To Know!

To Know!

Have you ever been somewhere where you met someone really important; a corporate owner or CEO, a Bank owner, or very wealthy person, a political leader, a social advocate, a star athlete or actor? Whether you are introduced by someone or you introduce yourself, you exchange names and maybe a few pleasantries, you might even have an in depth conversation. But, you still do not know each other. Maybe you’ve read or even studied about their life and career, but you still do not really know them. To really know someone you have to spend lots of time with and around them in all kinds of environments and situations. And, even then you can be surprised by a hidden behavior or action.

So when JESUS says, “For I have come down from Heaven to do not My Own Will but the Will of The One who sent Me. And this is the Will of The One who sent Me: that I should not lose any of all those He has given Me but should raise them up on the Last Day. Yes, this is the Will of My Father: that all who see the Son and trust in Him should have eternal life, and that I should raise them up on the Last Day.” or, “After YESHUA had said these things, He looked up toward Heaven and said, ‘Father, the time has come, Glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You – just as You gave Him authority over all mankind, so that He might give eternal life to all those whom You have given Him. And eternal life is this, to know the One True GOD, and Him whom You sent, YESHUA the Messiah.’” John 6:38-40; 17:1-3 CJB

In Matthew 7:15-29 JESUS makes it clear that many can know about Him but not be known by Him. Some will say and act like they know Him but not do His Will or not hear and act upon His Words. It is not enough to just read or even study the Bible, it is not enough to just pray or even meditate, it is not enough to do the works of GOD’s Kingdom, we must die to ourself, lay down our life and take up our cross daily so that we can work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We must know GOD as our Father who loves us and redeemed us before the earth was created and fear GOD the One who can destroy both our soul and body in eternal damnation.

Being a Christian is not about self anything, it is about being like minded with CHRIST by knowing the fellowship of His suffering, by being conformed to His death so that we can live in the power of His resurrection.

This is not easy, I had a friend who was the worship leader of our Church at the time and he said, “Dying to myself is hard because I like myself.” Christianity is not a feel good religion, it is not a do good religion, it is a personal relationship with the One True GOD through the death of JESUS CHRIST and the in filling of our life (spirit, soul and body) by His SPIRIT which makes us living temples of the Living GOD in the earth.