People Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

By Rich Smith

John 14:12, Jesus speaking, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me, the works
that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to my Father.”
This has been my sincere desire for many years. In getting to KNOW Jesus, this has to be the end result, to do His works. And it is covered in detail how I came to this conclusion.

So this book’s main purpose is for you to get to really KNOW Jesus. Most of this information is fairly simple, and for many, it will remind them of some things they have forgotten. Example, there has been discussions for years about whether Jesus is black or white or whatever. Folks, He’s Jewish! Now, if you are new at being a Christian, this book should be ideal for you. Included will be material that is very little or not covered at all by many denominations or religions. Some of the reasons will be obvious to Full Gospel experienced men and women of God. Much of the book will be based on my own experiences and how the Word gave me the appropriate information to know God’s Point of view, although I was not always perfect at it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781489734211

Rich Smith

Rich Smith, from Florida, USA, has served as a missionary in the Philippines and also missionary and pastor in Kenya. He made 2 trips to Kenya, about 2 weeks each, a third trip for 2 months, and then lived in Kenya for 8 months in 2020. He has been a widower for over 12 years. He is a retired U.S. military officer, and has written thousands of short articles over that 12 years, mostly portraying God’s Point of View in religion, politics, and the ‘worlds’ point of view.

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LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 02/23/2021

CONTENTS

Dedication

Preface

Chapter 1   My Testimony

Chapter 2   Know Who You are in Christ

Chapter 3   Effective Prayers

Chapter 4   Articles Written about the World Versus Jesus

Chapter 5   More of the Bible Revealed

Chapter 6   Keys to Healing

Chapter 7   Mike Brawan’s Word from God

Conclusion

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to all those people that seek for and are learning to live by the ABSOLUTE TRUTH, which is Jesus. Also, I want to dedicate this book to all the people who inspired me to go to Kenya to be a missionary. There are too many to name, but included is Pastor Mike Brawan in Kenya and from the Jubilee International Church in Pensacola, Florida, with Pastor Len Ballenger. This book was suggested by Pastor Mike Brawan of the Metro International Church while I was in Nakuru, Kenya, and his inspiration was and still is beyond what I can write. And I want to mention his church staff that are dedicated and very successful to help make Metro Church ministry the most known church in Kenya with the Grace of God.

PREFACE

I have been writing articles for years about the topic, People don’t know what they don’t know. And too many don’t know that they don’t know, because they think they know everything THEY need to know, especially about Jesus, whether they have accepted Him or not. Then there are those who DON’T want to know, because they fear it would interfere with their lifestyle one way or the other. Also, understand that to know in the Bible is an intimate relationship. And after a period of time of the process of getting to know Jesus through belief, because of the interrelationship with the Holy Spirit, you go from believing to knowing it all as fact! This is really critical in these end days (more later), of how to still be blessed in the midst of this new government.

Hence, the other reason to republish, is because, due to the process of the election for the President of the USA, our country is presumably now in the hands of a people who mostly don’t really KNOW Jesus as per their platform of supporting abortion and sex perversion, among many other unrighteous things. But as per Exodus 14:14, where Moses is about to take the people across the Red Sea, he said, Hold your peace, and after they crossed, all the armies (forces against righteousness) were destroyed. Wait upon the Lord…..and see, whether it is sooner or later. He still has a special purpose for this country.

So this book will greatly help those of us that understand or grow to understand how to keep Jesus first as we contend with the things to come. But I pray that many will read this book, or similar ones, so that they would get on the side of righteousness with Jesus.

I accepted Jesus in 1981, and had the immediate desire to want to know what I didn’t know about Him. More to come later of the process I went through and still do. So this book’s main purpose is for you to get to really KNOW Jesus. Most of this information is fairly simple, and for many, it will remind them of some things they have forgotten. Example, there have been discussions for years about whether Jesus is black or white or whatever. Folks, He’s Jewish! Now, if you are new at being a Christian, this book should be ideal for you. Included will be material that is very little or not covered at all by many denominations or religions. Some of the reasons will be obvious to Full Gospel experienced men and women of God. Much of the book is based on my own experiences and how the Word gave me the appropriate information to know God’s Point of view, although I was not always perfect at it. This is my first book and there is very little use of big words to try to impress you. Let’s just use the K.I.S.S. principle: Keep It Simple (you fill in the last ‘S’).

So the end result, I pray, is for those that read this, that it will reinforce what you already know, but maybe with another way to SEE it. Also, for many you will find out the critical value and a higher level of wisdom than before, of what you didn’t know before that you NOW know, leading to the wisdom to still seek what you still don’t know, after this book. I will add here an example that, yes, I am still learning. I have basically finished this book, but I am including this that I learned this morning from my pastor here in Kenya. Yes, I knew that we should put God first in everything. Then he mentioned Genesis 1:1, the first verse: In the beginning God….. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He wants all mankind to ‘keep’ Him in our ‘beginning’ of everyday and everything we do……the first thing He writes for us to KNOW. Then he put that together with John 1:1, In the BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.(caps mine). The Word is Jesus (see verse 14). So Jesus IS the ‘beginning,’ and so is the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:2). What a revelation! Keep this in mine as you read this book, but also in everything you do about putting God first in your life. He IS the beginning!

Also, KNOW that in these last days (more on this later), we, in Christ, will come under persecution, maybe from several directions. But the more you KNOW Jesus, this is not a major problem, because you will have or be gaining the ‘boldness of using’ the Authority of the Name of Jesus to make a stand against and thwart your persecutors. Don’t be confused, because, as with me, we have the joy of the rest of eternity with God of discovering many more "things