Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | November 30, 2019. Enrich and Sustain your relationship with Jesus reading our daily devotional – But grow [spiritually mature] in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory (honor, majesty, splendor), both now and to the day of eternity. Amen – 2 Peter 3:18
Beloved, glory to God for giving humanity the Bible, the book of wisdom to make them and you in particular wise. You are going to discover that not a single part of the word of God is redundant. All shall be fulfilled and none failing.
Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them
No doubt you are persuaded that the end time is here now. The scriptures revealed one prominent thing to affirm this which is increased knowledge.
It is no secret that presently globally their is advancement in technology and increase in knowledge in virtually every facets of life and everything.
This is one major thing the scriptures revealed shall characterise the events of the end of time.
Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Very very unfortunately, this increase in knowledge is something satan and his cohorts shall take advantage of to derail multitude of the worldlings and nominal carefree churchgoers.
You shall not be derail in Jesus name. This they shall do by creating more awareness on self development. Emphasis shall be on self and not Christ. Passion for self fulfillment and acquisition of ephemeral and little or no time for God and godliness.
While believers like you are consecrating to dethrone self and enthrone Christ in your life, the reverse is the case with the worldlings and carefree churchgoers globally.
See the pursuit of a true heaven bound believers like you doing everything to increase in the knowledge of Christ at this end of time.
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
Phi 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Psa 1:1-2 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psa 119:99-100 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
No wonder the Bible says you in particular should grow in the knowledge of Christ, especially at a time like this.
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Beloved, this becomes necessary because, growing in self and worldly knowledge to be fulfilled in life outside of God is detrimental to your eternal well-being.
But then this is the singular goal of the devil to derail nominal churchgoers and take them away from the narrow road that leads to life eternal. He shall abysmally fail concerning you in particular in Jesus name.
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
See the consequences of growing in knowledge of the world and self and lacking in the truth of God and knowledge of Christ.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Hosea 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Pro 1:29-31 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Beloved, do not fall a victim of the devil at this end time pursuing increased knowledge to fulfill self esteem at the expense of your eternal well-being. The good Lord shall help you to be wise unto salvation in Jesus name.
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Dearly beloved, how can you differentiate between a wise believer and a foolish carefree nominal churchgoers? It is very simple.
Two things are prominent in the lifestyle of both. The believers live by the words proceeding from the mouth of the Lord while the churchgoers live by worldly wisdom and knowledge.
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Secondly, the wise believers are determinedly committed to doing the entire sayings of Christ while the foolish despise same.
Mat 7:24-27 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. Every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: Great was the fall of it.
Unknown to nominal churchgoers is the fact that all things that facilitate earthly and eternal gains and well-being of the godly without sorrow and stress are contained in the knowledge of Christ. See it yourself.
2Pe 1:3-4 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Peter 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pro 10:22 The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich,and he addeth no sorrow with it.
No wonder the Bible exhorts wise believers like you to grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and access the benefits therein. This shall surely be your portion in Jesus name.
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Dearly beloved growing in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus will also lead you to perfection after the order of God.
2Ti 3:15-17 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
How then can you in particular grow in the knowledge of Christ?
1. By searching the scriptures always and daily.
Act 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
2. By determined systematic study.
Acts 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Since God has destined you in particular to access and enjoy both His unfailing earthly and eternal blessings, give yourself wholly henceforth to increasing in the knowledge of the Lord till He comes. You shall enjoy His blessings to the fullest in Jesus name.
1Ti 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Friend, how can you validate your resolve to be part of the dawning rapture? It is by knowing the truth and following Jesus the truth personified.
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free..
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
No wonder the Bible enjoins you in particular to grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Friend, one major thing the devil will intensify in doing at this end time is to hid the truth from people within and outside of the church.
This is done principally to damn their souls and hinder them from partaking in the rapture. He shall fail concerning you in particular in Jesus name
2Co 4:3-6 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Very very unfortunately at this perilous time, many in the time past that were living by the entirety of this revealed truth are yielding to the deception of the devil and
departing from the wholesome truth and are damned.
You shall not be damned in Jesus name
2Pe 2:20-22 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Friend, do not allow the motivational speakers that have filled the global church of Christ to sway you from the gospel of self effacement to self pride and propagation, which shall be the undoing of multitude in the church and hinder them from partaking in the rapture.
This shall not be your portion in Jesus name.
Eph 4:17-24 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
See you at the top in Jesus name
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