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DO YOU KNOW JESUS?

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DO YOU KNOW JESUS THE CHRIST OF GOD?
1, I go to church every sunday
2, I go on missions to third world countries
3, I pay my tithe and give offerings
4, I pray every day
5, I help feed the homeless
6, I take holy communion weekly
7, I go to a house group once a week
and all these should be a part of your life when following Jesus, but none of these answer the question DO YOU KNOW JESUS,? But don't panic and keep reading praise God. Many christians walk in confusion daily quoting scripture, like this one for instance, whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. They believe that saying the sinners prayer is calling upon the Lord and from that point forward they are saved. Now let me tell you child of God thats a lie from hell, when you say the sinners preyer that is your start point a confession that you are in a mess that you can't get out of on your own, you see child of God before you can change, you first have to admit, just like an alcoholic first has to admit he is an alcoholic before he can start the road to recovery and change old habits for new ones. So lets just look at this scripture a bit closer and with commonsence, whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, lets just keep this simple can you call me on the phone right now? well you could phone me if you had my phone number, but why don't you have my phone number? because you don't know me, my friends have it and a lot of people who know me to talk to have it. can you see it child of God, glory to God, if you know me you can call me how simple is that? see confusion be gone in Jesus name. So now we see child of God in order to call on Jesus you have to know Him. Now how do i get to know Him you ask? DON'T PANIC its simple to know the words that Jesus spoke is to know God, because God gave His Son the words to speak and how and who to speak them too. Jesus spoke words of PEACE, words of JOY, words of FAITH, love, LIBERTY and ETERNAL LIFE, glory to God, Jesus said "you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free", so we can see child of God the words that Jesus spoke are as important to us as life its self or should be praise God, DISCIPLESHIP Starts with studying the words that Jesus spoke, Jesus said " if you live and abide in my word" another version say's " if you continue in my word" and another say's " you are truly my DISCIPLES if you remain FAITHFUL to my teachings, DISCIPLE when translated means, A personal follower of Jesus christ, as one of the 12. Wow glory to God, you see child of God, Jesus when He came from heaven down to earth,He came with a legesy of truth in words for you and me, words for our strength. Nehemiah said " for the joy of the Lord is your strength" and Jesus said to His disciples "these things I have spoken to you that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full" another version say's " I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy, yes your joy will overflow" well what did Jesus say and speak? WORDS praise God, and were do you find the words of Jesus? in Mathew, Mark, Luke and especially John the disciple who Jesus Loved, the disciple who Jesus entrusted His mother too, when He said "mother your son and son your mother." the disciple who put his head on Jesus's chest and heard the very heart beat of God, the disciple who God gave His reverlation to write, the disciple who Jesus wants to remain alive untill he returns. glory to God. so this boy you could say has got his credentials from God. Jesus said "man must be born again to see the kingdom of God, well same again child of God keep it simple, when we are born a baby what can we do for ourself? not a lot apart from drink and poop, so our parents taught us and we lernt from them by words spoken to us by our mum and dad then to school to be taught with more words, and its the same with our heavenly farther