The Revelation of God in Christ Jesus | Pastor Paul McGee

All I need, All I need is found in your prison.

All I need, All I need is found in your prison.

All I need, All I need is found in your prison.

Hallelujah, Jesus. Sing it today, sound in you.

Hallelujah. Oh, he's a very present help.

Amen. In trouble, I've learned through

my life experience though. There God's presence shows up.

God's presence wishes to demonstrate itself in some way.

It's a place in the New Testament Scripture.

Bible talks about that the Lord was sitting there and teaching

and things of that nature. It says that the power of the

Lord was present. And then it tells us it's

objective to heal. And I'm confident every time His

spirit shows up, He has a purpose and an objective.

Amen. So there's many of you that felt

that presence today. I, I'm, I'm, I'm confident that

there's nobody that sits in this room this morning that's been

unimpacted by the presence of the Lord that's in this place.

But you might be in this situation where I just don't

know what to do with what I'm experiencing.

Some of you, it's been born into the water spirit.

It's a drawing you close, but for some of you don't have a

relationship with God. He's drawing you unto himself,

Amen. And just a simple hand raised or

a simple conversation with God can start something of a total

change in your life, Amen. This morning, it's important to

respond. Amen.

To you. Might not you say, well, I don't

know. I don't want, I don't want to

get it wrong. I don't want to respond.

Listen, there is no wrong response to what you're feeling

here today. There is no wrong response to

what you're feeling here this morning.

Hallelujah, he is here today, Amen.

And we don't say that to be spooky.

I'm telling you confidently, you witness it.

You're what you're feeling is I don't can't describe this.

What you're feeling is the presence of God.

You're feeling God's Spirit today.

If you've never felt it before, man welcome.

This is God's Spirit, Amen, that you're feeling here today,

Hallelujah, Amen. Well, stand with me, I suppose,

Amen. It's so good to have each of

you, Amen, here this morning and some we've not been able to

touch base with in a while, it seems sickness and things of

that nature. And it's so good to be able to

cross the paths with you this morning, Amen.

We appreciate everybody's prayers for us as we were gone

past weekend. And it's good to be back home.

You know, you're always ready to get home to your bed and your

house, but I'm also always happy to get back home to the House of

God with this. You know, the Bible says that

the Lord said that the solitary in families.

And so this is the family of God that he has set me.

And I know it's bigger than this, but this is the family of

God. He set me in.

And so I'm glad to be back. Amen With you this morning.

I'm going to turn to two passages of Scripture today.

I'm going to turn to 2nd Corinthians 519 and also First

Timothy 316 reading from both of these passages.

Pardon me. Both of these passages, Amen.

The Scripture, one here, a letter that Paul wrote to

Corinth, another that he wrote to his son in the Gospel,

Timothy, and both of these have a couple of phrases that are

springboards really for our purposes that are here this

morning. Amen.

And at any time, Amen, you want to respond to the Lord.

And maybe we, we say, well, it goes without saying, but I think

it needs to be said sometimes. There's no such thing as an

interruption in Pentecostal service.

No such thing as an interruption.

The altar is always open, Amen. And this thing can turn on a

dime at any moment in time. Amen.

And so just want to put that in the forefront of your mind.

Second Corinthians chapter #5 and verse #19 The Bible says, to

wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto

Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and have

committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

First Timothy chapter #3 and verse 16.

The Scripture reads like this, a man, and with our controversy,

great is the mystery of godliness.

God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit scene of

angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the

world, received up in glory. The two phrases from these

verses in particular was that God was in Christ, and secondly

in Timothy that God was manifest in the flesh.

A little while this morning I want to talk to us about the

revelation of God in Christ Jesus, the revelation of God in

Christ Jesus, Amen. Can we talk to him one more time

before we get into the Word here today?

Father, we thank you, Jesus, God, that we can feel and

experience your presence. God, we're thankful, Lord, God

that you are have come down and Lord made yourself known to us.

I pray Lord you would continue to do so.

Lord, through the ministry of your word, y'all book alongside

us, enlighten Lord our minds. Let there be a spirit of

revelation. God upon our hearts.

And souls today as we share. The.

Good word of the Lord in this great gospel of Jesus Christ and

the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen of the church

say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning

in Jesus name, Apostle Paul, of course, writing one letter, 2

letters actually, one to individual, 1 to a church.

But he's talking about this great, this great doctrine of

scripture. And I think it's important today

to under score that this isn't a, a, a corner of Pentecost or

Apostolic that this is a biblical doctrine, right?

This is a biblical doctrine. The scripture, Amen.

And and Paul is writing here this revelation that God was in

Christ or that God was manifest in the flesh.

And that's really what was played out, whether we tend to

believe it or see it or or catch it or not in the Gospels of

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we see those things as the life in

the ministry of Christ. But Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

are so much more than just the life in the ministry of Christ.

They are the revelation of God in Christ in many regards.

As a matter of fact, we see in particular Matthew, Mark and and

Luke are oftimes called the synoptic Gospels.

And that seems real fancy and everything.

But when you think of synoptic, synoptic and you think of a

synopsis, something that's a summary of something, that's

basically it. Matthew, Mark and Luke and John

are a summary of the life of Christ.

And then you have you have John, though that's not in the

synoptic because John kind of stands alone.

As a matter of fact, if you read John, John has a very major

focus on the divinity or the deity of Christ Jesus in his

writing. And so one of the core, core

doctrines of the Scripture is that God who the Bible says is

spirit. Everybody say God is spirit.

