Worship of God is in the spirit and not a place, temple, or church established on earth. 

John 4:19-21

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“The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.” John 4:19-21

What the Samaritan woman describes is exactly what is happening in Jeruslaem today. The Temple Mount is in Jerusalem, but Jerusalem is divided between East and West Jerusalem. The Israelis call the temple the Temple Mount, but the Palestinians call the very same place the Aqsa Mosque. There is so much conflict and violence centered around the Temple Mount that it is impossible to look at it as a place of worship. In fact, there has been police/military raids and bloodshed in the temple itself against those who are not wanted inside the temple. The words of Jesus certainly are prophetic when He said, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.”

Since Jesus Christ died for the atonement of sin and was resurrected from the dead, the place of worship is no longer a place made with human hands. It is not the Temple Mount/Aqsa Mosque, it is not the churches of today, and it is no other building made with human hands. The temple of God is our body, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 Obviously, the day that Jesus said would come is already here, there is no place on earth in which to worship God, worship is from within our soul.

While living for Jesus Christ makes us the temple of the Holy Spirit, the thing which forms what people, think, feel, say and do is possessing the temple, our body, as its own, “…it opposes and exalts itself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that it sits as God in the temple of God, showing itself that it is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and extinguishes the worship of God by blaspheming Him, discarding the need for Jesus Christ, and trampling on the Holy Spirit. Click here for a post on the “man of sin”. People in every city around the world are being conformed to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

We can assess that there is no place on this earth where we can worship our creator God. The diagnosis is that without acknowledging Jesus Christ as the Son of God, worship of God does not exist. The plan is to worship God through Jesus Christ within our body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. We put that plan into practice by welcoming Jesus Christ to live in our mind, heart, and spirit by the remission of sin. The success of that plan is realized when we worship God in spirit and no longer look for a physical place of worship.

Heaven came down and glory filled my soul
When at the cross my Saviour made me whole
My sins were washed away
And my night was turned to day
Heaven came down and glory filled my soul

Born of the Spirit with life from above
Into God’s fam’ly divine
Justified fully thru Calvary’s love
O what a standing is mine
And the transaction so quickly was made
When as a sinner I came
Took of the offer of grace He did proffer
He saved me, O praise His dear name
(Church Hymn)

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1