 to hope today. I'm so excited because where have you been all my life? I'm so glad you've tuned. We've been waiting for you right here on this wonderful set of hope today. And listen, we are truly in the end times. And you know what? There is still hope today. I'm J. Anthony Gilbert. I'm here with the wonderful one and only Anna Frye and the wonderful Matt Cogley. I am so excited because we are going to get into a topic that I believe is really relevant for this hour. I know we're so excited for this conversation today. It's a great one for your Friday. Today we're going to dive deep into the person of Jesus Christ. If you've ever prayed for fresh revelation of who he is today is your day. Our guest Dr. Steve Foss wants to take you on a journey to know the heart of your Savior. Dr. Steve says nothing can even come close to the transformation of the human heart that takes place through the pure, deep and intimate revelation knowledge of the person of Jesus Christ. Oh guys, I tell you what growing up as a Christian and then beginning to study the word and meet with God and get deeper revelation of who Jesus is is such a powerful, life-changing thing. Amen. I'm just thinking about obviously we know the Bible talks about how we're made in the image of Christ and I love this topic today when we're talking about Jesus. I mean the more I get to know Jesus the more in return I end up being like him. We did this series in church not too long ago about like Mike. I don't know if you ever watched the movie like Mike. When he put on these shoes he was like Michael Jordan. You know he took on the characteristics of Michael Jordan and it was life-changing but I believe that's kind of like the word of God. You know we implement the word of God in our lives and when we come more and more like Jesus which Hatche Jay like you said I mean we need it in the time like today right to be more and more like Jesus. We really do and it's so exciting because I believe this revelation that you're about to get is getting ready to blow your mind and you know what in these hours that we're living in there's so many perilous things going on it's understanding who he is that is going to give us the grace and the strength in order to be able to stand against the evil of this day but we do have a scripture form Pastor Matt. Yeah absolutely you know so this is right out revelation and what a proper way to start off in revelation with chapter one verse one right says the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show his servants things which must shortly take place and he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John you know I think a lot of times okay when we think about the book revelation people think doom and gloom right and they think the rapture but I love how this introduction is it's about Jesus and Pastor Jay I know you've been getting just downloads from heaven I would love for you to start us off what do you think here well you know I think it's so powerful we always see this revelation of Christ and we always look from Matthew to John because we take a look at you know he's the one laying on the cross and the bloody Jesus and his arms nailed Father forgive them from they know not what they do but you know what there's that's not who he is that was who he needed to be to redeem us but who he is he said listen don't get it twisted because that's not who's coming back that's who had to die for you he came as the suffering lamb my good God but he's coming as the returning king and so he so he shows up to John on the Isle of Patmos and he says let me show you John who I was and you remember the story where he was there at the last supper he takes John puts his head on his bosom and he's laying and we think that's the Jesus that's coming back but it's the revelation in chapter one where the Bible says that his eyes were as a flame of fire that his hair was white as wool that his feet were like bronze refined in the fire that his voice was like the sound of many waters all of this was who Jesus was and you saw a little bit of it at certain times remember when we went to Mount of Transfiguration he went in there and all of a sudden he became white said let me give you a little dose of who I am he was so full of the glory he is the glory that it came out from time to time and remember when they came to get him after he came out of the Garden of Gethsemane he comes out of there and he said are you Jesus he says I am they all fell back and he said he just wanted to show us a little bit said now don't get it twisted I might be here suffering today but who is coming back to rule and reign is the Jesus that we're about to see in Revelation chapter one that's who's coming back that's who's got your back that's your healer your deliverer that is the one who's uh the government is on his shoulders all of that is the Jesus that we are serving and we're about to see him as he is let's go I know that's right we're getting the fire started so today we're excited for the opportunity to get fresh revelation of the purpose and person of Jesus Christ in his new book looking unto Jesus Dr. Steve Foss unpacks dozens of incredible descriptions of Jesus found in the book of Revelation he joins us today to share the ones that have been most powerful for him along with others that could freshly impact your faith today Dr. Steve welcome to hope today oh it's so great to be with you Hannah oh are you feeling the energy like we're ready for you to just keep it rolling by sharing with us your take on that let's go yeah let's go so share share what's on your heart you know it's one of the most amazing things I love the fact in the book of Revelation you know most people look at it they're kind of intimidated a lot of times we think it's about mainly about the suffering and persecution of the saints but in over 400 verses in Revelation only 12 deal with the persecution or suffering of the saints it is those first five words the revelation of the person of Jesus Christ and I love especially what it says right there at the beginning it says which God gave him the Father sent Jesus to go reveal to his servant not only what was about to take place but first who he is if you think about it the book of Revelation predominantly