In Truth
Dr. Bruce Leafblad
Notes by Richard S. Dickson
Friday, July 28, 2006 8:00 p.m. Sermon
Church Music Georgia 2006

John 4.19-24

• Introduction
• What is truth?
• not conformity to reality
• not truthfulness
• not right teaching
• John speaks of God's revelation of Himself (here and elsewhere)
• To worship truly, it must conform to God's revelation
• Jesus locates where worship must take place - "in"
  Error is "out" there
• God is not to be worshiped any way we please
• What kind of worship is in truth?
• Born in/of the truth (origin/source)
• Built on the truth (foundation)
• Fueled by the truth (sustaining)
  - fires our passion for God
• Governed by the truth
• the law
• expectation of conformance to God's character
• we are not to be over the Word, but under the Word
• Filled with the truth (content)
• sermons
• hymns
• etc.
• Sanctified by the truth - John 17 (character and quality)
• Most things are not holy by nature, they have to be made holy -especially us
• We become more like God by a constant exposure to His presence
• What is the content of this truth? specifically?
• The truth about God
• 2 kinds of errors: errors of addition and of subtraction
• believing things that are not true about God
• not believing things that God says are true about Himself
• "God is only worshiped as He is, not as He is not."
• Happened in the garden - the first lie - a lie about God
• The truth about us
• Honesty before God is so important
• We were created by God
• We were made in His likeness
• We were made for God
• We are totally dependent on God
• never self-existent
• humility - the dominant spiritual character of all words of worship
• The truth about worship
• Not what we feel about it, but what the Word teaches about it
• The Bible has a gigantic vocabulary of worship
  We learn about worship through ...
• the vocabulary of worship
• Biblical descriptions of worship
• Biblical institutions: primarily the Word and the table
• Biblical instructions
• literary texts of worship
• symbolical representation of things (thrones, tables, etc.)
• Conclusion: Dialogical Worship: Revelation and Response
  How will we respond?

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