Take on the Character of Christ

Hi, I'm John Humenik. Welcome back to the channel. I'm so excited you're here today because I've got an amazing message. We're going to be talking about the character of Christ. If you're new to my channel, feel free to subscribe and click on that notification bell so that you can be notified whenever we got new content, because we are pumping out some amazing things for the kingdom of God. And today's message is no less important because what we're going to be talking about today is truly understanding how a Christian can walk out life In the character of Jesus Christ and how you can be called to a higher realm operating from the heaven of heavens, seated in Christ Jesus, so that you can walk out victory in every single day. I want to go ahead and set the record straight that there are a lot of Christians, and maybe you're one of them, that are struggling to walk out life in victory. And it is truly important for you to understand is that Christ didn't die on the cross for you to live a life of defeat. He didn't take the 39 lashes on his back for your sickness, your illness, your infirmity, your disease to remain in your body. Christ didn't die on a cross and then be resurrected again for you to remain broke and continue to struggle with your finances and not be able to operate in the kingdom wealth that he has called you to be. Now, a lot of these concepts are really foreign to Christians, and many people will get bothered by these very things. But where is the source of that truth? Where is the fact that what God talks about and happens in your life, where does that come from? Does it come from people's opinions or does it come from the word of God? Because when you study the word of God, you start to understand that truly you are victorious in Christ Jesus, that Christ as well as you doesn't have to walk out in sickness. Jesus was so wealthy that they even cast lots for his clothes 'cause they were so nice. If Jesus walked and that level of opulence as a part of his ministry, where even his treasurer walked with him everywhere he went, then why can't you? What's separating you from being able to walk out these things? Well, truly it's your mindset and receiving all that God has given to you and just being, uh, understanding of that. So today we're gonna start with this concept called the character of Christ and how you can walk out victory so that you can start to receive the very things God wants you to receive so that you can move the kingdom of God forward. Because remember, health and wealth is all about being successful for the kingdom, because it's all about God's kingdom, as is in his dominion, that it comes into this world, and it starts with you. So let's go ahead, hop into the scriptures, and let's talk about these very things, because they may be foreign to you, and you may not truly understand the depth of what's going on. But we're going to kind of unpack this and allow you to truly see all the things God has for you, because that's what he wants. And I'm living proof of that. I'm living a testimony of God walking out life in victory through me in order to be an example for others. So let's hop over to the scriptures. We're going to go over to John chapter 13. We're going to go through verses 1 through 5. I'm going to read from the ESV version because I like this version. It kind of both is, uh, one in the sense that it allows us to see the true wording of the scriptures, but at the same time it's a modern translation so it's easy to understand. Now before the Feast of Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it in the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and he was going back to God, he rose up from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and he took a towel, tied it around his waist, and then poured out water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and wipe them with the towel that wrapped around him. Now I want to start to unpack this a little bit because this is probably one of the most profound Bible verses, in my opinion, for me, not necessarily for you, that affects me in the sense of the character of Jesus Christ. Because here is the King of the universe who is going to go to the cross. We know that the cross and the death of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and therefore his current standing is seated at the right hand of the Father— that for me is the most profound thing he ever did. But I would actually argue that this was probably the second most profound, at least for me, because what he did is he totally humbled himself before the Father, before his disciples, and washed their feet. This is really important to recognize because in order to take on the character of Christ, humility must be the cornerstone in which you operate, because it's not for you that you are doing the things, but it is for the King and his dominion as a part of your walk in Christ. This is key because when you start to understand is, is that Jesus, to a degree, really, when you think about this, took on the perspective of a servant or even a slave. And in many circles in Jewish time, this would be an utter humiliation. Imagine taking today any renowned person that you respect, whoever that might be, and then having them wash the feet of, let's say, homeless people, let's say people in jail, people that might be walking about the street. If you saw someone like President Joe Biden or President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris or Vice President J.D. Vance, picture those, picture those 4 just from that perspective, and imagine those 4, one of them going into any of those areas or somewhere else and basically stripping themselves down and washing the feet of sinners, basically. What you get is the perspective what Jesus did here, is that the King of the universe was able to come down on this earth and show that by service, it is how you walk in the character of Christ. This is important to understand because it's not about us. We don't do the things that we do, even in the fact when you think about it from the things that we just talked about, when you talk about kingdom