up to the horses bridle for the distance of 100 miles.
Then all those He slays will be raised to life after His 1,000 year reign
And will be thrown into the lake of fire for all eternity.
You do not want to be an enemy of Christ.
Be a worshiper of Christ.
Worship of Christ is where this world is headed.
1. Cleanse yourself of hypocrisy.
2. Cleanse yourself of idolatry.
3. Commit to worship Christ and Christ alone.
John 4:23-24 “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. “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
