Do you know God? – John 1 – Brent Phillips – Encounter Houston

Have you ever stopped and wondered, “Do I really know God?

Some of us would be offended if someone were to ask us this question? We would say, “How could you? I attend church every Sunday?” or “I have been in church for 20 years?” But it is one thing to know about God and it is another to know God.

John 1:18 “No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.”

Sometimes we can be so certain that we are right about something, when the reality is we are wrong. That was the case for the Pharisees. They were certain that Jesus was wrong in being the son of God, that when He actually proved that He was right all they could do was try to kill Him.

Could that be the case for us in the church today? How many times have we as Christians tried to remove someone or something rather than deal with the fact that they may be right when it comes to knowing God? Is it possible that we have missed an incredible aspect of God in all of our arguing about theology and who we think God is or who we know God to be? Is it possible that there is more to God than what we realize?

You can go to seminary every single day and learn all the incredible truth, there is to know about God, yet it is possible to not know Him at all. You can sit it church for many years and attend all the bible studies you could possibly think of, yet still not know God.

God is un-relatable, yet knowable through Jesus Christ because He is the exact representation of God.

There is nothing wrong with being wrong when the upside is something more incredible than what you thought you already knew. Allow God to reveal Himself to you in a new way. It is okay to ask yourself, "Do I really know God?" it will be in our asking that we find out just how incredible God truly is.

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