Knowledge vs. Experience

In Jhn. 6:63 Jesus said, “It is the spirit that imparts life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life.” Rom. 7:18 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; BUT HOW TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS GOOD I FIND NOT.”

It is one thing to know the truth--it is another thing to function IN truth. I can have a will, a desire to know to God, and a desire to experience the truth about God, and the truth about me. Neither can be known properly or experienced properly without Christ (Jhn. 15:1-5).

Christ is God's answer to every man's question. He is the key and has all the keys that unlock everything (Is. 22:22; Rev. 1:18; 3:7). He is the door, the only proper entrance into everything (Jhn. 10:1-2, 7, 9; 20:19, 26; Acts 14:27; 1 Cor. 16:9; 2 Cor. 2:12). He solves every mystery, every question for Israel and us the Church (Jhn. 1:11; Rev. 1:7; Eph. 3:3-4, 9).

In our process of learning and growth (2 Pet. 3:14-18), we must know who we are and what we are like without Him, moment by moment, and learn and grow in who we are in Him, and in who He is in us, moment by moment.

He, alone, is the only key, the only door into the presence of God, where all the love for us is, and where His joy floods our soul (Psa. 16:11; Neh. 8:10; Rom. 5:11; Gal. 5:22-23).