1. Hawes, D. D.I. So that we have here a test of Christian character. "It doth not yet appear," etc. "Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour." This corruption must put on incorruption. It pulls the pliant stuff into its own range, and then refines and exalts it into those living organisms that are the glory of the earth.2. The holy Psalmist said, "I shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy likeness"; "I shall behold Thy face in righteousness." The deep mental impressions of the mother often infix themselves legibly upon the young life she brings into the world. Then shall we have glorified bodies restored unto us, wherein Christ shall be admired (2 Thessalonians 1:10). 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. Again: how partially we see Christ here! I can see Thee here through symbols; if the eye of my faith be dim, yet it is sure. Our future self is commonly the simple projection of our present self. H. The best believer only gets half a glimpse of Christ. In the next place, that this difficulty will be removed. (1) There are more to appreciate us, and it would be as though kings showed their royalty at a wake, or wise men discoursed philosophy before fools. The sight of Him makes us like Him. You must sympathise with a man in order to be able to understand him. for so it is given as a reason, "We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." Where are my children? Now let it go. Christ had come into his life; and from a mere child of this world, a simple fisherman, he had been made a veritable son of God. Consider, first of all, that we shall not see Him abased in His incarnation but exalted in His glory. The time of our open presentation at court will have come.1. The natural comes first, then the spiritual, but it is no less full of germinant seeds and possibilities than the natural. Then we have our solemn absolution from all sins (Acts 3:19). Love, obedience, fellowship, are sweetest flowers of earth, but they all look heavenward. )What we shall beCanon Scott Holland.Surely a wholly new interest creeps over this poor human world of ours if we once see in it the germ of possibility, the suggestion of all we shall be hereafter. We touch here a most vital fact — the revelations of God and their effect upon us. The soil may dwarf the Divine life and prevent its perfect development; nevertheless, we have that life in germ. These two blessed changes are so vitally related to each other that one is a pledge and forecast of the other. The monks of Mount Athos hypnotise themselves into trance conditions by gazing at their own bodies. We shall not bow before Him with trembling, but it will be with joy; we shall not shake at His presence, but rejoice with joy unspeakable. First, that there is something difficult to comprehend about the present spiritual position of the believer. Our minds often revert to Christ as He was, and as such we have desired to see Him. Sort by sermon series or passage, or view the full archive. The man, according to the apostle, is born of God. R. Cocke, D. D.)The blessed vision of ChristQuoted by Dr. How different that sight of Him will be from that which we have here!1. The wondrous changes since infancy, with the development of hidden powers, do not effectually teach us that changes as great await us, or may be achieved. The faculty is more capacious, the object is more fully represented, and the conjunction and fruition is more intimate and close than it can be elsewhere. 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." (2) Our characteristic principles.III. 1 John 3:2 - Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. "We shall see Him as He is."3. )The spirituality of the beatific visionW. If we are absorbed into Christ, and Christ into us, when He is manifested we also shall be manifested with Him in glory. 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? Selby. We shall speak of our Lord's manifestation without doubt. There we shall see Christ entirely, when "we shall see Him as He is."3. but I want to see the Saviour, the Saviour of Calvary, the Saviour of Judea, the very one that died for me. Just one tap away from sermons, blogs, and other resources. How it is the fruit of vision? What the end of this social change will be we do not know, but there is no reason to doubt that society will make as great gains as it has made in the past. We call it then an opal. A man may try and look at Christ for a lifetime. We cannot look with sympathy upon His moral loveliness here, or with worship upon His glorious majesty hereafter, without realising some amazing approximation to His likeness.6. The organisation passes through plastic stages of sensibility, in which it is peculiarly susceptible to the imprint of any new object that may be presented to it. But he contends manfully against the difficulties, and is climbing up slowly, but surely, to a fitness for the position in which he has been so happily reinstated. There is personal identity. How much better that sight will be than what we have here! This is not the land of sight; it is too dark a country to see Him, and our eyes are not good enough. God may yet do great things with them, so long as He can secure in them some seed of future life.3. There is rapture in devotion. We shall see the hand, and the nail-prints too, but not the nail; it has been once drawn out, and forever. This is not the land of sight; it is too dark a country to see Him, and our eyes are not good enough. Wisely and graciously God has left a veil over our future condition and circumstances. The chrysalis is no longer affected by the colour of its surroundings when it reaches the last stages of its development. Let me sit and look. 2. (3)He will be manifest in highest glory. When I begin the day, I have not only to keep on in the good habits of yesterday, but I have fresh choices to make. What heaven in such a look!(A. Let me stop here always. To see God, therefore, is to enjoy Him. A young prince, stolen away in childhood from his father's palace, and brought up amidst unworthy surroundings, has been recovered and brought back again. We are not to think that this transforming process belongs only to the life beyond. Hanford. