THE VICTOR’S MENTALITY 20 (Knowing Jesus Is Knowing Truth 4)

By God’s grace, in today’s article, we’ll finish what we started about knowing Jesus intimately in the Scriptures. We’ve already discussed three ways to see Jesus intimately through the Scriptures:

• Photographically in the Gospels

• Doctrinally in the Epistles

• Prophetically in the Old Testament

By God’s grace, I’ll share two more in this article. You can check the previous article to get the full experience of what we’ve taught.

Another way we must know Jesus, who is the truth, is:

4. Experientially in the Believer’s Life

We need to understand that knowing and seeing Jesus goes beyond theological or intellectual knowledge; the aim must be to know Jesus personally and experientially. That’s what I intend to share with you in today’s write-up and this is the aim of the Scriptures. We’ve talked about knowing Jesus through the Gospels, Epistles, and Old Testament—all to these is to an end that it leads us to a living relationship with the person of Christ.

To have an experiential relationship with Christ means always seeing Christ in us, shaping our identity, desires, and destiny. It’s seeing Christ, through His eternal Spirit, conforming us in thought and mind to the image of who we’ve become in Him in our spirit man. To experience Christ means direct participation in all that Christ has done and has become to us.

For instance:

Scripture shows that Christ is our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek:

“So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest… As He says also in another place, ‘You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.’” (Hebrews 5:5-6 NKJV) Knowing Him experientially means seeing Him perform the role of a High Priest in your life, just like Melchizedek. You see Christ as the One who always comes to us with bread and wine through the influence of the Holy Spirit. It means being so confident that after every challenge, you cannot be out—you cannot be without vitality. To experience Him personally in this light means always expecting strength to be infused into our weak hearts.

When Psalm 23 says, “The Lord is my Shepherd,” it means we always expect to hear His voice leading us, even in the darkest night. It’s being conscious of the ever-abiding presence of the Good Shepherd who said He will never leave us nor forsake us.

This is God’s intention for our lives: to meet Christ personally and experientially through the Scriptures, to see the Word come alive in us. We need to have an experiential knowledge of Christ to the extent that our living is Christ living, and our being is Christ Himself.

Lastly:

5. Knowing Jesus Eschatologically in Revelation

While the Gospels reveal Jesus in humility, and the Epistles reveal Him in doctrine, the book of Revelation shows Jesus in unveiled majesty and eschatological glory—as the Alpha and Omega, the Risen King, the Judge of the nations, the Bridegroom of the Church, and the Lamb upon the throne.

“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,” (Revelation 1:1 NKJV)

The book is not primarily about future events—it’s about the unveiling of Jesus Christ in His final glory.

For instance:

•  Revelation 1:12–18 – John sees Jesus in radiant splendor, with eyes like fire and a voice like many waters.

•  Revelation 5:6–14 – The Lamb who was slain is now exalted, worshipped by heaven and earth. He alone is worthy to open the scrolls—to execute God’s redemptive and judicial plan for the ages.

•  Revelation 19:11–16 – Christ is seen riding a white horse, Faithful and True, crowned with many crowns, coming to judge and make war in righteousness. He is revealed as the Warrior King and Lord of lords.

Knowing Jesus eschatologically means seeing Him not just as He was (the Lamb on the cross), but as He is now and forever—the King of Glory. This keeps us going, even when confronted with trials, knowing the end has already been written—Christ wins, and we reign with Him. Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah!