Would you look back at verse
18, 2 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul speaks of something we have
all seen, speaking of every believer, something we've all seen, beholding
as in a glass, the reflected image, the glory of God. I've entitled this message, What
Every Believer Has Seen. What every believer has seen. And if you and I are believers,
this is something we have seen for ourselves. A witness is somebody
who has seen something. I think it's strange the way
in churches and in religion, people are trained to be witnesses. You know, that speaks of dishonesty
and deceit and manipulation. What's the requirement for being
a witness? Being a witness. You've seen something. If you've
got to be trained to speak of what you've seen, something's
wrong with that. Ananias said to Paul, Thou shalt
be his witness unto all men of what you've seen and what you've
heard. Now, let's go back to verse 12
of 2 Corinthians chapter 3. Paul says, seeing that we have
such hope. The hope of grace. The hope of
salvation in Christ. the hope of God's mercy, the
hope of God's favor, the hope of being justified, the hope
of being sanctified, the hope of seeing His face in glory,
the hope of a good expectation in death. Seeing that we have
such hope, we use great plainness of speech. Now that word plainness
is boldness, absence of fear. It's speaking without ambiguity. The Bible is the Word of God. God is God. That means he's in
control. That means you are in his hands,
and he can do with you whatever he's pleased to do. Man is, as
the Bible describes man to be, dead in sins. Graveyard dead. Unable. Utterly unable to do anything
to contribute to their own salvation. This God who is God, who controls
everything, before time began, he chose a people to be saved.
Election. Christ came to save the elect,
and that's what he did. He accomplished the salvation
of everybody he died for. God, the Holy Spirit, comes in
grace to those the Father elected and Christ died for, and invincibly
and irresistibly gives them life, calling them by His grace. And all these people will continue
in the faith. Now that's plain speech. Not apologizing for the truth,
but glorying in the truth. The truth of how God saves sinners
by his grace. With such hope, we use great
plainness of speech. And look what he says in verse
13. And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the
children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of
that which was abolished. Turn back to Exodus chapter 34.
Let's see what Paul is talking about. Verse 29. And it came to pass, Exodus 34,
29, and it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony in Moses hand. When he came down
from the mount that Moses, remember, he was in God's presence receiving
the law from God, Moses wished not that the skin of his face
show. while he talked with him. Now, after Moses had been in
the Lord's presence, his face was literally shining, literally
being in the presence of the Shekinah glory of God. Verse
30, and when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
behold, the skin of his face shone. And they were afraid to
come to him. I would have been too. I'd be
afraid to come around somebody like that. And Moses called unto
them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned
unto him. And Moses talked with them. And afterwards all the
children of Israel came nigh, and he gave them in commandment
all that the Lord had spoken with him in the mount Sinai.
Until Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his
face. So they couldn't see the shining. They couldn't take it.
Verse 34, But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with
him, he took the veil off. until he came out, and he came
out and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin
of Moses' face shone, and Moses put the veil upon his face again,
until he went in to speak with him. Every time he spoke to the
children of Israel, after having heard the word of God, he'd have
to put a veil over his face, because it was shining, and the
children of Israel couldn't take it. Now, this was a literal reflected,
shining, that Paul tells us that this veil typifies something.
Obscurity. A covering. You can't see clearly. Not plainness, but shadows. Now, back to 2 Corinthians chapter
3. Seeing that we have such hope,
Paul says, we use great plainness of speech. We don't speak in
code. We bring out what we really believe. We say it with plainness, without
apology, and not like Moses did, which put a veil over his face
that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end
of that which was abolished. But their minds were blinded,
for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in
the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ. Now, when the Old Testament is read,
they couldn't see the meaning. That's what it means. They were
blinded. They had a veil over their face. I think of what our
Lord said in John chapter 5, verses 39 and 40. He said, you
search the scriptures. You study it. You try to figure
out how to be saved. How can you be saved in this
book? You search the scriptures and
in them, you think you have eternal life. And they are they which
testify of me. You know, all the Old Testament
is, is a bunch of laws you can't keep. And strange and weird ceremonies
and rites, if you don't see Christ in them. That's it. Christ is the seed of woman promised
in the right after the fall that will bruise the serpent's head.