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doth not appear what we shall be." It is by the law of assimilation that men are bound together into homogeneous communities and nations.3. It can in a moment pass from earth to heaven, and survey innumerable objects. (Canon Scott Holland. Young man, the text says, "We shall see Him as He is." "We shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is."IV. We who are Christians have a present position to maintain. Yet more, we have known Him better than by Scripture sometimes — by close and intimate fellowship with Him. The son of her friend had shown her the stairs, and pointed out the door of the room where the body lay, and put a candle in her hands, and left her. That were sad indeed. 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. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, The Whole Bible Man has a capacity for endless progress in knowledge. O heavens! Let us recount our gains from such a belief in respect of the world at our feet, before our eyes.1. Moses himself asked that he might see God. For if the ideal, if completion, is to be sought here on earth, then we know how despairing is our view of those who are born in thousands in dark and low dens, born out of the seed of sin, out of the fires of lust and of drink, born into a life that must be stricken and stunted, blind with ignorance and cursed with a loveless doom. The life in us is an exotic from a celestial clime, "and" hence "it doth not yet appear what we shall be." We find, as a matter of experience, that we can absorb and assimilate that on which we succeed in detaining the attention of our concentrated powers. She pushed open the door and entered alone, and there, before her, lay the face, fine and clear cut, encompassed about with a mass of white flowers. But when we see Him up there it will be triumph without suspense. Young man, the text says, "We shall see Him as He is." This natural history should open our minds to the possibility of a like spiritual history. Almost as far off as the farthest star! we shall know Him well enough when we see Him. R. Cocke, D. D.Loved ones, now are we the children (τέκνα) of God. We should have feared lest He might not overcome. The righteous burst forth at once into the zenith of their destinies like stars into the swift kindling splendour of the firmament. We shall find Him a man, even as much as He was on earth. Regeneration means, not that we are to be developed, but that we are to be changed, to live in other ways, with other motives and for other ends. "WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS."1. If I am a son of God I have got much in me that is "not wanted on the voyage," and the more I grow into His likeness the more I am thrown out of harmony with the things round about me in proportion as I am brought into harmony with the things beyond. Let us not think meagrely on such a subject, but under high analogies. But he contends manfully against the difficulties, and is climbing up slowly, but surely, to a fitness for the position in which he has been so happily reinstated. God save thee! Something is already accomplished; an effect is secured. 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 are told in Scripture that this life is a seed time, and the future is the harvest, "He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; he that soweth to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap life everlasting." The fruit is not here, but fruit may come hereafter in abundance out of those very failures which prune and curtail and sharply discipline us here. You may trust the believer for knowing his Master when he finds Him.III. I am sure you will all confess that this strong desire has arisen in your minds concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. Place man in any earthly situation; give him wealth, give him power, give him honour, pleasure, all that the world can afford; still there will be a void within, still he will travail in pain, and look and sigh after enjoyments which the fleeting objects of time and sense can never afford him. But then it will not be to improve us, it will be to perfect us, when we see Him there. The model is Christ in His enthroned majesty and splendour. A CHANGE OF THE MOST MARKED CHARACTER IS ALREADY SUPERINDUCED. But then we shall see Him closely; we shall see Him face to face; as a man talketh with his friend, even so shall we then talk with Jesus.5. And in the spiritual realm this fact has its counterpart. God save thee! Let me sit and look. 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. For if the ideal, if completion, is to be sought here on earth, then we know how despairing is our view of those who are born in thousands in dark and low dens, born out of the seed of sin, out of the fires of lust and of drink, born into a life that must be stricken and stunted, blind with ignorance and cursed with a loveless doom. I cannot see Thee and not be blessed. It may help the weak faith of some who stumble at the supernatural, if we recognise that assimilation forces are already at work which change into finer quality, nobler form, more subtle function that which is gross, inert, unshaped. It is the unborn babe which is responsive to the image presented to the brain of the mother, rather than the mother herself. God sweeps it out of sight; not in contempt, but because He prepares for us another and yet another picture of that immeasurable glory of the kingdom of heaven.2. The sight of Him makes us like Him. In politics, especially, we note how we are suffering from this cheerless disappointment. Spiritual resemblance to him qualifies the soul to see him even as he is. That were sad indeed. If selfish or lustful or proud, these qualities tend simply to go on and harden into fixed form. Calthrop, M. W. Hamilton, LL. Remember, again: we are not to see Christ as He was, the despised, the tempted one. "When He shall appear" all will be well; the life will unfold itself in divinest forms under the immediate sunlight of His countenance. It will not be the failure which distresses, but only the failure to use the failure for good purposes. I begin with the perfection of our knowledge. For, secondly, God communicates Himself in this world not immediately, but by inferior instruments and secondary causes: He feeds the soul with the graces of His Spirit, by the ministry of His Word and sacraments, and preserves the body by the help of His creatures. No matter how they come; they are coming by the Spirit of Gods and they are coming in ways not to be turned aside. It is the same one. They are not yet entirely freed from sin, and sin pollutes the soul. O heavens! 