Title: To know God is eternal life.
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“Knowing God is eternal life.”
John 17:3
Socrites said, “O man, know thyself”, I think he meant to know that at any moment you will die. Only as long as a person lives does he have his life and his world. With his death, the world of his life comes to an end.
1. Why do people have to live?
To this question, Jesus said, “To know the true God and Jesus Christ, whom he sent into this world, is eternal life.” If a person knows only a person, he will die, but if he knows right away that he is related to God, he will know that he is a living being. Therefore, man must know God to know himself and live eternally with God.
2. How can man know God?
Everyone knows God just as he usually knows his mother and father without any introduction. Christianity is the most accurate textbook for man to know God. There is no richer and more complete textbook for human knowledge of God than the Christian Bible.
3. If we learn and master the Christian Bible well, can we say that we know God well?
For now, I can say yes. However, when one person meets another person, both sides know each other and can confirm knowledge in the form of mutual confession. We can say that we know each other only by forming a mutual relationship in which not only I know God but also God knows me well.
There is only one way that a person can get to know God and experience God.
In our knowledge of God, we are the sons of God. Daughter He is my father and mother. The way to know God, and the way to truly know God with my heart, is to say that I know God from the moment I can call him Father and Mother. And when we realize the love of God revealed in Jesus' death on the cross, it can be said that the culmination of that knowledge is achieved.
4. When will people realize God as their Father and Mother?
It is always imperfect for children to know their parents. Knowing God is the same. When I explain my mother from the North to my children, I explain it in the image that is engraved in my heart. I miss my parents even more deeply when I am over 80 years old. Just like him, when I look back on the back road of life, I realize that God has guided and protected me at every step, and I feel a thrill that cannot be expressed in words. “I carved you into the palm of my hand … ” If you are not moved by these words, you will not be able to easily say that you know God. God has told me to hold it in my hand in times of emergency and to do whatever I want when I am in peace.
5. Being in God is eternal life.
Those who live with the seed of God's life will live eternally in such a splendid way as a slug turns into a tiger butterfly. If we, all the saints, make this faith only boil in our hearts, realize it, and understand it with a tingling heart even if we cannot explain it in words, it is like receiving the blessing of eternal life and receiving the key to the gate of heaven. Amen