In verse 8, it says this, Psalm 27, 8, When
thou sensed, when you spoke to me, seek ye my face. My heart said unto thee, Thy
face, Lord, will I seek. In the margin, it says, My heart
said unto thee, Let my face seek thy face. I want to talk about
seeking the face of Christ and the face of our Lord Jesus. Lots
of images, lots of paintings, which are very famous that depict
our Lord. And the scriptures tell us, you
know, that we are not to make any images, no image at all of
God. No image of all. But that's all
they are. When you see a picture, a painting,
a statue, whatever it is, that's all it is. It's just an image.
It's just an image. Depictions that come from someone's
imagination. Come from somebody else's imagination. If we're going to get a true
description of our Master, of our Lord Jesus Christ, we've
got to get it from God's Word. We've got to get it from there.
It's only the word, the scriptures that describes the Lord Jesus
Christ. And when we're concerned about
the Lord Jesus Christ, we're not concerned with his physical
description whatsoever, nor an image, but a living Lord, one
who has a personality and a character. If I ask you to describe the
Lord Jesus Christ, I'll tell you what you would not describe.
You wouldn't describe how tall He is, what the color of His
hair is, how much He weighed. What would
you do? When you would describe the Lord
Jesus Christ, you'd start describing a personality, a person. A person
that you know, you'd describe Him as a person. You describe
what He is as you see Him and as you know Him. And that's why
we say that we don't look at images or descriptions, but our
Lord Jesus Christ has a personality and a character. And many, many,
and I've, you know, down in Mexico and you see it here, many weep
before images who never, ever wept before the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many have bowed down to images who never bowed the knees to
the Lord Jesus Christ. There are people who crawled
on their bellies to images who never prostrated themselves before
the Lord Jesus Christ. And you see it all the time.
I remember several years ago there was a, I don't remember
where it was, but there was a hospital door and it's supposed to have
this image of Jesus in it. And I'm telling you what, they
lined up in that hospital to go look at that door and finally
they took it off the hinges and put it out in the lobby so folks
could go up there and people would just stand there and weep
and say, that's just like Jesus! Just like Jesus! But we're not looking at a physical
person. No, no. And when we look into God's Word
and seek the blessed face of our Lord Jesus Christ, we, in
the face, The face represents the person. You know, when you
talk about, seek ye my face, God says, seek me. Seek me. The face represents the person.
And so you see, it's like if you see a picture of somebody
that you love, you see that physical description, but your mind automatically
goes to the person itself and their character and the way they
are. And that's what we want to seek. And our Lord said here,
Seek ye my face, O Lord, we will seek thy face. Now, I want you
to keep your Bibles close tonight because we're going to go through
it. First of all, we want to see,
He said, Seek ye my face. Let's seek the face of our Lord's
deity. Look with me in Matthew chapter
17. Matthew chapter 17. The face
of His deity. The face of Him as God. And our
Lord Jesus Christ was God. And here in Matthew 17, we see
His face, the face of His deity. Matthew 17, verse 1. After six days, Jesus taketh
Peter, James, and John, His brother, and bringeth them up into a high
mountain apart. And watch this, and was transfigured
before them in His face. did shine as the sun, and his
raiment was white as light. And the only other place you
find that description of our Lord is in Revelation. A couple
of times we're said, He is white as light, and His face bright
as the sun, and He glistened, and His hair is white as snow.
And so when we say, These men saw the Lord Jesus Christ as
God, That's why He went up there. When they looked at Him, His
face was just bright as the sun. How many people can look into
the sun when it is just brightness and it not hurt their eyes? Well,
there they was looking into the face of Christ and He said He
was bright as the sun and His raiment was white as light. You think of the whitest light
you can think of and that's what His clothes looked like. Face
like the sun, His clothes white as light. And that's what they
saw. They saw the face of His deity.
When you talk about the face of our Lord Jesus Christ in His
humanity, He said in Isaiah 53-2, there was no beauty about Him,
no comeliness about Him, that we should desire Him. And when
they said He was that bread which came down from heaven, they said,
was not this Jesus, the Son of Mary and Joseph? They said, we
know his mother and his daddy. How say then that he cometh down
from heaven and that he's the bread of life? Well, we say,
well, we know his mom and his daddy. He's just the son of Joseph
and Mary. So they didn't see that face
of His deity. And I tell you what, beloved,
I saw the face of His deity. I saw the glory of Him as God. I saw Him as God Almighty in
the flesh. I saw Him as God as the only
one who could save me. I saw Him as God who could brought
out my transgressions. I saw Him as God who put all
my sins as far as the east is from the west and cast them behind
His back. I saw Him as God, the only one
who could help me. I saw Him as God, the only one
who could give me strength. Oh, His face shines. His face
shines. And oh, look what else, beloved.
When you look at the tabernacle, remember the tabernacle in the
wilderness. When those folks would come and they'd look down
on that tabernacle in the wilderness, you know, it was covered with
badger skins. They had that good badger skin tent stretched all
over that tabernacle. And anybody who looked at it,
they just said, boy, that's just an old tent. But boy, you know
where the glory was it was? It was inside it. And that's
the way it is by Lord Jesus Christ. A lot of people, all they saw
was the humanity and the flesh. But oh, inside that tabernacle,
there was that broided work. There was those golden boards.
There was the Ark of the Covenant. There was the tabernacle of showbread,
the table of showbread. There was the brazen altar. There was the labor of worship.
Every altar of incense. It was glorious and beautiful. And that's all men can see is
the outside of Christ. But oh my, God has let us see
His glory, see His deity. And I tell you that's His, bless
His holy name. And how in the world, just like
that glory of God was veiled in Christ, and the glory of God
was veiled in the tabernacle. It's veiled and only God is the
one who can let us see Christ. And now here in Matthew 17, how
can we know we see His deity? I'm going to show you how we
know. It says in verse 2, And his face did shine as the sun,
and Raymond was white as the light. And behold, there appeared
unto them Moses and Elijah talking with Christ. They weren't talking
with Peter, James, and John, talking with Christ. Then answered
Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is so good for us to be here.
I am just tickled to death to be here. If thou wilt, let us
make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, and one
for Elijah. You see, beloved, Moses had his
place. The law was given by Moses, but
grace and truth came by it. And Elijah had his place. you
know the prophets have their place to him all the prophets
give witnesses and while he has failed behold a bright cloud
overshadowed him and a voice come out of the cloud which said
this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased hear ye him
and when the disciples heard it they fell on their face and
were sore afraid And when Jesus came and touched them and said
unto them, Arise and be not afraid. Now listen to it. This is how
you know you can see the Lord Jesus Christ and his deity. And
when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no man but Jesus only. When you seek Christ alone, you're
not looking to Moses, you're not looking to the tabernacle,
you're looking to Christ alone. When you look up after you've
looked every place else, and all you see is the Lord Jesus
Christ, you know you've seen His deity, you know you've seen
Him. And let me tell you, look over in Luke chapter 9 with me
just a moment, His face, seek ye my face, oh we seek the face
of His deity. And oh, look over here at Luke
9. We look at His face of purpose. We seek His face. Look in Luke
9.51. Oh, we seek His face of purpose.
Our Lord Jesus Christ came here with purpose. And oh, we see
His face of purpose. Look what He said in Luke 9.51. And it came to pass, when the
time was come, that He should be received up. Look what He
did. He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem. Why is he
going to Jerusalem for? Going to die. Going to be delivered
up. And I tell you when the time
was come There's a time and a season for everything. And the scripture
says that he should be received up. Received up to who? He was
received up to sinful men. He was received up to the judgment
of men. He was received up to the ridicule
of men. He was received up to God the
Father. He was received up. And I want
to show you something else. Look over in Isaiah 50. It's
Isaiah 50. In verse 7, verse 5, excuse me. That's why, you know, I told
Simon Peter, he said, Simon Peter, the hour has come that I must
be delivered up into the hands of sinful men. And Simon said,
oh, no, no, no, no, no. He said, oh, Simon, get behind
me, Satan. And he said, if a man ain't going
to deny himself and take up his cross and follow me, he can't
be my disciple. I'm going to the cross, and I'm going to go
suffer. And you're going to have to go
to the cross with me if you, you know, when we take up the
cross, we're talking about the cross of Christ. If we don't
go with Christ to the cross and our sin is with Christ on the
cross, then we haven't denied ourselves yet. And look what
he said here in Isaiah 15 verse 5. The Lord hath opened mine
ear. Isaiah 15 verse 5. The Lord God
hath opened mine ear. And I was not rebellious. That
means he put, as a servant, he put it all in his ear. And I
wasn't rebellious, and I didn't turn away my back to him. No,
no. And look what he said, I gave
my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off
the hair, I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Listen to
me now. For the Lord God will help me,
therefore shall I not be confounded. Therefore have I set my face
like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. I've
got a task to do, a purpose to fulfill, a work to finish, and
I've set my face like a flint. I've got to go to Jerusalem.
