The Pharisee’s perused the Scriptures, but they did not know the Lord through personal experience. John 5:39-40 says, “You search the Scriptures…But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.” 

Authentic Jesus’ followers enter into an experiential knowledge of His truths. Reading God’s word, applying it to our lives, allows it to become our testimony. In Acts 4:13 Peter and John’s testimony was evident ~ they had been with Jesus.

I want Ephesians 3:19 to be my testimony. In the Amplified it says, “…that you may be filled (through all your being) unto all the fullness of God (may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself)!”

Salvation brings us into the experiential knowledge of the Holy One. Proverbs 9:10. 2 Peter 1:4 says that we become experiential partakers of His divine nature through His eternal promises.