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The Open Secret – Knowledge of Christ is The Key

CHAPTER FIVE
The Open Secret – Knowledge of Christ is The Key

“I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!”

Philippians. 3:10-11


…the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. Daniel. 11:32-33 NKJV

The only thing that could have made David express so much confidence in the Lord, for which he was able to say that he would never lack anything would be that he knew the Shepherd personally and the Shepherd, also knew him in the same way. Read Psalm 23 again gently and thoughtfully, verse by verse. You will notice a level of confidence that can be born out, only from one who has a deep-rooted personal (intimate) relationship with his Shepherd. David declared his confidence out of a loving assurance and a good level of trust in a person he truly knew, and who knew him also. The Lord testified that He also knew David, “After God took Saul away, God made David their king. This is what God said about David: ‘David, the son of Jesse, is the kind of person who does what pleases me. He will do everything I want him to do.’” Acts 13:22. Jesus in John 10:27 said, My Sheep listen to my voice. I know them, and they follow me.

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We lack grace and peace because we really do not know the Master, the Shepherd. We are often impoverished of all spiritual prosperity and freedom from fears. We suffer agitating passions and moral conflicts in our beings (our souls) because we do not know the Lord Jesus. And many times several believers have shown their lack of interest in knowing him.

Peter revealed that when we commit our lives to learning of Christ, to knowing him, and understanding his ways, we would eventually realize that the Almighty has already provided for us everything we need, to become truly religious people who fear and honour Him in every way possible. This honour which we will give God includes having all our needs met. If you get to know the Shepherd better and better your spiritual life will become richer and richer, and physically, you are bound to enjoy increase of God’s favour upon your life; His peace which he gave us when he came will be multiplied in your heart as you journey through the earth. What brings troubles and heartache to non-followers of Christ cannot do so to you, why? You have the knowledge of the holy one. You will be saved from serving God according to the wrong pattern; you will be delivered from always writing and crying out for helps here and there over what should be left for God as His own business.

You will be saved from worrying about needs that should be accounted as Christ ’s in which he is committed to meet. Knowing Christ more and more is the only key that keeps a man’s heart firm, and free from all possible agitations when it comes. Do not forget that Jesus was in the same boat which was being hit by the storm on the river, while he was sound asleep his disciples were crying and troubled that they might perish in the raging storms, but they woke Jesus up, not because they had faith, but because they feared they were going to perish. But when Jesus rebuked the storm and bringing great calm, they also became calm and wondered what manner of man he was. By this, another deeper knowledge of Christ’s personality was just revealed unto them, their fears ceased immediately.

Let us read it briefly:

Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly all was calm. The disciples were amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked. “Even the winds and waves obey him!”

“Jesus can never fear any storm. He created all storms and when one comes against you as you follow him, just stay calm and peaceful because of your faith in him. Call upon him out of faith but not out of fear. Then rebuke the wind like it is him rebuking the storm in you. You will be amazed at the great calm that will come by in response to your faith.”

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Peter, through his intimate knowledge of Christ wrote to those who have received equal privilege in this precious faith with them (the early disciples). This privilege exists in and through the righteousness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

He revealed that God has already provided the way to increase in grace and peace for all believers. And he also revealed that God already made provision for the church, to enable Christians live the godly lives that please him. He said all things they need for life and godliness (both physically, morally, socially, spiritually, economically etc.) has been provided for. This is true. Tapping it now depends on how much of Christ one gets to know; how much of Christ’s presence abides in the life of any believer continually.

So if you care to commit your heart to [continually]learning of Christ and knowing him daily, you will as well be experiencing the increasing grace and peace that follows people who know they are being constantly provided for (2 Pet. 1:2-3).

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Is Jesus your Shepherd?

Why Jesus Christ Is Your Shepherd


God, through Jesus Christ, made the way possible for you to be reconciled onto Him in a Father-son relationship (2 Cor. 5:18). You are a member of his family and you are His child if you have been saved from your sin by putting your faith in the work of salvation which Jesus Christ did, when he came to the earth humanly.


In the Lord’s best interest everyone who comes to Him and who has been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ receives the rights of the sons of God (God-sonship) (John 1:12).

