"In Life and In Death" -2

"Yea, for Thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." (Psalms 44:22) I think that the point I was making has to do with what we honestly believe to be true; not what we think to be true, based upon what we have been told; nor what we perceive to be true based upon what we have looked upon. What we know to be true must be confirmed in our hearts, the Spirit also bearing witness inside of us that it is so. Jesus, speaking to the woman at the well, said, "But the hour cometh, and now is, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him." (John 4:23) The point being, that the place will not matter, such as the mountain or the temple, but the heart is where true worship will take place; and the time had come for man's spirit to be reunited with the Father, whereby we can experience true worship based upon a personal relationship; the Holy Spirit being given us, that true worship will be confirmed. We must not hold anything back when it comes to true worship with God; meaning, that we must be an open book before Him, because the fact is, that is what we are. The truth that is in our hearts must match the truth as it is; after all, God knows us better than we know our self, so what do we think we are hiding from God? As to the point of life and death, death is a very real thing for this mortal body, there is just no way getting around that issue; but if we continue in life by living as though God's word does not matter as it should, then where do we get the experience of living a life in which death has no victory?
"Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us as an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself." (Philippians 3:15-21)