Disciples Receive Revelation from Jesus

John writes about Jesus and says in John 2:24, “But Jesus on His part did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all people.” Jesus only reveals Himself to those He can trust. He knows our hearts and so He knows who He can trust.

In Matthew 11:27 Jesus says, “All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”

Jesus reveals Himself and the Father only to those that He knows love Him and thus He can trust.

Disciples receive revelation from Jesus.

Jesus reveals three things to His disciples.

Jesus reveals Himself.

John 21:1
After this Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and He revealed Himself in this way.

Jesus shows His disciples who He is. He wants His disciples to know who they are following.

Those who don’t know Jesus will never be able to share with the world who Jesus is. We have to know someone intimately to share who they really are with others.

Jesus wants the world to know Him so He reveals Himself to His disciples. He knows that He can trust them to share the real Jesus with the world.



Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about knowing Jesus.

Jesus reveals His purpose.

In John 13 Jesus washes His disciples’ feet, and in verses 13 to 15 Jesus says, “You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right for so I am. If I then your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.”

Jesus is telling and show His disciples that He came to serve and wants them to serve in His name and spirit.

In Mark 10:45 Jesus says, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus is telling His disciples that He came to ransom them from the slavery of sin. He did this by giving the only thing that could be the ransom for sin - His Life.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls  is about knowing the purpose for Jesus’ coming.

Jesus reveals His ways.

Matthew 16:21
From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Jesus reveals to His disciples that He would have to die. He also reveals to them that He would rise from the dead.

The disciples didn’t get it at first. They had a distorted view of what Jesus, the Messiah would do and of how He would do it.

Without Jesus revealing the truth to His disciples they didn’t know who He really was, what His purpose in coming was or how He would accomplish His purpose.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about understanding the ways God goes about accomplishing His purposes.

In Isaiah 55:8-9 God tells us about His ways. He says, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

The disciples in the Gospels had Jesus to reveal those truths to them.

What do we have?

Acts 13:52
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

We have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth so He will reveal truth to us. The Holy Spirit will always point us to Jesus and reveal Him, His purpose, and His ways.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about being filled by the Holy Spirit so we can know the truth of God and experience the work of Jesus in our lives.

The result of having the truth of God revealed to us as Jesus’ disciples is awe.

In Matthew 21:20, Mark 10:24, and John 4:27 it says that the disciples marveled or were amazed or surprised at what Jesus told them or showed them. The word means they saw and heard but it was so beyond them that they were astounded. In my thinking Jesus “blew them away”. He literally “rocked their world.” It was beyond anything the disciples has ever heard or experienced before.

Jesus should awe us:
The truth that Jesus is God in the flesh should awe us.
The truth that Jesus shares truth with us should awe us.
The truth that Jesus shares who He is with us should awe us.
The truth that Jesus died for us should awe us.

If you are not awed by Jesus, you don’t really know Jesus.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is about Jesus awing us.

The purpose for Jesus making Himself known to us,
The purpose of Jesus sharing His purpose with us,
The purpose of Jesus showing His ways to us,
The purpose of us being filled with His Spirit,
The purpose of us being in awe of Jesus
Is To Make Him Known To The World!

Through the Revelation of Jesus Raising The Roof and Removing the Walls
Joe