What We Know

O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.  

John 17:25 

What do we know? As Christ moves to close His High Priestly Prayer He intensifies His appeal to His Father. He cries, ‘O righteous Father.’ He then utters three profound truths. He says, ‘The world has not known You.’ That is a fact. From the days of Adam and Eve to the hour in which He spoke, the world had not known God. The people of the world had pursued every other invention rather than the knowledge of God. That truth has not changed. The second truth He spoke was, ‘but I have known You.’ Christ has always been the essential, eternal Son of God. From everlasting He has been with the Father and has known Him. The third truth He utters is ‘these have known that You sent Me.’ The disciples confessed, ‘You are the Christ the Son of the living God.’ We know what the disciples knew. We have believed their report. We accept their testimony. We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. We are prepared to stake our life, our death, and our eternity on this revealed truth. Thus our message is Christ and Christ alone. We have no other truth. We hold no greater doctrine. God has sent Christ and Christ is all.  

High King of heaven, 
we rejoice that we are Christ’s. 
We praise You that Christ is Yours. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning