Faith Is Just Seeing Jesus

Length: 7 minutes

Today, in the church, faith has been twisted out of shape. It is hard to say “faith” without many people having many different opinions in their head. But faith is not what you’ve heard before. Let’s see how simple and beautiful it is from scripture. 

To a lot of Christians, faith is believing hard enough that what God says will come to pass. To other Christians, faith is about speaking something forth, before it ever happens. And still, to other Christians, faith is about acting upon what they believe. But all of this is simply not faith. Faith is a spiritual perception to see Jesus. That’s what it means. It’s not believing something will come to pass. It’s not speaking something before it happens. It’s not an action you take. Faith produces good words and actions, but faith is not any of those things. It’s just seeing Jesus — understanding what Jesus did a long time ago. 

Pay very close attention to this. Below, Paul says that we should not look (with our minds) at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.

2 Corinthians 4:18 (KJV)  …we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen…

Ok, so Paul is talking about focusing on the unseen (in our mind), rather than focusing on the things that are seen. In other words, he’s contrasting a focus on spiritual things with a focus on physical things. We can either focus on the things that we can see with our eyes or we can focus on the unseen. Simple enough. He’s contrasting two types of “seeing.” But just a few verses later, look at how Paul refers to “seeing the unseen”:

2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV)  For we walk by faith, not by sight

Notice, first Paul contrasted “looking at what we can see” with “looking at the unseen.” But now he’s contrasting “walking by what we see” with “walking by faith.” Did you catch what he did there? If you read those verses carefully, he replaced the term “looking at the unseen” for the term “faith.”

Paul is defining faith as “seeing the unseen.” Paul defines faith as a kind of spiritual perception. Faith is being able to perceive and understand spiritual things in your mind, that your eyes can’t see!

It’s About A Person

So, faith is a spiritual perception. It’s being able to see (or believe) spiritual things in your mind. But let’s be more specific. What exactly does God want the eye of your mind focused on (Ephesians 1:18)? What unseen thing does God want your mind to see?

Hebrews 11:27 (NKJV) By faith he [Moses] forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

First, this verse says, “by faith” but then it says that Moses endured as “seeing Him who is invisible.” Faith is a spiritual perception. True. This verse confirms that, but specifically it is about seeing a Person. When this verse speaks of “Him who is invisible” it is speaking about Jesus. Faith is seeing Jesus in your mind. Not that we should try to picture Jesus’ physical form or something like that. No, faith is a kind of spiritual perception by which we can believe and understand what Jesus has done for us, even when we have not seen His finished work with our eyes (yet).

Faith is often used for other religions, but ultimately, in the biblical sense of the word, faith is not applicable to false religions. If someone is believing inaccurately, they’re not really seeing the unseen. They may be religious, but they’re not seeing the unseen correctly. Otherwise, they’d believe what Jesus did for them. 

Even simply saying “faith in God” is not enough. It’s about understanding what Jesus did, because God is not self-revealed. We need to see the Son in order to see the Father (1 John 2:23). It’s about seeing Jesus! Faith is a spiritual perception to see Jesus! 

1 Peter 1:8 (NKJV)  …Though now you do not see Him, yet believing…

Simplifying Faith

We need to uncomplicate faith. I think most Christians would agree with most of what we have said here — faith is seeing Jesus. While believers may agree with this, we still have so many other definitions for faith that we add. The problem is not that Christians disagree with this. It’s that we add so much to it! We complicate it so much. 

We will say, “Yes, of course, faith is seeing Jesus”, and in the next sentence, “Faith is an action,” or “Faith is speaking something before it happens,” or “Faith is taking your manifestation by force,” or “Faith is believing that God is going to show up right on time.” Faith certainly has a lot of definitions today, but it seems “seeing Jesus” is just one of many. Yet of course, it is not. 

Faith produces a lot of things. Faith produces powerful good works and spirit-filled words, but faith is not those things. It produces those things! Faith is simply a spiritual perception to see Jesus and what He did.

Faith Is Present Tense

Finally, let me add that faith is not a future tense belief, being assured that something will manifest (that’s called Hope). Faith is a belief in things that are true presently. For instance, Jesus is really inside of us. Healing is really inside of us. Wisdom and power is really inside of us. You can’t see it, but it’s truly there. It’s something that’s already happened. It’s something that’s already real. Faith is simply understanding these facts, before your eyes ever see it. Faith is seeing things that are unseen, not seeing things that are unreal.

Unfortunately, most people think that faith is believing and acting on something that isn’t real yet, that is, until it becomes real. That’s why, for instance, a person in a wheelchair might say, “What wheelchair? I don’t have a wheelchair. I’m speaking forth my faith.” But that’s not faith. That’s lying. Faith is seeing the unseen. If that person is a believer they could say, “I believe Jesus already healed my body on His end. I believe I have my healing inside of me and can access it through Jesus.” That’s faith! Those things are actually real. Faith is just seeing it before it comes into the physical realm.

So, get to know Jesus and take your time doing it. Faith is not all of the complicated things it’s been made out to be. It produces a lot of great results, but faith is just understanding what Jesus did for you 2,000 years ago. 

Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…

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