God is spirit whenever he had his talking conversation with

the woman at the well and John chapter #4 this Bible tells us

in John 424 that God is a spirit and they that worship him must

worship him in spirit. And in truth in our English it

says God is a spirit as though he is one of many, but the

little a that little definitive word is not there in the Greek,

it's God is spirit, Amen. And so that we know that God is

Spears matter of fact, anytime we have references in Scripture,

particularly in the Old Testament, it's talking about

the finger of God, the hand of God, the face of God.

All of those are just wordings really spoken to us so that as

of human beings can relate with what's being said because as a

spirit of spirit has not flesh and bones as you and I have.

So when it's talking about face or finger or hand, it's talking

about things that we can relate to, right, that can help

understand. They give us some type of

relation, if you will, to God. And so we read in Scripture

though, in Corinthians and in Timothy, that that God who is

Spirit, that God who is spirit was manifest in the flesh, that

God who was in spirit was in Christ Jesus.

And we sometimes can get hung up off the word manifest.

What does that really mean? Well, the word manifest means to

make visible or known what had been hidden or unknown.

That's what manifest means. Manifest means to to make

realized or to show oneself. That's what manifest means, to

plainly, to plainly recognize. God was manifest in the flesh.

He was made known in the flesh. He was made visible.

A spirit we would for sure, unless it would choose to

represent itself in some way. It's not necessarily something

you see, it's invisible. But Christ Jesus, that flesh

made visible the invisible God. It made visible that invisible

spirit. It brought into being those

things that seemed to for a while through even the Old

Testament hidden to mankind until the babe was born in

Bethlehem's Manger and then people could realize and himself

was shown a man in that man Christ Jesus.

The Bible says in Hebrews chapter #1 and verse three it

says who and The Who. It's always good to see what the

who's are right? Who is this relating to?

You go back to verse #2 you understand it's relating to the

Son, the Son of God, or the Son of man, Christ Jesus.

Who be in the? Brightness of his the his who's

the his you go back to verse 1 and you see that the his is

referring to God and so we have this son who be in the

brightness of God's glory, the express image, the son or the.

Flesh Jesus Christ was the. The express image of his or

God's person upholding all things by the word of his power

when he hit, when he had by himself perched our sins sat

down on the right hand majesty on high and so Hebrews telling

this is that the man Christ Jesus was the express image or

you could even state it like this was the expression of God's

person in in the Greek language. That word there that is stated

as express image literally means this.

Christ Jesus was the figure stamped by God's person or

Christ Jesus was the exact copy of God's person.

Christ Jesus was the one that was imprinted, if we can say it,

with the divine reality of all who God's essence was is seen in

Christ Jesus. We see this even a New Testament

scripture over and over again in the epistles and in the letters

as well. The scripture tells us how the

fullness of the Godhead Amen was found in Christ Jesus.

It's represented there that when we look at the word person in

Hebrews 1 and 3, the word person there means a setting under or a

support or a basis, a foundation.

It's to place oneself under concealment, hidden.

It's it means unseen essence. So when we start putting these

definitions together that Jesus Christ was the exact copy of

God's hidden unseen essence, then there starts a light bulb

starts to come on. Amen.

Because Christ Jesus is the representation of everything

that God was and is a man and he was that visible to mankind in

his human flesh. We read in John 1, the Gospel of

John 1 and verse #18 these words then though the Bible.

Says that no man has seen God, no man has seen God at any time.

The only begotten Son, which is Speaking of Christ Jesus, which

is in the bosom of the Father, and the bosom is always a place

of honor. All right.

In the bosom of. The Father, He or Christ Jesus

have declared Him. That word declared in the Greek

actually means he revealed him. Christ Jesus revealed God to us.

Christ Jesus revealed God to us. No man had ever.

Seen God again. There are things called like

theophanies in the Old Testament where God would somehow express

himself in some form where they could get a glimpse, if you

will, of God. No man could.

Really, just ever look upon God. His Holiness was so profound

that the common man just could not look.

Upon God in the. Brilliance of his spirit, but

whenever God a man chose to impregnate Mary and his spirit

overshadowed, told her and made himself a body.

Galatians 44 tells us about that he was made of a woman and made

himself a body. That spirit had an encasement,

if you will, to express itself through and in at that moment in

time. I want to go to John.

I got everybody said a lot of scripture.

Yeah, we love the Bible around here.

Got a lot of scripture today. John chapter #10 and verse #24

the Bible says, then came the Jews round about him, Speaking

of Jesus, and said unto him, How long does thou make us to doubt

if thou be Christ or the anointed?

1 the Messiah Tell us plainly. And verse 25 Jesus answered

them. These are Jesus words I told you

and you believe not the same works that I do in my Father's

name. They bear witness of me.

Notice he says the works that I do, Jesus says the same works

that I do in my father's name. They're bearing witness of me.

They're giving you a revelation about me according to my works.

As a matter of fact, on the day of Pentecost, a part of Peter's

message and remember Acts 238, the repent be baptized is really

Peter's response to a question. His message happened before the

question ever came. He began to talk to them about

the Messiah and the Christ, how they had crucified him.

And he got them to identify that they had.

And they felt horrible within themselves and thought, well now

what are we going to do if we have crucified our Messiah,

right? That's where they come with the

question, what shall we do? Because they wanted to know what

they should do about their understanding.

About what they had. Done.

And so then he gives his response.

But Peter even told them at Pentecost.

He said in in Acts 2/22, he said Jesus Christ was a man that was

approved by God that were to prove there means he was

authenticated that that Jesus Christ was a man that was

authenticated by God. And it goes on to tell us how

God I authenticated Jesus Christ by the miracles and the wonders

and the signs that God did through Christ.

