{"id":2722,"date":"2007-10-14T20:11:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/spurgeon\/?p=328"},"modified":"2010-12-21T00:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T05:11:39","slug":"philippians-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/10\/14\/philippians-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippians 3:8"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I count all things but loss for the excellency of the<br \/>\n       knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Philippians 3:8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spiritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person&#8217;s acquaintance with him. No, I must know him myself; I must know him on my own account. It will be an intelligent knowledge-I must know him, not as the visionary dreams of him, but as the Word reveals him. I must know his natures, divine and human. I must know his offices-his attributes-his works-his shame-his glory. I must meditate upon him until I &#8220;comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.&#8221; It will be an affectionate knowledge of him; indeed, if I know him at all, I must love him. An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning. Our knowledge of him will be a satisfying knowledge. When I know my Saviour, my mind will be full to the brim-I shall feel that I have that which my spirit panted after. &#8220;This is that bread whereof if a man eat he shall never hunger.&#8221; At the same time it will be an exciting knowledge; the more I know of my Beloved, the more I shall want to know. The higher I climb the loftier will be the summits which invite my eager footsteps. I shall want the more as I get the more. Like the miser&#8217;s treasure, my gold will make me covet more. To conclude; this knowledge of Christ Jesus will be a most happy one; in fact, so elevating, that sometimes it will completely bear me up above all trials, and doubts, and sorrows; and it will, while I enjoy it, make me something more than &#8220;Man that is born of woman, who is of few days, and full of trouble&#8221;; for it will fling about me the immortality of the ever living Saviour, and gird me with the golden girdle of his eternal joy. Come, my soul, sit at Jesus&#8217;s feet and learn of him all this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I count all things but loss for the excellency of the<br \/>\n       knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Philippians 3:8<br \/>\nSpiritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person&#8217;s acquaintance [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}