KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD

[Bro Jake]

CAN YOU HANDLE IT? ? ? PRAISE YE THE LORD!

:::chuckles::: Less and less surprises me these days. Ah well, just putting out the word . . . Have you ever read this? I improved upon it!

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Experience is knowledge, we are told. Flesh has memory. Even muscle tissue has memory. So-called "text book knowledge" is also one form of cerebral experience that readily imparts information via imagination and symbology. Practical, hands-on knowledge is another form of knowledge gained from direct and first-hand experience and is often more accurate than knowledge merely gained from reading text. This form of knowledge is rarely ever fictitious in nature because it is not merely fabricated out of some human imagination or projection. GOD uses both practical knowledge and the symbology of text to impart information to us and communicate with us. Our experience bears witness to the symbolism of the words by which this knowledge is imparted. All too often we would fail to listen and pay attention to the message. I would urge the reader to pay close attention to what I am about to share, as this information is likely one of the most important messages I have shared on the internet in a very long while. The following scripture is what some would call a "classic"; however the message that I share here, based on this scripture, is likely not something the reader has ever heard put this way before; but I would assure the reader that this revelation is no private interpretation. I submit that it came to me from the LORD.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

What many today fail to understand is that it is not our faith that saves us. It is not our grace that saves us either. Our knowledge doesn't give us any spiritual advantage until we have what the HOLY BIBLE calls KNOWLEDGE of the LORD. All of the faith and all of the grace that we have, that is truly faith and truly grace, is all from the FAITHFUL ONE. It is His gift to us. Surely to all is granted a measure of faith and to all is granted a measure of grace, but without the FAITHFUL ONE we would all still have nothing. This knowledge is so vitally important that I would even go so far as to say that it is essential to our salvation in the LORD! What we do with this faith, and what we do with this grace that GOD has granted us, is our own, personal choice — until it runs out; but as for those who would ask, "Does grace run out?" I would answer: Do people die? Now the Word says that Esau also sought repentence with tears and that he could not find it. Esau ran out of grace. There was nothing left in him. He was as good as dead for he found no place of repentance. Without faith or grace repentance is impossible. This scripture is a serious admonition to all them that are found in the Body of Christ:

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears (Hebrews 12:17)

It could be said that all religions require both faith and grace, considering that without HIS grace we would all be wiped off the face of the earth; but GOD is good and GOD is longsuffering. HE alone is the FAITHFUL ONE because all our faith comes from HIM. HE alone is the true source of all our faith; but oh, how some of us would so misplace our faith despite the fact that all our faith came from GOD! I'm not making this up: This is HIS WORD imparted to us all that we all might not only have faith, but also that all might KNOW HIM. HIS GRACE is that BLOOD which He shed on Calvary, which paved the way directly to HIS THRONE that we might approach it boldly and arrive at that place of repentence even with fear and trembling. Does it "sound" as though I am contradicting myself? Perhaps it does for those who are weak in the faith. Yea, we may boldly approach the throne of GRACE but after that, the honest heart will also receive Him, even with fear and trembling. The POWER of GOD is both terrible and wonderful! JESUS did this for all of us in FAITH that we might all live and have life more abundantly. JESUS gave us His life that we might KNOW HIM. Yea, HE is a very merciful GOD! HE sacrificed HIS Person on a cross! AMEN.

Although we are all granted both faith and grace that we might all boldly approach HIS THRONE, not all exercise this option; but the works of our faith and the works we do by HIS GRACE are only a means to an end! HE is the Author and Finisher of our faith which HE alone granted us. Faith and Grace are what GOD has given us so that we might ARRIVE at a specific place in HIM that we might KNOW HIM. . . That we might taste and see that HE is verily GOD and KNOW that GOD is good. GOD is not just some mere concept generated by ink and paper in our minds. No, GOD is not just an idea — GOD is REAL! GOD is a Spirit and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth! No mortal alive can arrive at the KNOWLEDGE of GOD without HIS faith or without HIS grace; but the main reason that we are granted this faith and this grace in the first place is that we might KNOW HIM. To know GOD one must receive GOD. This is not optional. Read Acts Chapter Two and be not quick to exclude verse 39 that says:

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.

Plainly put, If you have not received the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT then you simply do not KNOW GOD. Verily, verily, it is impossible to arrive at the KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH merely by ink and paper and the letter of the law! The letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life! You need to experience a genuine, HOLY GHOST, ACT in your very being! You must TASTE and SEE that the LORD is good! What do we TASTE with? What do we SEE with? Brothers and sisters, it is not possible to know GOD without first receiving the HOLY SPIRIT. The "gift of the HOLY SPIRIT" is indeed the HOLY SPIRIT. One does not receive the HOLY SPIRIT and just sit on their hands! Methinks that it would almost be humorous to see someone try. So great, so powerful, so terribly awesome is this POWER the very stones would cry out if it could be supressed! Yea, this is how powerful a move of the Holy Ghost ACTually is upon those who diligently seek Him. The power of GOD is invigorating and the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD is not given without purpose! If you have knowledge of the LORD you also have a burden from the LORD to carry. You have a personal responsibility for the KNOWLEDGE that GOD has given you! This KNOWLEDGE is called KNOWLEDGE of the LORD. It is not optional to your salvation in the Body of Christ — it is essential. All the text book knowledge, and rote memorization will not provide this for you on its own merit. You must pray for the ACTual EXPERIENCE of this KNOWLEDGE of the LORD.