Got to. Got to. Now let me ask you something,
can you associate that face that steadfastly said to Jerusalem,
I must go and must be received up, when he said his face as
a flint, knowing that he wouldn't be ashamed, can you associate
that face with failure? That face of purpose? He said
he shall not fail, neither be discouraged. And he says, Father,
I finished the work which you gave me to do. Glorify me with
the glory that you gave me before I was the world was. He said,
Father of all that you've given me, I've lost not a one of them.
Can you associate that face that said he steadfastly set it toward
Jerusalem to be resealed up? Did he fail to put sin away? Did he fail to go to the cross? Did he fail to satisfy God? Did he fail, as I substitute,
when they come to get him in the garden? And the scripture
said, he said, as he told me, he said, if you want me, you've
got to let these go their way. You can't have us both. And oh,
when they took him, and they all got to go away. And that's
the way it is. When justice comes to get us,
he said, take me, and let these go their way. Oh, there's no
way you can look at His face as a faceless figure. Let me
show you another face. No, we see His face of purpose.
Seek ye my face. Mark said, draw thy face, Lord,
I'll seek it. I'll see your face of purpose,
I'll see your face of God, and I'll seek all those things. And
look what else is over here in Matthew, Luke 22. Oh my, there's
a faith that causes repentance. When he looks at you, that will
just absolutely break your heart. Break your heart, bring you to
repentance, bring you to tears. And oh, how can it be, how can
it be that thou, my God, should die for me? Oh my! Look what he said here, this
is where after Simon Peter had denied him, you remember. And
in verse 460, look what happens here. Peter told this maid, Peter says,
Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet
spake, the cock crew. Now look what it says next. And the Lord turned and looked
upon Peter. Man, oh man. Third time he denied
him. The Lord's held prisoner there.
The Lord's in the, where the high priest are, and they brought
him to judge him. And the Lord turned and looked
upon Peter. And when saw Lord Jesus Christ
was looking at him, his face set on him. And Peter remembered
the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, before the
cock crowed, thou shalt deny me thrice. And look how Peter
reacted to the Christ looking at him. And Peter went out and
wept bitterly. Oh my! When God the Christ looks
at us, when we When He looks at you, and you're
looking at Him, and see yourself with the things you've said,
the things you've done or acted some way, it will always break
your heart. You said, Lord, seek my face.
Thy face, O Lord, I saw. And you know this as well as
I do. God's people can get awful cold. It was a cold night that
night that they took the Lord Jesus Christ. And they had a
fire built in there and Peter stood by that fire. I wonder
how often I stood at the enemy's fire. How God's people can get
off a cold. They can get very, very hard.
We can certainly get hard. We can get indifferent, even
or warm at our Lord's enemy's fire. But when He turns those
blessed eyes on us, turns those blessed eyes on us, and looks
into your heart and you see him looking at your heart, you're
talking about softening it and bringing tears to your heart. When Saul of Tarsus was on the
road to Damascus to persecute the Lord's people, when the Lord
Jesus Christ brought him down, he saw the Lord's face. Oh, it
broke his heart. When Thomas said, I'm not going
to believe, Unless I can take my own hand and tip my finger
in the prints of his nails and put my hand in that side that
I saw him written when he died on that cross, I just ain't going
to believe it. He no sooner said that than the Lord Jesus stood
in front of him and looked at him. Sit here. You know what
he did? His heart broke and fell before
the Lord and said, My Lord and my God, how could I ever not
believe you? How could I ever not believe
you? Bless his name. Let me give you
another face. Look over in Isaiah 52. These
are the faces we see. This is the many faces. That's
what I'm talking about. People look at images. We're
talking about the face of this person here. And all the aspects
of his worth as that person. Look in Isaiah 52 verse 14. Oh, the face of suffering. Oh,
what suffering our Lord did here. And he said in Isaiah 52, 14,
As many as were astonished at thee, his visage was so marred
more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men. What
is that telling us? That tells us, now here's why
his business was more marred and people were astonished at
him. Because who it was that they mistreated the way they
did. It wasn't just the face of a man that they're beating.
