John 4:19-24  “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end. -A.W. Tozer

True Worship is Spiritual (v.23-24)

Spiritual Worship is From the Heart (v.23)

“And the duty of singing praises to God seems to be appointed wholly to excite and express religious affections. No other reason can be assigned why we should express ourselves to God in verse rather than in prose, and do it with music, but only that such is our nature and frame that these things have a tendency to move our affections.” —Jonathan Edwards

True Worship is Authentic (v.24)

Authentic Worship is Biblical

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. -2 Timothy 2:15 (NIV)

Authentic Worship is Honest

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain... Matthew 15:8–9a (NIV)