The True Knowledge of Jesus – Part 3 : beholding Jesus

From Stephen Venable [IHOP-KC]

One of my favorite teachers talking about one of my favorite subjects: encountering God in the person of Jesus. Here’s a taste:

What is the true knowledge of Jesus… How do we find it and grow in it? … Knowing Jesus is not an abstract, vague pursuit. Like Peter’s knowledge of Jesus, for us it must also be tethered at every point and on every level to a real Person, a real life…

What does this look like practically? It means actually setting out to know all that we possibly can about who Jesus is, what Jesus did, and what Jesus said… Yahweh’s life lived in the flesh is the bread of knowledge offered to us, and Love bids us come and gather up every crumb… Moving out in both directions, we scour the Old Testament to find all the traces we can of the One who has no beginning and scrutinize the rest of the New Testament in order to have all that was revealed about Jesus through the apostles written upon our hearts.

At times we may be staring at a map of Galilee, have our nose in a commentary on Isaiah, or be soberly reading the book of Revelation. Wherever we may go, however, it is crucial that prayer and adoration ever be our companions along the way. This ensures that facts become knowledge, and knowledge becomes love…

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