GOD’S REVELATION OF CHRIST IN US



Saul of Tarsus, who became Paul the apostle, experienced the mighty work of God’s Spirit. God brought this rebel sinner to bow before Him in the dust and revealed Himself in Paul. He gives confession of this in his letter to the Galatians: “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, To reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood (GALATIANS 1:15,16).

This all came to pass at God’s appointed time (“when it pleased God”) and according to His purpose and power of grace (“called me by His grace”). But what did God do in this man and what was the result of this great work? God revealed the Lord Jesus Christ, as Paul says, “in me.” The result was that Paul never stopped talking about, believing in, glorying in and preaching the Lord Jesus Christ. At the center of his experience was the revelation of Jesus Christ!

While his experience was the same experience for all who are born of God, Paul did not focus on the experience itself but the One who was revealed to him and in him. God revealed Christ to Paul as the One who is God manifest in the flesh. He saw Christ as the true God, as the ONLY SAVIOR and as THE VERY RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD FREELY GIVEN to him. He was brought to forsake his old religion, his imagined righteousness and his own way. But one thing is sure, experience for experience sake is nothing. Only that experience which leaves a sinner talking about, worshipping, following, believing, glorifying, trusting in and resting upon the Lord Jesus Christ is the experience of God’s grace wrought by the Holy Spirit.

The blessed Spirit takes the things of Christ and shows them to us. Grace experienced is Christ believed on! Balaam also had a mysterious experience on a road when the ass spoke to him about an angel but he perished. Balaam experienced an experience, Paul experienced Christ! Christ revealed is Christ believed on because both are the work of God’s Spirit.

Grace experienced is Christ! Can you hear Christ saying unto you, “Look unto Me and be ye saved…” Experiencing God’s grace to us in the revelation of Christ is an eternal experience! Hear Him again, “Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world” (JOHN 17:24).


 
-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard

Sovereign Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA

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