Knowledge of Jesus Christ

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The believer’s understanding and experience of Jesus Christ, which arises from a personal relationship established through faith.

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Jesus Christ is the supreme revelation of God

John 14:6–10 NASB 2020

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.” 8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works.

See also Mt 11:27; Jn 1:1–2; Jn 8:19; Jn 17:26; Col 1:15–20; Heb 1:3

Knowledge of Jesus Christ acquired through a personal relationship with him

John 4:42 NASB 2020

42 and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One truly is the Savior of the world.”

Knowledge of Jesus Christ acquired through the work of the Holy Spirit

John 15:26 NASB 2020

26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, He will testify about Me,

Knowledge of Jesus Christ is associated with knowing God

John 17:26 NASB 2020

26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

See also Jn 8:19; Jn 10:14–15; Jn 10:27–30; Jn 14:6–11; Jn 15:15

Knowledge of Jesus Christ should increase consistently

Php 3:10; 2 Pe 3:18

Consequences of knowing Jesus Christ

Reconciliation with God

2 Co 5:19–20; Eph 2:16

Access to God

Ro 5:1–2; Eph 2:18

Becoming like Jesus Christ

Philippians 3:10 NASB 2020

10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

Peace

See also Jn 14:1; Jn 16:33; Ro 5:1–2; Eph 2:14–18

Hope

Ephesians 1:17–18 NASB 2020

17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Eternal life

John 17:3 NASB 2020

3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

See also Jn 10:27–28; 1 Jn 5:13; 1 Jn 5:20

Renewal

Ephesians 4:19–22 NASB 2020

19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecent behavior for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

Unity among believers

John 17:21 NASB 2020

21 that they may all be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

Rejection by the world

Jn 15:18–21; Jn 16:2–3; Jn 17:14

Knowledge of Jesus Christ is to manifest itself in obedience

1 John 2:3–6 NASB 2020

3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but whoever follows His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 6 the one who says that he remains in Him ought, himself also, walk just as He walked.