Part of the blessings that has been deposited for all believers and followers of Jesus Christ [for all time] is that they now have a Shepherd over their lives. Jesus Christ becomes our common Shepherd because, he did what a real[good] Shepherd would do; he laid down his own life for the Sheep to live. Hear this testimony that Jesus gave concerning himself: He said,


“I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd risks and lays down His [own] life for the Sheep. I am the Good Shepherd; and I know and recognize My own, and My own know and recognize Me. Even as [truly as] the Father knows Me and I also know the Father — and I am giving My [very own] life and laying it down on behalf of the Sheep.”

John 10:11, 14, 15 AMP


Before moving on from here, it is good to be sure of this. Jesus says, he knows his own Sheep and they also know him. One can claim to know the Lord even when the Lord may not know him/her. So it is better to establish right here whether you truly know the Lord and that the Lord also truly knows you. If you do not truly know the Lord, pause reading and do that now.

How to Receive Revelation of Jesus


Concentration births Revelation

“The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.“

St. Luke 11:34


What makes revelation of Jesus possible is one’s ability to sustain an undistracted focus on Jesus. The clarity of vision depends on the quality of the eyes’ ability to
keep beholding until the die change comes. A perfect revelation of Jesus Christ is expected to bring about divine transformation upon the life of any man, and it revolutionizes one’s whole life for the best.

A man like Moses went up the mountain, and after forty days of beholding the Lord returned with a face as bright as that of an angel, he had concentrated on the divine and radiant appearance of the Almighty for that long without any distraction, and his physical look was transformed.

That happened in the Old Testament. The glory that accompanied him from that mountain lasted for some days. Paul reveals in 2 Cor. 3, that if such an encounter under the Old Covenant (which was not the fulfillment of the eternal promise of God to the saints in Christ) had so much glory as that, how much more the glory and transformation that will follow the New Covenant.

By implication, as many as come into Christ in this era, who receive divine
revelation of Jesus Christ in the spirits, they are custodians of a dimension of glory that is real, and far surpasses that which was seen of Moses.

Jesus, the Wisdom of God

“The Lord created me first of all, the first of his works, long ago. I was made in the very beginning, at the first, before the world began. I was born before the oceans, when there were no springs of water.“

Proverbs 8:22-24

The firstborn of all creation is Jesus Christ and the scripture above makes it clear that Wisdom was created first of all (8:22).

It will interest you to know that all the testimonies that is given concerning wisdom can be related with the life of Jesus Christ. It is no doubt that God gave Solomon everything he asked for and it was simply because he asked for the kingdom of God and its righteousness. God had to keep to his word which has been from everlasting by giving unto Solomon everything else. We never heard Solomon asked God to give him Jesus or mentioning the kingdom of God physically, but we do know that for him to ask God for wisdom, knowledge and deep insights for him to be able to lead God’s people, he was simply asking gyod to show him the secret of correct leadership which is what Jesus Christ represents.

Jesus Christ is the common denominator of every creation. If you are alive on Earth only to survive by the worldly wisdom you may never last and your works will end as the world comes to an end. But if you accept Jesus Christ into your heart and make up your mind to follow his way alone you will be given access into godly wisdom which is the wisdom from the Kingdom of heaven. Whatsoever you will do on Earth will have eternal value, which means the effect of all you do will be felt eternally.

Today make up your mind not to remain only with the wisdom of this world as all you will do will only last here on Earth, and all you do or ever acquire by the wisdom of the Earth will perish as the Earth perishes. But embrace to follow Jesus Christ everyday, to stay with him in the place of prayers consistently on a daily basis. Accept to deny yourself of your own ways and to replace it with his own ways in all that you do. Accept to take up your own cross daily and bear all the things that are associated with carrying your Cross. When you do this your life will be a fruit which will possess an eternal effect, eternal value and your works will endure eternally, which means that the reward of whatever you do through the wisdom of Jesus Christ will abide as God abides. And as you get into heaven on the last day you will receive the reward that has been kept for you there while you were on Earth working with the wisdom from heaven.

Jesus Christ is the key for assessing all godly wisdom and spiritual blessings that are given to those who trust God here on Earth.