“And hereby do we know that we know Him…”
(1 Jn. 2:3)
Years ago an old preacher taught his son, “Know a thing and know you know it.” This is exactly John’s teaching: know Christ and know you know Him. In our age of uncertainty, which has crept into our churches, we need to delve again into John’s little Epistle of five brief chapters. His miniature book is referred to by many Bible students as “The Know-So-Book.”
It has always seemed strange to me that anyone claiming to be a Christian would object to this great doctrine of assurance. Common sense, not only the Scripture, proves it. Why, pray tell me, would God give an individual an unquestionable affirmation of his or her lost-ness and not their, if you allow me to coin a new word, found-ness?
We are not to know about Him, in a general superficial way, but have a personal intimate knowledge of Him. As an aged saint, at the door of death, that lovable old warhorse Paul said, “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day,” 2 Tim. 1:12.
And just how do Christians know that they know Him? “He that saith, I know him…keepeth His Word...hereby know we [Him]...He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked,” 1 Jn. 2:4-6. We’re told, “Enoch walked with God”; “Noah walked with God”; and Abraham as an old man was told by God, “Walk before me.”
The longer you walk with a person the better you get to know them!
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