Humility and Revelation: Unlocking Kingdom Mysteries

To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it has not been granted so one would think that Jesus would be very keen that everybody should understand what he is trying to say I myself in my own ministry of teaching the Bible my desire is often that everybody should understand what I'm saying and I'll try and make it as simple as possible. [00:01:03]

The mysteries of the kingdom of heaven you know the kingdom of heaven was not mentioned in the Old Testament we need to understand that the Old Covenant was entirely about a kingdom of Earth and the New Testament emphasizes the kingdom of heaven so that's the first thing if people are primarily occupied with a comfortable earthly life and a little bit of Christianity maybe New Covenant Christianity just to ease their conscience but their main interest is their earthly life you can say their kingdom is of this earth they will never never understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. [00:04:09]

Jesus prayed praise the Father for hiding them that's amazing and you see there I praise you Matthew 11:25 father that you have hidden these wonderful truths from the clever and the intelligent and you reveal them to little babes to infants now that is not something that people who go to Bible School understand they go there to study on the clever of cleverest person gets the first prize and they finish their Bible School for your course but it's hidden from them. [00:05:56]

Humility is the recognition that if before Almighty God I'm a zero and there's no difference between me and any other human being in God's eyes I cannot esteem myself as superior to another human being in any way if I'm genuinely humble not even over an unbeliever if there is any sense in our mind that we are a little better than others and that's very nice we've got the poison of Adam in our flesh it's a thing that has to be crucified more than anything else that leaves us ignorant of these mysteries of God's kingdom. [00:08:01]

Peter the most uneducated and unlearning of the whole lot he said you're the Messiah the son of God second person of the Trinity how did he know that she was not through his cleverness it's because though he was a fisherman he came in a little child like a little child to Jesus and we know that because Jesus said to him you're blessed Simon because to paraphrase it it was not even human understanding by which you got this revelation but my father in heaven Matthew 16 verse 17 gave you this revelation and I am the Christ the Son of the Living God. [00:12:37]

The Holy Spirit alone can reveal scripture to as you cannot understand it in a living way by study alone here to come in humility then it becomes real so many people who can know so much of the scriptures who they have no revelation so they never come into a godly life very important I remember when one of the things that happened after some of the things that happened to me after I've experienced this fullness the Holy Spirit was I suddenly saw that I could have victory but Jesus came and just like me as a man and was tempted and overcame and I found I could have power over demons. [00:23:26]

I want to urge you my dear brothers and sisters please don't be satisfied with an academic knowledge of Scripture it's good to memorize verses and all that I am all for it I memorized verses to my inner days but I don't Laurie in the fact that I know where a particular verses I say I want revelation my heart's cries always for Revelation and I've been reading the Bible for 60 years now but even now I'd pray for revelation Lord there are things in this book this is like a well that never runs dry and I'm sure there are things I still can learn from you because I haven't understood all of God's ways. [00:25:00]

The mystery of godliness is that Christ came in the flesh now you say well I don't need revelation for that I know it even the Muslims say that Jesus came as a man there's nothing so great about it but there is if it is to be something that changes my life it is just to be known as a fact can you hear it you believe in every Christian believes it and there are how many couple of billion Christians in the world they all believe it there are a couple of billion Muslims in the world they believe it to do Jesus came as a man but to know that he came in the flesh and kept his spirit pure. [00:34:35]

The second great mystery and there are only two in the New Testament is in Ephesians 5 where it says again in visions 532 this mystery is great and now I'm not speaking about Christ the first mystery was about Christ who came in our flesh did not use the resources as God and kept the spirit absolutely pure for thirty three and a half years and ascended up to heaven the second mystery is concerning Christ's relationship with us the church this is a great mystery I'm speaking in relation to Christ and the church. [00:38:11]

When you see the mystery of the church you'll have a passionate desire to be a part of that church even if it's a little finger you will not want to be everything some some preachers one of them become so big that there's no place for anybody else in that church no you just want to be that one small part God has made you and he will never have competition with others I tell you when I saw the mystery of the church I have zero competition with anybody in the world I'm not in competition with anyone in the world to be a better preacher or to serve God more or any such thing I'm so happy to do my pardon to help other people to do their part because I've seen the mystery of the church as a body of Christ of which he is the head. [00:40:32]

If you believe that the church that Jesus is building is the only thing that's going to remain when this world is destroyed you commit yourself completely to building that I decided that from the time I understood it everything every fiber in being in my body as long as I live you know if I live up to a hundred years I'm going to devote myself to build a church because I know this is the only thing like Noah's Ark that's going to remain when the world is destroyed and I would see the number of foolish Christians who never lived for building the church who live their own selfish lies there I'm living a good life and I have enough and just attend church there's no such thing as attend the church you have to be a part of it and very few people have seen that it's a mystery. [00:43:08]

I cannot force people to see it because they have to come to the Lord in humility like little children and I say with Jesus I say the same words I thank you Father you have hidden these mysteries from the clever and the proud and the intelligence praise God and delighted you've hidden it when you're revealed it to those humble sincere seekers who are longing after you who say like the deer pants for the water so my heart longs for you O God those who cry out for the Lord in the hours of the night and lord I wanted to know you better God reveals to them he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. [00:46:55]