{"id":2949,"date":"1998-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferenciaswp.carpa.com\/en\/conferencias\/the-worshipers-that-god-seeks\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T02:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T02:58:21","slug":"the-worshipers-that-god-seeks","status":"publish","type":"conferencias","link":"https:\/\/conferenciaswp.carpa.com\/en\/conferencias\/the-worshipers-that-god-seeks","title":{"rendered":"The worshipers that God seeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, kind friends and brethren present here in Resistencia, Chaco, Republic of Argentina. It is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Divine Program under the topic: <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cTHE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And we read in John, chapter 4, verse 19 to 24. In the conversation that Jesus Christ had with the Samaritan woman, there we find something very important and we will read: chapter 4, verse 19 to 24, of the Gospel according to John, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman saith unto him <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(that is, the Samaritan woman)<\/span><\/span><\/span>, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTHE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout human history we find that, since the book of Genesis, human beings have sought God and worshiped Him; and they have all offered their worship to God, and others, in open rebellion against God, have offered their worship to other things that are not God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But now, let\u2019s see how since Genesis we find Adam worshiping God, and then we also find Abel worshiping God and also Cain worshiping God; but we find that not all the worshipers manage to worship God and please God and that God receives their worship.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The case of Cain and Abel is a very clear example that there are worshipers who worship God correctly and God accepts their worship, and there are others who worship God but God does not accept their worship.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how sincere people are, it is required that the worship be correct; because if it is not correct, as established by God, God does not accept the worship.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, notice that since Genesis human beings have been required to worship God, and in order to worship God it is required that human beings have a sacrifice for sin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We find, in the case of Cain and Abel, Cain came to worship God (there, on the east side, where they were) and he offered God the fruits of the field. Let\u2019s say\u2026 an example: if he had there in the fruits of the field cassava, bananas, carica papaya or papayas and oranges, and all those things of the fruits of the field, he brought to God a good full basket and offered it to God; and perhaps some flowers too, to decorate his basket; as sometimes they bring a basket of some fruits (or fruits) and some flowers to the patients who are in some hospital, or to some lady who has given birth. Back then, they used to bring them chickens, and every day they would bring them a chicken broth to their room; they don\u2019t do that anymore. Before it was a time of 40 days that they had (the quarantine) there, when they had given birth; but now, then, they don\u2019t do it like that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But, you see, human beings always offer gifts to each other, as well as on Christmas days, as well as on Father\u2019s Days and Mother\u2019s Days; and also at the time of birthdays, and so on; and when the person departs, well they bring them flowers, and so on.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, in order to worship God, it is required that the human being approaches God with a sacrifice; that is his sin offering.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But, notice, everything that Cain offered to God, none of it represented the Sacrifice of Christ for sin; because without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin<\/span><\/span><\/span>1<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>. Therefore, Cain\u2019s religion to worship God was something intellectual.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He thought that because he was sincere, he could worship God in the most beautiful way he saw fit, but he did not realize that a sacrifice for sin is required to approach God and worship God; and Cain did not have that, Cain did not have the divine revelation of how to approach God to worship God; therefore, Cain was a worshiper, but a worshiper without wisdom, without divine knowledge of how to worship God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The person needs to know how to worship God and where to worship God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But you see, Abel did have the revelation from Heaven of how to worship God, and he approached God with a sacrifice of a little animal; he offered it to God and it pleased God. It is in Chapter 4 of Genesis\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

See how the human race appears there worshipping God since the beginning; and we find that one knew how to worship God and the other did not know how to worship God. Chapter 4, verse 3 and on, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in process of time it came to pass <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(that is, as the years passed or time passed)<\/span><\/span><\/span>, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> (See, he was filled with anger against God and against Abel)<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now see how sin is at the door for everyone who does not have a sacrifice for sin; therefore, the person will have his sins in him and he will not be able to approach God; and if he approaches God, God sees his sins and the divine judgment falls upon the person.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, see how Cain was a worshiper in his own way: he had his own religion, invented by him, religion of human making; but Abel had revelation from Heaven.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That is why the apostle Saint Paul, speaking of Cain and Abel, in chapter 11 of his letter to the Hebrews tells us, verse 4:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now see how God testified that Abel was righteous and testified of his offering. Look:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c…by which he obtained witness that he was righteous\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When a person is justified, it is as if he had never sinned before.