Looking Unto Jesus

Looking Unto Jesus

By Apostle Felix

2  We look away from the natural realm and we fasten our gaze onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God! 

Hebrews 12: 2

When Jesus is revealed then salvation and total restoration is in view. It is the christology that ensures soteriology. Christology is the theological study of Jesus Christ, exploring his identity as both fully divine and fully human, his role in salvation, and his significance in Christian faith, drawing from scripture, tradition, and history to understand the incarnation, resurrection, and his relationship to God and humanity. While soteriology is an English word derived from the Greek word sōtēria meaning “preservation or salvation.” Soteriology, then, is the study of salvation, another word for redemption, which, in Christianity, means the discussion of how Jesus’ death saves people from sin and its effects. 

We cannot talk about the subject of salvation without talking about Jesus. Salvation is rooted in Jesus.

12  There is no one else who has the power to save us, for there is only one name to whom God has given authority by which we must experience salvation: the name of Jesus.”

Acts 4: 12

Salvation cannot be found in any other name, but the name of Jesus. John the baptist, announced Jesus as the lamb, which takes the sins of the world. He pointed the people to Jesus by saying ‘behold.’ Behold means to see or observe something of great significance. John, the baptist used that analogy to show significance of Jesus’ mission on earth.

29  The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

John 1: 29

Israel was anticipating the coming of the Messiah, who they supposedly thought will come to deliver them from the Roman rule. So, the Jews were looking for a political Messiah. But Jesus did not come for political reasons. He was made manifest to destroy the works of the devil so that man can go free from the bondage of sin. Israel wanted to behold a Messiah whose mission was political emancipation. Such an expectation created a false theology and it made Israel to miss the Messiah. Theology is essentially a study of scripture. Theology combines Greek words: theos, meaning God, and logos, meaning word or rational thought. So theology is God-thought or rational reasoning about God. So then, wrong theology can create wrong expectations. The theology of the church is christology. Without it, the church will be like a house built on sand. Jesus put it in this manner, in Matthew 16: 18.

18  I give you the name Peter, a stone. And this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on which I will build my church—my legislative assembly, and the power of death will not be able to overpower it! 

Matthew 16: 18

The gospel is not for things. It is not there to show us how to get things. The gospel is about the Person, Jesus Christ. The gospel is ‘Behold the Lamb of God, which takes the sins of the world.’ If any other thing is displayed other than Christ then it ceases to be the gospel. The reason is simple. Before His incarnation, men were marrying, doing business, getting jobs, building houses, buying horses and donkeys, and miracles were performed. So, Jesus did not manifest for any of those things. He came for one thing that man could not achieve all by himself, which is salvation.

9  And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Numbers 21: 9

Israel murmured and complained about their food and snakes went lose in the camp and killed many of them. Snakes symbolized destruction and death. The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy. But Jesus said, He had come to give life and life more abundantly. It was Jesus that was lifted up for everyone to behold for life.

14  “And just as Moses in the desert lifted up the brass replica of a snake on a pole for all the people to see and be healed, so the Son of Man is ready to be lifted up,
15  so that those who truly believe in him will not perish but be given eternal life.

John 3: 14, 15

As we approach the end of 2025, behold Him! Do not look for things, but look unto Him and then all shall be added to you. Look for His voice this December, rather than the voice of Moses and Elijah. This is My Son, in whom I AM well pleased, hear Him. HEAR HIM!