It wasn't just the face of the person that they beat. It was
the face of God. They said, we got our hands on
God and we'll slap him and we'll beat him. And we'll spit in his
face, we'll put blindfolds on him, and we'll slap him, and
he says, he's a prophet, let him tell us who smote him. And
all beloved, it was the face of suffering. And I tell you,
it wasn't for the suffering of himself. Look what he says down
here in Isaiah 53, in verse 3. This is what it says, he's despised
and rejected of me. A man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief, instead of seeking his face, as it were, we hid
our faces from him. He was despised and we didn't
say, oh bless his name, we didn't esteem him. So what was he despised
and rejected for? Why did we hide our faces? Why
was he a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief? Surely, he hadn't
borne our grief. Have you got grief and heartache
now? He bore that grief. He knows
your feelings of your infirmities. Carried our sorrows. You've got
sorrows. You've had sorrows. And you'll
have some more. He had no sorrows. And yet we'd
say, oh, God broke him. God smitten him. God afflicted
him. He is wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, chastisement
of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes were healed,
and all we like sheep were strayed. He turned everyone to his own
way, and while we were doing that the Lord laid on him the
iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted
yet he never said a word. He was brought as a lamb to the
shore, a sheep before he shares his dung. He didn't open his
mouth. He was taken from prison and
from judgment. And nobody stood up and said,
I know him. I know him. I know him. Nobody stood up and said, I'm
keen to him. I'll declare his generation.
And he is cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression
of my people was his stricken. And he made his grave with the
wicked, and with the rich in his death, because he had done
no violence, there was no deceit in his mouth. Now listen to it.
Yet it pleased the Lord, satisfied God to bruise him. It pleased God to put him to
grief. It pleased God when he made his
own and offered him for sin. It pleased God to see his seed.
It pleased God that he'd prolong his day. And the pleasure of
the Lord shall prosper in his hands. Oh, a face of suffering. In his tomb, when they took our
Lord Jesus Christ down from the cross and laid him in his tomb,
they put a cloth over his face, covered his face. So no one could
see what our Lord endured. His face at this time was a monument
to the justice of God. When there was no mercy, there
was no pity. Only justice, only wrath from
man and from God and from devils and for everything on this earth. And that's why He said, all you
that pass by, is it nothing to you? For with the Lord hath afflicted
me in the fierceness of his wrath. Who has ever suffered like I
have suffered? I can't help but wonder what
his resurrected face will look like. It won't be like that.
It won't be like that. And let me give you another one.
Look with me over in 2 Corinthians chapter 4. Oh, I love this one. Love this one. Oh, our blessed Savior, in His
face. Oh, we seek His face. 2 Corinthians 4. Seek ye my face,
Lord, we're seeking. But all the faces of Christ that
we see, all of them are aspects of His personality, His character.
I haven't described any physical thing but suffering. Then we
see his glorious face, look what he said about his glorious face
2 Corinthians 4.6 For God who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness like in the creation has shined in our hearts to give the light, to give the
revelation, turn on the light in our darkened mind, turn on
the light in our darkened hearts, turn on the light in our understanding,
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, where at?
In the face, in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now when
we see the glory, it says the glory of God, The light of the
knowledge of the glory of God is in the face of Jesus Christ.
What is God's glory? You remember in Exodus 33 verse
18, Moses says to God, Lord, show me your glory. He says,
Moses, nobody can see my glory and live, but I said, I'll show
you my hinder part and put him in that rock and put his hand
over him. And he says, Moses, he says this is my glory I will
have compassion upon whom I will have compassion I will have mercy
upon whom I will have mercy and then he said he calls the goodness
of the Lord to pastorify and he declared the name of the Lord
and so when Christ came into this world and we see him in
his face we see that God Goodness is in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We see the name of God declared in the face of Jesus Christ.
We see the mercy of God shown in Jesus Christ. We see the compassion
of God shown in Jesus Christ. And to whom He would. He passed by multitudes and said,
Zacchaeus, come down. When he had a lost sheep, he
left the ninety and nine and went into the wilderness to find
that one. Lazarus, Master, if you would
have been here, Lord, if you would have been my brother, I
wouldn't have died. I said, you just wait. He said, he only died for one
reason, for my glory. Where are we going to see the
glory of God at? We see it in Jesus Christ when he gives life
from the dead. And where in the world can we
see God's glory at if we can't see it in Christ? When we get
to heaven itself, there ain't gonna be no glory seen but the
glory of Jesus Christ. And if you see His glory right
now, all the glory, all the attributes of God were seen in the Lord
Jesus Christ. All the power of God was seen
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And oh beloved, the sovereign
mercy of God, is in His face, and that's where we got the knowledge
of God's glory. We wouldn't know anything about
God's glory had not God allowed us to see the face, the person
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Do you see that? Do you see that? And oh, listen. Let me show you
another. This is one you don't want to
see. Look with me over in Revelation 6. This is a face you don't want
to see. Oh my. Oh bless his name. I tell you.
