“Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.”
(Jn. 8:55)
Jesus professed His knowledge of God before the religious crowd of His day with the greatest certainty. He was not afraid or ashamed to do so. Three times in this one little verse He attests to the fact of His intimate relationship with God. To do otherwise, says He, would make Him a liar. As Matthew Henry brings out, “He not only knew God by His name, but by His very nature.”
The Bible teaches we can know God personally. Job, David, and Paul all unashamedly declared their personal knowledge of God. John, in his first little epistle declares we too can know God. In chapter two, verse three, he writes, “Hereby we know that we know Him.” He tells us we can know we know. And how did both He and Jesus tell us we can know that we know God? Our Lord says the proof is in keeping God’s sayings, and John states the same, by keeping His commandments.
God’s moral law was not negated at the Cross; Paul mentions the keeping of the Ten Commandments (the Sabbath excluded) in his letters, not to be saved, but proof that one is saved. I personally am a little sick and tired of those who break their backs trying to convince themselves and others that their loved ones, who continually break God’s Commandments, are saved! Again quoting Matthew Henry who spells it out in a plain fashion, “There are many who claim-kindred to God who yet have no acquaintance with Him.” These types, I think, “worship an unknown God.”
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."
(Titus 1:16)
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