That You May Know

Notes from Rev Rufus Grant at New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church in Miami.

You can KNOW the Way, but your faith in Christ provides eternity. Yet, believers tend to struggle with doubt.  Why do believers struggle with doubts in their lives? Here are some points to remember when struggling with doubts.

Hard times allow you to believe the KNOW. The KNOW brings about a change. Then this change allows you to perform better than what you did in the past. 

Basically, the Holy Spirit creates the change because your inner spirit connects with the Holy Spirit simultaneously syncing with your changed behavior.

Change allows you to practice righteousness instead of practicing sin since sin leads to death. Therefore when believers who are born of God overcome the World because sin enslaves you with sinful practices. 

Lastly, as believers we must realize that everything works for God's goodness since we are created in His image and His Spirit lives within us. So when you are struggling with doubts focus on these truths located in I John 5:13-20.

¹³ These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

¹⁵ And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

¹⁶ If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

¹⁸ We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

¹⁹ And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.