“The Father Seeketh Such To Worship Him”

“THE FATHER SEEKETH SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM”

It should be manifest to the “sons” that only those who give to the Son His unique place (in this hour that “now is”)—that of Son over God’s house (Heb 3: 6)—can worship the Father. “No man cometh unto the Father but by me”, John 14: 6. “He that confesses the Son hath the Father also”. We only reach the Father in Christianity, I think, by the Son, and this is so also in our worship. Worship must be “in spirit and in truth”, John 4: 24.

We have separated from all that does not give to the Son this place, in order that in God’s house we may respond to what the Father is seeking. We could not be in this blessed association apart from the Son, for it is thus that we enter into it.

The Father has chosen (ήρέτισα) the Son, Matt 12: 18. “The Father loveth the Son”, John 3: 35. The Son has chosen us. Every heresy (υίρέσεις), 1 Cor 11: 19, is a choosing of man, and the assertion of man’s ability to choose.

How can such learn from the Son, and as sons, to worship the Father? For we “call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work”, 1 Pet 1: 17, compare 1 Pet 2: 5.

From Mutual Comfort—vol 6, 1913