What's that mean if you don't see Christ? What made Abel's
sacrifice more acceptable than Cain's? Christ. What's Noah's
Ark? The place of safety. Christ.
Salvation in the Ark, outside of the Ark. There's nothing but
wrath. What about Abraham's confession? Behold, God will provide himself
a lamb for a burnt offering. And this is what John the Baptist
was talking about when he said, behold, the lamb of God. This
is the lamb Abraham spoke of, the lamb of God's own providing. Jacob's ladder that reached to
heaven is Christ. What about Joseph, the favorite
of the father? That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
What is the tabernacle? It's a portrait of him. What
about the priesthood? It represents him. What does
the Sabbath mean without Christ? It just means a miserable day
that you can't have any fun on. Oh, if you know Christ, he is
our rest before God. And if I don't believe the gospel,
There's a veil over my heart in reading the Old Testament.
I just don't understand it. It's a bunch of laws I can't
keep. It's a bunch of weird rules and ceremonies and rites and
religious festivals and so on. But what does it all mean? In
Romans chapter 10, turn with me there. I want you to look
at this. Romans chapter 10. Verse 4. For Christ, Romans chapter 10,
verse 4. For Christ is the end. Romans 10, verse 4. Christ is
the end, the goal, the purpose, the termination, the fulfillment.
Christ is the end of the law, the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments. the sacrifices, the Sabbath days,
the feast days, all the different ceremonies, everything found
in the Old Testament. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believeth. Christ is the
purpose of the law. It was given to lead us to Him. He was never given to save us.
It was given to show us our need of him and drive us to him. Paul said the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ. He's the fulfillment of the law.
He said, think not that I came to destroy the law of the prophets.
I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. He fulfilled the demands
of the law by keeping it perfectly. He fulfilled the demands of the
broken law by suffering its curse. His righteousness is the believer's
righteousness. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness, and I have such joy in that. His righteousness,
His perfect obedience, His law-keeping, His fulfillment of the law is
my personal righteousness before God. He is the termination of
the law. You're not under law. You hear
that? That's what the Bible says. You're
not under law, but you're under grace. We're not under its curse.
We're not under its laws and ceremonies. They've been fulfilled
in Christ. And I think the perfect example of that is the Sabbath.
Christ is my Sabbath. I rest in Him. And we're not
under the laws or rule of life. Christ fulfilled it. And I don't
go to the law and try to measure up my life by seeing how well
I keep in the commandments. I look to Christ in the gospel.
The gospel is my rule. It really is. The gospel is my
rule of life. Back to our text in 2 Corinthians. Verse 16. Chapter 3, verse 16. Nevertheless,
when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. This tells us that those with
this veil over the face that can't understand the gospel because
they never really believed on Christ, they're turned from the
Lord. They're not turned to the Lord, they're turned from the
Lord. But when they turn to the Lord, this veil will be taken
away. Verse 17, now the Lord is that
spirit. Remember when it says in verse
six, he's made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of
the letter, but of the spirit. The letter kills. The spirit
gives life. Now, the Lord is that spirit.
And where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. There is freedom. Now, understand
what that verse of Scripture says. The Lord is that spirit.
And wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, there
is liberty. There's liberty and freedom from
some things, and there's liberty and freedom to some things. For instance, if I'm in the Lord,
if I'm a believer, I have liberty from the penalty of sin. There
is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
Oh, I love no condemnation. Now I dread. I am my Lord's and
he is mine, alive in him, my living head and clothed with
righteousness divine. There's no condemnation to that
person who's in Christ. You have nothing to fear. There's
liberty from the guilt of sin. It's what the Bible calls justification. Now I want you to listen to me
very carefully. I hope I can say this the way it ought to
be said. I'm not guilty, but exempt. I'm not guilty, but treated as
if I'm not. I am I don't have some kind of exemption.