was written for a generation an end time generation that was going to face the most intense season the world would ever see and the first thing the Father said was Jesus you need to go reveal yourself more because it's the revelation of who he is will give us the strength to endure in the battles that we're facing that are coming ahead wow so we certainly don't have to look very far to see that we are facing some tremendous battles personally in our nation in the world and so start us off by sharing a revelation of Jesus that has been most meaningful to you well there's so many in there there's 30 descriptions in Revelation chapter one but I love one of the elements of there's two things if there's the human who loved us and shed his blood and then also his eyes were like flames of fire and those to me speak about the divine motive why God came the eyes of fire sometimes we look at it as judgment and it can be that whenever you're studying the Bible you always got to look at what's called the law of first mention the first time through the principle is mentioned in Scripture the first time fire is associated with God is when the Bible says that our God is assuming fire a jealous God and the jealousy of God speaks of the intensity of his passion and love for us it so loves that that he wants every single part of us all of our heart all of our mind all of our emotions all of our affections so the eyes of fire first speaks of the intensity of God's love you know I love in the book of Solomon which is really allegorical of Christ in the church you have Christ beloved and he looks at the spirit of my woman and he makes a statement so powerful he said with just one look you ravish art think about it God is going to ravish literally become overwhelmed with emotion so God was when we stop even our weakness even on our battles the intensity of our circumstances when we pause even for a and just look up to him and just say I love you God said I am overwhelmed with emotion I am my heart is ravished when you even stop especially when you're suffering especially when you're going through confusing circumstances and you stop and say despite all this I love Jesus he says my heart is overwhelmed with emotion and passion it's as my eyes are fighting every frame of passionate desire for you when you start is that way it really does so share with us sort of a little bit of your personal journey like we can feel your passion if somebody is at home watching and they're like man I wish I had that passion tell us how you got to this place well you know I got saved May 2nd 1986 I was a drug addict and alcoholic somebody invited me to a university campus meeting and the man of God just started quoting scriptures you know I want to say something guys don't ever underestimate the power of the word of God the power is in the word and he quoted about 35 scriptures in a row I don't know anything about the Bible and yet it was hitting me deep in my heart he's called for an altar call and I didn't want to go forward I was nervous but a number of people went down front and I waited for about 40 minutes as he continued to pray for people and I finally said God if this is really you if this is not phony or fake have that preacher call me out of the audience well I didn't know about the word of knowledge within 30 seconds he called me down out of a crowd of 300 prayed for me the power of God hit me I literally collapsed to the ground I was pinned to the floor for 40 minutes under what was like a river of pure love and pure power I heard the voice of millions singing an indescribable song and I saw the bodily presence of Jesus come and hover over my body and he was smiling when I sat up for 40 minutes later I was teared to joy and love were pouring down my on my face I was instantaneously delivered from five years of drug addiction never went and from that day forward I just became so passionately in love with him I just want to be with him more than anything else wow that is so powerful Dr. Steve you know as you're talking I'm really getting stirred over here because I believe there's about to be a wave of this revelation you're talking about that is going to invade the earth the church needs it more now than ever you had an encounter leading up to this book you had one that you just explained when you first gave your life to Jesus but you had one right before this book could you talk about that and then a follow-up question with that is do you believe that there's about to be an encounter with Jesus in a greater way like you had that's going to happen in the body of Christ yeah I'm going to go let me reverse that a little bit because the greatest revelation of Christ is coming the Bible says that as we behold him as in a mirror in the glory of the Lord we're changed into his image and I believe when the Bible says that the glory of the latter house shall be greater than the glory of the former house it's going to be because the greatest revelation of Jesus that we have ever seen and we are going to begin to reflect that glory God is the world is going to see the glory of God manifested on us Isaiah 60 verse 1 prophesies he said arise has come and the glory of the Lord yes isn't upon you and he tells us in verse 2 when that's going to happen for darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people but his glory will be seen on you in this vision that I had a actually over 20 years I three incredible visions that was a continuation and at the end it was an end time army and time battle at the army of God gloriously magnificently white and then you had the hordes of hell on the other side of this mass field Jesus was sitting on the most amazing white horse that you've ever seen in your life and his face was set towards like flint we begun to march right into this incredible battle many many things on that I don't have time to talk about some soldiers got hit you know the Bible some of the strong will stumble that they might be right and they got here falling back in the battle and I was like well Lord what's going to happen but later on in the saw wind of the Holy Spirit and it began to blow they they look like they were buried in shallow graves and it would be going to blow and blow the dirt off and they were