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, by Abel offering to God that sacrifice for sin, his sins were covered and God saw no sin in him, that is why he was called righteous; as also later Noah was mentioned by God as a righteous man<\/span><\/span><\/span>2<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>, who was found righteous by God and found grace before God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because when the sins of these men of God in the Old Testament were covered by the offerings or sacrifices that they offered to God for sin, by their sins being covered they were not seen by God: they were covered with the blood of those sacrifices; therefore, they were called righteous, even though they had made mistakes in their lives, they had sinned, but they had covered their sins with the blood of those sacrifices.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And why did the blood of those sacrifices work that way? Because those sacrifices represented the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary\u2019s Cross.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, how much more the Blood of Christ when it has been applied in the soul, in the heart, of each of you and me? The Blood of Jesus Christ<\/span><\/span><\/span>3<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup> cleanses us from all sin! And then we can approach God to worship God and to glorify His Name and also to ask God, make requests to God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now notice the mystery of worshiping God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now look, throughout the Old Testament we find that God ordered the prophet Moses to establish a tabernacle in the midst of the Hebrew people; and in that tabernacle, God was in the most holy place, upon the mercy seat, which was upon the ark of the covenant; and the Hebrew people worshipped God looking towards the temple, towards the tabernacle.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And then, when the Hebrew people entered the promised land, God had already told them through the prophet Moses that they would serve God and would worship God and would offer to God offerings and sacrifices in the place that God would choose to put His Name there. In Deuteronomy, chapter 12, verse 4 to 14, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYe shall not do so unto the Lord your God\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, \u201cyou shall not\u201d\u2026 Let\u2019s see, so you can see what He is talking about here; chapter 12, verse 1 and on, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, all the temples and high places and all the places where those nations served their gods would be destroyed; that is how God commanded the Hebrew people, when the Hebrew people entered the promised land. It continues saying:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYe shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because the Hebrew people had the true God and the true religion, the true way to serve the God creator of Heaven and Earth; in other words, they had the true revelation of God to serve God, to worship God; and upon entering the promised land they had to establish the right way to worship God; and any other way had to be removed from the midst of the people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYe shall not do so unto the Lord your God<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> (in other words, you are not going to make sculptures, statues, images and things like that)<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And that place became Jerusalem, where the temple was built. Now, let\u2019s continue, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> (that is, they were not going to do as they did in the wilderness, that each one did what he thought was right)<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(the Levites had no part or inheritance, but they would rejoice in the place where God would choose to put His Name)<\/span><\/span><\/span>.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, you see that God says that everyone would rejoice, in other words, the grandfather, the father, the son, the grandson, everyone, and the servants too, everyone would rejoice, before whom? Before God; because to come to the presence of God is to come to the place where there is blessing to enjoy the blessings of God and to rejoice in God. Now, it continues saying:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTake heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

See how God commanded the Hebrew people to worship God and offer burnt offerings and sacrifices, and offerings (to God), in the place that God would choose to put His Name there; and it was Jerusalem where God chose to put His Name there, for the temple was established there; and the Name of God was there, because the Name of God is within the temple of God, upon the mercy seat; because there, on the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim, is the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, in that light of the Shekinah; and the Angel of the Covenant, see what it says in the book of Exodus, chapter 23. Chapter 23, verse 20 and on, of Exodus, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBehold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where is the Name of God? In the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, who delivered the Hebrew people through the prophet Moses and led the Hebrew people through the wilderness until He took them to the promised land.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And that Angel of the Lord said to the prophet Moses<\/span><\/span><\/span>4<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>: \u201cI am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,\u201d because that is the same God who created the Heavens and the Earth in His theophanic body, that is why He is called the Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant, where the Name of God is.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And being in the temple, in the tabernacle, in the most holy place, upon the mercy seat, the Angel of the Covenant in that light of the Pillar of Fire, therefore, the Name of God is there, because the Angel of the Covenant has it; He is the bearer of the Eternal Name of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That is why when Moses asked the Angel of the Lord, God Himself in His theophanic body: \u201cWhat is Your Name, so that when they ask me for Your Name I can tell them (the Hebrew people) what Your Name is. If they ask me for Your Name, what shall I tell them?<\/span><\/span><\/span>5<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>\u201d And then God gave him those four consonants, which are Y (which is the Greek \u201ci\u201d) HWH, as the Name of God, the Name of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, which bears the Name of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now notice how the Name of God was in the temple in the Angel of the Covenant, which was upon the mercy seat, in the most holy place, in that light of the Pillar of Fire. That is why He tells the prophet Moses in the book of Exodus, chapter 25, verse 21 to 22, God says to the prophet Moses:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

From where did God speak to the prophet Moses when the ark of the covenant and the mercy seat were already built on top of the ark of the covenant? He spoke to him from the midst of the two golden cherubim, which were upon the mercy seat.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also in Leviticus, chapter 16, it says, from verse 1 and on:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And why did they come before the Lord, to the most holy place (they entered the most holy place with their censers with strange fire), and died? See, they entered with strange fire into the most holy place, and entered there without the blood of atonement; and not being high priest, because Aaron was the high priest, they died there in the most holy place; fire came out from the presence of God and burned them. See, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How would God appear in the most holy place? He would appear in that Cloud of Fire, in that Pillar of Fire, and where? Upon the ark of the covenant, upon the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now we can see where God was in that Pillar of Fire: He was upon the mercy seat; and being the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Name of God was there.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And when the temple was built there in Jerusalem, and the most holy place was built, and the ark of the covenant was placed inside the most holy place, the Name of God was there.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, we can see why the Hebrew people went to Jerusalem to worship God: it was according to God\u2019s order, to please God and to offer God their offerings and sacrifices.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And they had to approach God with their sacrifice, that is, they had to offer to God the sacrifice for sin, each one as an individual. And also, then the high priest offered the sacrifice for himself and for the priests, and then he offered the sacrifice of the goat for the people; and he also took the blood of the goat to the most holy place and spread it upon the mercy seat, as he had done with the blood of the bullock that he had offered for himself and for the other priests.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now see how God has everything established. Those sacrifices and the blood of those sacrifices represent the Sacrifice of Christ and the Blood of Christ shed on Calvary\u2019s Cross to cleanse us from all sin. See why they had to come to God with the sacrifice for sin: in order to also be reconciled with God, as individuals and as a nation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, we have seen how it was in the Old Testament, which is type and figure of the divine order pertaining to the New Testament, where the High Priest is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who offered the Sacrifice for sin on Calvary\u2019s Cross and brought His Sacrifice before the presence of God, took His Blood, and placed it in the Temple of God in Heaven; not in the earthly temple which was in Jerusalem, but in the Temple of God that is in Heaven; because Christ is High Priest of the Temple that is in Heaven, He is the Melchizedek who appeared to Abraham; and that is why He is High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek, of the Temple that is in Heaven.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That is why He ascended to Heaven and placed Himself on the Throne of God in Heaven \u2014upon the Mercy Seat\u2014 and placed His Blood there; and He has been interceding in the Temple of God in Heaven, as the high priest did in the earthly temple; on the 10th day of the seventh month of each year, that is how the high priest did it: with the blood of the atonement of the goat; and that is how he made the intercession for the Hebrew people, for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now Christ, as High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek, He, being the High Priest of the Temple that is in Heaven, has been making intercession there for two thousand years for every son and daughter of God, every person whose name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, since before the foundation of the world, for the reconciliation of all those people, to be reconciled to God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And that is why Saint Paul says<\/span><\/span><\/span>6<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>: \u201cBe reconciled to God today.\u201d Why? Because the Sacrifice for the reconciliation of all the sons and daughters of God has been carried out by Christ on Calvary\u2019s Cross, and His Blood has been placed upon the Mercy Seat of the Temple that is in Heaven; and He is making intercession for every person whose name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, and therefore belongs to the heavenly Israel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just as the sacrifice was carried out and the blood of the goat was taken to the most holy place, and it was placed, it was spread on the mercy seat, to make the intercession for the earthly Israel and the members of the earthly Israel; now for the heavenly Israel, Jesus Christ the High Priest, High Priest of the Temple that is in Heaven, is doing it since He ascended to Heaven.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And when He has made intercession for the very last of God\u2019s elect (which are called and gathered in this end time, the last elect of God), when the last of God\u2019s elect enters the Mystical Body of Christ, the Work of Christ as Intercessor in Heaven, the Work of the High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek, will be finished; with His own Blood, He will have finished there in Heaven.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And then He comes out from the Throne of God of Heaven, claims all that He has redeemed with His precious Blood and resurrects the dead in Christ and He will transform us who are alive; and then we will also be physically reconciled with God by receiving an eternal body, a glorified body, an immortal and incorruptible body; which Christ has promised for each of us who are alive, and for the dead in Christ; and He has promised to resurrect the dead in Christ in the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

