Knowing God Personally

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.center079438b5-8c5c-4764-85a9-8ad4b6682492 { background-image: url(/content/dam/cru/how-to-know-god/know-god-hero-image%402x.jpg.transform/CruMarketingCover/img.jpg); } </style> <section class="cover bg-center bg-cru-bahama-blue-dark white pv6 center079438b5-8c5c-4764-85a9-8ad4b6682492"> <div class="container"> <div class="tc"> <h1 class="mw6 f2 center mt0">Would You Like to Know God Personally?</h1> <p class="fw3 mw6 center"> <p style=" text-align: center; ">What does it take to begin a relationship with God? Do you need to devote yourself to unselfish religious deeds? Must you become a better person so that God will accept you? <br /> You may be surprised that none of those things will work. But God has made it very clear in the Bible how we can know Him.</p> <p style=" text-align: center; ">The following principles will explain how you can personally begin a relationship with God, right now, through Jesus Christ.</p> </p> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <h3 class="tc cru-scorpion-alt ttu mb4 mt5">Principle 1</h3> <h2 class="tc measure center pb4">God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.</h2> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-5 col-lg-4"><h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">God's Love</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16, NIV).</p> <h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">God's Plan</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">Jesus said, “I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly” (John 10:10, ESV) — that is, that life might be full and meaningful.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-7 offset-lg-1 mt4"><img src="/content/dam/cru/how-to-know-god/kgp-point-1%402x.png"></div> </div> </div> <h5 class="f3 tc mv5 pt5-ns">Why is it that most people are not experiencing the abundant life? Because ...</h5> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="row"> <div class="col br b--cru-scorpion-alt h3"></div> <div class="col bl b--cru-scorpion-alt h3"></div> </div> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <h3 class="tc cru-scorpion-alt ttu mb4 mt5">Principle 2</h3> <h2 class="tc measure center pb4">All of us sin, and our sin has separated us from God.</h2> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-7 mt4"><img src="/content/dam/cru/how-to-know-god/kgp-point-2%402x.png"></div> <div class="col-md-5 col-lg-4 offset-lg-1"><h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">We Are Sinful</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23, ESV).</p> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">We were created to have fellowship with God, but because of our stubborn self-will, we chose to go our own way, and our fellowship with God was broken. This self-will, characterized by an attitude of active rebellion or passive indifference, is what the Bible calls sin.</p> <h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">We Are Separated</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23, ESV). Death is spiritual separation from God.</p> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">This image illustrates that God is holy and people are sinful. A great gulf separates us. We are continually trying to reach God and the abundant life through our own efforts, such as a good life, philosophy, or religion – but we inevitably fail.</p> </div> </div> </div> <h5 class="f3 tc mv5 pt5-ns">The third principle explains the only way to bridge this gulf ...</h5> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="row"> <div class="col br b--cru-scorpion-alt h3"></div> <div class="col bl b--cru-scorpion-alt h3"></div> </div> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <h3 class="tc cru-scorpion-alt ttu mb4 mt5">Principle 3</h3> <h2 class="tc measure center pb4">Jesus Christ is God's only provision for our sin. Through Him we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.</h2> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-5 col-lg-4"><h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">He Died in Our Place</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8, NIV).</p> <h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">He Rose From the Dead</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“Christ died for our sins ... He was buried ... He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures ... He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-6, NLT).</p> <h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">He Is the Only Way to God</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me’” (John 14:6, ESV).</p> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">God has bridged the gulf that separates us from Him by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-7 offset-lg-1 mt4"><img src="/content/dam/cru/how-to-know-god/kgp-point-3%402x.png"></div> </div> </div> <h5 class="f3 tc mv5 pt5-ns">It is not enough just to know these three principles ...</h5> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="row"> <div class="col br b--cru-scorpion-alt h3"></div> <div class="col bl b--cru-scorpion-alt h3"></div> </div> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <h3 class="tc cru-scorpion-alt ttu mb4 mt5">Principle 4</h3> <h2 class="tc measure center pb4">We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.</h2> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-7 mt4"><img src="/content/dam/cru/how-to-know-god/kgp-point-4_Gray3.png"></div> <div class="col-md-5 col-lg-4 offset-lg-1"><h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">We Must Receive Christ</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12, NKJV).</p> <h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">We Receive Christ Through Faith</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">“By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9, NIV).</p> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">When we receive Christ, we experience a new birth.</p> <h3 class="cru-tango ttu tracked mt4">We Receive Christ by Personal Invitation</h3> <p style="font-size: 18.0px;">Jesus says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him” (Revelation 3:20, ESV).</p> </div> </div> </div> <div style="background: rgb(51,51,51);" class="mt5 mb0"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8 offset-lg-2 offset-md-2 pb5 pt5"><p style="font-size: 18.0px; color: rgb(255,255,255);">Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (<a style="color: rgb(0,123,198); box-shadow: none;" href="/us/en/train-and-grow/spiritual-growth/what-is-repentance-and-how-do-i-do-it.html">repentance</a>) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us what He wants us to be. Just to agree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for your sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience. You receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <div class="container"><h3 class="tc fw6 measure center"> </h3> <h3 class="tc fw6 measure center">Which circle would you like to have represent your life?</h3> <div class="row mb5"><div class="col-lg-4 ml-auto tc mt4"><img src="/content/dam/cru/how-to-know-god/self-directed-life-circle%402x.png" height="200"><h3 class="fw6 ttu tracked">Self-directed life</h3> <p class="measure-narrow center ph4-l">You are in control and Jesus has no influence in your life. People like this have never received Jesus into their lives. They remain guilty and cut off from God by their sin.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-4 mr-auto tc mt4"><img src="/content/dam/cru/how-to-know-god/christ-directed-life-circle%402x.png" style="margin-bottom: 42.0px;" height="158"><h3 class="fw6 ttu tracked">Christ-directed life</h3> <p class="measure-narrow center ph4-l">Jesus is in control and you are following Him as Lord. People like this have received Jesus into their lives. They have been forgiven and experience God’s love.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="w-100 cru-text-image aem-GridColumn aem-GridColumn--default--12"> <section class="pv5 bg-cru-scooter-light"> <div class="container"> <div class="row align-items-center"> <div class="col-lg-5 offset-lg-1"> <h2 class="fw6">You can receive Christ right now by faith through prayer.</h2> <p>Prayer is talking to God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.</p> <p>The following is a suggested prayer. 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