10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)
If you want to "know the Lord", you do so not through what you do, but by believing and receiving all that Jesus has done at the Cross.
In short, grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 3: 18).
"For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him
crucified." (1 Corinthians 2: 2)
Jesus Christ -- the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13: 8), has made us the righteousness of God in Christ because of all that He did for us, at the Cross (2 Corinthians 5: 21).
Through His death and resurrection, we now have a better high priest forever:
"But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the
mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." (Hebrews 8: 6)
These promises include:
"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can
be against us? 32He that spared
not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? " (Romans 8: 31-32)
Of course, who can forget this wonderful declaration?:
"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8: 37)
If you want to know the Lord, know and believe Christ and Him Crucified.
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