Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” 15 He *said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
Matthew 16:13–18
In the midst of every crisis, the question I’m answering is, “But who do I say Jesus is?”
Just as the disciples had to come to know and believe, we also must follow in the same footsteps. John’s Gospel says these things were written so that we could believe. Jesus said if you have seen me, you have seen the Father and He said the Holy Spirit would be given to us, to reveal Jesus to us.
We know that Jesus is revealed to us through the Word as the Holy Spirit breaths on it and births within us a “revelation”. We hold this AH HA moment seeing something we have never seen before. This revelation grows and becomes ours as we engage with His Presence. As we keep our eyes upon Him, we feed upon the truths we have been given.
It is through beholding The Truth that we are transformed into His image by the Spirit, from faith to faith and glory to glory. A greater revelation leads to a greater glory. Jesus said to know him, to know the Father, was eternal life. To be filled with the Spirit of wisdom and revelation IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM was the Apostle Paul’s prayer.
1 John 3:2 (ESV): ...but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.. not as we think He is but as He is in truth and purity.
I love His Presence and my relationship with Him is not complete without a foundation of who I see Him to be from His word. This is why it is paramount for us as ministers to make sure people never lose their love for His truth and know that they must, not only build into their lives time with Him in His Presence, but for themselves, READ THEIR BIBLES!
The bottom line is this - if I know Him as the Christ, the Son of the Living God, I hold a revelation that builds His church that Hell will not conquer. Oh, Hell will challenge us, but if it is truly a “revelation” that I hold; something I have beheld and learned and believed, it becomes the bedrock of my unshakeable foundation.
From the Gospel of John we have scriptures that reveal Jesus as the I AM. I would like to walk through these various scriptures over the next few “Good Word’s” and see what the Holy Spirit reveals to us all, hopefully in a greater measure than we currently hold.
Again, a greater revelation yields a greater glory and we all desire to see Jesus in the fullness of His glory that we might know Him in ALL of His FULLNESS.
So let’s look to the next Good Word with Jesus declaring from John chapter six, I am the Bread of Life….