John, chapter 6, verses 39 to 40, He says, speaking of the believers in Him, He says He will resurrect them. And now, notice here: chapter 6, verse 40, of John, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(which is the seventh millennium or Day of the Lord or the Day of Jehovah)<\/span><\/span><\/span>.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because one day before the Lord is like a thousand years for us here on Earth. Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, testifies to this truth: that \u201cone day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.\u201d The prophet Moses, in Psalm 90 and verse 4, also testified of this truth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, being that we have a Sacrifice for sin: the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary\u2019s Cross, and His Blood placed on the Mercy Seat or chair of mercy of the Temple that is in Heaven, and His Blood applied in our soul, in our heart: we come to God to worship God; and also to ask God, to make our requests, and sing to our God, glorify our God with songs, thanking Him for His mercy, for His love, for His Sacrifice on behalf of us all.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You see, we approach God with a Sacrifice, a perfect Sacrifice, which has cleansed us from all sin; and then we have been justified, we have remained as if we had never sinned before; and therefore, we can approach God, to worship our God and glorify His Name with songs, with praises.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is why Saint Peter in his first letter (\u2026). First Peter, chapter 2, verse 9, says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What else does it say? In the same chapter 2, verse 4 to 5, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now watch how through Jesus Christ, who is the High Priest of the Temple that is in Heaven, we offer sacrifices to God and we offer praise to God and thus we offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God; because we are priests of God and of Christ, and He is the High Priest.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, in the House of God of Heaven we offer our sacrifices and our praises; and Christ, being the High Priest, places them before the presence of God; they are accepted because there is a Sacrifice: the Sacrifice of the Atonement of Christ for us all.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Without that Sacrifice placed there in the Temple of God in Heaven, upon the Mercy Seat, His Blood placed there, without that Sacrifice our praise and worship to God could not be received by God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But now, since we approached with a perfect Sacrifice (as Abel approached God: with a sacrifice; although it was not perfect, but it represented the Sacrifice of Christ and therefore his sins were covered), now we approach with the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God and Goat of the Atonement, which is a perfect Sacrifice, which has taken away our sins, and our offerings and spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God, they come into the presence of God. And thus, as priests of God, we minister to God and worship and offer to God sacrifices and spiritual offerings pleasing to God, and they reach the Temple of God in Heaven.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But notice, just like the Hebrew people: all those offerings and sacrifices and worship that they offered to God, they did it in the temple that was on Earth so that it reached the Temple of God in Heaven.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, where do we have a temple in which to be and glorify God and worship God, and for that worship to reach the Temple of God in Heaven?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Saint Paul says in First Corinthians: \u201cKnow ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?\u201d See, First Corinthians, chapter 3, verse 16.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Saint Paul also says of our body in chapter 6, verse 19, of First Corinthians: \u201cYour bodies\u201d or \u201cyour body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As individuals we are a temple of God, and as a Mystical Body of believers in Christ\u2026 In other words, all believers in Christ belong to a Mystical Body of believers, called the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ; and being in that Temple, being part of that Temple (where we were born through the new birth), in that Temple is that we serve God, we worship God and offer God spiritual sacrifices; and we present ourselves to God praying to God and worshiping God, and offering God all those spiritual sacrifices, and glorifying God and singing to our God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Notice that we all do it, where? In the House of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where He has placed His Name.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just as God placed His Name in the Angel of the Lord (which is the same God in His theophanic body), there was the Name of God; and then it was placed in the tabernacle that Moses built and then in the temple that Solomon built, because there was the ark of the covenant and there was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And now, God placed His Name in Jesus. And then Jesus has placed His Name, where? In His Church.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, the place where all the sons and daughters of God are called and gathered together is in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, each one in the stage or age that he was given to live in; because the Church of Jesus Christ is the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore it is Christ Himself in the form of His Church.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just as a grain of wheat when it is sown in the ground: then a little plant is born, and that is the grain of wheat in the form of a little plant. And now the Church of Jesus Christ is the Mystical Body of Christ: it is Christ in the form of His Church.