Life Church Vineyard

Founding Pastor Ron Grubb

We worship God who is and will forever be! There’s joy in the house of the Lord.

Turning Truth into Worship

Inversion as a believer means worshipping in Spirit and in truth.

Good things can happen to unbelievers and bad things can happen to believers. The difference is that God will work out whatever happens to us, as believers, for our good. if not in this life in eternal life with Him.

John 4:1-2

4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

There is the truth and there is doctrine.

Marriage is a total commitment. It is the same with God. He requires our full commitment. We are choosing to commit to God through Jesus forever. Leaving  options in our life causes us to have an unsettled mind. 

Spiritual worship and comes out of our belief in things not seen. The outpouring of Holy Spirit is the biggest gift of Jesus to those who believe in Him and the salvation He gives.

In the Old Testament sacrifice was a tangible physical thing. They had a hard time realizing that it was a representation of the spiritual arrival of Jesus and the sacrifice that He made for them. 

True worshipers honor God in every area of their life. All day in every way! We need to become more proficient in worshipping in truth. Even when bad things happen to us we need to realize God is in it. 

Everything that happens to us is for our growth spiritually. We may not like it but we believe God can make something good come out of it.

Romans 8:28

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Our life is for His purpose not ours. We need to ask for His will in our life and in the life of others. His way is always better.

We have to be people who commit our life to God knowing that whatever happens He will work it out for our eternal good. 

Everything is under His control…every thing!

Good things happen. Bad thing happen. To all people. He will make good of all of it in the end.

Evil exists in this world. God is bigger than evil. 

We need to worship in any situation that we find ourself. As believers we need to have compassion for others.  God has His own desires and we need to worship trusting Him.