In a previous episode, we saw that knowing God is not meant to remain devotional—it leads into dominion, delegated authority, and Kingdom action. We traced authority from Genesis to Jesus to the Church and saw that God’s purpose in authority is not self-exaltation, but salvation. Now we move deeper into First John and focus on one remarkable word: revealed. How God’s Revealed Word Surges Remarkable Life in Him, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: How God’s revealed Word makes His life, your identity, and your authority visible—and why you must walk in what has already been revealed.

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Each week’s podcast contains a call to action. The Word of God will not produce in your life unless you put into operation.
This weeks call is:

See It. Walk It. Live It.

What God reveals, He expects you to walk in.

This week, identify one truth God has already shown you—and act on it. • If it’s identity—walk like who you are. • If it’s love—express it in obedience. • If it’s authority—use it.

Don’t wait for more revelation.

Respond to what you already know.

Because breakthrough is not in discovering something new— it’s in obeying what has already been revealed.

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Each week’s podcast also contains a question designed to encourage testimony. Testimony is vital to a believers life. We overcome by it (Rev. 12:11).

This week’s question is:

Question: What is one truth God has revealed to you that you need to start walking out more consistently?

Share: What step can you take this week to move from knowing to doing?

Remember: You don’t need more revelation to grow—you need to respond to what God has already made visible.

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Emery committed his life to the Lord Jesus Christ over 49 years ago and has served as both a full-time pastor and an itinerant minister. Both he and his wife Sharon of 44 years emphasize personal growth and development through the Word of God. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is both the focus and the hallmark of their mission. Read more about them here.

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God’s Revealed Word: Reviewing A Previous Episode

1 John 1:1–2 (NASB 2020) — 1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—2 and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was revealed to us—

• In a previous episode, we explored how knowing God is never meant to remain a merely devotional idea—it is meant to lead into dominion, delegated authority, and Kingdom action.
• We traced the thread of authority from Genesis, where man was created to rule, through the ministry of Jesus, where authority was openly demonstrated over demons, sickness, and darkness, and into the Church, where believers are called to pray, stand, and exercise the authority Jesus delegated through His Name.
• We also saw in First John that knowing God, walking in love, separating from the world, and overcoming deception all work together, leading believers to discover and walk in the authority Christ has already given them.
• We talked about reading the scripture with the overlay of authority.
• Understanding that the great purpose behind this authority is not self-exaltation, but salvation—that through prayer, faith, and obedience, darkness would be pushed back and doors would open for people to come to the knowledge of the truth.
• Now, in this next episode, we move deeper into that same letter of First John by focusing on one remarkable word: revealed.
• If authority flows out of knowing God, then what God makes visible is the doorway into both.
• Because if authority flows out of knowing God, then we must ask: how is that life of God made known to us in the first place?
• John tells us that eternal life was revealed, and that revealed life is what surges the believer into fellowship, truth, confidence, and remarkable life in Him.
• So today, we are going to look at how God’s revealed Word does more than inform you—it imparts life, opens your eyes, and draws you into a living, transforming experience with Jesus.

God’s Revealed Word: Making The Life Visible

• The word ‘revealed’ appears in First John multiple times.
• Reread verses one and two and drop the verse marker out of your thinking.
• This is what you have: We looked, we gazed, we touched the Word of Life and the life was revealed.
• Even though the apostles saw Him, heard Him, and touched Him directly, the life He carried still had to be revealed.
• And with that thought, here is the Illustration of the Day.

In 1895, a German physicist named Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was working late in his laboratory with a vacuum tube—a glass tube where electricity passed through a vacuum. He covered the tube with black cardboard so no visible light could escape. But across the room, a fluorescent screen suddenly began to glow.

That shouldn’t have happened. The tube was covered—yet something invisible was coming out of it, passing through the cardboard, traveling across the room, and lighting up the screen.

Röntgen began experimenting. He placed his wife’s hand in front of the tube—and for the first time in history, the inside of a living human body became visible. The invisible energy passed through flesh—but not through bone—so the bones appeared clearly on the screen, even the ring on her finger.

Nothing new was created in that moment. The bones had always been there.

