(1)His glory was veiled in flesh. But there is a fond inquiry whether we shall know our relations and acquaintances in the other world. We shall see Christ again, and see Him as He is; see Him with clearer eyes than we now have; and so mightier transformations will take place within us; we cannot tell nor even imagine what we shall be. Hanford. Who knows what is going on in secret behind those very failures in others which most provoke us? H. This is not the land of sight; it is too dark a country to see Him, and our eyes are not good enough. O heavens! When we go before our God the failures will go to the account, they will be elements in the judgment, they will be as instrumental and effective as any of our successes in determining our eternal lot. In the vision reserved for the heavenly Jerusalem there will be nothing dark or enigmatical, nothing of cloud, or representation, of faith or reasoning, or intermediate ideas to inform the understanding, nothing between God and the glorified soul, the knowledge intuitive, the vision naked, full, and perfect according to the quality of the recipient, and the mind directly irradiated from the fountain of light, from the Divine essence itself.III. Good things, from which men thirty years ago hoped so much, have been done only to show how much more remains to be done. "We shall see Him as He is," and pass at once into the distinctions of His sovereignty. In this life we feel after God, as it were, in the dark, we trace Him out by the foot steps of infinite power and wisdom, we see Him in His works but not in Himself; but when we commence angel life this veil shall be taken away, then we shall be no longer under the pedagogy of types and shadows but admitted into the immediate possession of original truth.II. So we shall feel awe when we see Christ on His throne; but it will be awe without fear. but I want to see the Saviour, the Saviour of Calvary, the Saviour of Judea, the very one that died for me. The monks of Mount Athos hypnotise themselves into trance conditions by gazing at their own bodies. We are His children even now. We gain cheerfulness in the face of change, and we gain hope just where we most need it. And then there is the future to look forward to — the future kingdom — the future glory, upon which we shall have one day to enter with Christ. The life will have reached its type. The apostle declares that we "shall see Christ as He is." The time of our open presentation at court will have come. T. Munger.John, looking back, sees what great spaces have been covered in his spiritual history; he also looks forward, and sees greater changes in store for him. The limit of physical development may be reached, but the mental and moral development may go on long after, and, for aught we know, forever, and the fact that we draw our life from God makes it probable that it will be so. This process is not human and ethical only. (2) In the first transfiguration the Spirit is the agent of the change; in the second the ministry of the Spirit is superseded, or at least falls into the background. Our great business will be to love what we see, and our great happiness to have what we love. More information Find this Pin and more on Church Sermons from the Bible for Pastor by SlideTeam . Here is a woman who has seen Christ."' Had it been a wrong wish arising out of vain curiosity it would not have been granted, but God granted Moses his desire. So we shall feel awe when we see Christ on His throne; but it will be awe without fear. was the apostrophe of an ancient confessor. A Sermon on John 3:19-21 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. (1)He will be manifest upon this earth in person. St. John had experienced this change under the influence of Christ — a change so great that he can scarcely realise what he was at the beginning. Things are placed in a course of progression even now.II. )By and byC. It will not be the failure which distresses, but only the failure to use the failure for good purposes. New questions come up; life varies its phases; I am myself not quite the same being as yesterday; I see more, feel more; duty is a little broader; time presses upon me a little more heavily; eternity becomes more real. And the reason of this is plain enough. )The final transgurationR. W. Hamilton, LL. And therefore it begins with a call to regeneration. Not the reflected Christ, not Christ in the sanctuary, not the mere Christ shining out of the Bible, not Christ reflected from the sacred pulpit; but "we shall see Him as He is."2. We owe to none so much; we talk of none so much, we hope, and we think of none so much: at any rate, no one so constantly thinks of us. But are thy grey hairs full of sin? The sight of Him makes us like Him. We shall find Him a man, even as much as He was on earth. You may trust the believer for knowing his Master when he finds Him.III. See how Christ has transformed the world; how His spirit has stolen into the hearts of nations; how civilisation has taken on His name and is doing His work. In the vision reserved for the heavenly Jerusalem there will be nothing dark or enigmatical, nothing of cloud, or representation, of faith or reasoning, or intermediate ideas to inform the understanding, nothing between God and the glorified soul, the knowledge intuitive, the vision naked, full, and perfect according to the quality of the recipient, and the mind directly irradiated from the fountain of light, from the Divine essence itself.III. See how the tide of progress sets steadily Christward — more peace and less war, more justice, more equality, more mercy and kindness and goodwill. The sight of Him makes us like Him. Thus I am summoned to new exercises of my nature. I cannot see Thee and not be blessed. But there is more than this to be said. She had seen Christ. The facts were typical, and suggestive of principles that were operating beyond the range of these special instances, and as such helped to colour the thought and speech and hope of the founders of the coming Church. Then shall we know, not in part, not