An old hymn I like to sing to myself goes, "There's pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r in the blood of the Lamb."

I don't think Christians appreciate near enough the fact that just by literally taking God at His Word, truly believing the Bible (dispensationally considered, of course) contains absolutely everything God wants us to know about Him and our relationship to Him, lends real power.

It's internal power that shatters anything the world has to offer.

"It's that ability God gives in the inner man, strengthened with might," explains my pastor, Richard Jordan, in a sermon I have on tape. "It's an energy in your inner man to endure. I've seen Christian people go through things that would break the backs of mortal people. Just simple, humble people—I don't mean big shots and people the world says, 'Oh, there's someone with a lot of stature.' Just simple, humble people who raise their families and live simply for the Lord and yet they're able to bear things that would crush the so-called greats of the world.

"I've watched them bear sickness and heartache and loss and suffering and said, 'Boy, if that happened to me, it'd be like the ground was quicksand and I'd just go [phwhoof] and be gone.'

"That's spiritual power. There's something about that strength, that power that God gives. "No great open physical displays and things that make everybody 'ooh' and 'ahh,' but that 'patient continuance in well doing.' " (Rom. 2:7)

As the Apostle Paul puts it, ". . . to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
"May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
"And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Eph. 3:16-21)

He's saying not only can we know something about the breadth, length, depth and height of Jesus Christ's love for us, but we can truly know it and its power to work in us. The power is in the faith in it.

Through knowing the measurements, dimensions and parameters of exactly what God is doing today in this "mystery age" defined only in Paul's epistles, and how it differs dramatically from the prophecy program with Israel, there's a maturing of the relationship that is extremely intimate and lends deep, deep communion.

"You can not just know about His tremendous love, but KNOW it, appreciate it, enter into it and find out how it passes knowledge," says Jordan. "Just as it is in a momma's touch with a newborn baby, there's a love there and a communication there that passes any ability to understand and explain it.

"It's that kind of a bond, that kind of a connection. It's as though it were a mother's touch that reaches down and assuages the hurt and salves the wound and dispels the fear and gives untold strength and stability."

I like a quote from acclaimed philosopher Robert C. Solomon, who says in a pocket-sized gift book I have on love,

"Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it."

To me, this sums up why God, the author, through His own Book, urges us in every conceivable way to KNOW Him by knowing and having faith in His Word as being from Him. His Word is Him.