We're talking about it. That's what I'm talking about.
These images. You got an image of Wild Bill Hickoky. You got
a bible with a bunch of images in it. Hide that thing. If you
got pictures on your wall, take them down. I remember years ago, maybe you
all do it. A group of singers, of course they couldn't carry
a tune in a bucket like me. But they went out to this Crossbow
Memorial out here where they don't have tombstones or anything
like that, just have the funeral, the graveyard up here just north
of town. And they got that great big statue. Jesus said, you know,
you know how many people went out there and had their picture
took with that so they could put them on album covers and things like
that. Having your picture took, that's
why you can't get a picture crushed. You know. You got to have it
a statue. There's a, there's a, I hesitate
to call it a church, it's a church building where people get going
towards Father out there at Bonaire. And out there they've got a little
old place, they've got a table set up and they've got a little
bench set up and they've got all kinds of statues sitting
around that thing. They've got a statue of an angel,
and they've got a statue of Jesus, and they've got another little
statue over here, probably of Mary, I don't know who it is.
And it's a Methodist church. Setting up images. And if you
got up and preached what I preached to them tonight, you know what
they'd say? Man, I ain't never heard nothing like that. I don't
know if I'd believe that or not. You can't see the face of Christ
unless God said, seek ye my face. And if He ever says, you'll start
seeking it and then you'll start seeing this face of Christ and
all this person of Christ. See all the aspects of His life. The face of His power and His
glory and His suffering and His rejection. And then, oh, His
glorious face, but oh my! Look here in Revelation 6.15. This is a face you don't want
to see. Revelation 6.15. And the kings of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the
mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves
in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and
rocks, Fall on us, oh let an earthquake come, let a rock slide
come, anything come, fall on us and hide us from the face
of him, that setteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
for the great day of his wrath is to come, is come, and who
shall be able to stand? Oh my, you don't want to see
that face. But there's going to be lots
and lots of people that will do like that when they see the
face of Christ. He told those who were crucified,
He said, you'll see me come in my glory one of these days. And
when they see Him come in His glory, they'll see Him as a Lamb
with anger, a Lamb with wrath, a Lamb with a rod of brass in
His hand, a Lamb that's coming to execute judgment on all ungodly
sinners who ungodly rejected Him and despised Him and lied
on Him. But I'm going to tell you something.
This is a view of the face of our Lord Jesus Christ, not one
for whom He died will ever see. We'll be praying. We won't see
that face. No, no. And I pray that God will
open your heart to see the face of our Lord Jesus Christ in all
of His glory, so you won't have to face the wrath of the Lamb
and the face of the wrath of the Lamb. Let me show you another. Hope I'm not taking too long.
But look over here in Matthew 26, a face of rejection. You
know, he was despised and rejected. Look in Matthew 26 and look at
this face. Look at this face. Matthew 26,
67. Oh my. Look what he said here. Look in verse 65. Then the high
priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy. What
further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now ye heard his blasphemy. The same voice that we hear speak
to us, that said, Come unto me and rest. Come unto you that
are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest." The same voice, the
same voice that says, come unto me. Oh, the same voice that said,
Lazarus, come forth. The same voice that says, make
them to sit down. When he saw them as sheep without
a shepherd, and was moved with confession, make them sit down.
We'll feed them when they're hungry. The same voice. that
told his disciples. He looked at Mary and said, Mary,
behold your son. Son, behold your mother. And
he took her home. That's the same voice. That blessed
voice that we hear and find such joy and such comfort and such
assurance. Look what they said. They didn't
hear that voice. They said all they heard come
out of him was blasphemy. We heard words of forgiveness
and salvation and mercy and they heard blasphemy. Well thank you,
they answered and said he's guilty of death. Now watch what happens.