revived happily there's going to be a great end time restoration of the prodigals a restoration fallen back and they don't come by sin come by by the think of the world but when these soldiers got back up the battle had Jesus had moved forward they started saying he's so far away and there were angels they're saying no no no he's you think pray for supernatural eyesight and and they said they're weapons and they start picking up weapons he's crow started and screaming at them trying to um eat their eyes out just what crows do I didn't know that does all vision and they were screaming shame shame shame shame on you bell shame on you you you stumbled shame on you and the angels spoke to them and said no no no focus on Jesus and what he has focused on that will protect you from the shame and as they did it was strengthened and encouraged and I saw Jesus looking forward at first I thought he was looking at the hordes of hell but he was looking beyond them then he behind that was a sea of billions of lost souls I thought he was looking at the end time harvest but then I saw you on that and I asked in the vision what is he looking at and a voice spoke to me and said the end of the age and then I looked down I saw behind at the very very far away and white throne an empty white throne and I realized it was the throne now folks listen when Jesus comes back to this earth rule and reign here we're not just going to get captured and spend eternity in heaven playing harps and kind of bored jesus is coming back here in a human frame he's the first one the dead jesus the greatest mystery jesus forever will live a human frame that's why it refers in these descriptions him as a son of man you know 85 times in the revelation or sorry 85 times jesus calls himself the son of man only seven times he calls himself the son of god jesus is coming back fully god in this glorified resurrected body the same kind of resurrected body you and I are going this supernatural fully human yet fully spirit body alleluia just coming back to this earth to rule and reign here on this earth and we will rule and reign with him I mean it's so powerful and earlier you used the word behold to behold him and I just I love that word because beholding means to to fix to set ourselves aside from all the busyness and the chaos of the world and truly behold the person the character the purpose of jesus christ and so I feel like for so many Christians for the church we're finding ourselves sort of in this maybe lethargic distracted place from really digging into our faith which is what the enemy wants how would you encourage somebody today that just feels like they have that lackluster faith to really dig in and behold jesus you know the bible says where there is no vision people perish and one of the challenges is so much of the preaching of the church today is about now my blessings now my comfort now my healing now my how to live a better life now and the and those things are important but if you really look at these descriptions of jesus and see everything there was focused on eternal focus and eternal hope you know one of the most famous pictures in jeremiah 2911 says god says I know thoughts that I think towards you thoughts of good and not evil with a future and a hope now we always again in this term the future and the hope god has for me but god was speaking about an eternal hope a destined an eternity with him that is so much more glorious and spectacular and amazing than than anything on this earth you know if you go to a tombstone in a seminary cemetery and you see uh what's up seminaries but uh you know 1936 to 2023 right and there's that dash in between that dashes your entire life here on the earth but eternity is forever with him people continue to grow in the nuts and depths of him so he says I know I have a future a hope for you then he says right after that then you call upon me and I will ask you will see and you will find me search for him with all your heart see I believe focus on the future the eternal future when we are changing the kid's image when we take on our new respective body when we are going to rule right with him when you allow that assume your heart mind that is what's cause you to want to cry out to him that's what's going to cause you to want to stay focused on him because you don't want to lose that you know you uh revelation 2 in 3 god says multiple times says hold fast what you have don't let anybody steal your hope don't let anybody steal your joy but the joy is not the temporary things here on this earth the joy is the eternity with him and when we're focused on that as we behold him and see that where we're going and what we're going to be in him that is what keeps the fire burning because if you focus on the circumstances now it'll it'll suck the life out of you but if you focused on him who he is that we are going to be like him for eternity that is what will be incredible strength you know Dr. Steve we've got about a minute left here I want to know if you could just take him in I'm sensing in my heart there's a lot of people that need this revelation of Jesus Christ you mentioned about the gross darkness that's covering the earth a lot of people are consumed with fear would you just pray that not only would the spirit of fear be annihilated that hope would be lifted and that this revelation of Jesus Christ would embolden us to stand and even speak into the darkness in these generate in this generation that we're living in. Amen Father in the name of Jesus as Paul prayed for the Ephesian church I pray right now the spirit of wisdom and revelation of insight into the mysteries and secrets in the deep and intimate knowledge of you will flood the eyes of their understanding with the light of the knowledge of the glory of God as revealed in the face of Jesus Lord let us become so consumed with a passion for you so consumed every day seeing you a little bit more that our spirit man cries out holy holy holy utterly transcended you are so amazing God that that focus on you Father as you anoint their minds to see you will give them strength and courage to endure the suffering of this life for we know it only endures for a moment but bless them right now God reveal Jesus to them in a deeper way amen amen well doctor Steve thank you so much for your passion for your fire for your love for Jesus we again I just want to say your book is 30 days of transformation looking unto Jesus such a powerful book to transform our lives so thank you again for your time amen thank you wonderful to see you guys and we'll be back with more hope today right after this cornerstone television has believed in the power prayer sits in synception 44 years ago we invest heavily in our prayer line to provide you with 24 seven personal prayer knowing it brings breakthrough healing and wisdom last year alone we received over 65 000 prayer calls and if you have partnered with us thank you so very much and when you give this month I am so excited to share with you my new book praying on another level it's a 30-day journal to take your prayer life to a new dimension in God you see prayer is how we separate good ideas from God ideas it's how we unlock the door to revelation and it's where we get our strength to build up our spirit man to hear from God throughout our day all that and so much more so call us now at 888-665-4483 or give at ctbn.org forward slash donate to request your copy it is time to take your prayer life to another level now listen if you've gotten if you haven't gotten your hand on that book you need to call right now and get on that and sow a seed into this ministry because I believe prayer is vital to what we're talking about a revelation of Jesus Christ to embolden there is truly darkness covering the earth like the waters are covering the sea but you know what the glory of God is getting ready to come and there is a new revelation of Jesus Christ that is waiting for us pastor Matt and I believe our focus is vital for what God is ready to do in this season you know I love where you're taking it there before we wrapped up with Dr. Steve that's you know there's there's a fear that's consuming the world and it's crazy and the way I like to look at it is it's just a distraction you know fear is such a tactic to get us distracted from the authority that we've been given from just the calling that God has in each and every one of our lives and I okay so I can't help but to think about the story of Peter you know we know this growing up it's a childhood story of getting out of the boat isn't amazing when Jesus called him out he immediately started walking on water you know it didn't take time he immediately started doing the impossible and then when we what I love what Dr. Steve says where's your focus yeah focus on Jesus the author the finisher right so that's where our strength is right the same power that the defeated death hell in the grave is in us through Jesus so I love this it's when Peter took his focus off of Jesus right that's when he began to sink doesn't say you know we you know obviously we know when we keep our focus on Jesus doesn't say that there's not going to be chaos doesn't mean that there's not going to be wind and waves it's whenever we take our eyes our focus off of him the prize off of where our direction should be is when we start to stumble is when we start to fall into fear Anna but I believe that when you keep your focus straight on Jesus on the prize man you begin to walk in authority and the wind and the waves they might be distractions but they don't faze you in this lifetime absolutely see Jesus is the object of our faith so when we are focused on who Jesus is on his power on his promises on who we are to him his great love for us then our faith is inspired it grows and we are able to withstand any circumstance that comes our way it's interesting you talked about Peter I was reading another story of Peter that you might be familiar with what where he was out all night trying to catch fish right he was a fisherman and he was in the morning he was exhausted he had been out and he had not caught any fish so he was discouraged he went back to shore he was cleaning his nets and then Jesus showed up and told him to go back out again think about all the feelings the emotions that Peter was he was discouraged he was tired he just wanted to go home get some good breakfast find some fish to cook up for that breakfast but he said Jesus because you said so I will go back out and when Peter went back out he caught so much fish that it overwhelmed the boat overwhelmed the nets he could not even contain it and I just wonder today if Jesus is saying a promise to your heart if you can't hear those promises get into scripture because he has promised you victory he has promised you strength he has promised you comfort he has promised you purpose in this earth he's ready to display his glory in you and through you and on you as Dr. Steve said we are the glory of Jesus Christ in this earth because we are the church the body of Jesus we are to reveal Christ to those around us so that more will know who Jesus is and that they will bow down to their knees and praise him and give their lives to him amen that's so good Anna you know and I believe there's many of you watching right now that are battling I feel the darkness invading the earth but I'm so glad that you can tune in to shows like hope today to be able to give you hope in this day now listen don't you dare drop your head I know things are looking crazy in the economy we look at our school system and what's happening there the collapses that are happening all around us but listen Jesus is arising he didn't just get up on the third day he's getting up on the last day ladies and gentlemen and he's coming back for a bride without spot wrinkle or blemish and guess what ladies and gentlemen that's me and you so I just pray today that the boldness of Almighty God will come alive within you that the revelation of Jesus Christ has illustrated and demonstrated and written by the prophet John the beloved on the Isle of Patmos in 90 AD come alive in your heart and in your life greater is he that is within you than he that is within the world and if you're battling with fear know that our prayer lines are always available 888-665-4483 the spirit of fear is annihilated, annihilated boldness is coming alive because Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father that's the revelation of Jesus Christ and ladies and gentlemen that is hope