Effects of knowing God

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Knowing God has a transforming effect on a person spiritually and morally and makes that person bold in actions for God. Not knowing God in the present will result in dissatisfaction and degeneration into wickedness and in the future will bring eternal alienation from him.

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The effects of knowing God

Biblical images of knowing God

Colossians 1:9 KJV 1900
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
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Boldness of action for God

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Biblical images of knowing God

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God disciplines like a parent:

55 Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 He said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
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55 Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 He said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
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Like king and subject

Psalm 97:1 KJV 1900
1 The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
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Like shepherd and sheep

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The peril of not knowing God

Realization of Where You Are

There he stands, notwithstanding this confession, just what I have described him to be; for even though he has said within himself, “I have sinned,” yet that confession has not removed his griefs. -Charles Spurgeon
There he stands, notwithstanding this confession, just what I have described him to be; for even though he has said within himself, “I have sinned,” yet that confession has not removed his griefs.;
He acknowledges that he is not worthy to be called a son — and it is true he is not; but his unworthiness is not removed by his consciousness of it, nor by his confession of it. -Charles Spurgeon
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He acknowledges that he is not worthy to be called a son — and it is true he is not; but his unworthiness is not removed by his consciousness of it, nor by his confession of it. -Charles Spurgeon

Eternal punishment in the future

18 For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth
18 For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth
If your soul were sent to hell, his righteous law approves it, and so does your own conscience. -Charles Spurgeon
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Spiritual transformation: from death to life

Colossians 1:9 KJV 1900
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
It is true he has always seen him -Charles Spurgeon

If the Father comes to you to receive you before you realize your position, you are doomed to repeat it, thinking to yourself, the Father will save me again! If God stepped in and stopped every bad decision our free will would be negated and our service and worship to God would be through demands as opposed to obedience.
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