Bible Study Patterns To Receive A Revelation Of Jesus

[Soul man]

There are not many occasions in the scriptures where men received a revelation. Because it is the entire act of God in the believers life from the moment he is born again to his death, it is very difficult to pick out any one experience and elaborate upon it.
Therefore, the scriptures do not present a series of illustrations of people who had a revelation of Jesus, but rather teach that this is what you must have to come into the fullness of Christ.
The word implies that it will take the rest of your life to know the fullness of Jesus Christ.
A revelation is not a single experience which you receive and then retain. It merely begins and will continue progressively throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. You will know when you have a revelation of Christ, but it is only the beginning of Godly wisdom and understanding. So there can be no pertinent experiences given, although Paul did have the experience and writes about it.

We have to go to the first chapter of Galations and see how to receive a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Here it is written in chronological order, the process of Pauls experience, you may want to read Gal. 1:6-24, and we will walk through that process to look at how Paul came to understand Christ as his life.

 

[GodsGrace]

Isn't Galatians 1:6-24 a warning?
Against false gospels...

 

[Chopper]

There are not many occasions in the scriptures where men received a revelation. Because it is the entire act of God in the believers life from the moment he is born again to his death, it is very difficult to pick out any one experience and elaborate upon it.
Therefore, the scriptures do not present a series of illustrations of people who had a revelation of Jesus, but rather teach that this is what you must have to come into the fullness of Christ.
The word implies that it will take the rest of your life to know the fullness of Jesus Christ.
A revelation is not a single experience which you receive and then retain. It merely begins and will continue progressively throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. You will know when you have a revelation of Christ, but it is only the beginning of Godly wisdom and understanding. So there can be no pertinent experiences given, although Paul did have the experience and writes about it.

We have to go to the first chapter of Galations and see how to receive a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Here it is written in chronological order, the process of Pauls experience, you may want to read Gal. 1:6-24, and we will walk through that process to look at how Paul came to understand Christ as his life.

I guess I have been like my Sister Friend wondering. I've always felt & preached the error of Judaism entering those first century churches. "Revelation" for anyone other than the Apostles like Paul? Hmm, He was chosen....Galatians 1:15 "But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace"

I'd like to know how other Believers qualify for revelation. I've had this happen to me....
1Corinthians 12:6 "and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
1Co 12:7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1Co 12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit." Would you consider these revelation? Or just gifts of the Spirit of YHWH?

 

[Soul man]

Isn't Galatians 1:6-24 a warning?
Against false gospels...

In 18 verses, is that all you get? Nothing else? Just wondering pun intended!!!!

 

[GodsGrace]

In 18 verses, is that all you get? Nothing else? Just wondering pun intended!!!!

Yes.
I could be thick at times.
What do YOU get out of it?
I'm not sure you've made it clear.
Are you speaking about growing in wisdom?

Or are you saying God will reveal different things about Himself as time goes by.
Do those revelations have to agree with the biblical revelations in your opinion??

 

[for_his_glory]

Galatians 1:
1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

The underlined here in these two verses is what struck me the most of what Paul was saying to the churches in Galatia. Paul, a Jew under Roman authority persecuted Christians to death all in the name of God. Very simular to what is happening in the church today with a false gospel that is being preached from the pulpit by man without the revelation (wisdom and understanding as Soul man put it) of Christ, but through a carnal mind and mans own logic. Are we to follow after what man teaches or do we need to know what spirit is teaching us.

Wondering ask a good question: "Do those revelations have to agree with the biblical revelations in your opinion??"
Here is my answer. Yes all revelation is the word of God spoken to us through His word we call the Bible as His Holy Spirit reveals all things of God that He wants us to learn. If we are not hearing the voice of God through His spoken word that became flesh and walked amongst us in all truth then who are we listening to!!!

 

[Hermit]

Good one for_his_glory.
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Another thought towards receiving a revelation of Jesus Christ:
The Holy Spirit is God himself dwelling in our soul.​

Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.

Romans 8:5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

If the fruits of the Spirit is not with us (so to speak), and lacking in love, joy, peace, etc., then our way of seeking these gifts have been taught by man, by a false Gospel, and the teaching of a false concept of God is still in us. This 'fear of God' concept, instead of 'love of God', hinders our faith in God.

The reason why the the narrow way exists is because we have many things back to front.

