SALVATION...Introduction

John 4:20-24 NIV

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."

Worship isn't s matter of location and the Lord doesn't expect us to run about considering a particular place special for worship.

"The hour has come"... The time was now at hand in which the true spiritual worship of God was about to be established on the earth, and all Jewish rites and ceremonies entirely abolished....v21(Adam Clark)

"Ye worship ye know not what"... The Samaritans believed in the same God with "The Jews; but, as they rejected all the prophetic writings, they had but an imperfect knowledge of deity: Besides, as they incorporated the worship of idols with his worship, they might be justly said to worship him whom they did not know. V22(Adam Clark)

Jesus Christ mentioned that "Salvation is of the Jews" meaning that salvation will proceed from the Jewish nation. The Christ, the saviour will emerge from the nation of Israel as supported by the prophetic writings of the Jews.

Jesus Christ introduced at this point the worship of the father and the spiritual worship of the father.

No longer on the mountain or in Jerusalem but in a new and living way.

"God is Spirit"... There is a God, the cause of all things...the fountain of all perfection...without part or dimensions, for He is Eternal.....filling the heavens and the earth....pervading, governing and upholding all things: He is an infinite spirit! This God can be pleased with only that which resembles himself. Therefore must hate sin and sinfulness, and can delight in those only who are made partakers of his own divine nature... (Adam Clark)