LE: Do you Know God?

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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

Whoever believes in the Son [Jesus Christ] has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

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Do you Know God?

Knowing God (Publisher: InterVarsity Press)

J.I. Packer contends that the fundamental weakness of the modern Christian Church is the failure of Christians to know God.

There is only one God, and He is the Lord God Most High, the creator of the universe and all that is in it. He is the giver of life and the judge, and gave His son as the Saviour of the world. JI Packer writes about knowing God:

The "knowledge of God" is not some human awarness awareness of God, but is tha knowledge arising from a relationship with God (This is true religion - a relationship with God).
Knowledge of God is not an experience of God. It is by Faith we know God, which is all about trusing Him. It is within this framework of trust that we experience God in all his fulness..
Knowledge of God is "more than knowing about God, although knowing about God is its foundation; [It is] knowledge that comes to us in the relation of commitment and trust, faith, and reliance"
To know God is also to know God's relationship to us, knowing His gracious gifts to us, and our need for such gifts in the first place.

I know too many people who have studied theology but do not know God; who know the Bible but do not KNOW God.

J I Packer
Knowing God (Publisher: InterVarsity Press)
Posted: 04 Dec 2022

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