Hey man, God was working through the man Christ Jesus in that

earthly ministry of some 33 and and and and and a third or so

years here up on this earth. That's the reason why different

times and scriptures. You see even his own disciples

with a bit of bewilderment and say what what manner of man is

this man right because this is just different than someone

that's a carpenter's son. This is different than even just

a Old Testament prophet. What manner of man are we

contending with here and he says well the God has authenticated

or approved this man Christ Jesus through the works and

through the wonders because to a common man to the commoner to a

1st century, if you will Jew of that day in the New Testament

they. Seem.

Jesus Christ as a man that was trying to be like God.

They seen Jesus Christ as a man that was trying to pattern or

emulate after God, which they were real close but didn't quite

have it totally. What we had was really God.

Who had come down in the likeness of man, He men.

And so trying to reveal Himself to mankind, He was God, He made

himself a body, He undwelt that body.

And as some state, somebody was stated like this, that God, you

know, made Himself. A man, a fleshly human body.

Look what Jesus says, Jesus Christ, that many will attest

and say He's the Son of God, the Son of man.

In John chapter #10 and verse #30 Jesus says I and my Father

one verse 31. Then the Jews took up stones

again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good

works have I shooed you from my Father.

Right there were there were the miracles, the sangs, the

wonders, the breaking, the multiplying, the bread, all

these sundry things. He said, For which of those

works do you stone me? He says, Which of those works?

What miracle, what wonder, What is it?

What's the purpose and the reason?

Then if you stoning me which of those works?

Look what the Jews come. Back with in verse 33, the Jews

answered him, saying for a good work we stone thee not, but for

blasphemy, because that thou being a man make us thyself God.

See, they hadn't yet totally caught the revelation that this

man Christ Jesus God was in Christ that God had been

manifested in the flesh because in a Jew's mind, and this is

absolutely true. There was one God, huh.

Here, O Israel, Deuteronomy 6/4 here, O Israel, the Lord our God

is 1 Lord. We read in Isaiah about the

creation and he constantly uses the phrases he did it by himself

alone. He's repetitive with that.

That's that's, that's the, that's the milk that the Jews

were brought up on. And so when they saw another

individual upon the land that we're doing the works of what

they seem to know as only the fingerprint God, they thought,

are you trying to introduce another God to me?

No, he wasn't trying to introduce another God to them.

He was trying to introduce himself to them through the,

through the man Christ Jesus, Amen.

He wanted them to know that he was the great God of heaven,

that the prophets and those that had owed had had worship and

serve. He had just come down to them in

now a visible form that they could touch, they could handle,

they could experience in their humanity, Amen.

Something that they could see with their own eyes.

And no, they weren't going to stone him for his works.

They were going to stone him because they he was testifying.

And as a man, Jesus Christ, that he was God.

You know something else That's very interesting that when you

see all of the the trial of Jesus Christ leading up to his

crucifixion, we read many times that Jesus did not open his

mouth with all the different accusations that they brought

against him. He never said a word until they

ever questioned him about his identity.

The only time that you see Jesus responding back to those that

have him on trial is whenever it comes to His.

Identity. And that's when he's going to

speak up. You say that I'm the king of the

Jews and, and he starts because by that time he's wanting to

peel back the the layers of the onion so people will know who he

is and think here for a moment, folks, he has to be careful with

this because that's going to be the very reason why they put him

on the tree. And there's a timetable.

He has a God, folks, we are if we would really dig in deep, we

would be overwhelmed by the preciseness and the accuracy of

our God. You know why Jesus of times he

healed people, did those works and he would even.

And tell 1 he said, now go and tell no man about this, right?

I mean, I mean, my, my most comical one I can think of in

Scripture is whenever he heals, the man's the the mute and he

can now talk and he's like, don't talk about it to anybody.

I mean, Can you imagine the absurdity?

You haven't had the ability to have speech, and Jesus enables

you now to talk. Again.

But he don't want you to talk to anybody about what just happened

to you. Now you want to talk about the

best gift secret in the New Testament Scripture?

That's that guy. And he's all the time telling

them that the reason being is because if people learn things

too quickly, then the timetable would get shifted.

They'd want to put him on the tree quicker than what he needed

to be on the tree. He had a day, he had a Passover

in mind winning. He needed to be there in order

to fulfill all scripture of the Old Testament in order for these

things to come about. And so he he's very careful

about all this. But look at this.

He said again, this this man Christ Jesus, Peter said, was

approved or authenticated by God, by his wonders, by his.

It works by all these things. Jesus just testified that in

John 10, even to these people. Amen.

By what work are you going to do this?

You know, because I know I understand I'm doing some things

that seems to have the fingerprint of God on it right?

And So what work? Look at the Scripture Isaiah

prophesied of this day. I've spoken to this, no doubt to

several of. You and even collectively

before, but Isaiah prophesied of a day when God would come, the

Bible says in Isaiah 35. And Brother Mason, I'll say

thank you in advance this morning.

You see the Scripture Mass up there?

Amen. Isaiah 35 and verse 4 it says

say to them this is Isaiah the prophet.

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear

not, behold your God. Future will come with vengeance,

even God with a recompense, He will come and save.

You. 1st 5 Everybody say then, then the eyes of the blind shall

be opened, and the ears of the death shall be unstopped.

Then shall the lame man leap as an heart, and the tongue of the

dumb sing. For in the wilderness shall

waters break out, and streams in the desert.

He says, There's coming a day your God will come with

vengeance and recompense, and he will save you.

He says you'll know that day will have that day has come.

Whenever there are blind eyes that are being open.

