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The locus of God's presence shifts from the Jerusalem temple to the person of Jesus so that he is the continuation of the true temple. Consequently, Jesus teaches that the time was dawning when true worship would not occur at the Jerusalem temple, but would be directed toward the Father (and, by implication, through the Messiah) in the sphere of the coming eschatological Spirit of Jesus (Jn 4:21-26). The Spirit creates a link with heaven through trust in Christ, and this trust brings them into the sphere of the true temple consisting of Christ and his Spirit. Worship in the true temple would no longer be geographically located in Jerusalem but in Christ.