Luke 11:52

⁵² “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.” 

The key to knowing God is reverence and this fear of Him is the beginning of knowledge. When you seek Him He promises that you will find Him and He will refine you in your victories and in your failures in order to make you complete. Nothing happens by chance. When you turn your life over to the Triune Godhead your life is orchestrated by the One who loves you most!

Jesus charged the lawyers with doing the opposite of what they claimed their calling to be. Rather than bringing people nearer to God, they had removed the possibility of their entering into that knowledge, and had prevented others from understanding as well.

Proverbs 1:7  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.... 

Daniel 11:35  And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time. 

Malachi 3:16 Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, 
And the Lord listened and heard them; 
So a book of remembrance was written before Him 
For those who fear the Lord 
And who meditate on His name. 

 John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.