Whenever there are deaf ears that are being unstopped,

whenever the lame are walking you're.

We're going to know in that moment that your God has come.

Folks, whenever we start following the ministry of the

Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament Scriptures, what do we

see Start. Happening blind eyes are being

open, the deaf are being able to hear, the mute is being able to

sing Amen. All the lame is being able to

walk. That was a sign that was to

authenticate if you will, the Lord Jesus Christ that their God

have come. Isaiah prophesied he will and

this is how you know when that moment has happened when these

things start to come about Jesus Christ.

He open eyes of the blind opened deaf ears healed the lane the

mute he what they need to know that that Jesus Amen wasn't

another God. It wasn't something that was

trying to imitate God. He was as a Corinthian said, God

in Christ. He was as written to Timothy,

God manifest in the flesh. The prophet Isaiah wanted them

to. To recognize, hey, our God has

come, he is here, He has arrived, He is present, Amen.

And so these signs were so profound that that Jesus Christ

was God that often again, Jesus would tell the people now don't

tell anybody about what's going on.

Amen. And no doubt it finally came to

the place that they're going to charge him with, with blasphemy

and things of this nature, because again, he had a very

careful timetable he's trying to keep here.

As a matter of fact, in, in in John Chapter 11, which is the

John 11 · chapter mention

story of of Lazarus's being called from the grave.

The Bible says in verse 46, but some of them went their ways to

the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done.

We have a mix around whenever Lazarus is brought from the tomb

and there's some that's kind of cutting off and going to go talk

to the Pharisees. Those that try to keep to the

letter of the law about this Jesus and what he's he just

raised somebody from the dead. Verse 47 said then gathered the

chief priest, Oh boy, and the Pharisees a council and said

what do we for this man doeth many miracles.

They identified that Jesus was performing yes, many miracles at

that moment, sister Sheila, those chief priests and

Pharisees should have said he's here.

They should have looked at one another and said this is the one

did not even Jesus tell them and he did in John 10.

He said if I do not the works of my Father, he says believe me

not if I don't do the works of God, if I don't do the works of

the Spirit which God is, he says, believe me not, he says,

but if I if I can say the inverse of that.

But if I am, believe me. Believe on me and believe who I

am. And so I, I got to run this

morning. Amen.

I want to concentrate on, on about 3:00 or so, 3 or so

notable actions of Jesus here in the New Testament Scripture.

Number one, you all recalled the stealing of the storm when he

was on the ship asleep and then he stealed the storm.

I want to look at that. I also want to look on whenever

he walked on the water, remember The Walking on the water episode

and also want to concentrate upon maybe the mound of

transfiguration. If we can go to Mark chapter #5

there by OK Mark chapter #5 and verse #35 starting.

I'm just going to read this story real quick to kind of

refresh it in our minds here today.

Mark chapter #5 and verse #35 four 435 Sorry. 435 The Bible

says, And the same day when the even was come, he saith unto

them, Let us Passover, and to the other side.

And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as

he was in the ship, and there were also with him other little

ships. And there arose a great storm of

wind, the waves beaten to the ship, so that it was now full.

And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.

Always wondered where that pillow came from.

And they awake him, and say unto him, Master, cares thou not that

we perish? And he arose and rebuked the

wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still in the wind

season. There was a great calm.

And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful?

How is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly and

said one to another, Look at this.

What manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey

him? That's that's interesting.

I think for us this morning that after this happening, after the

calming of the sea and the wind, that these disciples that have

been an intimate relationship with him are bewildered.

Like what? What manner of man is this?

And no particularly that this, the wind and the sea obey him.

Now, they could be like some other people, right?

They could just talk. And many people did just chalk

Jesus up like some Old Testament prophet because even whenever he

met with his disciples one time around Caesarea Philippi and he

posed the question, who do men say that I am?

You want to know what, what's, what's culture saying?

And some are saying, well, some are saying that you're Jeremiah

that's a prophet, or that you're Elias.

Prophet or one of the prophets, right, That that was the common

theme among the people of his day.

Surely he's like one of the prophets.

And so they could at this moment just chalked it up just like all

the others. You know, it's just like a Old

Testament prophet, but God used Christ.

Jesus did a miraculous wonder and work here, right?

That's authenticating who he is, that's approving who he is.

And so there's something about this event that distinguishes

him. In the eyes of a 1st century

Jew, just from being another Old Testament prophet, other

prophets of the Old Testament, some of them God wrought

miracles, yes, of course, by their hands as well.

But there was no echo of them being divine, no echo of them

being a God of any sort. But the disciples are picking up

on something. What manner of man?

They're picking up on this otherness about this man Christ

Jesus, because the wind and the sea obey him.

Now we we see in the Old Testament everybody OK we see in

the Old Testament the God of creation has demonstrated his

power throughout the Old Testament over the forces of

wind and sea. We see in the book of Job, Job

Job 26 · chapter mention

chapter 26 and verse. 12 The Bible speaks that God divided.

The sea with his power. Psalms one O 4 and verse 3

describes the Lord as walking on the wings of the wind.

Verse #7 even describes him as rebuking the waters, God doing

these things and them fleeing. In Psalms 106 and verse 9 it

even has. The record, it's reflecting

backwards. To to the book of Exodus.

But in the Psalms it's reflecting backwards in Psalms

one O 6 and verse 9 and it records the Red Sea crossing,

how it was God that rebuked the Red Sea.

Well, you say, well, Moses was there.

Yeah, Moses. Had a rod and Moses had an arm

and Moses had obedience. But that was the work of God,

right? And let's just get real today.