I don't have some kind of. Here's one thing, I'm not guilty. Not that I am, but I'm given
some kind of exemption and it's overlooked and God treats me
as if I'm not guilty, though I really am guilty. That's not
that's not the. I'm not guilty. I don't have
anything to feel guilty about. I have perfect righteousness
before God. What about your sin? What sin?
Christ put it away. All my sin. Sins I haven't even
committed yet. Christ put them away. I have no sin. That's what justification is.
I have no sin. Free from the guilt of sin. Free
from the dominion of sin. Liberty from the dominion of
sin. There was a time when I couldn't believe. I tried and I couldn't,
but I do now. There was a time when I tried
to repent and I couldn't, but I'm repenting right now. I'm
doing things which I, at one time, could not do. And it's
because I've been delivered from the dominion of sin. I have liberty from the slavish
fear of the law. You know the Ten Commandments?
I've not been afraid of them. I go before the Ten Commandments,
and the Ten Commandments look me over and say, He's perfect.
I'm not afraid of God's holy law. I love God's holy law. I
don't try to keep God's law. I've kept it. Big difference.
I don't try to keep it. I have kept it. In Christ, I
have kept the law. I have liberty from the fear
of death. To die is gain. Best day of my life will be the
day I die. That's when I will come into the very presence of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, that's liberty, isn't it?
That's freedom. I have liberty to draw near to
God right now through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
I'm welcome. I have liberty to take the promises of God and
say they're for me. Through the Lord Jesus Christ,
these promises, all the precious promises of God, they're for
me. I have liberty to approach the throne of grace boldly. I have liberty to enter heaven
itself. Now, there is no liberty like
this under the letter of the law. There's only bondage. There's
only fear. But through the gospel, we have
liberty. Now, the Lord is that spirit,
and where the spirit of the Lord is, There's liberty. There's
freedom. Oh, what a glorious freedom every
believer possesses. You stand fast in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made you free. And don't you be entangled
again in that yoke of bondage. Oh, when Christ made you free,
you know what? All your debts were paid. You owe nothing. You
have freedom of access into the very presence of God. Now, you
stand fast in that liberty. Oh, where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there's liberty. You know, religion It's such
an unhappy thing. Because there's no real freedom
in it. It's people being kept from doing
what they really want to do. And being made to do what they
really don't want to do. But in the gospel, there is freedom. Now, verse 18. But we all No exceptions to this
rule, this describes the experience of every believer. We all with
open face, literally an unveiled face, not having the veil over
our face the way the children of Israel did under the Old Testament
with no understanding of the gospel. But we all with an unveiled
face, beholding as in a glass. That's a reflected image, beholding
as in a glass. the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image
from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of God. Now this is what every believer
without exception beholds. They behold as in a glass and
a reflected image the glory of God. Now what is the glory of
God. I need to know because I want
to see if I enter in to what Paul is saying, because I know
if I'm a believer, I've seen the same thing. So what is this
glory of God that the believer beholds? Is this a nebulous concept
or is it something that we actually can have some understanding of
when we read of the glory of God? I know this, God said, my
glory, I will not share with another. And I know this, all that God
does, he does for his own glory. And you can just write that down.
