Tag: knowing God
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Knowing God
Philippians 3:7-11 “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain…
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How Do You Know if You Know?
1 John 2:3 “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.” Do you know Jesus? An easy way to know this is by your answer to the following question: Do you keep His commandments? Notice it doesn’t say “keep some of His commandments,” “keep the commandments…
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The Next New Thing
James 1:17 “ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” Do you know God? What do people say about Him? What do you think about Him? Whatever you think, why do you think that…
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There’s always more . . .
John 16:12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” John 16 was written as an account of Jesus speaking to the apostles. He was promising them that after the cross and His ascension back to the Father He would send them the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit…
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The knowledge that is eternal life
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” How is it that knowing God the Father and Jesus, God’s son, is the same as eternal life, for that’s what Jesus claimed in the verse above? How is it that to know any being is equivalent…
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Who knows God?
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” Do you know God? Jesus said that to know God is to have eternal life. Conversely, according to Jesus, if you don’t know God, you don’t have eternal life. But what does it even mean to “know…
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I AM!
Exodus 3:13-14 “Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this…
To Encourage You 