There
are many people in the church that claim they know Jesus, but there is
something that is far more important than knowing who Jesus is, or about Jesus.
What is more important is this, does
Jesus know you? We hear so many things
about Jesus from so many sources, but many of the sources we hear from are not
telling the truth about Him because they only know Him through what they hear. The only way that anyone can know Jesus is by
having a personal relationship with Him, not just hearing about Him. Think of this, many people know some things
about Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ben Franklin and many other people
that lived in the past, but they don’t know them personally. You may have read or heard about these men,
but if you have never met them you do not know them on a personal level. That is the way it is with the Lord; but the
difference is, He made a way that we could know Him in a personal way.
Let
me give you an example using Paul, for instance, and the seven sons of Sceva, a
ruling priest, while they were trying to cast out demons. Please read Acts 19:11-17, “Now God worked unusual miracles by the
hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body
to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the
name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, ‘We exorcise
you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.’ Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a
Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, ‘Jesus
I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?’ Then the man in whom the evil spirit
was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they
fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews
and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the
Lord Jesus was magnified.”
These
demons knew Paul and they knew Jesus and they fled when they told them to leave,
but these seven sons of Sceva they did not know and they ended up getting a
beating. It is so important to not just
know about Jesus, but to have a personal relationship with Him. And, like I said earlier in this Tidbit, God
through His Son Jesus has made a way that we can have that kind of relationship
with Him. God sent his Son to be our advocate
and through Him we can be justified with God the Father when we are cleansed
with His blood and our sins are washed clean.
Jesus
said this in Revelations 3:20 to the churches that He was trying to correct, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If
anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with
him, and he with Me.”
I
believe this is a call to everyone that doesn’t know the Lord personally. I believe a person needs to repent through the
conviction of the Holy Spirit and make a personal decision to turn away from
their sins and go in another direction and ask the Lord to come into their
heart and life and to be their Lord and Savior!!
We
will all stand before the Lord someday to give an account of our life. You don’t want to hear these words found in Matthew
7:21-23, “Not everyone who says to Me,
‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My
Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in
Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me,
you who practice lawlessness!’”
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