How well do I know Jesus Christ

[sushilp3585]

Hello, I would like to ask you guys to post some questions about the basic things that I, as a follower of Jesus Christ should know. I want to see how much I know about him.

Thanks in advance.

 

[JLB]

Hello, I would like to ask you guys to post some questions about the basic things that I, as a follower of Jesus Christ should know. I want to see how much I know about him.

Thanks in advance.

Knowing Jesus Christ is being joined to Him as one spirit with Him.


But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
1 Corinthians 6:17


This is a picture of a man and woman being joined as one.


Knowing Him intimately is different than knowing things about Him.


For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:30-32








JLB

 

[WIP]

Hello, I would like to ask you guys to post some questions about the basic things that I, as a follower of Jesus Christ should know. I want to see how much I know about him.

Thanks in advance.

I agree with JLB. It's not about head knowledge but what is in our heart.

My former employment was working as an electrical designer for an industrial packaging equipment company. I had no formal schooling or higher education degrees beyond a diploma from a technical institute where I spent 2-years briefly getting introduced to board level electronics, hard-wired electrical design and troubleshooting, conduit layout and design, instrumentation, sensors and actuators, pneumatics, hydraulics, Programmable Logic Controller programming, NEC code study, and technical writing.

I started out in electrical assembly where I mounted switches, sensors, and actuators, sized and ran conduit, wired the machines, powered them up, and debugged the programs that came from engineering. After a couple years, I moved to field service where I installed the machines, provided operator and maintenance training, and helped resolve issues. A couple years later I moved to technical advisor where I provided phone consultation and troubleshooting for customers and service technicians. After a couple years I moved to aftermarket electrical design where I was responsible for design and program changes for modifications and rebuilds of existing customers' equipment. Fifteen years later I moved to aftermarket project designing where I developed and wrote proposals for customers' modification and rebuild requests. During many of those years I also served on our product safety committee where we determined what safety features were designed into our equipment. To do my job competently, I had to know about every aspect of our equipment including the mechanical design and timing, electrical design, timing, and programming, pneumatic design, and so forth. The point of this is that I became very familiar with our products.

I remember a time when we hired an Electrical Engineer. He got his degree from a relatively well-known college in this area. He was incredibly sharp when it came to electrical theory and design and I was able to learn a lot from him but unfortunately he really struggled when it came to putting his book knowledge into practice. He had no practical experience and really had a difficult time with it. Eventually, it became necessary to let him go.

Having book knowledge is only a small part of the equation and this applies to God as well. What does Scripture have to say about this?

A few years ago as I was listening to the Bible audibly, I noticed a particular theme repeatedly jumping out at me. It affected me so much I was compelled to search the Scriptures for references and found over 130 references to God declaring who He was and something over 200 references to God saying something like, "So you will know Me" in one way or another. God doesn't want us to just know about Him. He wants us to know Him....really know Him.

Therefore the Lord said:
“Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths
And honor Me with their lips,
But have removed their hearts far from Me,
and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote;"
Isaiah 29:13 NKJV

"You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’”
Matthew 15:7-9 NKJV

 

[Who Me]

Hello, I would like to ask you guys to post some questions about the basic things that I, as a follower of Jesus Christ should know. I want to see how much I know about him.

Thanks in advance.

Basic question about Jesus.
How does being a follower of Jesus affect how you behave?
How different are you from someone who does not follow Jesus?

 

[sushilp3585]

Basic question about Jesus.
How does being a follower of Jesus affect how you behave?
How different are you from someone who does not follow Jesus?

I do not know the scriptures for the answers I am about to give. However, for the first question, "How does being a follower of Jesus affect how I behave", I know I should not do certain things, but I guess my mental strength is not there yet. Therefore, most of the time, I "try" to fall before my Father's feet and ask for forgiveness and the strength and wisdom to repent. I say try because sometimes I feel...shameful? I guess or whatever the word is that I just do not talk to God for that day. I know I should not, but there you go. I also have learned that the word is a sword and I am to use it in my temptations. Matthew 10 verse 34. Yet, I thought other solutions were the answer and I still give in to my temptations. Good thing Father is patient and merciful.

As for the second question, "How different am I from someone who does not follow Jesus", I would say I am not. That is why I should not judge hypocritically because we all sin and have things to work out.

How did I do?

 

[Edward]

I remember a time when we hired an Electrical Engineer. He got his degree from a relatively well-known college in this area. He was incredibly sharp when it came to electrical theory and design and I was able to learn a lot from him but unfortunately he really struggled when it came to putting his book knowledge into practice. He had no practical experience and really had a difficult time with it. Eventually, it became necessary to let him go.

Having book knowledge is only a small part of the equation and this applies to God as well. What does Scripture have to say about this?