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That is why He says<\/span><\/span><\/span>7<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>: \u201cIn my Father\u2019s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have said so earlier; therefore I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again (His Second Coming), and will take you unto Myself\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Why does He say \u201cunto Myself\u201d? Because we are His Mystical Body of believers; we are His spiritual Temple, where God dwells, where Jesus Christ dwells, and where He has placed His Name.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c…and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And He will take us to our heavenly Father\u2019s House, to that great feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. When? At the Last Day. In what year of the Last Day, in what year of the seventh millennium? We do not know, but when we are transformed, we will know; because then, when we are transformed we will all go to the House of our heavenly Father, to Heaven, to the great feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now we have seen that the true worshipers are where? In the House of God, worshipping God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And how do they worship God? In spirit and in truth. And for that they have to be born again, born of the Water and the Spirit, in order to worship God in spirit and truth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because whoever is not born again cannot see the Kingdom of God, he cannot understand it<\/span><\/span><\/span>8<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>. Whoever is not born of the Water and the Spirit cannot enter the Kingdom of God, cannot enter the Church of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, cannot be part of that spiritual Temple where we worship our God in spirit and in truth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, it is not a four-walled temple, but it is a spiritual Temple: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where the sons and daughters of God \u2014in the age in which they live\u2014 worship God, glorify God, and offer spiritual sacrifices pleasing to God. That is the place where He has placed His Name, because He has placed Himself in that place: in His spiritual Temple; and He said He will be with us until the end of the world<\/span><\/span><\/span>9<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now we can see the true worshipers worshiping the Father in spirit and in truth, where? In the House of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And just as God did not accept worship in another place nor sacrifices in another place, but in the place that God said He would choose to put His Name, now the worship of God is carried out where? In the House of God, in the House of Jesus Christ, which is His spiritual Temple, His Church.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And that is so since the Day of Pentecost and on, where 120 people were born and the House of God began, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ began, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was born. And from there on, notice, Christ has been calling and gathering His children; and He has been placing them where? In His House.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The psalmist and prophet David said that his request was to be all the days of his life, where? In the House of God<\/span><\/span><\/span>10<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>. He also said to be in the Outer Courts of the House of God<\/span><\/span><\/span>11<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup>, because he belongs to the stage of the Outer Court of the House of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Those of the seven ages of the gentile Church belong to the part of the Holy Place of the House of God with its seven angel messengers; but the elect of the Last Day belong to the Most Holy Place of the House of God, which is the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, to be worshiping our God in spirit and in truth in the House of God, in the Most Holy Place of the House of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now we have seen this mystery of <\/span><\/span><\/span>THE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>. They are the worshipers who worship the Father in spirit and truth, who are born of the Water and the Spirit; and therefore they worship God in spirit, and offer to God those praises and worship in spirit, and spiritual sacrifices.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That House \u2014the Church of Jesus Christ\u2014 will be glorified; in other words, the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be transformed; and then that House will be dedicated to God for God\u2019s dwelling place in all His fullness; for Saint Paul teaches us in his letter to the Ephesians, in chapter 2 and verse 19 and on, speaking of that House, that we are that House. He says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And God will dwell in all His fullness in each of you and in me too; and He will dwell in all His fullness in each of the sons and daughters of God from past ages with their angel messengers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It has been in the first fruits of the Spirit during the seven ages; but for the Last Day, when the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive are transformed, that will already be in all the fullness of God; it will be the fullness of the Spirit of God dwelling in every elect of God, of those who are living in this time and of those who have departed in past ages; and He will be dwelling in all His fullness in His Church, which is His spiritual Temple.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just as we are a spiritual Temple as individuals, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ is (as a group, as the Mystical Body of believers) the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ; where one worships God and offers God spiritual praises, spiritual sacrifices pleasing to our God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to worship God, every person, every son and daughter of God has to be (where?) in the House of God, in the place that God has chosen to put His Name; because that is where Christ is and the Name of Christ is, and that is where He receives the worship of His children.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the person has to be in the age relevant to the time he is living in; in other words, he has to worship God in the present time, in the stage that pertains to the Church of Jesus Christ at the time the person is living.