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Knowledge
Personally Knowing Something To Be True, Not Just Accepting It As True
“and to virtue knowledge” Philippians 3:10
I. Introduction (1Peter 2:1,2)
A. Faith gets us into God’s family, and forms the foundation that our life can rest upon
B. Virtue keeps us from getting trapped and defeated by sin like it used to
C. Next comes KNOWLEDGE that needs to be added to our spiritual diet
1.
Why must a Christian pick this Book up and read it from cover to cover?
2. Why come to a church that teaches through the contents of this Bible Sunday morning, Sunday
evening, and Wednesday evening?
3. Why go through Discipleship?
Two years of discipleship!
4. Because there is a spiritual instinct, a spiritual need in every human being to feed on TRUTH –
knowing it, and learning it, and believing it, and living on it – instead of living on fairy tales
and on theories and on opinions, and on philosophies!
D. The purpose of growing in my own personal knowledge is so that I have some answers for the
problems I go through, and answers for the uncertainties in those troubles – in other words, if I
could just KNOW some things, the devil will not be able to easily scare me anymore!
Examples:
1. Car acting up – just dying, right on the road in traffic – scary.
But then when I know that it
is an idle problem, then I can adjust my driving and just keep it above the idle and get it home –
confidence
2. Health scare – scary when you feel like you are in danger.
Only to find out it is the flu, and
you are just weak, and will get better in a week – then you can endure without the fear!
II.
Knowledge is More than Information and Education
A. Knowledge alone is wrong
1.
Information and education fill your mind with facts, names, places, events, statistics – all but
with no meaning – no relationship with your life and purpose
2. Knowledge alone kills – is dead – just promotes pride (1Cor 8:1)
3. Martin Luther said “Education without salvation equals damnation”
B. God’s Knowledge is what we need
1. Knowledge is a confidence, a calm assurance in what I KNOW to be true and real, in spite of how
I or anyone else feels!
2. Knowledge is an intimacy with some things (knowing something through and through – not just
skimming, or superficially)
a.
Like knowing God – I KNOW God, and I want to KNOW Him better and deeper (2Tim 1:12; Philp 3:10)
b.
Like knowing the Bible – I know some of the truths in this Book, but I so want to know the
depths of the riches of the knowledge in this Book (Rom 11:33)
c.
Like knowing my wife (1Pet 3:7), and the wife with her husband
d.
Like knowing my Job – supposed to learn it better and better, and read up on how to do it
better, and improve my performance – that’s how you get raises and promotions folks!!!
3. Knowledge is something that is Proven to be True – you must be able to prove something that you
know, or else it is just a guess, or a feeling.
If you know something, CAN YOU PROVE IT?
C. Grow in Knowledge (2Peter 3:18) – don’t ever stagnate!
1.
All the days of our lives as Christians we are to be increasing in our knowledge of the things
of God.
It is not enough that we should coast along on the little knowledge we have at our
conversion to Christ.
We have to have some knowledge in order to be saved.
No one is converted to
Christ without any knowledge at all.
What we know when we are first converted is like the ABC; it
is not the whole alphabet.
a. Start off with milk – only able to digest simple truths like a baby
b.
Then, slowly you add meat and potatoes
c.
Add some salt
d.
Then, top it off with some honey from time to time – good stuff, encouraging stuff, uplifting
stuff
2. ys at our
Bible.
Always, either reading it or, when
we have a moment to spare, thinking about what it says, meditating upon what it says, reflecting on what it means.
Even when we are resting, our minds should be trained to go back to the words of this Book and its teaching, its truths and think about how they relate to your life right then and there
3. The appeal is for us to be getting to know more and more of our Lord, and His will – but always
through personal, first hand knowledge through the Scriptures – not through other people’s
knowledge, not through their thinking, or their interpretations – your own!
4. The appeal is the same as for us to be getting to know more and more of our wives and our
husbands, our kids, and our daily tasks
III.
Things a Christian Can and Should Firmly KNOW inside and out
A. That God keeps His promises (Rom 4:17-21)
B. Your eternal destiny (Job 19:25; Jn 5:24)
C. That you are different because of Jesus Christ (Jn 9:25; 2Cor 5:17)
D. The will of God for your life (Rom 12:1,2) – your purpose and calling
E. That you reap what you sow (Gal 6:7)
F. What is clearly right and clearly wrong – convictions (Amos 5:15)
G.
That people are wicked and in need of God and His word (Dt 31:29; Acts 20:29,32; Rom 7:18)
H.
That troubles are ultimately God’s business (Ps 119:75)
I.
The Joy of the Lord (Neh 8:10) – don’t just act like you believe it’s there – KNOW it,
experience it, LIVE in it, and show it
J.
The Fear of the Lord (Prov 1:7) – you had better know this inside and out – don’t ignore
K. Some things will be hard to understand (2Pet 3:15,16) – this is why:
1.
Some things are meat, so are meant to be chewed, not just swallowed – very painful, and not
easily digested that way – so that means, you have got to study your Bible
a. Read the context
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