A Revelation of Jesus

By Moses Foo

How to get the most out of sermons.The answer to all our problems is a revelation of Jesus.

Many problems are to do with people. imperfect people will always cause problems.Whenever people pray for an answer or a change. God's way is to change the person first. When the person has changed, most problems naturally gets solved.

E.g. John wonders why no one likes him. People tend to avoid John. Because of this John has low self-esteem. And to break out of it he tries too hard to get people to like him with less then desireable results. The harder he tries the more people despise him. He is desperate and they can feel it. It puts people off.
But John does not realise this. He prays for people to like him. Many of our prayer are for circumstances to change. But they do not realise more often than not, God changes the person. As it is the people that changes the circumstance.

Therefore what John needs is a revealation of Christ. When John realises that Jesus not only took away his sins but also that he has perfect standing with God, he realises that he has the best friend in Jesus. Jesus is his best friend. He need not any other friends. The desperation in him will be gone.

And when John is not desperate he begins to become cool. The irony is that the something he no longer needs will come to him. The cool factor is very attractive.

People get attracted to him as John oozes with the fruits of the Spirit without knowing. The fruits of the Spirit is the real cool stuff. Some worldly traits may be cool in some places and not others. Knowing you are secured and having the fruits of the spirit is cool everywhere. Just like Singapore dollars can only be accepted in Singapore but gold is accepted internationally. The knowledge of Christ's love for us makes Christians the real cool dudes everywhere.

The answer to John's problems is not to try harder, it is to keep his eyes on Jesus and drink of his word.

This is just one example on how a revealation in Jesus is the answer to our problem. The same goes for money problems, family problems and many others.Always desire to see Jesus

Every sermon can be a revelation for us. In fact in almost everything God can use it to speak to us. The reason is because we have the best teacher the Holy Spirit in us.

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you,and ye need not that any man teach you:but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you,you shall abide in him.I John 2:27

"You need not any man teach you ..."
According to this verse, man's teachings is not neccessary. We have the Holy Spirit in us. However the Holy Spirit has to use something to teach and build upon. Thus we have preachers, teachers and Bible study materials.

Preachers and teachers have thier part to play as spoken in the Bible. However the above verse tells us what is our part. And that is to abide in him. Abide in the Holy Sipirt in every material, preaching or teaching. And no matter how boring a sermon is, remember you are now being taught by the best. Listen attentively to the sermon, because the Holy Spirit may suddenly bring out a point he wants you to know.

A good prayer to pray will be this. "Holy Spirit open my eyes that I may see Jesus and what he has done on the cross for me. Amen."The Holy Spirit will always point you to Jesus. And remember that Jesus is the answer.

Read Luke 24:13-35 - On the Road to Emmaus

When Jesus met the two, he did not declare,"Hello people I am Jesus." But he kept quiet and expound all that has happened in the scriptures regarding himself. This shows that the revealation of Jesus is more important then seeing the physcial Jesus.

And when Jesus suddenly disappeared the two were not amazed by his disappearance but rather that their hearts burned when Jesus was preaching to them.

I think Jesus accomplish what he wanted to do. Which is to not impress them with his physical but rather leave them with burning hearts of revealation.

I am sure you people will sometimes experience it. When you get a revealation of Jesus your hearts burn.

"Abide in him" abide in the Holy Spirit in every teaching and sit back and relax.

One burning heart coming right up!