Do you know the God you Worship?

A generation that knows not God!
Must a man know God before he is born again?
Can a man call on the name of God and not know who God is?

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It's an important question because if a man can call on God then later turn around and say "the trinity is God!" Is that proof that he knew not the God he called upon? We know that folks who know God embrace his name upon baptism while those who believe in the three co-equal persons as God, don't embrace the name upon baptism.

Did the apostles and the disciples know God before they called on his name in Acts? I believe they did! How can a man call on someone yet not know him? How can they know without a preacher?

Is this then, a generation of saved folks who cannot admit that they know not the God they worship! Should we not therefore humble ourselves and seek to know him. For until we know him as one, we really don't know him at all! Until we know Jesus as God we really don't know him at all.

Is this not the key reason why Christianity is in a crisis as well as in a confusion. Folks confessing the Lord, yet few knowing him by name and in person.

May I take this a step sideways. Is it possible to be saved and yet not know God? Just because one uses the name?

2. The "gospels" reveal God in the flesh.
Behold the King! Behold the servant! Behold the man! behold your God! God "unveiled" God is uncovering himself in the gospels before presenting us with salvation in his name as in Acts. This is a deliberate, Note the pattern and order or revelation.  God reveals himself to man before he shows man how to be saved! Now if we can present God in this way, the way we are given it,  we can get folks to know God by faith first then they can call on his name and be saved!

3. Can a man worship God and not know him. Yes!
Jesus said to the woman at the well "You worship what you do not know...we know what we worship" (John 4:22). Here he connected himself to the Jews and the God they worshiped. he said "we" worship. showing us the one true God. Here was an ideal opportunity to tell  them that God was a trinity if that was true, but No a thousand times no! For he declared the true God to be the one God the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

But to know God one must have a revelation of his name. This is why as preachers  we should emphasize the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord. His incarnation too. Yes emphasize! The gospel is precisely this. The death burial and resurrection of the Lord. Until one sees Jesus as God then one cannot claim to worship God in spirit or truth. Indeed a church that congregates on a Sunday yet does not know Jesus as God can never know God in person nor his power at work. There is no such thing as being saved without knowing one's God! Indeed it is the Spirit that reveals himself, "himself" as God.

Friend can you work out your salvation in fear and trembling. Then I know this God will come to you!