Another revelation of Jesus Christ:
The Holy Spirit dwelling in our soul is to help us refer life from the Spiritual perspective.​

Jesus Christ was already a perfect human being. A person who not only understood what it means to be human, but also what it means to be in Spirit. ALL his teachings were about being in Spirit. His reference to seeing the truth about the world was from his Spirit. Looking at everything from the Spirit point of view, which is Truth. He was teaching us to refer life from the Spirit (God's-will) and not from the flesh (self-will). It is about looking at life from the Spirit (within) looking out; as opposed to looking for the flesh/world (outside) looking in.

Another revelation of Jesus Christ:
It is not in the seeking of God but in surrendering to God.​

It is not about seeking what is true, because the Truth is already within you. The worldly concept of seeking to gain is back to front from already being found, loved and possessed by God. We need His love to realize that we are loved by God. In that revelation of Jesus Christ loving us, we love Christ and God in return. We no longer seek to gain, but surrender to give.

We love the Love that loves us.​

 

[Hermit]

Another revelation of Jesus Christ:
The new law of love means sonship _ brothers, sisters, and friends in Jesus Christ.​

Romans 8:15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."

John 15:10-15 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Another revelation of Jesus Christ:
Go and bear fruit.​

John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit--fruit that will last--and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

This is not about thumping the bible and trying to sell Scripture like a tin of baked beans. It is about John 15:17 This is my command: Love each other. The revelation of Jesus Christ is that he loves us and was willing sacrifice his life for us. That revelation possesses us to love each other. To contribute to the good of others and sonship. To bear good fruit. Matthew 7:20-21 This is my command: Love each other. "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

 

[Soul man]

Yes.
I could be thick at times.
What do YOU get out of it?
I'm not sure you've made it clear.
Are you speaking about growing in wisdom?

Or are you saying God will reveal different things about Himself as time goes by.
Do those revelations have to agree with the biblical revelations in your opinion??

Ok look at it like this, can you see where Paul had a revelation of Christ, Gal. 1:15-16. Reread if need be and your translation may read different, but lets look at what Paul says about his revelation of the Indwelling Christ, as his only life, Gal. 2:20. Gal. 1:15-16, Paul says when it pleased God, "that speaks of the element of time. But the theme of what Paul says throughout scripture is revelation. We can not know God without it.
So Paul says 'when it pleased God to reveal His Son in me.'
Paul at that moment had a revelation of the Christ that was placed in him the moment he first believed. But in time the Father revealed that very person of Christ that had been in Paul since the new birth.
Again and again Paul tells the believer that they need the same revelation He had, of the Christ in you, as your only life.
So what I'm saying is that a revelation of the Indwelling Christ exists for every born again believer.
It didn't happen to Paul at his conversion , it happened sometime after he was born again.
You do understand with out Paul we would not even know there is a new Christ in you life. It is not written about until Paul has his revelation. None of the other Apostles wrote about it, until after Pauls conversion and ultimately his revelation of Christ in him.
You will not find it, it wasn't preached on the day of penecost, Peter preached agood message of the cross and the church was born, but nothing about a Christ in you. Paul has to be studied throughly, and reexamined to understand what he is saying. He has a gospel, he clearly calls my gospel on many occasions. It is the certified gospel, Gal. 1:11-12.
So we say to the body, the next move of God is to come to understanding of who they are in Christ.
That what is happening throughout the world, it is a God thing to have Christ revealed in you, only the HolySpirit can reveal Christ in you. I can't, you're preacher cant do it, the church can't do it, only the HolySpirit, He is the teacher and revealer of the Christ in you, blessings sister and I pray the lord can open the eyes of our understanding that we may know, have knowledge of the Christ that has been in you from the moment you believed.

 

[Soul man]

Another little footnote would be; you cannot find anyplace in scripture where God talks about having His own children. Until Jesus mentioned it to nicodemus there was no place found in the written word about God birthing His very own offspring. It may seem like a little detail but it will be very important in your understanding to following on to know Him who is your only life, Christ.
There is nothing in the Old Testament that points to God having children that He births. That is why Paul always refers to Christ in you as a mystery, he never uses the term born again.

 

[for_his_glory]

Another little footnote would be; you cannot find anyplace in scripture where God talks about having His own children. Until Jesus mentioned it to nicodemus there was no place found in the written word about God birthing His very own offspring. It may seem like a little detail but it will be very important in your understanding to following on to know Him who is your only life, Christ.
There is nothing in the Old Testament that points to God having children that He births. That is why always refers to Christ in you as a mystery, he never uses the term born again.

It has always been by faith and how we build upon it, Hebrews Chapter 11.

 

[reba]

Psa 100:1 A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Psa 100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Psa 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psa 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Psa 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.