Let's pause for a commercial. There is no such thing as

another divine healer except God.

If there's a divine healing crusade, it's not because of the

man, it's because of the God of the man.

All right. OK, so in pursuit of all those

things, pursue him, right, in pursuit of all those things,

pursue Him. And so this is taking place.

But he so he rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up.

But in particular, and if you'll go there with me this morning,

look at Psalms one O 7 and starting with verse #23 this is

probably going. To sound very familiar or

similar at least to what we read in Mark chapter #4 read this

here. Look at it now.

Psalms one O 7 and verse 23. They that go down to the sea,

and ships that do business in great waters, these see the

works of the Lord in his wonders, in the deep.

For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifted up

the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven,

they go down again to the depths.

Their soul is melted because of trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and

are at wits in. Then they cry into the Lord in

their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distress.

He Speaking of this Lord, this God maketh the storm a calm, so

that the waves thereof are still.

They then are they glad because they be quiet, So He bringeth

them unto their desired haven. Now you cannot read that, having

already read Mark chapter #4 and not see some similarities and

parallels here in Scripture. What I wanted to point out to

you today that in Psalm, in Psalm one O 7, in verse 23, we

have some sailors in a ship, all right.

But in Mark chapter #4 and verse 36, we have disciples in it,

boats, all right. When we look at Psalms one O 7

and verse 25, there's a stormy wind and waves.

In Mark 437 there's a stormy wind and some waves.

In Psalms verse 26 of that chapter 107 the the those that

are on the ship in the storm, their courage melts away.

Then in Mark chapter #4, verses 38 and 40 of.

Chapter 4 The disciples are afraid in the Old Testament.

They cried those sellers. They cried out to the Lord in

verse 28. In verse 38 of Mark 4, there's a

cry out to Jesus from His disciples.

In verse 29 in the Old the Lord God stealed the storm in the New

Testament. In verse 39 and Mark 4, Jesus

Christ steals the storm in the Old Testament.

In verse 30 of Psalm 107, the waves of the sea now are quiet.

In the New Testament where Jesus is on the boat in verse 39,

there was a great calm. Now folks, listen, when it comes

to Lord, I don't believe in coincidences.

I believe in divine intersections.

I believe in divine intersections.

I think not. Neither was it, I believe to the

disciples on the boat a coincidence or they would not

have stated what manner of man is this, that even the wind and

the sea obey them. Because a 1st century Jew is

going to be very well acquainted with all of the scripture of the

Old Testament. They learned it, they memorized

it, they know it. Whenever they were in that

circumstance of a boat with sea and wind going and Christ shows

up and steals it, guarantee you this, their mind is going back

to a Psalm 107, how there were some sailors that went down in

the deep, their Rosa wind, their Rosa wave, but God Almighty

stealed all that. But now they have the man Christ

Jesus that's doing what God had done.

That's doing what God did in the Old Testament.

There's coming a revelation to the disciples.

What manner of man is this? He's more than a man.

He's the God. Man.

He's God manifest in the flesh. He's God.

Oh yes, he's God in Christ. Amen.

Then you can't start talking about the revelation of who he

is without Him coming. Near.

That's right, some say. Amen, Mark chapter 6, New

Mark 6 · chapter mention

Testament, we go over just one chapter.

Mark chapter #6 or a couple chapters rather verse #45 and I,

and I hope no one's weary with me reading the scripture because

there's a lot of times, you know, a lot of times sermons are

packed full of Scripture and I just got little references after

it and I never even make mention of it.

But for this today, I want you to know, look, it's in there

right in the Word of God, OK? Mark chapter #6 and verse 45.

And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into a

ship, to go to the other side before and to Bethesda, while he

sent away the people. And when he had sent them away,

he departed into a mountain to pray.

And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea.

This is Mark chapter #6 verse #47 when when even was coming,

the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.

Verse 48 And He saw them tolling in the rowing, for the wind was

contrarying to them. About the fourth watch of the

night He cometh unto them walking upon the sea, and would

have passed by. Folks, there's so many pits we

could make here today, but I can't do it.

OK, Amen. But when they saw Him walking

upon the sea, they suppose it had been a spirit, and cried

out, for they all saw him and were troubled.

And immediately He talked with them and sayeth unto them, Be of

good cheer it is, I be not afraid.

And he went up unto them and to the ship, And the wind seized,

and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and

wondered, Well, for number one, we have somebody walking on

water, OK? I mean, that's just not a

everyday New Testament occurrence.

That's not everyday Old Testament occurrence.

Someone's walking on water amid the wind and the waves.

Secondly, whenever you look at this account, the other the

other gospels of Matthew and look at it in Matthew 14 and

John 6, the other accounts of this event all have Jesus saying

to some effect when he responds, it is I be not afraid.

That's what we have in our good old King James 1611 Bibles.

It is I be not afraid. However, I have a a interlinear

translation that gives me the Greek and the English side by

side and in the Greek it literally says this you and it's

going to sound a little weird because of the arrangement.

Be you taking courage. I am.

Not. Be you fearful.

Let me say this one more time. Be you taking courage.

I am not be you fearful. Now listen, but alone we got to

get on our 1st century Jew eyes to a 1st century Jew here in the

language I am has significance. There's more going on here than

Jim. Jesus, just saying hey guys,

it's me. There's so much more going on

than him just Hey guy, it's me if in the Greek, I am I am is a

Old Testament divine name of God that was revealed to Moses in

the desert when he commissioned them to be the.

Deliverer for the Children of Israel.

Exodus 3, verse 13. Let's look at it now.

Exodus 3:13

This feels like Bible study. I know.