He offers to teach us the very way back to His presence through His son Jesus christ and the words he spoke, but child of God the choise is yours to give your time to read or listen to the words of Jesus and let the holy spirit teach you, just like Jesus says, " If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my farther will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. he who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the farther's who sent me. these things I have spoken to you while being with you. But the Helper, the holy spirit, whome the farther will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your rememberance all things that I said to you. but child of God if you don't take time out to put the words of Jesus inside you by reading or listening to them daily, then there will be no truth in you for the holy spirit to bring to your rememberance, and the words of Jesus = FAITH, as Paul the apostle says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, or the word spoken through the lips of Christ. glory to God, well child of God lets now have a look at some ordinary people just like you and me who listened to and believed the words that Jesus spoke, and how those words impacted there life's. Lets start with the goverment official or nobleman whos son was at the point of death and pleaded with Jesus to come with him before his son dies, and Jesus simply told him to go home your son lives, so the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went home, and guess what? his son was alive when he got back, praise God, child of God can you see it the only thing this goverment official did was to believe the words that Jesus spoke to him. lets look at another man who has no name apart from a man who was blind from birth, now this time Jesus gave him a word with a task to fullfill after he spat on the ground made mud and annointed the blind mans eyes, and the task was to go and wash his eyes at the pool at Siloam, now the place were Jesus told the man to wash his eyes was about 1 mile, from were he was standing and along the journey to the pool there would have been many oppertunities to wash his eyes but he followed Jesus's instructions to the letter and guess what? he recived his sight praise God. Jesus once said to His disciples "do you want to go away and do your own thing" but Simon Peter stood up and said to Jesus "Lord were shall we go, you have the words of eternal life, so i'm staying with you." because Peter had the same reverlation that Paul the apostle had when writing this, for the word that God speaks is living and powerfull, and sharper than ANY two edgad sword, piercing and cutting between soul and spirit, between joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. wow glory to God and all we have to do is spend time studying the words of Jesus, giving back to God what is God's, which takes us to something else that Jesus spoke, and same again if we keep it simple we will get a clear understanding of what Jesus was meaning when He said "give to ceaser what is ceaser's, and to God what is God's, you see God did not make money man did, God, He made something more precious than money, and some thing that whether you are rich or poor you can still give, and that child of God is TIME, He created time 24 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year praise God, TIME child of God to get a personal relationship with God through His son and the word He left us in the Gospels praise God. and Gospel when translated is, the teachings and reverlation's of Jesus Christ, glory to God so when Jesus said go in citys and towns all round the world and preach the Gospel He is literally saying go and tell people the word that I have told you, tell all people, My words of joy, My words of peace, My words of health, My words of prosperity,my Words of liberty, and My words that lead to eternal life. Faith, love and peace is all you need Jesus has done all the hard work Amen. :amen
 
