{"id":161,"date":"2024-04-15T05:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2024-04-18T07:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T07:19:26","slug":"to-know-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/to-know-god\/","title":{"rendered":"To Know God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is important to know God because He is the One who created us. His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts higher than ours so says the book of Isaiah 55:8\u20139<\/a>. Our faith as Christians is a religion of revelation, and, Yahweh is a God who reveals himself through His Word. Sometimes we may not experience God in our darkest moments as if He was distant or maybe even not involved, but He hasn\u2019t left us.
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God makes Himself known to mankind in two ways. The first is general revelation or natural revelation Romans 1:20<\/a>. It\u2019s just a basic knowledge of who God is, His expression in all of his works. Through His creation we see a reflection of something of Himself, no created reflection is exactly like our God. The other way that God reveals Himself is through what we call special revelation II Timothy 3:15<\/a>. This is where we see God through the Holy Scriptures, we read the story of how God condescended to our level as a man the incarnation of The Son of God, our Lord and Savior. Isaiah 9:6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have spoken with some brothers about not being known by God, and they would say that only applies to false prophets those who come in sheep\u2019s clothing, but inwardly they\u2019re like ravenous wolves. My response is this, yes, it applies to them of that time, but not them only, it applies to a future age, our age. It says in there not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord Lord, have we not done this or that, and then He will declare to them, \u201cI never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness\u201d. Matthew 7:21-23<\/a> Mankind has been practicing lawlessness since the beginning of time after the fall, it hasn\u2019t stopped since then so, it is applicable in this age. Genesis 6:5<\/a>;Jeremiah 17:9-10<\/a>
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To Be Known By God<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To know God, or to know of God is important for sure, but to be known by God is even more important. God knows us much better than we know ourselves Jeremiah 1:5<\/a> He knows our thoughts, our past, present, and our future there is nothing that can surprise Him. Psalm 139: 1-2<\/a>. He knows it all! in spite of what he knows about us, he loves us deeply, and took upon himself the consequences of our sinfulness our failures upon himself and secured us. John 3:16<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe it is equally, if not more important, not only to know, God, but to be known of God, that is where the relationship is. He knows us intimately, He knew us before we were born. We know Him through His Word, intimately, and one day we will know Him fully just as He has always known us fully, this is a holy righteous and eternal relationship. Secured in Him. Romans 8:38-39<\/a>. Blessings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is important to know God because He is the One who created us. His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts higher than ours so says the book of Isaiah 55:8\u20139. Our faith as Christians is a religion of revelation, and, Yahweh is a God who reveals himself through His Word. Sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23,18],"tags":[7,15,4,8,13],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-sovereignty","category-theology","tag-biblical","tag-decree","tag-doctrine","tag-reform-doctrine","tag-sovereign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedoctrinesofgrace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}