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, where did Saint Paul and his group worship? In the first age of the gentile Church, he worshipped God in spirit and in truth with the people of that first age. And thus each angel messenger with his group worshiped God in the age in which they lived, in that part of the spiritual Temple.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, where do we worship God in this time in which we live in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ? In the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. That is where the worshipers, who worship the Father in spirit and in truth, worship in this end time in which we are living. And such worshipers seek the Father to worship Him in this end time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Worship Him in what part of the Temple? In the part of the Temple called the Most Holy Place of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, which is the Age of the Cornerstone. That is where we offer Christ our worship in this end time, and where God calls and gathers His elect to worship Him in spirit and in truth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Those are<\/span><\/span><\/span> THE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd He shall send His Angels with a Great Voice of Trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from one end of heaven to the other,\u201d or \u201cfrom one end of heaven to the other,\u201d says Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31, Christ Himself speaking.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And in this time, His elect would be worshiping the Father in spirit and in truth, where? In the House of Jesus Christ, in the House of God, in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, which is His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone. That is where we worship our God, our Lord Jesus Christ in this end time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And He continues to call and gather, He continues to call\u2026 – He continues to seek and call the worshipers who will worship the Father in spirit and truth in this end time. And He has already called and gathered many, but He continues to call and gather those who remain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Most Holy Place, is being fulfilled where? In Latin America and the Caribbean, where He is calling and gathering the worshipers that God seeks, for them to worship Him and to worship Him in spirit and in truth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTHE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Those are His elect, written in Heaven, in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, since before the foundation of the world, who would believe in Christ as their Savior, would wash their sins away in the Blood of Christ and would receive His Holy Spirit; and therefore, they would obtain the new birth and would worship the Father in spirit and in truth, in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the House of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you tonight testifying to you of <\/span><\/span><\/span>THE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>, for what? To worship Him in spirit and in truth, for such worshipers the Father seeks to worship Him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, where do you worship the Father? In the House of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple, which is the Age of the Cornerstone; there is where we worship our God, the Creator of the Heavens and Earth; because the Father seeks such worshipers to worship Him in this end time; as He sought in past ages, for each stage, for each age, and the true worshipers were called and gathered, who worshipped the Father in spirit and in truth in the age in which they lived.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now it is our turn to worship our heavenly Father in spirit and in truth, in the House of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We no longer need to go to Jerusalem to worship God there on the mountain where the temple of God was, in the midst of the Hebrew people there in Jerusalem. Now it is in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, which is His Church, where we are called and gathered to worship the Father in spirit and in truth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTHE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And He has found us and He will find those who are yet to come to worship the Father in spirit and in truth in this time, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May the blessings of the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth be upon you all and upon me too; and may our worship and spiritual sacrifices to God, performed in His spiritual Temple, be pleasing and accepted by God all the days of our life, in which we come to worship God in spirit and truth. And may the number of the elect, the worshipers that God seeks, be soon completed; and may the dead in Christ resurrect and we who are alive be transformed; and may we be taken to the House of our heavenly Father, to Heaven, for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Well, we have seen this great mystery of <\/span><\/span><\/span>THE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And we have seen that one must enter through a Door into the House of God, and that Door is Christ our Savior. We enter through that Door to the House of God, to be part of the House of God and worship God. We enter through that Door by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May the blessings of God be upon you all. Thank you very much for your kind attention, and have a wonderful evening.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTHE WORSHIPERS THAT GOD SEEKS.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1<\/a> Hebrews 9:22<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/a> Hebrews 11:7; Genesis 7:1, 6:9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3<\/a> First John 1:7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4<\/a> Exodus 3:6<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5<\/a> Exodus 3:13<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6<\/a> Second Corinthians 5:20<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7<\/a> John 14:2-3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8<\/a> John 3:3-5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9<\/a> Matthew 28:20<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10<\/a> Psalm 27:4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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