God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
God is Spirit, wholly unlike flesh, and this truth should stop us cold when we dare to design worship by what pleases us. We cannot lift ourselves to His height, so we must take our rule from His Word, not our desires.
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We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themselves.
Commenting on John 4:4-26
God is Spirit, immaterial, invisible, simple, infinite, eternal, the author and source of all other spirits. He deserves worship suited to His nature: spiritual and true, with body and soul both, in closet and in church, according to His will.
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