Philippians 3:2 “Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.”
True worshippers are those who “worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh”! To “rejoice in Christ Jesus” is to experience great joy in knowing the Lord, serving the Lord, worshiping the Lord, and feeling the love of “Christ Jesus”; but taking no glory upon ourselves or glorifying any other human being or thing. We “rejoice in Christ Jesus” because we are “justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24); because there is “therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1); because “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2); because nothing “shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:39); because we “are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints” (I Corinthians 1:2); because of “God” “are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption” (I Corinthians 1:30); because of “our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 2:4); because we “are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28); because God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6); because “we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10); because of “the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus” (II Timothy 1:1); because He “hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (II Timothy 1:9); and because, though we have “not seen” “Christ Jesus” in the flesh, He has blessed us to “love” Him and “though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory” (I Peter 1:8)! Those who “rejoice in Christ Jesus” joyfully proclaim, “O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.” (Psalms 95:1) and “O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.” (Psalms 95:6)!