Spiritual Worship As Timeless And Constant

He put His Spirit Within Them.

Isaiah 63:11 NASB
Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses. Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is 'He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them'.

"Who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them."

The phrase "in the midst of them" is: qereb [H7129]. And this word has the following, possible meanings in the Bible:

      "midst", "among", "inner part":, "middle"
      "inward part"
      as the seat of thought and emotion
      as the faculty of thought and emotion
      "in the midst", "among", "from among" (of a number of persons)
       with regards to the entrails (of sacrificial animals)

By far the greatest, biblical usage of "qereb" is in the sense of the bowels or inner parts of a sacrifice or זָבַח (zabach). Without extensive proof in this post, I will assume that the text should read, "He put His Spirit Within Them". 

This is referring to the people that Moses is leading out of Egypt and freeing from Pharoah.

In speaking to Pharoah, Moses says that God has commanded them to sacrifice to the LORD after going three days into the wilderness.

Exodus 8:27 NASB
We must go a three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us."

There is, however, an established scriptural understanding that God has never really had a preference for animal sacrifice, as seen in the following verses: 

Psalm 40:6 NASB
Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

Psalm 51:16 NASB — For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering.

1 Samuel 15:22 NASB
Samuel said, "Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

Hosea 6:6 NASB
For I delight in loyalty (chesed) rather than sacrifice, and in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Furthermore, Jeremiah 7:21-23 indicates that with regards to the historical exodus, God did not tell them to go into the wilderness for the express purpose of "making animal sacrifices".

Jeremiah 7:21-26 NASB
22 For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. 26 Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers. 

It is my position that when God said to Moses that they were to zabach (sacrifice) in the wilderness, it should have been understood that God was going to put His Spirit within them so that they might follow and obey Him through their Wilderness of Testing. His Spirit would be placed "within their inner being", as "in the entrails of a sacrifice" to metaphorically become a "living sacrifice" in worship to God. They were to be a living sacrifice in the "chesed" or "lovingkindness" of God. The Hebrew word "chesed" translated "lovingkindness" in the Old Testament speaks of both devotion and loyalty founded upon a sense of mercy and compassion.

Romans 12:1-2 NASB
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies (chesed, compassion, loyal devotion in the lovingkindness) of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

My assumption, here, is the consistency of character in God that I believe should result in a consistency of standards with regards to worship. Though we often work from the past to the present, I am now going from true spiritual worship as described in the New Testament and making a connection to the children of Israel in their exodus from Egyptian slavery. My premise being that spiritual worship would: 1. require the Spirit of God ("God is Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth", Jn 4:24). 2. be consistent throughout time, being commensurate with an eternal God.

God's spiritual service of worship has always been the same. If there is a protocol for worshiping an eternally consistent God, then any given form of worship throughout time has either met or failed to meet His requirements.

Spiritual worship requires: 
1. People, who out of God's mercies displayed in lovingkindness, offer themselves to God in worship by loyal devotion within the framework found within this same lovingkindness of God.
2. A people who prove or walk out in demonstration His good, acceptable and perfect will.
3. The Spirit of God as all lovingkindness is from God and must come from God.


For the people who followed Moses out of Egypt, they became living sacrifices by obeying God's voice to sojourn in the wilderness and to follow His lead.

 - Back To The Concept of Zabach Sacrifices, The Inner Being Of Man & Spiritual Worship -

All biblical "zabach" or "sacrifices" to God have experienced some sort of death prior to acceptance by God.

Dead to Disobedience
Romans 6:5 NASB
For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

Dead to the Law Romans 7:4 NASB
Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Dead to SinRomans 6:11 NASB Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Dead to SelfGalatians 2:20 NASB I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Dead to the World
Galatians 6:14 NASB But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

So there is an eternal protocol for worshiping God. For it to be good, acceptable and perfect in God's sight it must follow this protocol.