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True Knowledge of God
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The Knowledge That Works Transformation
The knowledge of God as revealed in Christ is the knowledge
that all who are saved must have. It is the knowledge that works
transformation of character. This knowledge, received, will re-create
the soul in the image of God. It will impart to the whole being a
spiritual power that is divine.
“We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of
the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to
glory.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
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Of His own life the Savior said, “‘I have kept My Father’s com-
mandments.’”
John 15:10
. “‘The Father has not left Me alone, for I
always do those things that please Him.’”
John 8:29
. As Jesus was
in human nature, so God means His followers to be. In His strength
we are to live the life of purity and nobility that the Savior lived.
“For this reason,” Paul says, “I bow my knees to the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth
is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His
glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner
man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you,
being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with
all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to
know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be
filled with all the fullness of God.”
Ephesians 3:14-19
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We “do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be
filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding; that you may have a walk worthy of the Lord, fully
pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in
the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to
His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.”
Colossians 1:9-11
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This is the knowledge that God is inviting us to receive, and
beside which all else is vanity and nothingness.
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