I don’t believe. I know.

Rom. 15:29, “²⁹ But I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.”

The word know here in the Greek is εἶδον or eidon (ā’-don). Essentially, it means, “To know by perception after having seen.”

This is interesting because faith is about not seeing with physical eyes, but believing what you don’t see. It is about believing because of what has been revealed inside of you by hearing the quickened rhema word of God.

I believe brother Paul is not necessarily talking about faith, but something different. I believe he is talking about KNOWING. Here are two personal examples. First, I remember when I was 15 years old on a city bus. I asked the Lord to show me Who He was and is and He did. The next ten years or so I believed I was saved. Then about ten years ago or so I recall receiving revelation inside me that I AM SAVED. This was very different from believing I was saved by His faith through grace. All of a sudden I knew. There was no doubt. I just knew and I could not unknow it either. I knew it more than I was breathing in my fleshly body if that is possible. What is impossible for God?

The second example concerns my mother. At 13 years old, my mother died. My mother had already accepted Christ in her heart and I believed she was in glory with God. After I received Christ in my heart, I continued to believe this. Then after being in the word for a while the Lord began to show me He IS the Resurrection. The Word compounded on word, expounded, and grew by grace in me. Then one day I thought about my mother in heaven and this thought came to mind, “She is not dead, but alive!” Didn’t Jesus say this in Matt. 22:31-33, “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

So, now I know my mother is alive. I almost feel like she is still here somehow because I know this so strongly. I know that Christ is not dead. I know that He is a man and is alive. I know that He is with her and she is with him. Therefore, I know she is alive!

I believe Paul says, “I know” because faith is unto KNOWING in Christ. Imagine prior to praying for someone and even prior to praying you KNOW.

We bear God’s fruit and nature. One of these fruit of the Spirit is faith. What is God’s faith like? What does He put His faith into? He doesn’t because He knows!!! We are His offspring and we can know also.