My Thoughts on the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Enoch B. Mnisi, DD2019 · Day 122 min read

But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:11–12 (NKJV)

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a doctrine; it is the power of God. It is not a set of rules, and it cannot be taught in a classroom or a theological seminary. It is born of a revelation of Jesus Christ. A man's message can never be the gospel until he has had a revelation of Jesus Christ, a mingling of himself with the reality of Jesus. Until the truth of Jesus is revealed in a person, the gospel remains veiled in the heart of the minister or Christian who wishes to preach it.

I am convinced that, more than anything, the revelation of Jesus Christ is the single most important thing a Christian is to seek. After all, that is the primary ministry of the Holy Spirit to the body of Christ: to reveal Christ, God's best-kept secret of the ages. The fellowship of the Holy Spirit is what He left us, in order that we might know Him.

To know Jesus Himself, to have Him revealed to our spirits, should be the desire of our hearts. The cry of the Apostle Paul should be our own: "That I may know Him." Oh, that we would cry for this! I believe the Father would promptly leave all He is doing to answer it.

I do not know whether any man can make this cry unless the Spirit births it in him. I have felt it over the years, and it has grown louder and louder, stronger and stronger: the cry to know Jesus and Him alone. All the mystery of life is in Him. All there is to know about God is in Him.

Church tradition has taught us to seek His wonders, when He is the wonder of wonders we always needed. Let us understand that the gospel begins and ends with Jesus. There is no gospel without Jesus, and only He can reveal it.

Thank God we have Paul as an example, showing that this objective, this dream of our hearts to know Jesus, is attainable. Everything he wrote in the epistles came from what Jesus revealed to him. That one experience on the Damascus road changed him forever: Paul the destroyer of Christianity became the revealer of its reality. May we enter that realm of life and be counted among the few who have passed through its portals, living and learning at the Master's feet.