That I May Know Him, Jesus Christ

The Apostle Paul writes in Philippians 3:10   That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformableunto his death;


First of all, Paul has the desire to know Christ.  A desire that's not satisfied with just knowing about Christ, or to be involved with doing alot of religious activity.  Paul greatest desire was to know Him!

That's our eternal purpose! To know Christ! To be conformed to His image!

Paul was very quick to say that he had not yet came to the place where that he couldn't know Christ more!



Paul wanted to know Christ in the power of His resurrection!  The resurrection of Jesus Christ is an endless life! That's the resurrection that Paul lived and preached! That message stirred and shook the world upside down in his day. An endless life that only the resurrection of Christ can bring to us!  Jesus said: "Because I live, ye shall live also."   Paul believed those words, that's why God was able to use him, even in the many things that he would suffer for Christ sake. They stoned Paul, and they dragged him outside the city and leave him for dead. But Paul knew Christ!  He knew Christ in the resurrection power! He would rise from that stoning to preach the resurrection of Christ!


Paul not only wanted to know Christ, or to know the power of His resurrection, but Paul said that I might be associated with the sufferings of Christ!  Paul didn't want it said of him, that he would not be willing to preach the  unsearchable riches of Christ and not be willing to suffer as Christ suffered as He spoke the truth.

Do you want to know Him?


Don't answer yet.  We have to count the cost in order to be a disciple of Christ. We just don't decide we are going to be a follower of Christ, we are drawned by the Holy Spirit and then we must be willing to count the cost. 


Paul said that I may know Him, in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, and he added this: "That I may be made conformable unto his death."

Before a resurrection can take place, there has to be a death!

The only way we could live, Christ had to die!   And the only way Christ can live, we must die!

The Courageous Disciple


Luke 9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.

Luke 9:24  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall save it.

Luke 9:25  For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

Luke 9:26  For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.



We must be strong and of good courage.

We must have courage to be perfected.  And this process takes time and it takes discipline.  And that word discipline is what is lacking so much in the Church today. It's take discipline to be a follower of Christ. A disciple who wants to know Christ.

We are like clay in the potter's hand.  We must be piable to the hands of God!  He knows what He's doing with us and He knows what He can allow to come our way to get glory out of us as  we are being conformed to the image of Christ! 

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is come to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.

What you are facing right now, as one who wants to know Christ, hasn't happened for nothing. God has allowed it to let you know Himself more!  Deepen your relationship with Christ in your fiery trial, Christ will come to you with His resurrection power that will bring His life out of your death!   

Know Him.


1 Peter 4:13  But rejoice, in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.


Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Our true measure for success is found in this scripture.     We can know Him!

The scriptures testify of Him!     Paul used the wording in his' writings: "according to the scriptures."

Our knowing Christ will come out of God's word, the Bible.


Get into the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever!


That I may know Him.