Then they spit in his face. And buffeted him. And others smote him with the
palms of their hands. Who is it that smoke thee if
you're the Christ. Oh my! Face of rejection. Don't despise the day of the
Lord. Don't never treat the Lord's face this way. Don't turn your
face away. You know to show you that you
just really truly despise somebody and hate somebody and reject
somebody And don't want nothing to do with them when that man
clears his throat and spits in your face. They say, you know
what I think of you? I think that you ain't worth
spitting in your face. I just hate you and despise you
so much. And you mean so little to me.
I'm not even going to give you the time of day. I'm just going
to spit on you. Surely, surely. Somebody in these
services would never spit on the Lord Jesus Christ, would,
didn't reject His face. And then look over in Psalm 80,
let me show you this. Psalm 80. Oh my. And I tell you, people will reject
His face all the time. People reject His face all the
time. I couldn't tell you how many
times over the years until When I first started preaching around
here and preaching a lot of places, they rejected the face of Christ,
didn't they, Stevie? Well, we just assumed you just
didn't preach out here anymore. We just assumed you wouldn't
do that. We need to close this meeting. Now, I've had two or
three meetings, said, oh, listen, you just will, we can't take
that. We just don't believe that. You know, we've got to go. Let's
just close this meeting out. I've had people get up and say,
don't you hear what this preacher's saying? Had one fellow get up and want
to argue right while I was preaching. Rejecting the face of Christ. Nobody, surely nobody that I'm
preaching to now would say, listen, I don't see the faces you're
talking about. I don't see all these faces you're talking about.
I don't know this person you're talking about. And what you're
saying is, I'll just turn away from it. Oh, look at it. Surely, surely nobody would do
that. But look here in Psalm 80 in verse 3. Here's the face
of salvation. Turn us again, O God. Turn us. Turn us the right way. Turn us
from the wrong way. Turn us to the right way. Turn
us to your way. Turn us, O God, and listen to this, cause thy
face to shine, and listen to it, and we shall be saved. Cause your face, look with us,
that's what he said, cause thy face, look at us with favor,
look at us with grace, and turn us, O Lord, to yourself, and
we shall be saved. When God looks at us and smiles, looks at us, and oh, and that
face, and it gives us that assurance that we saved. And I'm going
to give you, I saved the best for the last. Saved the best
for the last. 1 Corinthians 13. Saved the best for the last.
1 Corinthians 13, 12. Saved the best for the last. Oh, I'm so thankful I've seen
the face of Christ. I'm so thankful I've seen Him,
knowing. Seen Him in every one of these
faces. I've seen every one of them. Ain't you, James? Seen
them all. Seen them all. Don't want to
never see that face of repentance again. I want to so obey Him
and do what His will is. But look what He said here. In
verse 12, 1 Corinthians 13, 12. For now we see through a glass
darkly. Listen to it. But then face to
face. Now I know just a little bit.
Then I'm going to know. I'm going to know even as He
knows me. Face to face. Right now we're
looking through a glass darkly. We see just a little here, a
little there, line upon line, but then face to face. John says,
we do not know when He shall appear. But we do know this,
that when He appears, we'll see Him as He is. And you know what
will happen? We'll be just like Him. We'll be just like Him. Oh, face to face. And you're
talking about a transforming look. Look with me over in Revelation
22. You're talking about a transforming
look. Oh, when we see that face, look in Revelation 22. Face to
face with Christ my Savior. Oh my, face to face. Look here in Revelation 22, in
verse 3. Revelation 22, 3. And there shall
be no more curse, but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be
in it, and His service shall serve Him, And listen to this,
and they shall see his face. And they shall see his face.
And guess what? His name is going to be right
there. His name is already there, but you know, when he looks at
us, he'll see all of it. All he'll see is he sees himself. He sees his own name right there.
And there shall be no night there, they need no candle, neither
light of the sun, for the Lord with God which giveth them light
shall reign forever and ever." Face to face. Oh, that's where
we're going. Oh, I'm sick of my face. Lord, I'm sick of it. Every single
thing about you. That's what I'm sick of. I'm
sick of it. Turn with me, John. Let's sing
that hymn. Face to face with Christ my Savior,
face to face with Christ my Lord. I behold Him, Jesus Christ, who
died for me. Face to face I shall behold Him,
far beyond the starry sky. To faith in all His glory I shall
see Him by and by Holy faith, now I see Him with my eyes He is coming, we His glory shall
be seeing Face to face I shall behold Him, far beyond the starry
sky I shall see Him by and by Face
to face, oh, it's the moment Face to face, to see and know Face to face with my Redeemer,
Jesus Christ, who loves me so. And as the girl sang,