Well it is. I hope every sermon and anything

that's stated has some Bible study in it.

And Moses said unto God, this is Exodus 313.

And Moses said unto God, he's had this burning Bush

experience. Behold, when I come, God's

commissioned him, go be the deliverer.

Go do this. Moses has been a little

inadequate. He says, Behold, when I come

unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them.

The God of your Father's have sent me unto you, and they shall

say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

And God said unto Moses, I am. That I am.

And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I

am have sent me unto you. And God said, moreover, and to

Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord

God of your father's, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the

God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you.

Know now this is my name. Forever, and this is my memorial

unto all generations. The I am in Scripture and

brother Mason, you correct me. I believe the, the, the the

Hebrew rendering there. If I am that I am is like Aya

Asha aya. If I'm not, if I'm not mistaken,

Amen. But nonetheless that I am in

Scripture is God's divine name that he revealed unto Moses,

Amen. It expresses it's full of many.

I know it's just I am, but it's full of meaning.

It's meaning means is that he is infinite, that he is the

personal God behind everything and to whom everything.

Must finally betrays that he is the author of life.

That phrase I AM that I am signals the truth that nothing

else can define God but God. What did God even say in crazy?

He said there's none beside me. There's none that can compare to

me folks, I've had people receive the baptism of the Holy

Ghost God Spirit and they start to say I can't explain it why?

Because nothing can really define God except God.

We don't have the words, the vocabulary, but whenever he says

I am that I am that can be translated these ways, I am that

I am I am who I was. I am who I will be.

I will be who I was. I am what I caused to be, and

one of my favorites. I will be all that is necessary

as the occasion arises. That's his revelation unto

Moses. That's how God identified

himself to Moses. Someone say Amen but isn't

interesting now that a New Testament scripture the man

Christ Jesus walks on the water and some of the first words he

gives to them to allay their fears.

Amen to encourage them in our English Bibles it says it is I

but literally in the Greek it came forth as I am.

Oh a 1st century Jews going to latch on to that idea of I am

because they're going to remember that is the name that

God shared with Moses. Jesus was not trying to tell

him, just here am I. He's trying to tell them I'm

God. I'm God.

I'm the very one that met Moses on the backside of the desert,

and I'm meeting you right now in the middle of your storm.

I am Amen. Is everybody OK?

OK. Just want to make sure because

Jesus starts to drop some other layers of revelation for us

really in Mark chapter #6 there in verse #40 back to verse #48

but this right, He's walking on the water forth watch of the

night and looked in at that last couple of phrases walking up on

the sea and would have passed by them and would have passed by

them. Doctor Brant Petrie says this.

He says in the Old Testament, the expression passing by is

repeatedly used to describe what God does when he appears to

human beings. Let's look at Scripture.

Exodus 33, they're about ready to make their tread along to the

promised land. And Moses has a conversation

with God and says, God, I'd really like to see your glory,

Really, really like to see your glory.

And Exodus 33 and verse 19, God has conversation with him.

He says, well, there's a place beside me.

I'll put you in the cleft of the rock, right, And I'm going to

pass by. I'm going to cover you as I go

and you'll see the back parts. Look at it verse 19 of Exodus

33. And he which is referenced to

God said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I

will proclaim the name. That's this is also and I will

proclaim the name of the Lord before thee.

So we have in in context here in Old Testament God, He's passing

by, but He's also declaring His name.

I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be

gracious, to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy,

on whom I will shew mercy. Skip down to verse #22 if you

will. And it shall come to pass, while

my glory passeth. By that I will put thee in the

cleft, the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass

by. Again, this is something that

God repeatedly does in the Old Testament Scripture.

Whenever He appears to humanity, there's a passing by moment.

Amen. Exodus 34 and verse #6 this is

still continuing with Moses's story here, just in the next

chapter of what actually happened.

And the Lord all capitals, Lord, which signifies that divine name

that He gave to Moses. Anytime you see that in

Scripture, all capital Lord, it's signifying that covenant

name. And the Lord passed by before

him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, He's proclaiming His

name, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, abundant in

goodness and truth. So again, two things are

happening. He's passing by for them alone,

and he's proclaiming the name. Again, the Lord in all caps is

the covenant name of God revealed to Moses in Exodus

chapter #3 but in Mark, Jesus says I would have passed by and

he's showing up. And he's also proclaiming the

name I am that forever memorial name of God.

That's not enough. What happens when our prophet

Elijah leaves Mount Carmel and Jezebel told him, by tomorrow

this time you'll be like these prophets now that are dead.

He goes off to a wilderness place and goes even further

without his companion, his servant to the mount of God.

He's in a cave. The Spirit of the Lord shows up.

On that mountain. And God calls him out of that

mountain. And the Bible says that the Lord

passes by. You look at it in first Kings

1911 for your own looking, it says.

And behold, the Lord pass by again.

His presence is visiting a man in the terminology of passing by

is signifying that visitation of God with humanity in the Old

Testament Amen again pointing to them now Jesus Christ in the New

Testament Amen passings and he would have passed by and also

declaring his name. Everybody doing OK.

Hey man, let's go a little further.

I'm looking, I'm keeping track of time I'm running.

I really am. This will be a good one to go

back and listen to again. Matthew 14 verse 33 gives the

Matthew 14:33

same account of Christ walking on the water in this again, the

harmony of the Gospels from the different perspective.

Sometimes we get details. We didn't get one of the

Gospels. You put them together, you have

harmony, right? Right.

You get, it's like, it's like there's an accident and you have

different eyewitnesses. You talk to each eyewitnesses.

