‘Our Knowledge of God determines our behaviour.

‘Our Knowledge of God determines our behaviour.

God's Holy Spirit moves upon the earth in a supernatural way giving us insight and revelations about how much He really loves us, and what real love means. God is Love. To know God is to know love. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. In this verse the word “to know”, is the Greek word “ginosko”, which means to perceive, feel, and understand. The word “knowledge” is the Greek word “gnosis”, which means mental knowledge, or science.  God’s love is beyond “head knowledge”; it is the heart felt presence of God. Perceiving and feeling God’s love, experiencing the Holy Spirit of God’s love, is being filled with the fullness of God.  

 As we open our hearts to allow God’s love to touch the people that He wants to love through us we come to know God. This revelation of knowing God intimately, through experiencing His love has can change one’s perception of God. It can also change one’s perception of all of God’s creations, and especially of those who are created in His image.

 For those who have Christ living in their heart, they also have access to the heart of God. The Bible says that we have “the mind of Christ”, (1Corinthians 2:16). The word mind is the Greek word “nous” which means intellect, or the thoughts, feelings, and will. So, Christians have access to the thoughts, feelings, and will of God, through His Holy Spirit that is in us. 

 Because we have access to God’s words, God’s feelings, and God’s will inside us through the Holy Spirit, we need to seek and do God’s will. Jesus always sought to do the will of the Father. Jesus always said what He heard the Father say, and He always did what He saw the Father Do.  The same is true for us, without Jesus we can do nothing, but with Him He can do all things through us.

However, the ‘god’ of this world can blind people's minds against the knowledge of God, and especially that Jesus Christ is God. Satan's greatest deception and controlling power over people is to keep them ignorant about God, the greater their revelation of God the greater the threat to him. Even after they become Christians, he works hard to keep them from getting greater knowledge of God.   Satan also works to confuse the knowledge of God mixing lies with truth; Satan is the author of confusion.   

Every evil demon spirit works continuously to keep us from gaining knowledge of God. They fight against us reading the Word, they battle us in prayer time, they strive to keep us from church and being taught the knowledge of God. They war against pastors and teachers, evangelist and all who bring the knowledge of God. They attack Christians causing disunity and mistrust against each other and against godly spiritual leaders, to keep us from being able to receive the knowledge of God. We are in a spiritual war to learn the knowledge of God, and to reach a lost world with the knowledge of God

Of course, God is in ultimate control.  He could bind the evil forces at any time and open our eyes of understanding to know Him and His compassionate love for us. The reason He does not is because there is a spiritual law that you get what you seek for, seek and you shall find. God will not interfere with our freewill.  Anything that is exalted above and against the knowledge of God is evil. Anything that keeps us from the knowledge, anything that perverts and corrupts the knowledge and anything that comes against the knowledge of God is contrary to God’s Divine Love. 

Behaviour can be determined by our past (family of origin, subconscious patterns of learning, either positively or negatively and also the people with whom we have contact. Our belief system and attitude can and does have a powerful influence on our behaviour particularly when it relates to self-esteem, how we feel in relation to the environment and ‘significant others’ in our life.  

This can also apply to our relationship with God, Church community and matters of spiritual importance. For the Christian, behaviour must also be determined by knowledge and love of God, which flows over to our willingness and ability to give service to others. 

 How we view God, others and ourselves influences our attitude. We need to have a deep-rooted understanding and dependency on God and have a strong and mature level of self-awareness. Through relationship and knowledge and love of God, we are able to communicate this to other people and encourage and support them as they self-explore and discover the love of God for them too.  We must surrender our life to God.