"That I May Know Him."

WATCH THIS: Me and my friend have an interpersonal relationship based upon the Greek word “koinonia”, which simply means that we have communication and fellowship between the two of us. HOWEVER my wife and I have another level of interpersonal relationship, not based just on koinonia communication only, but established upon “dokime” which is experience and because of our experience we have a level of intimacy that neither of us have with anyone else because our relationship is built upon “dokime” experience.

Understand association does not constitute a relationship because on my job I am associated with people because we work for the Veterans Administration but there is no relationship because there is no koinonia or dokime, no communication or experience. Many people have an association with God because mom & dad or grandma & grandpa had a relationship with Him and they were made to go to church so they are associated with Him, but they don’t have koinonia communication or dokime an experience with Him; therefore they do not have a relationship. Just because you read the book, just because you pay your tithes, just because you sit in someone church edifice does not mean that you have a relationship with Him. I think about the Army commercial that said you won’t read it in a book you’ll live WHY because a book will cause you to have an association, but to live means you have experience with it which develops your relationship.

Paul said “That I may know Him.” Understand that Paul had been carried into the third heaven and seen things that were not lawful and heard things that were not lawful for man to hear yet in-still he didn’t count himself to have apprehended, I don’t fully understand it yet myself he said, but I know that I have this desire, that I may know Him. He counted all as dung, for he had a yearning and a burning desire to have an interpersonal relationship with God. That I may know Him. In other words Paul wanted to experience a level of intimacy that he had never had before. He wanted to experience a high that nothing in this life could even come close to. He said that I may know that I may dokime Him, and the power “dunamis” of His resurrection.

Paul was saying here that he desired to have such a relationship with God that he would be able to experience what it is truly like to live a resurrected life, to no-longer be in the shackles of bondage of this old flesh. He wanted to feel the transference of the dunamis power of God and overcome sin in the flesh like Jesus did. He said I want to know, I want to experience what it is like to bring this flesh, this flesh that no good thing dwelleth in under subjection and defeat sin. He wanted to be able to have such a relationship with God that the transference to those around him would be utterly affected by his relationship with God. Just like if you put a piece of metal in a fire, let it experience the heat, have the dunamis of the fire transfer to the piece of metal, remove that piece of metal and place it near some source of fuel, that fuel would be affected and catch on fire why, because of the relationship that that piece of metal has with the fire.