Jesus Christ is the primary, paramount, dominant, cardinal, overriding, preeminent agenda of God for the universe to encounter Jesus. One’s personal encounter and intimacy with Jesus is most important than anything one desires to have, give to or do for God. In this light Jesus Christ must properly be known, understood and handled. It is not just the mention but the revelation motivating the mention. In John 16:25, it is preaching Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery that stabilizes recipients. Whereas in 5:16, the new creature is connected to how Christ is known by them. Let’s know Christ a bit more.

Pre-existent life of Jesus Christ

By pre-existence, we are referring to Jesus Christ having a personal, conscious life before creation was. Jesus was very well alive in a former state before He participated in bringing the universe to being. It means He had a life, position, inheritance, glory and many more at the Father’s side when nothing ever was.

1. Job 38:4, Hebrews 1:10 Jesus was existent ever before He laid the foundation of the earth
   
2. Micah 5:2 -The origin of Jesus is from everlasting or eternity past, from old.
3. Proverbs 8:22-25 – Jesus shares His death and birth, tomb and womb experience as from the dateless past – Job 38:17
4. John 17:5,24 – Before the foundation of the earth and world Jesus had a life with the Father, confirmed by Himself.
   
5. 1 John 1:1 – From the origin He who was with the Father appeared to the sight and trust of the faithfuls.

Pre-incarnation life of Jesus Christ

By this, we are referring to Jesus Christ having a life in the world before he was born to mother Mary. Under the pre-incarnation life of Christ, there’s Him in symbols and tokens, typologies, Christophanies, etc. Well, settle on the Christophanies a little as we appreciate the revelation of the mystery of Christ.

Christophanies refer to the physical appearance of Christ and involvement in men’s lives after creation but before He was born to Mary. John 1:10 makes a clear admission to the Lord’s long existence in the world unnoticed, He was encountered yet was never known.

Let’s look at some of his activities in the days of old. Here, we are not talking about things written about or prophecies concerning Jesus. The rather, we are looking at the physical, personal manifested self in the affairs of men.

Having understood the set up and bringing forth of Jesus Christ in His pre-existent life, we come to know that one of his roles was to reveal the Godhead. God is invisible, as in Exodus 33:20 and 1 Timothy 6:16, but had to be revealed somehow. So, the Son was brought forth to image the unseen, confirmed in Colossians 1:15 and Hebrews 1:3. Himself later admitted in John 14:9 that you see him, you see the father. It follows that wherever 8 and whenever people think they saw God, it was His image, Jesus Christ, they saw.

Let’s look at a personality called the Angel of the Lord mostly, as well as the angel of God in Judges 6:20, the Angel of His Presence in Isaiah 63:9, etc.

First, He met with Hagar in Genesis 16:6-14, but Hagar acknowledged Him as God who sees me.

He appeared unto Abraham in the plains of Mamre in Genesis 18 and on Mount Moriah in Genesis 22. Which appearance Jesus in His incarnation admitted to the Jews in John 8.

Jacob also uncounted Him at Bethel in Genesis 28:10 in a dream as the Lord, God. In Genesis 31:11-13, the Angel of the Lord describes Himself as the God of Bethel. At Peniel, He was the form of a man Jacob calls God seen face to face. An impossibility.

Moses was said to have spoken to God as a friend to a friend face to face, Exodus 33:11, Numbers 12:7-8. How was that possible when no one can see me and live. He met Jesus Christ the image of God.

At Horeb He appeared in a fiery manner as the Angel of the Lord, Exodus 3:2. It turned out that the God called him out of the burning fire, vs. 4. By the 6th verse, He identified Himself as God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I AM THAT I AM in verse 14.

He noticed the affliction of Israel and has come to deliver them, vs 7-8. He further commissioned and sent Moses to go and bring Israel out of Egypt, vs 10.

The Angel of the Lord showed up on behalf of Israel at Pethor where Balaam was going to curse them, Numbers 22:21-35. The 9 Lord and the Angel of the Lord were used interchangeably referring to the same person.

Then also in Judges 13, we see the angel of the Lord appearing to Manoah’s wife and later to Manoah himself, vs 3 & 9. After dealing with them and disappearing in the sacrifice on the altar they came to the discovery they had seen God.

He was the one prophet Isaiah saw in 6:1 and attested to in John 12:41. Ezekiel, Zachariah and many others have records of seeing Him.

The Angel of the Lord appeared in moments national or individual needs, speaks with divine authority and accepts divine worship. This must not be an ordinary angel but ‘The Angel of the Lord (Jehovah).

The incarnation of Christ

By the incarnation life we’re referencing the same pre-existent, pre-incarnate one now finally taking up flesh and becoming human. The information from John at 1:11 opens ones’ eye on Jesus Christ the Son indeed arriving here on earth. Then Apostle Paul also gives a revelation of Him not considering it robbery losing equality with God but took the form of a servant in the likeness of men (incarnated), Philippians 2:6. The incarnation teaches one important belief that Jesus was fully God and became fully man concurrently. Under the incarnation of Christ there are so many facets that affirm a real tangible appearance of Christ in a bodily form. Namely:

1. Prophecies of His incarnation – Genesis 3:15, Psalm 110:1/Mark 12:35-37, Isaiah 7:14, Jeremiah 23:5 10
2. His birth – Isaiah 9:6, Mathew 1:18, Luke 2:7
3. His Life – Luke 2:40-42, 49-52, Acts 10:38
4. His work – John 17:4,11, Hebrews 2:14, John 15:13, Romans 5:8, 1 Corinthians 15:3, 1 Peter 3:18

The post-incarnation life of Christ

By post-incarnation life we refer to Jesus’ life after His death which ended all He came to do on earth. The same which began a new face of life for Him. Under the post-incarnation life of Christ we see some essential things that are critical to the believer’s life. Some are: 1. His resurrection – Mathew 28:2-7, Mark 16:5-7, Acts 2:23-24, 32, Romans 4:25 2. His return into the Father – John 16:27-28, 17:8 3. His Intercessory Work – Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:24-28, 9:24, 1 John 2:1-2 4. Preparing a place & coming back – John 14:1-3, Philippians 3:20-21, Titus 2:13, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 

Conclusion

 Now that we know Jesus Christ this way an altar call to love Him and make Him the center and circumference of all we are and ever would be comes to us. He is the daily delight of the Father, Proverbs 8 and you are His delight how do you respond to Him. Let the following scriptures minister a positive reaction to the invitation of this altar call.

1. Psalm 2:12
2. John 3:30
3. Romans 11:36
4. Galatians 2:20
5. Colossians 1:18
6. Colossians 3:17

There were no Cutting Deep outlines for CYSN MAD Conference 2021 and 2022. Also, MAD Conference 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.