What do I know?
What do I know?
How about Who do I know?
This is What I Know
I know that I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the Savior of the world and the King of kings and the Lord of lords. I know that I have committed my life (spirit, soul, and body) to Him.
2 Tim. 1:12
[12] For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Apart from that I do not claim to know anything. I can tell you what I think and I can tell you what I believe but there is not so much that I can tell you that I know.
Intellectual Knowledge versus Experimental Knowledge
Head Knowledge?
I attended formal education controlled by the United States government for 12 years. I was pretty good at memorizing the answers that they wanted me to regurgitate and I was not so good at questioning what I was being taught.
I had been trained by my parents and the rest of the adults that were about me to respect authority. A nd I did and of course I believed everything that the teachers told me even believing when I was told that life got here through natural processes and that there was no God. I was taught that religion was a man-made thing. I f my memory serves correctly I was first introduced to this in 6th grade science class, about 1973 in the year of Our Lord.
Around 1976 to 1977, believing those things had resulted in a crisis in my life. I was unhappy I think you could honestly say I was miserable. Things were not good in my life and since there was nothing after I was to die, why continue to live at all?
By the grace of God I had been given a Bible for Christmas by my mother in 1971. I began to secretly read it beginning about the year 1976 through 1977 and I ended up becoming a believer in the Bible and in Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord.
I attended formal education controlled by non-government bodies for 7 years and I became a little better at asking questions still retained a fairly good ability to regurgitate the answers to the questions that I have been taught.
This involved two private schools and the Bible was the core curriculum and focus of study. M uch of this education was influenced by the government education that the teachers and professors they themselves had received. B y and large what I have been taught about the Bible during those years was what I ended up embracing and accepting as truth.
I absolutely accept the word of God as absolute truth but I have rejected quite a bit of the things that I had been told during those years about what the Bible meant.
All of my life I have attended to self education controlled by myself. The time that I have devoted to this pursuit has increased year by year since I completed college.
I have come to the place in this self-education that I question everything that comes in through my eyes or my ears or rolls around in my brain.
Sanctified Intellect
If the Word of God tells me that I can know something, I accept and embrace it.
It is easier to recognize what is false than it is to perceive what is true. I think we have been purposely lied to about just about everything. (For details and examples, see the section on The Great Deception.) If what I heard or read or watched contradicted the word of God, I would call it false and would accept what the word of God said in its place, not caring whether or not I could prove it to another's satisfaction. If what I had heard or watched or read contradicted what I could observe with my own senses I could still know that it was false. However, knowing what was true could be debated.
Anything apart from what is directly taught in the Word of God is suspect. Private interpretations should be highly suspect as well!
If it is taught in the Bible, I believe it. I don't need physical proof to believe it. I don't need to fully understand it or even understand it at all to believe it. If you believe it or not - that does not change me.
Heart Knowledge?
What I mean by heart knowledge is experimental knowing. Knowing something through experience is exponentially deeper than knowing something only intellectually,-- which is just surface.
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learn more about what it means to know in relation to philosophy
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read the Apostle John's first general letter to learn about knowing (it is a short book, -- only five chapters, read it all )
Who do I know?
Who do I know?
Okay, now I'm going to drop names and you should be truly impressed!
I know God the Creator. We are close enough that I talk to Him everyday. I celebrate this and I rejoice in it but it does not make me proud, it humbles me. I know Him because of His mercy and grace and it has nothing to do with me.
I know the son of God, Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.
I know the King of all kings, I know the Lord of all lords. I know the GOD of all gods.
Like my “cousin” Aaron sang something similar…
I don't know much, but I know that I know God --and that could be all I need to know!
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