[Salvation]

To “know,” in biblical terms, more richly describes knowing through personal experience. Hence it implies an intimacy, a personal experience of another person, thing, or event.

Do we REALLY know Jesus?

[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[bubbacluck]

That was good. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. It truly is a personal relationship.

[Resettozero]

Do we REALLY know Jesus?

It is an imperative that each one of us must have an intimate personal two-way relationship with Lord Jesus Christ, by faith and the empowering of the Holy Spirit. He alone is our only Salvation from spiritual death and eternal separation from God.

[OneWingedShark]

To “know,” in biblical terms,

usually meant sexual intercourse.

[sauropod]

Great post!

Thank you.

[Old Yeller]

Read the first 9 chapters in the Book of Romans.

[editor-surveyor]

It means that you have never been one of his disciples.

You haven’t kept his commandments.

You haven’t fed his sheep.

You haven’t given yourself to him.

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[Grateful2God]

The man Msgr. refers to reminds me of the rich man who followed the Commandments, but couldn't deal with the idea of selling all his goods, giving to the poor and following Jesus. He makes me sad. When it came down to brass tacks, the poor fellow couldn't bring himself to do it. Jesus asked him in Person, but does He not ask the same of each of us?

Msgr.'s parishioner missed the boat in the same kind of way, and I hope that incident helps him find his God. His parents and grandparents passed down the money and the name, but maybe not necessarily what the Faith was all about. I pray he gets it, and I give Msgr. credit for being so frank.

[chesley]

He meant Rev. Wright, Rev Jackson, Rev. Sharpton, and others of that ilk, and their followers. Among others.

[ealgeone]

And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas, 30and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."…Acts 16:29-31

Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" 38Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit...Acts 2:37-38

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Eph 2:8-9

[free_life]

In Matt 25 Jesus’ prophecy of separating the sheep and the goats based solely on how they treated the least of these is about those who know the Lord and those who don’t know the Lord. Both the sheep and the goats call him Lord.

Goats know a form of religion, sheep know Jesus. Knowing Jesus produces a heart like Jesus’ heart and a life of Christ likeness.

Jesus’ people are in relationship with the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, they know each other personally.

John 17, Jesus speaks of those who belong to him being one with him and the Father, as he and the Father are one.

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Many who call him Lord will not enter in to his presence, wasted lives, living nothing like the one they claim to follow. They don’t know Jesus and their lives reflect that, and Jesus doesn’t know them and they are told to depart from him in their end. Truly sad, wasted lives even after hearing the gospel they live only for themselves not for Jesus.