health and kingdom wealth, those things truly at the end of the day are meant for others. You can't operate in kingdom provision. You can't operate in kingdom dominion if you are sick. If you are sick all the time and crippled, struggling, back problems, you're constantly having problems in your lungs or your heart, or you're dealing with cancer over and over again, you can't walk out victorious life. And because you can't walk out a victorious life, others are affected because God is calling you to those things. That's the thing that Jesus did. That's the essence of what he did here. Imagine that he took himself, humbled himself down to a lower level, and that even in what many people would consider humiliation, many people would consider defeat, he humbles himself. He Basically strips himself down and washes the feet. Now the thing about it is, is that Judas Iscariot was a part of the people that he washed their feet. He didn't say that he left, he just said Satan said it had entered his heart. And so what happened is Satan incented Simon, uh, Judas Iscariot, you know, Simon's son. And what he did was, is that he hung around and Jesus washed the feet. the foot, the feet of the person who was gonna betray him. Because what you see is, is even in John throughout those chapters, the Gospel of John, what you see is Jesus contending for Judas not to sin, even though he knows he's the devil, even though he knows he's the son of perdition, even though he knows he was evil. At the end of the day, Jesus still contended for him. So even in that moment, the character of Christ came out, bubbled up to the surface, and showed that even though that these people around him were sinners, that even though they were all about to betray him, even to a degree John, although many people believe that John kind of hung around, but he did leave him in the Garden of Gethsemane, that all these things were going to happen, Jesus still washed their feet. Jesus knew these things were going to happen, and yet he still did it. That's the essence of the character of Christ, is, is that he's humble. He doesn't hold the actions of the past or even the prophetic actions of the future against them. That's incredible, because Jesus knew these things were going to happen, but yet I'm going to walk out life in victory, and I'm going to show my disciples how to walk it out. Let's go ahead and hop into another scripture. 1 Peter 1:15-16. It says, but as he who called you is holy, but also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, you shall be holy, for I am holy. Now, this is extremely important about the character of Christ. When you start to unpack holiness, even in this context of this message, it is so difficult for me to be able to try to articulate the depth of what it means to have the holiness of God. Because there's so much to it. But what it does mean is that you need to walk out a holy life. This is something that we talk about on this channel all the time, the 4 pillars of Christianity. You know, being able to read the word of God, walk out a life of righteousness and holiness, being a prayerful life, and being a worshiper. It's so important that your— that those 4 pillars are part of your walk. It's so key. But you have to be holy. What it means is, is that you need to hate sin. Hebrews talks about this in great detail. That you truly have to hate sin. You love sin, and I have loved sin in the past because I could say this from my own testimony, because I believed that that sin could satisfy me and God couldn't. That, that sin, that was okay for me to commit because I could have God forgive me later. That, that sin was the only way for me to feel and experience the truth of what God wanted me to accomplish and feel, which is crazy. But yet that's some truth here, is that— because that's some of the things I believed. But that is leaving God and saying you're not good enough. That's what sin is. But that's what sin was to me. And I'm sure some of you can relate to that, because what you start to see is when you recognize what sin does from you, it's just separation from God. It's death. It's what the wages of sin are— death. So all of these things, what it does is it separates you from the Eternal One. And when you're separated from eternity, It is death. And that's what God is talking about. He wants you to walk out life as a holy person. He wants you to take the sin that so easily ensnares you, that so, so quickly snatches you, and just say, I'm not interested anymore. That, that sin is now repulsive. The thing that you wanted so greatly, that you enjoyed, that you even relished in, now becomes the thing that you're just like, you almost want to vomit at. That's where God is at, because that's what God does is he takes the things that you see that you think are good, that you think are okay, that you think are a standard in which you can operate, and he just shuns it. And he says, I am the standard, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life, I'm the vine, I'm all those things that you need to strive for. And so that at the end of the day, we just have to receive it. We have to receive it because this isn't a game of toil. This isn't a life of works. What What it is, is a, it's a relationship with Jesus Christ, walking things out day by day by day, hand in hand with the King of the Universe, knowing that mercies and graces are new every day, that these opportunities, that these things that you're dealing with, that the things that you're struggling with, that the things that you're being able to un— you can't just undo in your life, that that's the essence of what God is doing, is, is he wants you to let him in. That's the whole point. He wants you to come into his presence. He wants you to lay down those burdens. He wants you to give those things up, come into a place of worship, and come to a place where he knows that he is the only one that can save you and help you through the situation. And then when you recognize that it isn't your holiness that you take on, it's Christ's holiness that you take on as a part of your walk, because you become the righteousness of Christ, because that's