Effects of knowing God (2)
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· 6 viewsKnowing God has a transforming effect on a person spiritually and morally and makes that person bold in actions for God. Not knowing God in the present will result in dissatisfaction and degeneration into wickedness and in the future will bring eternal alienation from him.
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The effects of knowing God
The effects of knowing God
Spiritual transformation: from death to life
Spiritual transformation: from death to life
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
See also Jn 17:3; Ga 4:8–9; Eph 1:17; Eph 3:19; Col 2:2
Moral transformation: from evil to good
Moral transformation: from evil to good
Pr 2:1–6; 2 Co 10:5; 1 Th 4:3–5
See also Ro 16:26; Eph 4:17–24; Php 1:9–11; Col 1:10; 1 Jn 3:10; 1 Jn 4:8
Boldness of action for God
Boldness of action for God
Je 32:38–39; Da 11:32
See also Ps 138:3; Pr 28:1; Ac 6:8–10; 2 Co 3:12; 1 Pe 1:13
Biblical images of knowing God
Biblical images of knowing God
Like parent and child
Like parent and child
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
God disciplines like a parent:
God disciplines like a parent:
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Like husband and wife
Like husband and wife
Is 62:5; Je 3:14
See also Is 54:5; Je 2:2; Je 3:20; Je 31:32; Ho 2:16; Eph 5:25; Re 19:7; Re 21:2
Like king and subject
Like king and subject
The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!
See also 1 Sa 8:7; Ps 5:2; Ps 10:16; Ps 29:10; Ps 44:4; Ps 84:3; Ps 95:3; Ps 99:1; Ps 145:1; Mt 6:33 Jesus Christ’s teaching on seeking first his kingdom; 1 Ti 1:17; 1 Ti 6:15
Like shepherd and sheep
Like shepherd and sheep
Ge 48:15; Ps 23:1–2; Is 40:11
See also Ps 28:9; Ps 80:1; Eze 34:16; Mic 7:14; Jn 10:11; Re 7:17
The peril of not knowing God
The peril of not knowing God
Lack of satisfaction and degeneration in the present
Lack of satisfaction and degeneration in the present
Ro 1:21–32; Tt 1:15–16
See also Ex 5:2; Je 4:22; Ro 10:2–3; 1 Th 4:3–5
Eternal punishment in the future
Eternal punishment in the future
Mt 7:22–23; Ro 1:18–19
See also Ro 2:5; 2 Th 1:8