TO KNOW AND BE KNOWN BY HIM
Three Questions we will answer:
- WHAT IS KNOWING HIM?
- DO I KNOW HIM?
- HOW TO HELP OTHERS KNOW HIM?
What is Knowing Him?
“And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
John 17:3
1.
“My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.”
John 10:27-28
2.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked (exposed) and unashamed.”
Genesis 2:24-25
3. NOT
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’Saying Lord isn’t knowing Him.”
Matthew 7:21
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?”
Luke 6:46
“or those whom he foreknew he also predestined (chose) to be conformed to the image of his Son.”
Romans 8:29
“Let us make Man in “our image, our likeness”
Genesis 1:26
Do I Know Him?
“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:8-9
Who you are in secret is how
How To Help Others Know Him?
“As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.”
Luke 23:26
“Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
Matthew 16:24
Our cross shows His life, His life shows
“Worthy are you to take the scroll, and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God.”
Revelation 5:9