disciple831 said:
DO YOU KNOW JESUS THE CHRIST OF GOD?
1, I go to church every sunday
2, I go on missions to third world countries
3, I pay my tithe and give offerings
4, I pray every day
5, I help feed the homeless
6, I take holy communion weekly
7, I go to a house group once a week
and all these should be a part of your life when following Jesus, but none of these answer the question DO YOU KNOW JESUS,? But don't panic and keep reading praise God. Many christians walk in confusion daily quoting scripture, like this one for instance, whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. They believe that saying the sinners prayer is calling upon the Lord and from that point forward they are saved. Now let me tell you child of God thats a lie from hell, when you say the sinners preyer that is your start point a confession that you are in a mess that you can't get out of on your own, you see child of God before you can change, you first have to admit, just like an alcoholic first has to admit he is an alcoholic before he can start the road to recovery and change old habits for new ones. So lets just look at this scripture a bit closer and with commonsence, whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, lets just keep this simple can you call me on the phone right now? well you could phone me if you had my phone number, but why don't you have my phone number? because you don't know me, my friends have it and a lot of people who know me to talk to have it. can you see it child of God, glory to God, if you know me you can call me how simple is that? see confusion be gone in Jesus name. So now we see child of God in order to call on Jesus you have to know Him. Now how do i get to know Him you ask? DON'T PANIC its simple to know the words that Jesus spoke is to know God, because God gave His Son the words to speak and how and who to speak them too. Jesus spoke words of PEACE, words of JOY, words of FAITH, love, LIBERTY and ETERNAL LIFE, glory to God, Jesus said "you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free", so we can see child of God the words that Jesus spoke are as important to us as life its self or should be praise God, DISCIPLESHIP Starts with studying the words that Jesus spoke, Jesus said " if you live and abide in my word" another version say's " if you continue in my word" and another say's " you are truly my DISCIPLES if you remain FAITHFUL to my teachings, DISCIPLE when translated means, A personal follower of Jesus christ, as one of the 12. Wow glory to God, you see child of God, Jesus when He came from heaven down to earth,He came with a legesy of truth in words for you and me, words for our strength. Nehemiah said " for the joy of the Lord is your strength" and Jesus said to His disciples "these things I have spoken to you that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full" another version say's " I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy, yes your joy will overflow" well what did Jesus say and speak? WORDS praise God, and were do you find the words of Jesus? in Mathew, Mark, Luke and especially John the disciple who Jesus Loved, the disciple who Jesus entrusted His mother too, when He said "mother your son and son your mother." the disciple who put his head on Jesus's chest and heard the very heart beat of God, the disciple who God gave His reverlation to write, the disciple who Jesus wants to remain alive untill he returns. glory to God. so this boy you could say has got his credentials from God. Jesus said "man must be born again to see the kingdom of God, well same again child of God keep it simple, when we are born a baby what can we do for ourself? not a lot apart from drink and poop, so our parents taught us and we lernt from them by words spoken to us by our mum and dad then to school to be taught with more words, and its the same with our heavenly farther He offers to teach us the very way back to His presence through His son Jesus christ and the words he spoke, but child of God the choise is yours to give your time to read or listen to the words of Jesus and let the holy spirit teach you, just like Jesus says, " If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my farther will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. he who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the farther's who sent me. these things I have spoken to you while being with you. But the Helper, the holy spirit, whome the farther will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your rememberance all things that I said to you. but child of God if you don't take time out to put the words of Jesus inside you by reading or listening to them daily, then there will be no truth in you for the holy spirit to bring to your rememberance, and the words of Jesus = FAITH, as Paul the apostle says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, or the word spoken through the lips of Christ. glory to God, well child of God lets now have a look at some ordinary people just like you and me who listened to and believed the words that Jesus spoke, and how those words impacted there life's. Lets start with the goverment official or nobleman whos son was at the point of death and pleaded with Jesus to come with him before his son dies, and Jesus simply told him to go home your son lives, so the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went home, and guess what? his son was alive when he got back, praise God, child of God can you see it the only thing this goverment official did was to believe the words that Jesus spoke to him. lets look at another man who has no name apart from a man who was blind from birth, now this time Jesus gave him a word with a task to fullfill after he spat on the ground made mud and annointed the blind mans eyes, and the task was to go and wash his eyes at the pool at Siloam, now the place were Jesus told the man to wash his eyes was about 1 mile, from were he was standing and along the journey to the pool there would have been many oppertunities to wash his eyes but he followed Jesus's instructions to the letter and guess what? he recived his sight praise God. Jesus once said to His disciples "do you want to go away and do your own thing" but Simon Peter stood up and said to Jesus "Lord were shall we go, you have the words of eternal life, so i'm staying with you." because Peter had the same reverlation that Paul the apostle had when writing this, for the word that God speaks is living and powerfull, and sharper than ANY two edgad sword, piercing and cutting between soul and spirit, between joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. wow glory to God and all we have to do is spend time studying the words of Jesus, giving back to God what is God's, which takes us to something else that Jesus spoke, and same again if we keep it simple we will get a clear understanding of what Jesus was meaning when He said "give to ceaser what is ceaser's, and to God what is God's, you see God did not make money man did, God, He made something more precious than money, and some thing that whether you are rich or poor you can still give, and that child of God is TIME, He created time 24 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year praise God, TIME child of God to get a personal relationship with God through His son and the word He left us in the Gospels praise God. and Gospel when translated is, the teachings and reverlation's of Jesus Christ, glory to God so when Jesus said go in citys and towns all round the world and preach the Gospel He is literally saying go and tell people the word that I have told you, tell all people, My words of joy, My words of peace, My words of health, My words of prosperity,my Words of liberty, and My words that lead to eternal life. Faith, love and peace is all you need Jesus has done all the hard work Amen. :amen