• That’s exactly what John is saying.
• The life was there—but it had to be made visible.
• Jesus didn’t become life when He came into His ministry—He was life.

John 1:4 (NASB 2020) — 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind.

• That life was the light of men.
• Light equals development.
• But that life had to be made visible, revealed, manifest to those looking at Him.
• You see, life was staring the disciples right in the face but they didn’t know who He was.
• Religious leaders looked at Him eyeball to eyeball and they had no clue.
• He cleansed lepers.
• He healed a servant at a distance.
• He restored Peter’s mother-in-law from a deadly fever.
• He stilled a violent storm.
• He cast thousands of demons out of a man.
• He forgave and healed a paralyzed man.
• He healed a woman suffering for twelve years.
• He raised a ruler’s daughter from the dead.
• He restored sight to the blind.
• He walked on water.
• He multiplied bread and fish—twice.
• He healed crowds everywhere He went.
• Manifestations.
• Demonstrations.
• Power on display.
• Miracles and manifestations galore and Jesus has to ask.

Matthew 16:13 (NASB 2020) — 13…“Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

• They saw everything yet understood nothing.
• They saw it.
• They heard it.
• They were standing in it.
• And still—they understood nothing.
• They had ringside seats and they didn’t know who Jesus was.
• The trend today continues.
• Jesus became visible but the visible must be revealed.
• People meet Jesus, hear about Jesus, even pray to Jesus—and still have no idea who He really is.
• God’s Word is your X-Ray.
• He has to be revealed.
• You cannot walk in what has not been revealed.

Defining ‘Revealed’

• With that thought, here is the Definition of the Day.
• The word ‘revealed’ is the verb phaneroō (φανερόω) and it means to make visible the invisible.
• It’s typically translated as revealed, made manifest, or appeared.
• In the case of Jesus, Deity was revealed in a flesh and bone body.
• That deity was invisible to Mary, Joseph, his siblings, and his disciples.
• As He came to His own, Jesus displayed a life no inhabitant of Planet Earth had ever known except Adam briefly in the beginning.
• John calls Jesus the logos of zoē—the Word of Life—the One through whom divine life is revealed and imparted.
• A life produced by the Word— and reproducible today through the written Word.
• You heard what I said correctly.
• The same life that was revealed in Jesus is reproduced in believers through the written Word when it is believed and obeyed.

1 John 2:6 (NASB 2020) — 6 the one who says that he remains in Him ought, himself also, walk just as He walked.

• People do not enjoy the life the Word produces because they don’t walk as He walked.
• Full life is IN HIM.
• To the degree that you walk IN HIM is the degree that you enjoy that life.
• Now, what is this life?

John 17:3 (NASB 2020) — 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

• Eternal life is knowing God.
• Meeting Jesus and knowing Jesus are not the same.
• Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are so valuable to walking as He walked.
• Immerse yourself in these four books especially if you want to know Jesus.

1 Timothy 4:15 (ESV) — 15 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.

• Paul told Timothy, “Practice these things; immerse yourself in them.”
• The word ‘immerse’ means to throw yourself fully into something—to become absorbed in it.
• You could say ‘being up to his ears in’ or ‘throwing oneself into a task.’
• Immersion is intensity.
• Continuous rather than sporadic.
• Acknowledging that you want to know God and saturating yourself in that pursuit is worlds apart.[1 William D. Mounce, Pastoral Epistles, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2000), 46:264.]
• So, revealed is making visible the Life of God.
• God’s Word is your X-Ray.

God’s Revealed Word: Making Identity Visible

• Revealed is also making your identity visible.

