What Happens When A Sinner Sees The Lord Jesus

What Happens When A Sinner Sees The Lord Jesus

     What happened when Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus? Isaiah 6:1 says In the year that king Uzziah died I (Isaiah) saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Isaiah 6:5 describes what happened when Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus. Isaiah said Woe is me. for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

     Like Isaiah, daily see the Lord Jesus crucified high and lifted up and repent saying Woe is me. for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.

     Like Isaiah, repent and get saved. A person repents when they decide to stop sinning. Repentance is a requirement to be saved. 2 Corinthians 7:10 says For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Jesus commanded everyone to repent. Acts 17:30 says And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent. Jesus said at Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 24:47 says And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses (not Jehovah Witnesses) of these things. 

     Repentance is a gift from God that is required to be saved. This is proven by Acts 11:18 that says When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Salvation with the Lord Jesus is a two step process. First a person repents to God and then they have faith in the Lord Jesus to get saved with Jesus. Repentance without faith in the Lord Jesus can not save a person.

     Repentance is married to faith. You need both repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus to be saved. Acts 20:20 says And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you. but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance turns you from sin and faith turns you to Jesus. Repentance brings you out of sin and faith brings you in to Jesus. Repentance causes you to stop sinning and faith causes you to start living for Jesus. Repentance causes you to quit sinning and faith causes you to begin living for Jesus.

     Repentance and good works without faith in the Lord Jesus can not save a person. Ephesians 2:8 says For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. But we do good works to witness Jesus everywhere and save lost sinners. 

     Christians will be rewarded for their good works after the rapture by Jesus at the bema judgment seat in heaven. James 2:20 says But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? This is why Ephesians 2:10 goes on to say For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

     Proverbs 28:13 speaks about repentance. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Notice that this scripture says if anyone covers their sins and refuses to repent, they shall not prosper. But if anyone confesseth and forsaketh (stops sinning), they shall have mercy. A lot of people just confess and say they will stop sinning. But a person must also repent and forsake their sins (stop sinning) to have mercy.

     What happened when Job saw the Lord Jesus? Job told the Lord Jesus at Job 42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Like Job, when we see the Lord Jesus, we'll abhor our sinful flesh, get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for us, was buried, and rose again. 

     Numbers 32:23 says Be sure your sin will find you out. Romans 6:23 says For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. If you don't get rid of sin, sin will get rid of you. It's wrong to say I haven't sinned because I'm a good person even if I don't get saved with Jesus. Remaining neutral about Jesus is a rejection of Jesus. Jesus said at Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.  

      Note the following scriptures that tell us to repent and live holy lives for the Lord Jesus to be blessed. 1 Corinthians 15:33 says Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.1 John 2:1 says My little children, these things I write unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

     What happened when Daniel saw the Lord Jesus? Daniel 10:5 says Then I (Daniel) lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: His body also was like the beryl, and His face as the appearance of lightning, and His eyes as lamps of fire, and His arms and His feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of His words like the voice of a multitude. And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. 

     Daniel saw a pre incarnate theophany manifestation of the Lord Jesus.  This was the same vision of the Lord Jesus that John saw on the isle of Patmos. Revelation 1:12 says And I (John) turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shineth in His strength.

     Note that Daniel's vision was almost identical to John's vision of the Lord Jesus. Jesus has a girdle belt of fine gold around his loins, His body is like beryl (yellow and orange jasper, like a consuming fire), His face is like lightning as the sun shineth in His strength, His eyes are like lamps and flames of fire, His arms and feet are like fine polished brass that burned in a furnace, and His voice is as the sound of many waters, like the voice of a multitude whose Word is like a sharp twoedged sword. 

     The reaction of Daniel's companions (who felt a great terror and fled, even though they didn't see the vision, similar to Paul's experience on the road to Damascus) also suggests that Daniel saw a pre incarnate theophany manifestation of the Lord Jesus. 

     Like Daniel, when we see the Lord Jesus, we also will admit that we have a corrupt sinful nature that needs the blood of Jesus to cleanse and remove our sins. Ephesians 2:3 says Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved; And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

     Titus 3:3 says For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.

     What happened when Habakkuk saw the Lord Jesus? Habakkuk 3:16 says When I (Habakkuk) heard, my belly trembled, my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble; when He cometh up unto the people, He will invade them with His troops.

