Worship and Service Pt.4
MATTHEW 2:1-12
1 ¶ Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
9 ¶ When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. (Notice how that worship and service are put together – whatever you worship, you will show that worship by your service)
12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
JOHN 4:23-24 - is the conversation that Jesus was having with the woman at the well just after that he had revealed that she had had 6 husbands.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Worship and Service Pt.4
I was thinking on the worship in God’s Eden before the fall of man verses the worship in Satan’s Eden in this age – What did worship look like in Eden before the fall of man – because in this “Satan’s Eden” it must only be a perversion of what that was.
Often we have an idea of what worship looks like, like a heathen prostrating himself before an Idol and chanting repeating words of praise, but worship can be a lot deeper and different than that – it begins from deep within a person, in their subconscious realm where real faith and doubt exist.
***That is why people can literally be worshiping Satan from deep within their spirit, while at the surface and in their minds they think they are worshiping God, they are saying with their lips “we worship you Lord Jesus” – “we give you praise and thanks” and brother Branham tells us that they can be doing that in a religious service and actually be worshiping the devil.
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78 And people worship the Devil, don't even know what they're doing. They worship the Devil in churches, "Teaching for Doctrine the commandments of man, creeds--creeds and traditions."
So why is that? This is a true paradox.
**It is because of who is being revealed to them and who is being admired.
Adam worshiped God in God’s Eden because as the revelation of the word was being unfolded to him, he was growing in the revelation and the unveiling of God, because the mighty God was being unveiled to him in that Eden, and so God was unfolding His great being and person to Adam in a greater and greater way, and Adam became so full of wonder and adoration of that revealing that it produced a worship in him that was from the depths of Adam’s being, it was not just surface words coming from Adam’s lips – “Lord we praise you” but from Adam’s heart he had a true revelation of the true God – and that produced a true worship, that was God’s only provided place of worship – a worship that comes from a spirit realm of where truth is.
JOHN 4:24
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
***As Adam grew in the revelation of the mighty God that was being unveiled to him, that was God’s only provided place of Worship – God’s only provided place of worship is from the true revelation of the word within a believer.
***But now in this Satan’s Eden, the people of this Eden are growing in the revelation of this evil age, because Satan is also unfolding himself greater and greater in his perversion of the kingdom of God, he wants to be like God, he wants to be admired and worshiped and thought of as God was thought of by Adam.
II THESSALONIANS 2:1-4
1 ¶ Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means (Television, sport, music, world-wide spiders web, denominations, modern culture and modern thinking): for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (Who is being revealed in this hour – Satan, and who is being worshiped in this hour – Satan, he is the mighty devil unveiled before us in this hour – the whole world is feeding on him, and loving him, and worshiping him, and they don’t know they are worshiping him, because true worship comes from and unconscious realm)
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
***He is revealing himself in this age to the people of this age as God was revealing Himself to Adam in the Eden at the beginning.
We found out earlier on in this series that as the world is coming into a maturity of unbelief and worship of the devil, that this end time bride of Jesus Christ is also coming into a maturity of faith in the revelation of the word of God of this end time hour in order to bring about the resurrection that has been promised to take place at this time – “let them both grow together until harvest time”, and the harvest time is at the end of the world.
So both seeds and vines are promised to come to harvest at the end of this age when all would be harvested, just as Jesus and Judas came to harvest at the end of the Old Testament and they both went to their respected places.
**Christ’s bride and Satan’s bride will both come to maturity at the harvest time, and so that maturity will also be a maturity of revelation and worship.
REVELATION 13:8
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (True worship comes from within a person’s spirit – it is not an outside show)
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Thank God the sheep will not worship him. Everyone but the very elect will be deceived. But they will not be deceived. For they hear the Shepherd's voice and they follow Him.
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63 …I might brief what I said a few days ago, here in a Message on, I believe it was, The God Of This World; blinded the eyes of the people, that they absolutely worship the devil in religious services. Did you all get that? All of you understood it? (outside of this message we would never understand these deep things)
***So people are not aware that they are worshiping the devil in this hour when they are involved with the false teachings of man. False teachings of man produce a false worship from within the unconscious realm – in other words, you will worship something from within your unconscious spirit realm, and that something will depend upon your revelation of who that person is.
**That is why the people of the world that do not even claim to be Christians or even religious are actually totally worshiping the devil in this hour.