1 John 3:2–5 (NASB 2020) — 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope set on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

• Allow the first seven words to penetrate: Beloved, now we are children of God.
• You are beloved of God.
• The word ‘Beloved’ means dearly loved and cherished.
• Sometimes preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
• Well, I thought God shows no partiality.
• That’s true, what He does for one, He will do for all.
• But He is partial to faith.
• Faith is God’s taste.
• That was evident when a weak, emaciated, hemorrhaging woman punched through a jam-packed crowd to touch Jesus one day.
• To that touch Jesus responded, ‘Daughter your faith has made you whole. Go in peace and be whole of your plague.’
• The woman touched Jesus in faith and Jesus was touched by her faith.
• This woman was beloved and so are you because you have touched God also with your faith in Jesus.
• You believed in Him.
• You called Him Lord.
• That combination caused a combustion inside of you called the New Birth.
• At that moment, your identity changed.
• You changed families.
• There are only two families on earth.
• You were born into one—but you have been born again into another.
• You were a child of the devil… now you are a child of God.
• So, you are a son of God.
• You are the man that God hangs out with.
• Here is what you are not.
• You are not your past.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB 2020) — 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

• Your past is invisible.
• Ghosts of the past — do you understand this expression?
• Ghosts are invisible.
• Jesus has elevated you.
• But I don’t feel changed you may say?
• That’s because your head has not caught up with your heart.
• Who we are because of Jesus inside us is for so many people a great frontier.
• But not for you.
• You have believed on Him, you are believing in Him, and you are walking now with Him.
• Mark this down.
• John the Baptist was a trailblazer to Jesus and Jesus is a trailblazer to your identity.
• God’s Word is your X-ray to your recreated born again human spirit.
• What happened to you the day you got saved?
• Check the X-ray.
• It makes visible what’s already there.
• Reread the rest of what John said.

We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope set on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

• Your destiny is to be like Jesus, John says get started now.
• Purify yourself as He is pure.
• It’s possible to do.
• Start Now.
• Why wait for heaven?
• Do you know why God the Father called Jesus the Living Word?
• It’s because He did everything in the written Word.
• Doing the Word purifies.
• As John said in his gospel.

John 15:3 (NASB 2020) — 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

• You are a doer.
• Your identity is set.
• Stop showcasing insecurity — showcase redemption.
• You do that by learning the truth and believing the same.
• Truth doesn’t just expose where you were—it makes visible who you are now.
• Beloved, now are we the sons of God.

God’s Revealed Word: Making Love Visible

• So, First John relays that your identity has become visible in Jesus.
• Is there anything else that’s made visible?

1 John 4:7–9 (NASB 2020) — 7 Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him.

• By this, the love of God was revealed in us.
• The love of God in sending Jesus TO us is a concrete example of the love of God in action.
• But that love didn’t just send Jesus TO us.
• It went deeper.
• Jesus not only came to us, He went in us in the person of the Holy Spirit.
• He not only came to forgive us on the outside but He came to live on the inside.
• God is holy.
• What does that say about your insides?
• In the Old Testament, the Philistines tried to put the half man, half fish false god in the same physical place as the Ark of the Covenant.
• The next morning, Dagon was flat on his face.
• The day after, he was cut in two never to be raised again.
• God is comfortable inside you.
• That’s love demonstrated.
• How can we demonstrate love?

1 John 2:4 (NASB 2020) — 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

• Straight and to the point, right?
• Now comes the bonus question: what are His commandments?
• If we can find that out, we have it made.

Mark 12:28–31 (NASB 2020) — 28 One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘HEAR, ISRAEL! THE LORD IS OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE; 30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’ 31 The second is this: ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

• Loving God and loving man are the grand-daddy commandments of them all.
• If you keep these two, you will fulfill all the Word of God in the New Testament.
• And now the finish.

1 John 2:5 (NASB 2020) — 5 but whoever follows His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

• The word ‘perfected’ means to be or become thoroughly or entirely accomplished.
• Perfected is the peak of Mount Everest.
• It’s the end of the line.
• Love achieves full expression and purpose through obedience.
• This love has been revealed in you.

God’s Revealed Word: Making Authority Visible

• Lastly, the word revealed in First John makes our authority visible.

1 John 3:5 (NASB 2020) — 5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

• What is sin but disobedience.
• What was the effect but lost authority.
• Adam gave it over to Satan in the Garden.
• Jesus appeared and did the great reversal.

