(Jesus greatly desires for us to know him:)

 

Psalms 9:16a The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:

 

Psalms 46:10a Be still, and know that I am God:

 

Psalms 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

 

Isaiah 37:20b  that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

 

Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

 

Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

 

(When things are happening around us, whether good or evil, do we recognize where Jesus is at that very moment?

Do we recognize what Jesus is doing, and trying to say to us, at that moment?)

 

Isaiah 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

 

Jeremiah 31:34b  for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:

 

(We absolutely should not try to "imagine" what Jesus is like!   He can, and will, only be known by revelation.

We may have been taught, and learned a lot of things about Jesus, who he is, and what he has done.

Yet, there is a special relationship between the Father and the Son.

This is critical that we are open to this, to receive the revelation his way, whether to first be saved, or even to know him more.

1: We can never really know Jesus unless the Father initiates it:)

 

John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

  65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

 

(2: And we can never really know the Father, unless Jesus reveals him to us:)

 

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

 

John 7:28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

  29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

 

(There is no way around these two important things, and anything else will still be ignorance and possibly confusion.)

 

John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

  8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

  9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?