     What happened when Saul (Paul) saw the Lord Jesus Christ? Like Habakkuk, Saul also trembled and was astonished when he saw the Lord Jesus. Acts 9:3 says And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

     After Saul the sinner saw the Lord Jesus, Saul went to straight street. Like Saul, when sinners repent, God sends them to straight street. God doesn't send anyone to crooked street. This is because Matthew 7:13 says Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The strait gate is on straight street. You can't get in the strait gate on crooked street.  Pictured above Ananias obeyed Jesus' request at Acts 9:11 and arose and went into a street which is called Straight and enquired in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth. And after Ananias prayed for Saul, Saul became Paul and received his sight.

     Like Paul, after we see the Lord Jesus, we'll say 1 Timothy 1:15. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Like Paul, after God shines the light of conviction on us and we see ourselves as wretched sinners, we'll all agree with Romans 7:18 and say For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. We'll say Romans 7:24. O wretched man that I am. who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

     What happened to Peter when he saw the Lord Jesus? Peter told the Lord Jesus at Luke 5:8 Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. Peter acknowledged that he was a sinful man and repented before the Lord Jesus.

     Peter was a sinner who was a sabbath keeping, pork abstaining, synagogue going, circumcised Jew that didn't have anything to do with Gentiiles. But Peter was blessed and repented by obeying God's command to visit the Gentile Cornelius' house and rejoice that the gift of the Holy Ghost was received by a Gentile Roman centurion named Cornelius. Let's be like Peter and repent of our sinful traditions and live daily for the Lord Jesus while we witness the Lord Jesus everywhere.

     The above picture shows us what happened to Peter after John brought him into the palace where Jesus was being tried. Note that the picture accurately shows the damsel in the palace, the maid on the porch, and Malchus (the soldier whose ear Peter injured that Jesus healed) all accusing Peter of being with Jesus, while Peter denied the Lord Jesus thrice after the rooster crowed twice.

Why do most preachers like chicken?

They're trying to get rid of that crowing rooster

A preacher's belt ain't nothing but a fence around a chicken's graveyard

     John 18:17 says Then saith the damsel that kept the door (of the palace) unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not. Then the maid on the porch told Peter at Matthew 26:71 This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he (Peter) denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 

     Then Malchus recognized Peter at John 18:26 that says One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with Him? I'm sure Malchus remembered that Peter was the one who injured his ear. John 18:27 says Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew. Matthew 26:74 says Then began he (Peter) to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

     Don't be like Peter who associated with evil companions by warming himself by the fading fires of this world enjoying the temporary pleasures of sin that end in misery. Luke 22:55 says And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them. Peter warmed himself by the enemy's fire. Peter got his thrill the same way sinners in the world got their thrill.

      Don't be like Peter and get your thrills the same way the world gets its thrills (warming yourself by the world's fire). In other words when you get your thrills the same way sinners in the world get their thrills (smoking pot, drinking beer, fornicating, cursing, and wasting all day texting on your cellphone and posting gossip on facebook) you're falling away from God. Remember James 4:4 says Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

     It's easy to float downstream with the world's current. But decide today to live for Jesus and go upstream against the world's current. You know that you are growing with Jesus when you become less like the world. An old Japanese missionary used to say that the duty of every christian in any age is to discern the spirit of the age and then to go diametrically opposed to it. 

     Take time to read how my good friend Pastor Sonny Mull described how Peter denied Jesus. This is anointed, so read it and rejoice for joy. First, a damsel in the palace accused Peter of being a disciple that followed Jesus, and Peter said I am not, I don't know the man. And then a maid on the porch accused him and he denied it again. And then Malchus, the soldier whose ear Peter injured in the garden, He said, You are one of them, I saw you in the garden. I'm sure Malchus had a good memory of Peter as the man who attacked him in the Garden of Gethsemane.

     And so in  order for Peter to escape these accusations, Peter had to curse and swear that he did not know Jesus. Some of you boys down at your workplace will tell a dirty joke so your coworkers will leave you alone. You don't want to be too religious because your coworkers will pick on you. So you'll curse and swear like the rest of them so they'll think you're just another old joe that wants to be friends. Bless God friend, be a man on your job, willing to be persecuted for Jesus, and stand up for Jesus, stand up for Jesus.

     By the time Peter got done cursing and swearing that he did not know Jesus, the rooster crowed Er, Er, Er, Er, Er and old Peter fell on his face and started crying. A preaching chicken and a chicken preacher were face to face. But Peter, James, and John were three special disciples that went a little farther into the Garden of Gethsemane with Jesus. They might have fell down but they didn't stay down long. Peter wept bitterly and repented that he denied Jesus three times and became one of the greatest preachers that ever lived.

     Now after Jesus was crucified and died, Peter and the disciples again got discouraged and decided to go fishing shown by the two pictures above, and Peter fished naked. Peter and the disciples got discouraged and decided to fish instead of preach about Jesus. After Jesus died, Peter said I go a fishing. 7 disciples (Peter, Thomas, Nathaniel, James, John, and two other disciples) said We'll go with you. 