I learned my trade on the job. I remember walking into work one morning and they had a half dozen new employees, fresh out of the hvac tech school. I sat down at the tech table and started finishing up paperwok from yesterdays work and all these young edumacated young men were talking hvac. I was one of the better techs at that company andmost everything they were saying I had no clue about. I didn't know theory but I'll fix it for you!

So I asked are we in the same trade? Cuz I dunno what you guys are talking about! It made me feel awkward there for a bit, ya know? These young men were talking way over my head! And of course they stuck one of them on my truck to be my helper. He had a very good grasp of theory related to our work, but he had zero experience in the field. He couldn't do nothing without hand holding!
It wasn't like that in the lab...
I never knew that could happen...
so what do we do now?

Learn to think on your feet boy. This kind of thing happens in real life. There's still a way to do it safely and right. He learned fast though so he was a good tech over time.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement!
(One of the other techs from that school started a fire at a customers jobsite where I was there too one time!)
Chrome won't get you home, and theory wont get you home either!

 

[for_his_glory]

sushilp3585 it's all about our own individual relationship with Christ as we fellowship with Him as we get to know Him as our Lord and Savior. We all come to Him in our own way getting to know Him developing everyday in that relationship. It's not enough to just read about Jesus, but to take that which we read and apply it to our own life.

You are risen with Christ through the Spiritual rebirth from above, John 3:5-7; Romans 10:9-10.

Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Read all of Colossians 3:1-17 as this will teach you how to put on the new self in Christ.

It's not that we need to question you, but that you share with us your understanding of who Jesus is to you and asking questions of those things you do not understand as we share with you.

 

[Who Me]

How did I do?

Like all of us, very trying ! ;)


That is all we can do and to remember 1John1:9 God is faithfull and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrightousness.
We are all a work in progress.

 

[D-D-W]

Hello, I would like to ask you guys to post some questions about the basic things that I, as a follower of Jesus Christ should know. I want to see how much I know about him.

Many may not consider this "basic," but to REALLY understand our Lord, this is important.

Matthew 9:20
And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.

What exactly was it she touched? The Greek is "krespedon." What did it represent?

 

[Prycejosh1987]

Do you believe that Jesus knows you and loves you?

 

[sushilp3585]

Many may not consider this "basic," but to REALLY understand our Lord, this is important.

Matthew 9:20
And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.

What exactly was it she touched? The Greek is "krespedon." What did it represent?

His spirit. The garment was just what he was wearing, no special property. But who he was was what she was seeking. Him in human form that the many prophets prophesized.

 

[sushilp3585]

Do you believe that Jesus knows you and loves you?

Yes, he has to know me because he is God. However, saying that I believe that Jesus loves me at the moment would be a lie, especially with what I am going through. Yet, I know that it is because of my selfishness and based on my feelings and not faith. How could he not when he died for my sins on the cross?

 

[D-D-W]

His spirit. The garment was just what he was wearing, no special property. But who he was was what she was seeking. Him in human form that the many prophets prophesized.

You wanted us to ask questions to show what you did and did not know about our Lord.

Krespedon was the Greek word for the Hebrew Tzitzit. It was the ceremonial fringes commanded in Numbers 15:

37 The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying, 38 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. 39 It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, 40 so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God. 41 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God.”

It was this tassel that the woman grabbed. It symbolized strict adherence to the Mosaic law. "...look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord."

 

[sushilp3585]

You wanted us to ask questions to show what you did and did not know about our Lord.

Krespedon was the Greek word for the Hebrew Tzitzit. It was the ceremonial fringes commanded in Numbers 15:

37 The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying, 38 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. 39 It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, 40 so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God. 41 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God.”

It was this tassel that the woman grabbed. It symbolized strict adherence to the Mosaic law. "...look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord."

I do not know if I misunderstood you but this is where I got the information from. The verse you quoted is correct, it does come from that verse, but I do not know if you meant that my answer is wrong or what you are trying to say.

Here is the video:

(starts from 15:40).

If I am wrong, this is the exact reason why I wanted to be asked questions so that I may test my knowledge.

 

[D-D-W]

It is a typical churchy understanding that strips our Lord out of His Jewish culture and requirements.

Early on (2nd -3rd centuries) the church leaders INTENTIONALLY distanced themselves and our Lord from anything Jewish to avoid persecution from Rome. What that did is left a huge void that got filled with a bunch of men's ideas rather than the Truth.

 

[sushilp3585]

It is a typical churchy understanding that strips our Lord out of His Jewish culture and requirements.

Early on (2nd -3rd centuries) the church leaders INTENTIONALLY distanced themselves and our Lord from anything Jewish to avoid persecution from Rome. What that did is left a huge void that got filled with a bunch of men's ideas rather than the Truth.

Is there a verse that states this?

 

[D-D-W]

Is there a verse that states this?

Since the last NT scripture was written well before that - of course not. It is history.