This is God's agenda, his own glory. To act for any other reason
would be beneath the dignity of His glorious person. It would
be evil for me to seek my own glory, but it would be evil for
God to not seek His own glory. The glory of God, this is the
only good motive. Whatsoever you do, do to the
glory of God. What is the glory of God? I mean, religious people always
look, glory! That word is used, but what does
it mean? Now, we don't need to guess. The Bible tells us exactly
what the glory of God is. Now, turn with me to Exodus chapter
32. Now remember, Paul says this
is what every believer sees. Every believer, without exception,
sees the glory of God. Now, let me give you the setting
in Exodus chapter 32. Moses had gone up to Mount Sinai
to receive the law. The children of Israel had been
brought out of Egypt. They camped at Mount Sinai. where
God told them to, Moses goes up the mountain to receive the
law from the hand of God. Now, the children of Israel had
already passed through the Red Sea. Can you imagine what that
must have been like when they saw the sea parted and they walked
through it and saw the rest of the Egyptians drowned after they
got through? The sea came back on them. They
had experienced everyday manna coming down from heaven and feeding
them. They had seen Moses smite the
rock, and water came out of the rock, and they had food and water
every day. They had what they needed. The
manna, Christ, the bread from heaven, the smitten rock, Christ
smitten, the water of life coming from Him. They had experienced
these miracles. Now, here they are at Mount Sinai.
Moses goes up, and Moses is gone 40 days. That would be like whatever happened
last Thanksgiving. I mean, that's, you know, 40
days ago, somewhere around, you know, you can remember most of
the stuff that took place. But do you know at this time they
forgot everything the Lord did for them? Now look in chapter
32. And when the people saw that
Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, Exodus 32, verse
1. And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out
of the bout, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron
and said unto him, up, make us gods. I think that's interesting,
up, up. The promotion of the flesh, the
promotion of man, human works, up, not down, up, make us gods. which shall go before us. For
as it is Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land
of Egypt, we want not what is become of him. And Aaron said
unto them, Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears
of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring
them unto me. And the people break off the golden earrings
which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And
he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving
tool, after he had made it a molten calf. And they said, These be
thy gods, O Israel. The ones we've made. The ones
we control. These are our gods. These are
the ones who brought us up out of the land of Egypt. And when
Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation
and said, tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. And they rose up
early on the morrow and offered burnt offerings and brought peace
offerings to this golden calf. And the people sat down to eat
and drink and rose up to play. Now look in verse 19 of the same
chapter. And it came to pass, as soon
as he came nigh, Moses had come down from the mount, that he
saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses' anger waxed hot. Can you imagine how furious he
was at this time, seeing what they had done, how quickly they
had turned aside? And his anger waxed taut, and
he cast the table out of his hands, and broke them beneath
the mouth. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt
it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon
the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. And Moses
said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast
brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron said, Let not the anger
of my Lord wax hot. Thou knowest the people, that
they are set on mischief. For they said unto me, Make us
gods, which shall go out before us. For after this, Moses, the
man that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, we like
not what is become of him. And I said unto them, Whosoever
hath any gold, let him break it off. So they gave it to me,
and I cast it in the fire, and out came his calf. Chapter 33, Exodus chapter 33, And the Lord
said unto Moses, Depart, go up hence thou and the people which
thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt. He didn't say
I brought them out. He said this is that bunch you
brought out unto the land which I swear unto Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, saying unto thy seed will I give it. You bring
this bunch of rebels into the land that I promised. And I will
send an angel before thee, and I will drive out the Canaanite,
the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite unto a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will
not go up in the midst of thee. I'll send a created angel to
help you, but I'm not going to be with you. For thou art a stiff-necked people,
lest I consume thee. in the way, and when the people
heard these evil tidings that the Lord wasn't going to be with
them, they mourned, and no man did put on his ornaments. Now Moses is praying to these
people. Look in verse 12 of chapter 33, ìAnd Moses said unto the Lord,
See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people And thou hast
not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. You just talked
about some created angel. Yet thou hast said, I know thee
by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now, therefore,
I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now
thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy
sight, and consider that this nation is thy people, not mine
or your people. And he said, God gives this gracious
promise. My presence shall go with thee,
and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, Moses replied
to the Lord, if thy presence go not with me, carry not up
his. I don't want to go anywhere without
him, do you? I want him to be with me. I want him, I want to
be in him. For wherein shall it be known that I and thy people
have found grace in thy sight? Is it not that thou goest with
us? So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the
people that are upon the face of the earth." And the Lord said
unto Moses, I'll do this thing also that thou hast spoken, for
thou hast found grace in my sight. That's what I want. I want to
find favor and grace in his sight. And I know thee by name. So here's what Moses replies,
verse 18. He said, I beseech you, I beg
you, show me your glory. Now, Moses says when he makes
this statement, I've seen you part the Red Sea, but I've not
seen your glory. I've seen the ten plagues. But I've not seen
your glory. I've seen man fall from heaven. I've seen the water come out
of the rock. I've seen these glorious things, but I haven't
seen your glory. Show me what you say your glory
is. Don't you want to see his glory?