     When Jesus died, the disciples thought well it's all over, we might as well go back to fishing. You know that you're backsliding when you return to your former habits of this world before you got saved. Philippians 3:13 says Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

     And they were out there in the boat fishing all night and hadn't caught a thing. And at daylight, Jesus was on the shore walking and the disciples didn't know who He was. And Jesus said, Hey boys Did you catch any fish? And the disciples realized it was the Lord and replied Not a bite. Then Jesus said Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Then John recognized Jesus and told Peter that Jesus was on the shore. Peter immediately covered his nakedness and girt his fisher's coat unto him, and did cast himself into the sea. And the other disciples came in a little ship; for they were not far from land, but as it were 200 cubits, dragging the net with fishes.

Why did Peter and the disciples catch 153 fish?

     John 21:11 says Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, 153, and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken. Note that the Greek definition for 153 is a quantity so great or an infinite number. In other words Peter and the disciples were as the angels of God reapers in heaven who caught an infinite number of souls (153 fish) that were both good and bad fish. 

     To understand why Peter and the disciples caught 153 fish, one must understand the parable of the net that did not break that held the 153 fish stated at Matthew 13:47. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

     The 153 fish did not break Peter's net because all sinners from the beginning of time can not escape God's judgment. God says at Amos 9:2 Though they (lost sinners) dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. 

     All the saved saints will be as the angels of God that separate the good fish from the bad fish in the net of 153 infinite fish. Matthew 22:30 says For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. 1 Corinthians 6:2 says Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world (at the great white throne judgment)? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

     Remember how important it is to witness Jesus to lost sinners everywhere. If we fail to witness Jesus when the Holy Ghost compels us to tell lost sinners about Jesus, choosing to please our selfish desires, we will have to judge these lost sinners we failed to witness to and weep while we cast them into the lake of fire. Therefore make sure you tell everyone before they die how to get saved. Then it's up to that person to decide about getting saved with the Lord Jesus.  

     God doesn't wipe away tears and the memory of lost loved ones and friends in the lake of fire until after 1000 years in the kingdom of God. Revelation 21:4 says And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. If God didn't erase the bad memories of lost sinners in the lake of fire, saved saints would weep for eternity. Thankfully, in the kingdom of God all bad thoughts and memories will be removed where there will be no devil. God says at Isaiah 65:17 For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 

Brother Bob refuses to weep for 1000 years and tells people how to get saved

Repent, decide to stop sinning, 

Confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel

That Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again

     John 21:1 describes the above story. After these things Jesus shewed Himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed He Himself. There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

     John 21:4 goes on to say But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered Him, No. And He said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

     Notice that after Peter pictured above realized that Jesus was raised from the dead, Peter never quit or backed up again, and he never got naked again in public. Peter became a great man of God. Pictured above the bible says that once Peter got straightened out, Peter would walk down streets by the blind, deaf, dumb, halt, lame,  and all crippled people who laid on the sidewalk, and when Peter walked by while the sun was shining, every time Peter's shadow fell on somebody, they jumped up healed. I encourage everyone reading this to be like Peter and continue to daily go on with Jesus realizing that the blood of Jesus removes our past mistakes making us worthy to preach the gospel to the nations, irregardless of our past mistakes.

     The story about the picture above of Peter's shadow healing multitudes of people is at Acts 5:14. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one. No one ever walked away sick in the presence of Jesus or Peter's anointed shadow.

Revelations About John 3:16

     For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son (Cost), that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (Condition), but have everlasting life (Consequence). Behold the length: For God so loved the world. Behold the depth: That He gave His only begotten Son. Behold the breadth: That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish. Behold the height: But have everlasting life. 

     For God (the greatest lover) so loved (the greatest degree) the world (the greatest number), that He gave (the greatest act) His only begotten Son (the greatest gift), that whosoever (the greatest invitation), believeth (the greatest simplicity) in Him (the greatest person), shall not perish (the greatest deliverance), but (the greatest difference) have (the greatest certainty) everlasting life (the greatest possession). 

     Note the following blessed revelations about John 3:16.  Notice that in John 3:16 we can see the word gospel. John 3:16 says For G God so loved the world, that He gave His O only begotten S Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not P perish, but have E everlasting L life. Since the word valentine appears in John 3:16, you can preach about John 3:16 on Valentine's Day. John 3:16 has 25 words and the the center word is Son or Jesus with 12 words before Son and 12 words after Son. 

     I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.