Someone probably caught something that someone didn't.

And when you put it all together, you get a full picture

then of what really happened. And so so here in Matthew we

have some other details that after this walking on the water

this it is I or I am scenario all took place.

It tells us in Matthew 1433. Then they were then they that

were in the ship came and worshiped worshiped him Speaking

of Jesus saying of the truth, thou art the Son of God.

Hold on now, if Jesus is just another man, this is getting

weird because we have other men falling down and worshiping a

man. I mean that.

Would be pure idolatry. As a matter of fact, what

whenever Jesus was speaking back in John Ford to that woman at

the well and he talked to her about that.

The hour cometh that the Father sought out true worshippers,

right Brother Malone to worship what?

The Father or the Spirit or if you will, God in spirit and in

truth. So that explains that part,

Brother Fred, that explains to me then part of true worship is

worshiping God as spirit. So where are these disciples

participated in true worship as they're falling down and

worshiping the man Christ Jesus? Everybody know, right?

Just as we'll pull it together. But it's just a caution when we

get to the Book of Revelation and John the revelator is having

all these visions about things that were happening would

happen, so and so forth. Even in the end of time, there's

an Angel that's going along with him and he's seeing these

visions and some of the things that he's seeing he is

overwhelmed by. And at different times the Bible

says that he fall down and worship like the Angel there.

And the Angel says, buddy, get up, don't worship me.

Why? Because the angels know that

only God is the one to be worshipped.

And you see, even the scripture, you see some of the disciples,

they going into a city and the people of the city think all

this is Jupiter, this is Mercury's.

They've fallen down. Our gods have fallen down to,

you know, earth. And they go out with sacrifice

to worship them and and Paul and some of their disciples.

Says, no, get up. Don't worship us.

We be men just like you are, because no one but God, no one

but God was to be worshipped. But here in Matthew, here comes

some other men that's falling down and worshipping what by

just. All.

Those of a natural eye would be another man, but they had a

revelation that this is more than just another man.

God is in Christ. God is manifesting the flesh.

They weren't doing anything wrong.

They weren't doing anything correct.

They were just following the revelation of who they knew that

man, Christ Jesus, to be. He was the Almighty God, the

creator of the universe that spent all things in orbit

walking in human flesh and humanity.

Hallelujah. Someone say Amen, I'm hurrying.

We can do this. God help us.

Mark chapter #9 If you'll just allow me, I won't read it, but

if you want to read Mark 9 verses 2 through 9, you can

Mark 9:2–9

write down the tab of paper or something like that to look back

on because we got to run. You can also find it in Matthew

17 and Luke 9. It's also Matthew 17 and Luke 9.

You want to see the other parallel accounts?

What we have is Jesus taking just a very select few of his

disciples up the Mount of Transfiguration.

All right, while he is there, he is transformed before his

disciples. The Bible talks about his, his

garment himself almost becoming gleaming like white, like no

fooler could wipe them, right. And there's, there's also then

this appearance. Watch it now there's this

appearance of both Moses and Elijah up on this mountain.

Peter's taken all this any second.

Man, this, this was a good trip to go on.

I'm glad I got my ticket for this one.

You know, this is a good trip to go on.

He says, man, this is great. We'll build 3 temples.

We'll build one for Moses, one for Elijah, and one for you

Christ. It's good for us to be here.

And there's a cloud that show up and there were some things

spoken and when the cloud went away, it was Jesus only.

Now, folks, there have been all kinds of applications and such

for the purpose of Moses and Elijah appearing on the mountain

there with Jesus. There's been things spoken about

how, you know, Moses no doubt is a representative of the law.

He's the one that the law giver, so to speak, that brought that

down from from the mount of God and gave it to the people.

And others will look at Elijah and think about him being such a

profound prophet throughout the Old Testament.

And many people see then on Mount Transfiguration, Jesus has

a representation then of the law and of the prophets right there

before him. You know, and, and, and, and,

and how even Jesus said in his earthly ministry in the Gospels,

he even said it one time, he said that all the law and the

prophets are talking about me. When you read the law and the

prophets, they're talking about me.

All right. And so, you know, possibly a, a,

a, a possibility. And even Philip declared that

such writings were written about Jesus Christ in John chapter #1

He said such writings were written about him.

So this would be a very momentous occasion.

Some even look at Moses as being the deliverer of the children of

Israel from Egypt. And so there's that aspect of

deliverance. And then also Elijah, the

different miracles that were wrought by his hands.

And then again, seeing that there's this amount of

transfiguration, there's the Lord, there's a representation

of deliverance and miracles that's upon the mountain.

All of that is wonderful and great.

But something else we need to note, and I'm just doing this

just for purposes today, is that both Moses and Elijah, and it's

a word, I stayed there earlier and it's just a fancy word, but

they had theophanies, meaning they had appearances of God on

mountains as well. We already talked about the two

times when God was going to pass by Moses put him in the cleft of

the rock, and Elijah, he passed by him as well.

They both had appearances, if you will, of God.

And God told Moses in Exodus 33, he told him, you can't see my

face. God told Moses, you can't see my

face. You'll remember that he, you'll

remember that. God said, I'll put my hand, I'll

cover you with my hand. You won't see my face because my

glory is so just brilliant in this form, the common man.

This, this just the brilliance of all this, you get my back

parts. And so then we see then he

passed by Elijah and the Bible even tells us in verse 13 and

1st Kings 19, verse 13, the Bible even states that Elijah

covered his face with his mantle.

Covered his face with his mantle.

He would not be able to see the face of God.

Interestingly enough, these events of Moses and Elijah took

place on the same mount, separated in time, but took

place on the same how both could not see the face of God.

