IGNORANCE AIN’T BLISS

JOHN 8:32     And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. WE CAN KNOW

1. We Can Know We are Sinners [Romans 3:19, 7:14]

-Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

-For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

2. We Can Know the Bible Plan for Us [1 Timothy 1:8]

- But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

3. We Can Know the Fragility of Our Existence [Romans 8:22]

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

 

II. YOU CAN KNOW

1. You Can Know the Saviour [John 14:11-14]

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

2. You Can Know You are Saved [1 John 5:13]

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

3. You Can Know Why You are Saved and Secure [2 Timothy 1:12, 1 John 5:20]

-For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

-And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

 

III. WE OUGHT TO KNOW

1. We Ought to Know to Grow [1 Corinthians 2:12, Philippians 3:10]

-Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

2. We Ought to Know How to Behave [2 Th. 3:7, 1 Tm. 3:15, 1 Cor. 8]

- For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

-But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

3. We Ought to Know How to Pray [1 Jn. 5:13-15]

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.