1 John 3:8 (NASB 2020) — 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

• Jesus destroyed the works of the devil.
• The Greek word “destroyed” is important.
• Most of the Church world reads that word and immediately thinks annihilate or obliterate—as if Jesus completely wiped everything out in one instant.
• But that’s not what the word means.
• The word carries the idea of loosening, untying, dissolving, or undoing what had been bound together.
• It’s not the picture of something being vaporized.
• It’s the picture of something being systematically crumbling at its core.
• Satan’s kingdom is crumbling to dust.
• In the world of demolition, there is a method called controlled implosion.
• Engineers will take a massive skyscraper—hundreds of feet tall, thousands of tons of steel and concrete—and instead of attacking it from the outside, they place carefully calculated charges deep inside the structure.
• One of the most famous examples was the demolition of the old Hudson’s Department Store in Detroit in 1998. At the time, it was one of the tallest buildings ever intentionally imploded. From the outside, it looked immovable—solid, dominant, towering over the city. But inside, everything had already been set. Charges were placed on key structural supports inside the building—columns that held the entire building up. And when the moment came, it didn’t fall slowly. In a matter of seconds, the entire structure collapsed in on itself—floor by floor—because the internal supports had already been compromised. From the outside, it looked strong. But on the inside, it was already finished.
• Jesus went into the heart of the earth three days and nights and set a depth charge that caused Satan’s Kingdom to implode.
• The Babylonian system is crumbling.
• The handwriting is on the wall.
• At the cross, Jesus didn’t just confront darkness outwardly.
• He struck it at its structural core.

Colossians 2:15 (NASB 2020) — 15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

• Disarmed.
• The term literally means stripped.
• The imagery is Roman.
• It captures the sense of conquered enemies stripped of clothing and paraded through the city.
• Satan has been stripped of his weaponry.
• He wears the fig leaves today.
• Satan’s kingdom may look tall but it’s not.
• It may look intimidating but it’s a lie.
• The charges have been set
• His kingdom is set for collapse.
• Ezekiel speaking of Satan says this.

Ezekiel 28:18–19 (NASB 2020) — 18 “By the multitude of your wrongdoings, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you. 19 “All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever.” ’ ”

• Satan is set for a fiery judgment both inside and out.
• He will cease to be forever.
• You, as a soldier of the cross, are to enforce the victory of Jesus.

Luke 10:19–20 (NASB 2020) — 19 Behold, I have given you authority to walk on snakes and scorpions, and authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”

• Satan’s kingdom may still cast a shadow, but shadows have no power.
• At the cross, Jesus struck darkness at its structural core.
• He dealt with sin, stripped principalities, and disarmed the enemy.
• What looks tall has already been marked for collapse.
• And now the authority revealed in Him is meant to be revealed through you.
• You are not trying to win a victory.
• You are called to enforce one.

Putting the Word Into Action: Living What’s Been Revealed

• Revelation is not information—it is invitation.
• What God reveals, He expects you to walk in.
• So here’s the question:
• What has God already made visible to you that you are not yet living out?
• You’ve seen truth.
• You’ve heard truth.
• You’ve even agreed with truth.
• But revelation is not complete until it is lived.
• If God has revealed Jesus to you—then walk as He walked.
• If God has revealed your identity—then stop living like your past.
• If God has revealed His love—then express that by loving God and others.
• If God has revealed your authority—then start enforcing victory.
• Don’t go looking for new revelation when you haven’t responded to the last one.
• Go back to what God has already shown you.
• Revisit it.
• Recommit to it.
• Walk it out.
• Because you cannot walk in what has not been revealed— and you will not grow beyond what you refuse to apply.
• So, See It. Walk It. Live It.
• God is revealing plenty to you.
• Don’t chase something new—respond to what God has already made visible.

Now Father God, thank you for Jesus and all that you have done through Him for us. Thank you for revealing Him to us. Thank you for the Holy Spirit, our teacher and guide who will help us to walk in all that’s been revealed. We give you the praise in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

• So, this week, open the Word.
• Ask the Holy Spirit to show you Jesus.
• And when He does—don’t just admire it…
• Act on it.
• Walk as He walked.
• Think as He thinks.
• Live like who you already are.
• Because the revealed Word is not given just to inform you— it is given to transform you.
• How God’s Revealed Word Surges Remarkable Life in Him.
• You guys have a great God week and we will see you next time for another edition of Light on Life.

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