KNOWING CHRIST (2)

 KNOWING CHRIST (2)

TEXT: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.”  I John 5:13 (ESV)

The basic source of our information about the person and work of Jesus Christ is found in the Bible. Ignorance of the Bible translates into ignorance of Jesus Christ. If you do not know your Bible well, then you cannot know Jesus Christ very well. And we live in a society that has become increasingly biblically illiterate. People have Bibles in their homes but they do not know what is in them. And therefore, they know very little about the Lord Jesus Christ!

Paul counted EVERYTHING as “dung” in comparison with knowing Jesus. Read Philippians 3:7-11. His desire was a direct answer to the prayer Jesus prayed in John 17. An old Puritan by the name of Samuel Rutherford wrote in the 1600s:

“Put the beauty of ten thousand worlds of paradises, like the Garden of Eden,

in one. Put all the trees, all the flowers, all the smells, all the colors, all the 

tastes, all the joys, all sweetness, all loveliness, into one. Oh, what a wonderful thing            

that would be! And yet it would be less to that fair and dearest, well beloved Christ, 

than one drop of rain to the earth’s seas, rivers, lakes and fountains.”

Mr. Rutherford was a man who knew Christ very well!

What about you?

Could you say that of Christ today?

Does He really mean that much to you?

Content with settling your eternal destiny but do not really know Him?

Only you can answer those questions!

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