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I John 2:3-6
Excerpted from: Love's Emotional Dimension

This 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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The Elements of Motivation (Part Six): Eternal Life
The Fourth Commandment (Part One) (1997)
The Fourth Commandment (Part Two): Christ's Attitude Toward the Sabbath
The Fruit of the Spirit: Love
The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Seven): The Sin and Trespass Offerings
The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Two): The Burnt Offering

Bible Studies
Love
Self-Control

Essays
Divine Providence (Part Two)

Sermons
The Christian Medal of Honor
Israel's Missing Characteristics of God
Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen (Part Twelve)
Letters to Seven Churches (Part Six): Sardis
Truly Unleavened
Sincerity and Truth (Part Three)
Faithful, Following Firstfruits
I Never Knew You
Jesus the Door
Satan's Lies About the Law
Assurance That We Know Him!
Self-Government (Part 2)
Sin And Overcoming (Part 1): If Anyone Sins!
The Mystery of the Church
Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part 13)
The Essence of Self-Control
Jesus in the Feasts (Part Two): Firstfruits
Gray Areas in Human Reasoning
The Perfect Husband
He Who Overcomes
The Christian and the World (Part Two)
The Christian and the World (Part Two)
Intimacy with Christ (Part 4)
Elements of Motivation (Part 7)
Spiritual Minefields
Jesus and the Feast (Part One): Alignment With God
Do You Really Know God?
Firstfruits to God
Jesus in the Feasts (Part One): Unleavened Bread
The Christian Paradox (Part Two)

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