The Good News: To Know Him, To Behold Him (9/20)

THE GOOD NEWS: 'To know Him. To Behold Him.' 
9.20.2026
Pastor Jay Singh

KEY THEMES:  
Biblical context and translation:

Behold: To reverently and gaze deeply with wonder and awe!
-It draws our vision to something of profound importance.

'Hinneh is the Hebrew world for Behold'
An exclamation point or wake-up call!

 

[MAIN PASSAGE FOCUS]:

[Jesus' sermon on the Mount]
MATTHEW 6:33-34 (NIV)
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

--This in actuality is the ultimate relief and cure for anxiety, worry and fear.
---Letting go of panic and finding rest and reassurance in His presence.

THE KINGDOM of GOD: [God at the center!]
-When God's presence, His supremacy, His will and His rule become my greatest priority!
-Living under His covering as the authority of my life.
-When my plans completely submit to His leading and guidance.

HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS: [Obedience over panic!]
-Living with God's character, standard and goodness as the ultimate measure of my life.
-Not living for the approval of others.
-Living transformed towards freedom in Him rather than enslaved to lifes bondages and even religious regulations.

ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU AS WELL: [Give it to God - He will Provide!]
-God will provide for all that we need when we make Him our ultimate priority.
-When God's presence becomes our dwelling place, we will naturally not panic.
-I will lack no good thing if I revere Him with my time, daily decisions and desires.  



NOTES:
Q: Am I living 'Casual or Consecrated'?

Q:Am I living with an urgent preparedness for the coming of Christ?


-Staying faithful to Jesus should never be an obligation but a joy.

-The cross was never an obligation to Jesus.

Hebrews 12:2 (NLT last week)
(TPT - Parallel)
“We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection.
His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!”

Q: If I am honest with myself- what or where is my focus placed upon?

Hymn:
'My Hope Is Built'
(Written by Edward Mote in 1834)

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.  

[Refrain]
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
  All other ground is sinking sand.

2
When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
3
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
4
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
In Him, my righteousness, alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

[Pastor Jay's Vision while in prayer - Shared Sunday]
Vision of me kneeling down before The Lord in the holy place, he was looking at me and waved to me to follow Him.
As I reverently stood up, He led me to an areal view of the world, focusing particularly on North America.
All he said was ‘look’ - and when I did, I saw people that were in a hurry, people busy and preoccupied. I stopped to look into Jesus’ eyes and He gently whispered to me “look further”.
I looked as the areal view changed into a magnified and multiplied view of people’s every day lives.
What I saw troubled me.
Children were physically hugging trophies and exalting achievements but not being taught that the real prize is Jesus.
I saw young people hugging stacks of cash. Grown men hugging their trucks and cars. Women pre-occupied with their families, in particular their children to where men were hiding in the shadows struggling with deep crippling sin.
Kids from elementary school to college age hugging their textbooks yet drowning in parental and societal pressure all the while their faith was becoming weaker and weaker.
People holding on for dear life to pill bottles and drugs embracing them like this is what will save them. [Yet do we know that some of the most demonic encounters happening in present day are through both legal and illegal substance? - The demonic realm is accessing peoples lives through some of these doorways where there is abuse and addiction.]
I saw a couple holding hands as they hugged and warmly embraced their television portraying a message that this is what true unity and oneness looks like.
I saw masses of people walking the streets with the exact same posture, looking at their phones but completely oblivious to what was around them. They were actually looking through their phones like someone who wears glasses looks through the lenses that were prescribed to them.
They would not look anywhere other than straight through their phones, and it was robotic in nature.
There was movement but no destination.
The next thing that happened was I felt The Lord put His hand on my shoulder and softly say - see, I’m looking down towards them, reaching out to them, looking after them, ready to pour out something amazing towards them but they are loving other things, scattered and looking elsewhere.

I’m reaching down for them but they aren’t looking or reaching up.
I’m not looking for a one handed reach but a two handed reach from My children.
One that says: ‘Jesus, I let go, and I surrender to You completely.’


PHILIPPIANS 2:12 (NIV)
12Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

[NLT]
12Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.


[TPT]
2Now you must continue to make this new life fully manifested as you live in the holy awe of God—which brings you trembling into his presence.

We need to know Him, We need to behold Him!


2 Peter 1:3 (NLT)
3By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life.
We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.


-We need to come back to the altar
-To Communion
-To Beholding Jesus