Knowing that we know! Our relationship with God!

Intro: “You Haven’t Changed a Bit”… ,wait WHAT!?

Theology for Life—To know Jesus is not just to know about God but to have a relationship with him. God has made himself known to the extent that we can actually relate to, love, converse with, and pursue him throughout our lives.

Jesus, the word made flesh, becomes the fullest, embodied “speech” of God to his people: “That … which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands” (1 John 1:1) makes known to us the God that no one has ever seen (John 1:18). The name “Word” refers to the second person of the Trinity, the agent of God’s self-revelation. As the incarnate Word, Jesus brings that self-revelation into time and space; he brings God to us by being God and man, as real to us as we are to one another (1 John 1:1b).

Colossians 1:22–23a (ESV)

22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, …

I. Maturity is the Goal: Christlikeness (Lk.6:40)

A. Salvation is not the Goal it is the 1st Step towards the goal.

B. Christlikeness is the goal.

1) It wont be reached this side of heaven 2Cor.3:18; 1Pet.1:15-16

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV

18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

II. The Motor is Love- All the Law & Commandments

III. The Map is the Word