Friend, if you are without KNOWLEDGE of the LORD then it should follow that you simply do not know GOD. No, you still need to pray on through to the other side. The knowledge that you may think you have is only cerebral. It is superficial. . . It is like the knowledge that one might glean from reading a good work of fiction, or even an instruction manual. At some point the believer must get past that veil of superficial knowledge and ACT on it! The truth must be revealed in an actual, living experience which renders the faith of the believer more than just a work of fiction, or a detailed list of instructions, or a mere projection of the believer's own, personal conviction! If any believes they have faith, the FAITH of GOD is greater! Pray for it. All the rote memorization in the world cannot save anyone of its own merit and typical text book knowledge will not cut it. No, the believer must also experience a genuine, ACT of GOD in you! To ACTually experience GOD is to KNOW GOD and this is that hope of glory! Only then can you have KNOWLEDGE of the LORD. Now Adam did not know Eve until they first UNITED in the flesh. This union is what GOD first called "one flesh"; but flesh and blood cannot inherit the KINGDOM of GOD and GOD is a SPIRIT. The union with GOD in the Spirit is called ATONEMENT (at one ment). Clearly then, to know GOD is to join with GOD in SPIRIT, to become one with GOD, in spirit and in truth! This is that same MYSTERY that was first imparted unto the saints of GOD in The Book of Acts, that we might also know GOD. Spiritual union is the goal of the gospel. (Ephesians 5:32)

Now FAITH without works is dead; but if you have JESUS it is the Father Who doeth the works! Yes, we may have faith indeed, but our faith alone will never be enough to save any outside of a genuine moving of the HOLY GHOST. Only JESUS saves. Many today have this dead religious attitude that they were saved through their own faith as though this were enough to save them; but it is the faith of JESUS that ACTually saves the believer. Yes, there is also grace, but it is that grace that is given to us that we might approach GOD, the SOURCE of all FAITH, faithfully! O, ye of little faith! I weep for you! Remember the words of that honest father who said directly to the Person of the FATHER, "Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief!" We must return our cup of little faith to the SOURCE of all FAITH and we must do so faithfully! FAITH is an investment!

This is the word that my LORD has given me to share with you THIS DAY and I already know that most of you are just not getting it because most of you who are reading this message are still far too preoccupied with judging the messenger to even bother to discern the truth of this message. I will say it anyway. . . Faith is much like priming a pump: Only a mere cup of water is required to prime that pump but once it takes, a flow is generated that can move hundreds of thousands of gallons! At some point we must return our little faith unto the FAITHFUL ONE so that we might receive His Faith, pressed down and overflowing! As it is written, "out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water"! Alas, today so many are misplacing their faith simply because they still do not know GOD. So many would so easily forget that GOD is the source of everything that is — including our little faith. Now there is a reason we were all granted a measure of faith. There is a reason we were all granted a measure of grace. There is no grace for them that are in the grave! The dead know nothing! I see dead people all the time! THINK ABOUT IT! Either they have died to sin and are gone back to JESUS, or they have died in their sin and await the fearful resurrection of shame and everlasting contempt. What is the purpose to this grace whereby we are saved through faith in the FAITHFUL ONE?

In a single word:

KNOWLEDGE

The goal of the GOSPEL is UNION in JESUS. UNION in JESUS is KNOWLEDGE of the LORD. JESUS is that FAITHFUL ONE. There is no other. Without UNION in JESUS it is impossible to know GOD. Without FAITH, which comes from GOD, it is impossible to please GOD. My friend, you could memorize the entire BIBLE and still not know GOD. Taste and see that the LORD is GOOD: EXPERIENCE GOD. Pray for a genuine ACT of GOD in you that you might KNOW GOD. EXPERIENCE the ACTual power of GOD move through you in the NAME of JESUS. The fifth book in the New Testament isn't called The Book of ACTS simply because they all got together and talked about GOD. Long ago, a certain man once told certain others in a certain forum to go their way because, he said, that I had knowledge. Either GOD revealed this to him or the enemy feared that I would impart this knowledge to some and they just might "get it". Yes, I surely have knowledge! Praise GOD, I have the knowledge but I am not alone, being merely flesh and blood. There are others who also have this very same knowledge. Do you have this knowledge? I so wish and it is my deepest desire that all who read this message gain this marvelous knowledge. Adam knew his wife and JESUS is the LORD. This is that MYSTERY concerning Christ and the Church! May the only wise GOD reveal it to you and may GOD truly bless you in the knowledge of FULL BIBLE TRUTH.

[SIS LISA ALFORD]

amen that's what everyone needs is knowledge of God and his presences. amen bro.Jake thanks for sharing! gbu.