Biblically Immature & Mature Believers

John teaches, “By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments” (1 John 2:3). In this verse, John is speaking of the spiritually mature believer. That’s because the second word, “know” means “an active, experiential, intimate, growing, personal, and relational knowledge of God” that transforms a believer to walk as Jesus walked. While it’s true that every believer knows God at the level of being born again, but at the level of intimate, experiential, and fellowship, a believer may not know His Lord. We know this is true because spiritually immature believers are not keeping God’s commandments.

~Dr. Robert L. Taylor, Th.D., Bible Expositor & Teacher