Good question. God is a Spirit and seeks those who would worship Him in Spirit and truth. God is holy and only accepts that which is holy, therefore He always sets the standard of how man is to worship Him, so that man would not profane his worship of God by offering it according to his own imaginations.
The due order of worshipping God is always by a covenant God gave. When worship is outside the boundaries of what God set by the covenant, the worship is unacceptable to God. When worship is expressed by the covenant terms, it is perfect and pleasing to Him.
Through Jesus Christ God gave a New Covenant, which reset the order of worship to be expressed by new terms, new knowledge, new contact points and new commandments. Although the same Law of Love applies, "Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, soul, mind and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself", yet the "how to's" of fulfilling this commandment changed in Jesus Christ. Now the temple is not of stone, but built in the soul. Now the tools are not held with the hands or tasted or seen, but invisible. Worship of God now is easy, light and not burdensome.
The terms of the New Covenant are instructed to believers by apostles. This is the office God selected to disseminate and keep pure the Doctrine of Christ, which outlines how we are to express our faith toward God and participate in fellowship with Him. This is not religion, it is called "divine service" or "the believer's priesthood." God calls all to the New Covenant priesthood, where Jesus is the mediator of the covenant blessings upon the soul.
Faith in Christ is simple and uncomplicated when properly instructed by living, confirmed, covenant apostles. Man has complicated it by entwining his imaginations, his aspirations, his pride, his ambitions, his conscience, and the wisdom of the world. All these form traditions that burden and wound the soul as it seeks to be reconciled to its Creator.
While many will say "God is love and He just wants us to love him"...we see that without a sanctified contact point to express that love through, the expression defaults to the expression of the flesh, which God does not accept. God does not accept an expression of love/faith that follows what is common to man. He only accepts that which follows the Rhythm of the Spirit according to the pattern of grace and truth Jesus set.
May the grace of God illuminate.
In Christ,
Apostle JoAnne Cremer
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