“The people who know their God shall be strong” (Daniel 11:32)

Saints have more than a common knowledge of Christ. Gnosis is the Greek word for common knowledge, but many times in the New Testament, saints are told they have epignosis, which means experiential knowledge. The Greek word for knowledge in the following Scriptures is epignosis. When you read these Scriptures, think of the knowledge that only God could reveal about Himself.

Paul prayed that saints would be given “the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened” (Ephesians 1:17-18). “Be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Colossians 1:9-10).

The writer of Hebrews and the Apostle Peter warned people who have experiential-knowledge, “If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins” (Hebrews 10:26). “For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning” (2 Peter 2:20).

So, dear saint, “grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:2-3).

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