who you are as a Christian. You are the righteousness of Christ. You identify with the King of the universe. That's why evolution is so evil. When you look at evolution and all the things it does, it wants you to identify with an animal, to take away your identity from that which is where you belong. That's what the thing is. They want to take something that's holy and make it unholy. They want to make something that is set aside apart and sacred and make it common and almost basically discardable. That's what this scripture says. It's so power-packed. And again, I could go on for hours about this, but we're gonna have to continue on because we got to talk about this last scripture, which is Ephesians five. Verses 1 through 2, and it says, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children and walk in his love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Now this is powerful because what we see here is— what we're noticing is, is that first and foremost it's saying imitate God. Because that's the thing, we are children of God. You are son or daughter of the King. Don't allow anyone to say any different. That's who you are. You belong to Christ. Because you're beloved, you need to walk out life in love. You need to walk out the way God loved you so that you can love others. And the same way he gave himself up for us becomes a fragrant offering, that he's a living and breathing sacrifice for us all. That's the essence of what God wants to do, because your life doesn't belong to you anymore. Your life belongs to the King of Kings. The thing that a lot of people understand is when, when Christians make that statement, Like, especially myself. You're like, well, why would I want to do that? Why would I want to give up my life for the King? Because it says those who delight themselves in the Father, in the Son, those who delight themselves in the Lord, God will give you the desires of your heart. The things that you're searching for, that you want to control, the things you want to enjoy in this life, the things you want to experience in your life. God already knew that because he put it inside of you. Here is the thing that a lot of Christians miss. Is that God already wants those things for you, and he's willing to give those things for you. But you have to turn around and walk the life that God wants you to walk as a living sacrifice, as a fragrant offering poured out before the Lord, like a drink offering, what Paul talks about, so that you can walk out the things he wants you to do. And then along the path that you walk, these things come along and meet you because you don't have to pursue them because they're given to you. They're received. That's the essence of the kingdom of God. That's why people who talk about prosperity gospel and they talk about the wealth and all the things that come with it, the thing that they miss is, is that this super rich in all of history belong to God. And that's what's missing is, is that that blessing is meant to be a part of kingdom business and how you walk out life in kingdom finance, which is why I even created a second YouTube channel to talk about It's so important because these are the things that God wants for you, because he's put it in your heart for you to strive for. But you don't pursue those things. You pursue God as a living sacrifice. Those things come along, along the way, and then you use those for his kingdom work so that you can continue to push out the gospel into the dark places of the planet, that you can have crusades where 100,000 people show up and you can feed them and give them drinks and have shelter for them. for them, that you can do the things for them, that you can have materials for them to go to church after they get saved. You can't do those things in this world without money, and you can't do it at scale without having a lot of money. In fact, you can't do it at the scale you think you need to do it unless you're approaching hundreds of millions of dollars. Look at what Billy Graham did with his ministry and the things he did with Samaritan's Purse and all the things he did. His, his ministry valued is in the billions. I mean, he had hundreds of millions of dollars on cash on hand, but his ministry was valued in the billions. And look at what he did. He could have a stadium crusade and rent out an entire stadium for an entire week, have hundreds of thousands of people come, have hundreds of thousands of people serve, and be able to support those ministries across all the things he did across the United States. And would he be able to do that work Because he had the finances to accomplish the work that God did. But those finances, just to be clear, came at a later time. This was something that he had to work towards and build up the character that was in him. When you see the character of a man of God like Billy Graham, or even other pastors that you may know, or other evangelists, apostles, and prophets, or great teachers, what you're seeing is, is this is a lifestyle that— of sacrifice to God. That they walk things out, that they gave themselves up as a living, fragrant sacrifice to God over time. It was basically getting them out of them and getting God in them. And it's not so much that it's they would have more of the Holy Spirit, but rather the Holy Spirit has more of them. Think about it from that perspective. It's about God and being able to walk out life victorious in the kingdom principles so that you could serve God in great ways. So I'm excited that you were able to watch this video. And if you got to this point of video, thank you for watching this part so far. We do have a free Patreon membership. So if you are interested, you can go to patreon.com/johnhumenik. There we've got an entire membership group that you can continue to be plugged into community and get edified and growed in the kingdom of God. So go ahead, go there. That's free. And if you do want to, you can also donate to this ministry because our vision is to preach the gospel throughout the entire world before the rapture. It's Matthew 24:14. That's what we're here to do. 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