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Excerpted from: Love's Emotional DimensionThis section plays a major role in helping us understand how we can have the right attitude, the right emotions in our obedience. The key here is knowing God. How does one come to know God? To the Christian, coming to know God is accomplished by fellowshipping with God.
What John is saying here in I John 2, beginning in verse 3, is that there is no real knowledge of God without obedience to Him. You cannot know God without obeying Him.
So John is saying then that obedience is the vehicle, it is the means, by which we begin to experience God-life. It is the means by which we begin to experience eternal life. It is the means by which we begin to experience knowing God.
Now the word 'know' when applied to human relationships in the Old Testament implies intimacy all the way to sexual relations. Adam 'knew' his wife and she conceived. That is very plain. When it is applied to our relationship with God, the sexual dimension disappears; but instead it becomes an intimate devotion to and a loyalty of life together. This is very important. Eternal life is to know God. The sexual dimension disappears and the sexual part becomes intimate devotion and loyalty of life together.
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