That I May Know Him

"That I May Know Him" - Philippians 3:10

Paul's desire was to increase in the knowledge of God, not just Christian or Theological knowledge, but the knowledge of knowing God personally, individually, and intimately.

When we know God in this way:

1. We know the power of his resurrection, which is the sanctified life of a believer (Romans 6:1-6).

2. We experience the fellowship of his sufferings, which is the suffering life of a believer – 2 Timothy 2:8-13; 2 Peter 4:16)

3. We are made conformable unto his death, which is the sacrificed life of a believer – Romans 12:1-2).

When we as a corporate body desire to come to "know him" collectively, then the presentation and sacrifice of our personal and individual bodies becomes the presentation and sacrifice of a corporate body. Corporate, in that, when all of the bodies are presented together as a living sacrifice, then the many bodies (or many members - 1 Cor. 12) become one body, and that one body of believers becomes one living sacrifice doing their reasonable service, not conformed to this world, but is a transformed body of renewed, likeminded believers doing the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God from the heart (cf. Hebrews 10:24-25).