They heard him, his voice, they witnessed his power.

Elijah saw the the effects of the earthquake and the wind and

the fire, but God wasn't in all that.

Remember, saw the effects of all those things, but none of them

could witness the face of God. Just stay here, but on Mount

Transfiguration, going to bring back Elijah.

I'm going to bring back Moses. They couldn't look on the face

of God then because of the form that God was in.

But I'm going to give them an opportunity that they didn't

have before this time. I'm going to bring them back now

and they'll be able to look up on, in essence, the face of God

because God has now made himself a body, ladies and gentlemen.

All of God that they ever saw was in the face of the Lord

Jesus Christ. Hear me today.

All of that invisible God that they ever saw was in that

tangible face of in person of the Lord Jesus Christ, God

manifest in the flesh, God in Christ.

When they saw the face of Jesus and lyrics have been written

about it. You've seen the face of God.

Oh yes, stand with me today. Did not.

Did not John say in the beginning was the word?

The word was with God? The word was God?

The same verse 2 was in the beginning with God.

Skip the verse 14 and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among

us, and what did we do? We beheld the glory as the only

begotten of the Father, full of grace and full of truth.

I did. And Moses, you can only see the

back parts, but whenever Christ comes, you're going to look upon

the face of God. You're going to through the man

Christ Jesus God's in Christ God's manifest.

So we have all these Old Testament works, the miraculous

works of God, man, they're all overwhelming as we see them.

But folks, when we see them and even get in the New Testament,

they're testifying to the truth that God is in Christ.

That's the works, the wonders. That's how Peter said God would

approve and authenticate that. Man Christ Jesus.

And in Corinthians it told us that God was in Christ

reconciling the world to himself.

Jesus Christ walking in Jerusalem and Samaria and around

Galilee. God was in that man and he was

pulling. There was rivers of living water

that was pulling upon humanity, trying to reckon them, reconcile

them back into a relationship with God that was broken.

All the way back at Eden, God was reconciling man unto himself

through the man Christ Jesus. The Bible teach about that.

Christ Jesus is a mediator between God and men.

The man, Christ Jesus, he's mediating, He's closing the gap

in our relationship. That sin put a wedge and a chasm

there, but Christ Jesus is mediating.

Hallelujah that God in Christ is closing the gap for you and I to

repair, restore, reconcile the relationship that we had.

He's revealing the unseen essence.

Jesus Christ is revealing the unseen essence of the Almighty

God. To us.

He has authority over nature. He.

He had all his His miracles and His declaration then even to

them all times, not just in what we seen this morning of I.

Am all of that confirms his identity.

The question today then for us is this do you recognize him?

Pharisees refused to recognize that it was evident, but those

those very works identified Jesus as God.

They refused to acknowledge that there's some disciples and I

hope we're among them today that same but what manner of man Even

so much that finally at Caesarea Philippi after you ask them what

do men what is culture saying he gets a person says who do you

say Peter says thou art the Christ the son of the living

God. I'm here to tell you today

because we've already felt him here.

God's not some distant deity. He became very real to the 1st

century Jews through his humanity, but he's even drawn

closer to us of this age through His spirit being able to now be

inside of you. He's not a God that's afar off.

But he's close and he's still offering this reconciliation.

He's still offering this reconciliation.

Believe in him, ladies and gentlemen, this morning, not

just for his work's sake, but for who he is sake.

It's the revelation of God. In Christ Jesus, we can just bow

our heads all over this place, folks.

He wants, He wants to make himself known to you.

All these, these Pagan practices of Old Testament that they

believed that their God had certain control, like maybe over

a river or over the wind or over fertility, or they had control

over certain districts or regions that they could only

operate within certain sectors of land.

That that was their perimeter, that was their boundaries.

He told them the Old Testament Scripture, even the Israelites

did said our God, our God is a God of the hills and the

valleys. You know what they're saying,

There's not a scope, there's not a sector, there's not a region

that he just operates in and that's all.

He's the Lord of all. He's the God of gods.

He has all power. He's willing to exercise that

power here this morning. I wonder if we could just start

to sing a song today and if you would just be responsive.

I still feel His presence here this morning, even through the

teaching of His Word. Amen.

If you've never done it before, I want to, I want to gently

challenge you today. If you never just even raised a

hand, you might not have it extended fully up in air, But if

you've never just even raised a hand unto the Lord, which is

really an act of surrender when we do that.

If you never. Really.

Just even raised a hand. I challenge you.

People's eyes are closed, their heads are bowed.

No one's looking around but you. You could just take just a

little step of freedom today and raise that hand, Amen.

And just have an active surrender to the Lord.

And you're like Brother McGee earlier.

I didn't know what to do with what I felt.

I'm challenging you again today if you'll just just just maybe

by by emphasis of raising a hand as a surrender and just have

this in your heart and mind. Lord, I want whatever you have

for me. I want whatever you have for me.

And if, if what I was experiencing earlier was you,

God, then I want that to become more real to me than it's ever

been in my walk in life. God, I just want you to be more

real to me. God, if you could reveal

yourself to disciples and people throughout the New Testament, I

pray, God, that you bring revelation and enlightenment to

my heart and my mind. If you hunger for God, you

desire for God, that that's a proper prayer, that that's a

proper desire. Hallelujah.

Can we just reach out to him just with hands of surrender?

However that may look for you, maybe even accompanying your

voice with it. You can take to God the things

you don't understand, the things you may be confused about or, or

the things that that that just seem contrary to where you are.

That's all right. God's not put off or offended by

those type of things. You can be.