UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST

What Jesus Preached? What Was His Original Message to Mankind?

Introduction:

Understanding the Message Jesus preached is very important in helping us understand the ultimate solution to our ultimate problem as mankind. God’s ultimate solution is found within the message that Jesus came to preach. The mission and assignment of Jesus was not to take us to heaven, but to bring heaven into us…in other words, Jesus came to reestablish and restore the Kingdom of Heaven in the earth in our lives.

a careful study of the four gospels of matthew, mark, luke, and john shows that Jesus never preach prosperity as a message but a by-product of the kingdom, he never preached healing as a message but a by-product of the kingdom, he never preached deliverance as a message but a by-product of the kingdom. He spoke about these subjects but as a message, rather as kingdom by-products that means the benefits of embracing the kingdom of God.

The central message of Jesus was a Kingdom message. When Jesus came to earth in human form, He brought with Him His own Kingdom; which is God’s Government; God’s way of doing things. If the Kingdom of God is the ultimate message of Jesus, then it means “the Kingdom of God is the ultimate solution to every problem of man…the Kingdom of God is our ultimate answer to our troubled lives as men.

Isa. 9:6 -  ……and the Government shall be upon His shoulders, ….of the increase of His Government there shall be no end.

Luke 17:20 -   His Kingdom comes not with observation, but with demonstration; tangible evidence of power! Vs. 21 -  The Kingdom of God is within you!  

When Jesus came into the earth, everything changed. Jesus brought to earth what Man lost in the Garden of Eden in the fall.  He brought His Kingdom government with Him, meaning King-dominion for Mankind! He went about doing good; destroying all the works of the devil, healing the sick, raising the dead, making the lame to walk and the blind to see because the Kingdom of God was with Him.  Anytime He bumped up against circumstances, situations or things that were out of God’s order, He released His Kingdom’s power and authority by speaking the Word of God, and that Word impacted, affected and changed whatever He targeted.  That is dominion and subduing all things in the earth from Gen. 1:26-28, God’s original purpose and plan for His Man. 

Jesus influenced things, circumstances, people, religious thought, and upset all the traditions and religious ideas of His day.  He was able to do this as an Old Covenant Man who believed that God would perform His own Word on behalf of a person who believed the Word of God enough to speak That Word to circumstances and see immediate alteration and change. Jesus always addressed the problem with the Word, which is the power of God unto all deliverance (Ro. 1:16).  Jesus was not sent here to heal sick people or do all the miracles He did.  He was sent to earth to demonstrate in person, how mankind, which is you and me, should be living, thinking, acting and talking.  Then, with delegated power and authority, He sent His disciples out to do the same “works of God” in His Name, and they had the same predictable results!

Under the New Covenant, we now have more than the delegated authority that Jesus gave His disciples before He was crucified and raised again.  We have Jesus’ full power and authority to do the greater works He spoke of in Jn.14:12.

Jesus said in Matt. 28:18 that ALL POWER AND ALL AUTHORITY belongs TO HIM NOW…. So the power we have to go on is all that Jesus has, now.  We are told here to GO in the power He has now.  The Disciples were sent out with delegated power before the cross; a limited power, told only to go to the House of Israel.  We are told to go into all the world and we will be going in All the power and all the authority that now belongs to Jesus as the Risen One, seated at the right hand of the Throne of God!  What we have to go on now is more than enough to manifest very predictable results.