I KNOW
2 Tim 1:12 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.
Intro: I don’t know why we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway. I don’t know why they call them buildings when they’re already built. I don’t know why a weeks worth of garbage weighs more than a weeks worth of groceries. I don’t even know if Adam and Eve had belly buttons, but there are a few things I know.
I.. I KNOW OF GOD’S LOVE.
Eph 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
II.. I KNOW OF GOD’S WORD.
John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
John 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
1 John 3:19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
III.. I KNOW OF GOD’S SALVATION.
Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
IV.. I KNOW THAT GOD ANSWERS PRAYER.
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1 John 5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Jer 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
V.. I KNOW OF GOD’S HOUSE.
A. HERE.
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Psa 122:1 A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
B.. THERE
2 Cor 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
VI.. I KNOW I ‘M GOING TO HEAVEN .
1 Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Cor 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
VII.. I KNOW WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS.
2 Tim 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 Tim 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
