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“We Know Him!” 1. If we keep His commandments. And by this we know that we have come to 4 know Him, if we keep His commandments. Whoever says “I know Him” but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 1 John 2: 3 -4 3

“We Know Him!” Whoever has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. ” John 14: 21 21

“We Know Him!” Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 1: 22 22

“We Know Him!” They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. . . Titus 1: 16 a 16

“We Know Him!” “… ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD. ’ 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. 32 And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it. Ezekiel 33: 30 b-32

“We Know Him!” You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 “‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; 9 in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ’” Matthew 15: 7 -9 7

“We Know Him!” And He called the people to Him and said 11 it is not to them, “Hear and understand: what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person. ” Matthew 15: 10 -11 10

“We Know Him!” But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us. ” 16 And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone. ” Matthew 15: 15 -20 15

“We Know Him!” To many Christians, Christ is little more than an idea, or at best an ideal--He is not a fact. Millions of professed believers talk as if He were real and act as if He were not. Our actual position is always to be discovered by the way we act, not by the way we talk. A. W. Tozer

“We Know Him!” “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, ’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Matthew 7: 21 21

“We Know Him!” 1. If we keep His commandments. 2. If we keep His Word. but whoever keeps His word, in Him truly the love of God is perfected. 1 John 2: 4 5

“We Know Him!” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. And the word that you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. John 14: 23 -24 23

“We Know Him!” Do you not fear me? declares the L ORD. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it. Jeremiah 5: 22 22

“We Know Him!” I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. John 13: 15 -17 15

“We Know Him!” 1. If we keep His commandments. 2. If we keep His Word. 3. If we walk as He walked. “… By this we may know that we are in Him: whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which He walked. ” 1 John 2: 5 b-6 6

“We Know Him!” “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? Amos 3: 3 3

“We Know Him!” They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures? ” Luke 24: 32 32

“We Know Him!” For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2: 21 21

“We Know Him!” but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. John 14: 31 31

“We Know Him!” And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5: 11 -13 11

“We Know Him!”