Believing and Knowing

What is the difference between believing something and knowing something? Take a chair, before you set down in this chair you must make a decision to believe that it will support your weight. Before you set down you believe it will hold you up. When you act on what you believe and actually sit down in the chair, you know it will hold you up.

We are exhorted in the word of God to know some things, not just believe them. Continuous action on the word of God is the only way that we can stay in the state of knowing.

It is harder to change something that you know than it is to change something that you believe. However it is possible to slip even from things that we know back into unbelief, if we do not continually keep the word of God before us and act on what we know.

Jude 3-5, Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

We are to know our name is in the book of life, know that we are healed, know that we are prosperous, etc. Why? Because we continue to act on the promises of God! We are doers of the work and not forgetful hearers. We are blessed in our deed. We continue to look in the mirror of the word of God and act on what we see. This is living a repented live through faith. Our house is built on the rock and not the sand, because we act on what we see in the word of God.