Knowing Him

[WhereisHe?]

Is there someone who really, like really personally knows Jesus? Anyone who got healed by Him alone? Thank you..

 

[follower]

His Sheep Know Him Personally. We/they Know His Voice , Peace, Joy, and Follow Only Him.
The world does not know us, and indeed cannot.

 

[Tenchi]

Is there someone who really, like really personally knows Jesus? Anyone who got healed by Him alone? Thank you..

The New Testament tells us what it is to experience the life and work of the Holy Spirit. In fact, if a man (or woman) who claims to be a Christian cannot discern the Spirit's life and work within himself, he is very likely not yet saved. That, or he has allowed sin to "stop up the works" between himself and God. In any case, it is the Holy Spirit, called the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of God (Romans 8:9; Philippians 1:19), who the Christian person experiences when they experience God.

John 14:15-17
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Romans 8:9
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

1 John 4:13
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

When a Christian speaks of "walking with God" what they mean (whether they realize it or not) is that they are experiencing the life, control and leading of the Holy Spirit.

The sensual person, the person who wants God to be accessible to their physical, fleshly senses, to stimulate their sight, and touch, and hearing, and to stimulate their emotions, is always looking for external, overt "signs" that God is present and active. They want God to "show up" in tingles and warm oozies along their skin; and to spread from the a/c ducts across the church sanctuary as a fog, or to shower down from the a/c ducts as gold dust or feathers; they want to see miracles of healing and watch folks convulse on the floor in spiritual hysterics (and perhaps do so themselves); they want to babble senselessly and treat the Holy Spirit like he's booze, or pot, or a hot tub.

None of this is what the Bible says is the normal, daily experience of the Holy Spirit every genuine child of God should expect to have. Instead, the word of God says the person in whom the Spirit truly dwells will be:

- convicted by the Spirit (John 16:8; Revelation 2-3).
- taught by the Spirit (John 14:26; John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:10-16)
- strengthened by the Spirit (Ephesians 3:16; Philippians 4:13; Philippians 2:13, etc.).
- comforted by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
- transformed by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Romans 8:29).

It is in these things, primarily, that the "Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16). And the end goal of all that he does is that you might be more and more like Jesus Christ, his character increasingly evident in you (Romans 8:29). This is the surest sign that the Holy Spirit is in you, not senseless babbling, or foaming at the mouth in emotional hysterics, or craving the next big thrill of "seeing God work."

Is the humility, wisdom, patience, holiness, grace, faith and love of the Spirit of Christ filling you up and flowing out of you? Are you a person all throughout each day consciously placing yourself under the Spirit's control? Are you a person increasing set apart from the World, your own sensual fleshliness, and the deceit and luring power of the devil? It is in being such a person, more and more, that you can be sure the Holy Spirit is within you.

These things the Spirit does aren't as "sexy" as the wilder stuff that sensual/fleshly believers crave, his work isn't full of "sound and fury," but it is deep, and fulfilling, and reveals God in ways that laughing maniacally for a half hour, or walking a "fire corridor" will never do.