What do you say your glory is? Verse 18, I beseech thee, show
me thy glory. And the Lord answered him. He
said in verse 19, He said, I'll make all my goodness pass before thee. The glory of God is His goodness. His capacity to be good to people
who deserve to be damned. That's what God's glory is. goodness. You know why I trust him? Now,
I don't know what he's doing all the time. I never know what
he's doing, but he's good. And I trust him. I trust him
because he's good. And whatever he does is good.
And I believe that whether I see it or not, the Lord is good. Whatever he does is good. Can you trust someone like that? He's the only one who's good.
He is worthy of all trust, because he is good. Now somebody says, what is God's
goodness? Look what he says next. He says,
I'll proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. The name of
the Lord is who he is. It's his attributes. Now let
me show you that. Look down in chapter 34, beginning
in verse 5. And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him
there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. Remember, he said,
I'll make my goodness pass before you. I'll proclaim my name before
you. And the Lord passed by, verse
six, before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful
and gracious, long suffering and abundant in goodness and
truth, keeping mercy for thousands. forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's
children unto the third and the fourth generation, and Moses
made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.
And here's something to think about. He says, I will. Forgive iniquity and transgression
and sin. And in the same breath, he says,
I will by no means under no circumstance will I clear somebody who's guilty. How can that be? He forgives. He forgives, he has mercy, and
yet he refuses to clear the guilty. I mean, if you're guilty, that's
why you need forgiveness. How can both of these things
be so? This is the glory of God. How He can be just and justify
somebody like me. How He can refuse to clear the
guilty, me, and yet forgive me. That's only understood in the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is His goodness. You know, it almost makes me
want to weep and cry to think that when you preach the gospel
of God being so good that he gave his son and put the sins
of the elect on his son and saved him and made a way for him to
be just and justify the ungodly and people get mad at the Lord.
Why did he save everybody? Back to our text in verse 19
of Exodus chapter 33. He says, I'll make all my goodness
pass before thee. Here, remember, this is God's
glory, His capacity to save. I'll make all my goodness pass
before thee. I'll proclaim the name of the
Lord before thee, how I'm just and yet gracious. How I won't
clear the guilty, and yet I forgive sins through the gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And look what he says next. And
he says, I will be gracious. You know why God is gracious?