by wearisome steps and deductions, but clearly and all at once; we shall know in the same manner as God knows, that is, by His immediate self, for in Himself only can we see Him as He is, and in His infinite mind we shall see the hidden forms of His creatures and the ideas of all perfection. If so, "we shall see Him as He is." On it was peace, and a smile, with her lips parted; but that was not all. Who knows what is going on in secret behind those very failures in others which most provoke us? How, then, shall we not turn to this poor life of ours with hope, with zeal, with tenderness, with love; how shall we not clasp it tight and fast, and cling about it, and busy ourselves with its services? D.There is a very lofty sentiment in these words. The holy Psalmist said, "I shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy likeness"; "I shall behold Thy face in righteousness." Crown Him!" You do not see the person, you only see him reflected. Its first work is to lift us out of the order of nature where character tends simply to solidify and habits become fixed, and to carry us into another sort of world. He casts His illumination upon our future destiny as well as upon our present duty. But when we see Him up there it will be triumph without suspense. In the same way that life develops: "We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory." We touch here a most vital fact — the revelations of God and their effect upon us. What heaven in such a look!(A. Therefore we hope to come upon other duties, and so to enter into other feelings than any we now know. It is only a little while we get a glimpse of Christ, and then He seems to depart from us. In the same way that life develops: "We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory." I do not so much pant to see the glorious Saviour you have spoken of; I want to see that very Saviour who did the works of love, the suffering Saviour; for Him I love." Had it been a wrong wish arising out of vain curiosity it would not have been granted, but God granted Moses his desire. But if society is capable of such transformations, much more must the individual be capable of them. We call it then a diamond. Here, too, how dimly we see Christ! You shall see Him. And within certain limits we do find ourselves possessed of power through which we approximate, in external conduct at least, to His standard of truth and righteousness and compassion.4. Rather, it is part … Continue reading "Commentary on John … Ever since the morning of creation, when God made man in His image, and gave him dominion over His works, He has been continually operating for his good. They labour with meaning and soar with aspiration. They are wholly unacquainted with the means by which they shall perceive either material or spiritual objects, after they have lost their bodily senses. Having a soul like His soul: perfect, holy, instructed, developed, strengthened, active, delivered from temptation, conflict, and suffering.3. We call it then an opal. The believer will be as much astonished when he sees Jesus' glories as He sits on His throne as He would have been to have seen Him in His earthly sufferings. All we can say is that the holy city of the saved world, the new Jerusalem of the perfected humanity, is slowly but steadily coming down from God out of heaven, and will in time appear four-square upon the earth. And the final condition! We shall see the hand, and the nail-prints too, but not the nail; it has been once drawn out, and forever. And plainly there is much force in the argument. That is the use to be made of such events as they touch us. No matter how they come; they are coming by the Spirit of Gods and they are coming in ways not to be turned aside. The believer will be as much astonished when he sees Jesus' glories as He sits on His throne as He would have been to have seen Him in His earthly sufferings. Let them come and see. Job said, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and though worms devour this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God": that was his desire. Sermon on Jeremiah 32:1-15 by John R. Collins Introduction to the scripture reading: A few points… and doth lust tarry in thy old cold blood? But we leave the thought with you, and lest you should think that if you are not worthy you will not see Him — if you are not good you will not see Him — if you do not do such-and-such good things you will not see Him — let me just tell you, whosoever, though he be the greatest sinner under heaven — whosoever, though his life be the most filthy and the most corrupt — whosoever believeth in the Lord Jesus Christ shall have everlasting life; for God will blot out his sins, will give him righteousness through Jesus, accept him in the beloved, save him by His mercy, keep him by His grace, and at last present Him spotless and faultless before His presence with exceeding great joy.(C. Transfigurations go on in the social realm that are more or less consciously mimetic in their character. Quick as the kindling of light His exalted humanity will implant itself in us. It is only a little while we get a glimpse of Christ, and then He seems to depart from us. That will guarantee the rest. All men are as one man; one is the whole and the whole are but one. H. Remember, again: we are not to see Christ as He was, the despised, the tempted one. Still we perceive in him capacities for high and noble attainments; capacities which stamp on his existence the seal of eternity. For the present our "life is hid with Christ in God," but "when Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory"; yes, "with Him in glory," because "like Him." We shall see Him beloved, not abhorred, not despised and rejected, but worshipped, honoured, crowned, exalted, served by flaming spirits and worshipped by cherubim and seraphim. But, Christians, there will be no hidings of faces in heaven! (b) We shall have a far clearer knowledge of God than we have now in this life (1 Corinthians 13:12). 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