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“WE know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know Him that is true” (1 John 5:20). We know in our own hearts that He is come! It is our personal possession given us by the Holy Spirit. This consciousness is part and parcel of ourselves by divine grace. And He has given us a perceptive power to enable us to rise in our measure to that knowledge which is beyond all other knowledge, even the knowledge of God.
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“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” (2 Cor. 5:1). And this is also inward knowledge, conscious intelligence. Not acquired knowledge merely, but that which fills the heart. It is our personal portion in all its joyful fulness. It is knowledge beyond and outside all that this world can give. But it is the portion of every believer in Christ.
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“We know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him” (1 John 3:2). Such an assurance in the heart is worth more than all the treasures of the world. He has come! He is coming again. We shall have our house which is from heaven, and shall be fully able to enjoy His company. There is no hesitation, no question as to this. All is divinely sure.
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“To know the love of Christ which surpasseth knowledge” (Eph. 3:19). There are heights and depths, lengths and breadths, which are and ever will be immeasurably beyond us. But Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith, we have, even in these mortal bodies, the key to the divine treasuries.