Because He's gracious. That's his nature, to be gracious,
to show mercy. I will be gracious. But notice
he says, I'll be gracious to whom I will be gracious. Moses,
you don't dictate to me who I'm going to forgive and who I'm
not going to forgive. You know, the Lord giveth no account of
his manners. Whatever he does is right. He says, I will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious. And I'll have compassion and
show mercy toward that one that I decide to be gracious toward. I turn to Romans 9. Paul quotes this passage of Scripture. Romans, the ninth chapter. Verse 11. For the children, talking about Jacob
and Esau, being not yet born. neither having done any good
or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election, might
stand not of works, but of him that calleth. It was said unto
her, The elder shall serve the younger, as it is written, God
speaking, and saying, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? Is God unfair for loving one
and hating the other? God forbid. For he saith to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion. I want to ask you a question. Are you in that group who says,
This is not fair. For God to love Jacob and hate
Esau and make a difference between these two men. Are you in that
group that says that's not fair? Then let me tell you what you're
saying. You're saying that the death of Christ is yours by way
of entitlement. It would not be right for Jesus
Christ to not come and shed his precious blood for you. You have
it coming. God owes that to you. God owes you his grace and his
mercy. It's yours by way of entitlement
and right. Do you have any idea how offensive
and nauseating that is to God? That kind of attitude. It's utterly
vile. It proves what you really believe
about yourself and what you really believe about God. Or are you
of the number who would be amazed that God would look at you in
favor? And your cry is amazing grace. How sweet the sound that saved
a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm
found. I was blind, but now I see." Now, God's glory is His goodness,
His ability to save somebody as evil as the children of Israel. And another way to translate
that is His ability to save somebody as evil and helpless as me. That
is God's glory. And Paul says every believer,
we all, as in a glass, seeing this reflected image, behold
the glory of God. Turn back to our text in 2 Corinthians
3. Verse 18. But we all with open
face, not veiled, but open face, beholding as in a glass the glory
of the Lord." Look what it says next. "...are changed into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of God." Now, in beholding Him,
what this says is we are changed into his image. Now isn't that
God's great end and predestination? More, whom he did foreknow, he
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. Romans 8, 29. Whoever he predestinated, he
predestinated that they would be conformed to the image of
his son. Now, this passage of scripture
says that when we behold the glory of God, and we see what
the glory of God is, when we behold the glory of God, we're
changed into that same image. Now, what that means is you can't
behold Christ and not believe. You cannot look to Christ and
not be meek and lowly. You cannot look to Christ and
fail to forgive. You cannot look to Christ and
not love Him and not love His people and want to be His slave. You can't look to Christ and
not be like Him. Now, if you try to do or be these
things, you'll fail. Anything you try to be, you can't
be. It's only looking to him and
beholding his glory that you're changed into his image. And this is a process. What do
I mean by that? Well, notice how he says, in
verse 18, but we all with open face beholding as in a glass,
the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image likeness
to him from glory to glory, even as
by the spirit of the Lord. Now this glass with water in
it, let's pretend it doesn't have any water in it.
All it's got is a little bit of dirt. That's it. Just dirt. If I pour water into that glass
with the dirt in it, does the dirt leave? No, it's still there,
not a bit of it left. But it does become diluted, doesn't
it? And the more water I pour in,
the more diluted it becomes. None of it leaves. It's all there
and it will remain there. But the water is there, too.
And the water doesn't change properties, the water is still
pure. It's the water that came in before
the dirt, it's not changed by the dirt, the same property is
there. And that dirt that was nothing but dirt is diluted,
it doesn't disappear, but it's diluted. Looking to Christ, beholding
his reflective image, when I behold his image, I become forgiving.
The dirt's not still there. I love. The dirt's still there. I trust. I seek His honor. I seek His glory. And the more
His grace is poured into me, the more I hear the gospel, the
more I'm enabled to believe. I'm changed. And to Him is His
image from glory to glory. The dirt's still there. But you
know what? Notice He says we behold as in
a glass. the reflected image of the glory
of God. And you know, isn't it true,
we see through a glass, what's the next word? Darkly. In an enigma. We see the glory
of God reflected. But one of these days, I'm not
going to see the reflected glory of God when he comes, and I see
him as he is." And that's the promise of the scriptures. He
shall come and we'll see him as he is. You want anything else
it says about that? Everyone who sees him as he is
will be like him. When we see not simply his reflected
image, but we see him in his glory, will be perfectly conformed
to His image being like Him. But right now, we see His reflected
glory in the Gospel. And looking to Him, we're like
Him. Not trying to be something. Not
working to do something. but simply looking to Him. We're
made like it. Let's pray together.