Do YOU know Jesus:

1 John 2
[3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
[4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 3
[24] And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Do YOU love Him:

John 14
[15] If ye love me, keep my commandments.
[21] He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

1 John 5
[2] By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
[3] For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.



And what are the commandments that Jesus said will give you eternal life? Let's read it:

Matt.19
[17] And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
[18] He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
[19] Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Do YOU know Jesus?
 
And what are Jesus' commandments? apart from love the Lord your God, and to love your neighbour as yourself, all the Law hang on these two commandments. Amen :amen .faith, love and peace is all you need Jesus has done all the hard work.!!!! :amen
 
disciple831 said:
DO YOU KNOW JESUS THE CHRIST OF GOD?
It's one thing to 'know about' someone, it's another thing to 'know' them through experience.

Philippians 1:29 For to you it has been granted for Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, NASU
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disciple831 said:
And what are Jesus' commandments? apart from love the Lord your God, and to love your neighbour as yourself, all the Law hang on these two commandments. Amen :amen .faith, love and peace is all you need Jesus has done all the hard work.!!!! :amen

AND.......Was that ALL Jesus said?

Matt.19
[17] And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
[18] He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
[19] Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

If, as you say, all that is needed is faith, love and peace, why was that NOT the answer He gave to the young man when asked what was needed for eternal life?
 
This is yet another interesting topic. How do we know when we know Jesus? For knowing Him surely is knowing more than what we read in scripture about Him in terms of His death and ressurection.

A number of you have given some awesome insight on this. For who can say that they love the Lord without striving to live in accordance to His word?

Again interesting topic.

May God Bless You

Danielle
 
LostLamb said:
This is yet another interesting topic. How do we know when we know Jesus? For knowing Him surely is knowing more than what we read in scripture about Him in terms of His death and ressurection.

A number of you have given some awesome insight on this. For who can say that they love the Lord without striving to live in accordance to His word?

Again interesting topic.

May God Bless You

Danielle

Lostlamb, think the two scripture I am going to give answer how do we know Jesus and how we get to know him.
The plan God has made is so simple its a stumbling block just as God said Christ would be. 1 Cor. 1:23

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1 John 5:10-11 (KJV)

Is just believing simple or what and the Lord witnesses to us that we may know we are of him and now we Know he knows us and we know him just as a faithful father would do with his children?

Tomlane
 
Matt.19
[17] And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
[18] He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
[19] Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

If, as you say, all that is needed is faith, love and peace, why was that NOT the answer He gave to the young man when asked what was needed for eternal life?

Jesus was not saying these things in order to instruct the young man how to inherit eternal life. Rather He brought up those things which the young man already believed in order to present him with the REAL isssue. The young man informed Jesus that he had kept all these things from his youth on, and asked Jesus what he yet lacked. Then Jesus told him the REAL answer:

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.†Matthew 19:21


This was always Jesus instruction. He once said, "Unless you forsake all and follow me, you CANNOT be my disciple".

He also showed that one had to die to the self-serving life, and thereby to rise up again into a new life in Christ Jesus, bear fruit, and thus obtain eternal life.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever discounts his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. John 12: 24,25
 
disciple831 said:
DO YOU KNOW JESUS THE CHRIST OF GOD?
1, I go to church every sunday
2, I go on missions to third world countries
3, I pay my tithe and give offerings
4, I pray every day
5, I help feed the homeless
6, I take holy communion weekly
7, I go to a house group once a week
and all these should be a part of your life when following Jesus, but none of these answer the question DO YOU KNOW JESUS,?

The question for me is not whether or not I know Jesus, but what is the evidence of my relationship with him? To me, one cannot KNOW Jesus without being born of the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead. And I like what Jesus said to Nicodemus regarding those who are born of the Spirit.

"The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.â€Â

Such a graphic explanation of the unseen should not be lightly glossed over, but rather considered for revelation as to the profound wisdom of its meaning. The wind can only be ‘seen’ by its reflection on the environment around us, and so it is with all who are born of the Spirit.

Blessings
 
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