'It was not her own look that was in her face. So we shall feel awe when we see Christ on His throne; but it will be awe without fear. (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. When you plant a seed in the ground, you do not plant the body that shall be, all you plant is a bare grain, and God gives it a body as pleases Him. (a)The winter prepares flowers, but does not call them forth. Christ says to each of us, "Be what I have made you! THE APPREHENSION THAT WE SHOULD HAVE OF IT FOR THE PRESENT — "we know.". But there is a fond inquiry whether we shall know our relations and acquaintances in the other world. I cannot see Thee and not be blessed. "WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS."1. Here he stands and looks upon Christ veiled in a mist — upon a Jesus who is shrouded; but when he gets up there, on Pisgah's brow, higher still, with his Jesus, then he shall not see Him dimly, but he shall see Him brightly. "We shall see Him as He is," and pass at once into the distinctions of His sovereignty. Let us recount our gains from such a belief in respect of the world at our feet, before our eyes.1. And in the spiritual realm this fact has its counterpart. THE GLORIOUS POSITION. who can imagine it? The deep mental impressions of the mother often infix themselves legibly upon the young life she brings into the world. 1 John 3:2-9 (b)The ebb tide reveals the secrets of the sea, but many of our rivers no gallant ship can then sail. Interactive Bible study with John Piper. Our faith is so assured that it becomes knowledge. It is not easy to realise that we shall ever be much different from what we are at present — that we shall become wiser, that we shall feel older, that we shall hold other opinions, that we shall develop new powers. And the law holds in human life. When I begin the day, I have not only to keep on in the good habits of yesterday, but I have fresh choices to make. (2)His Deity was concealed in infirmity. Consider, first of all, that we shall not see Him abased in His incarnation but exalted in His glory. Thus God can and does transform the vilest sinners into pure and shining jewels fit for His home in heaven.Transfiguration by sight of ChristAmong some reminiscences of the sweet singer, Jenny Lind, communicated by Canon Scott Holland to Murray's Magazine, occurs the following: — "She had gone to look on the face of her friend, Mrs. Nassau Senior, after death. The organisation passes through plastic stages of sensibility, in which it is peculiarly susceptible to the imprint of any new object that may be presented to it. But are thy grey hairs full of sin? Thus I am summoned to new exercises of my nature. He speaketh upon the supposition that we are God's children.(T. We shall know Him, because He will be so much like the Bible Jesus, that we shall recognise Him at once. We shall not see the Christ wrestling with pain, but Christ as a conqueror. These four may be separated each from the other. The Son creates them at once to new majesty as He once created worlds, for His power is dealing with an entirely obedient material, a material ruled by regenerated wills promptly and absolutely responsive to His sovereignty. The natural comes first, then the spiritual, but it is no less full of germinant seeds and possibilities than the natural. David Guzik :: Génesis 14 – Abram Rescata a Lot y Conoce a Melquisedec, G1 - alpha - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV), David Guzik :: Hechos 9 – La Conversión de Saulo de Tarso, David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 – Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltería, A Summary of Each Bible Book - Study Resources, Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Matthew 7:6, David Guzik :: Génesis 3 – La tentación y caída del hombre, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), Genesis 37-38 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Ezekiel 31-35 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Revelation 10-12 (1982-85 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 39-41 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 27-28 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith). Just as sometimes, when you are looking in your looking glass, you see somebody going along in the street. Ah! Oh, let me be unquiet till I shall see Thee as I am seen! Well, "we shall see Him." if we ever see our Saviour, we shall know Him by His wounds. 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. 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. Where are my children? We shall love Him quite as much when we see Him in heaven, and more too, but it will be love without pity; we shall not say "Alas!" It is seen, as it were, through a mist. The life dawning in that birth mediated through the Spirit is alone susceptible of these sublime modifications and perfectings; and in the heavenly transfiguration there is the same parallel or analogy. So seen, it is no aged and weary traveller tottering slowly down to his end; but it is a child still, with the fascination of a child all about it, the fascination of a life which is feeling its way forward by start, by gleam, by sudden intuition, by experiment, by tentative trial, by flashes of insight, by glances, by glimpses — yes, and by stumbles and falls and shocks and jolts, from out of which it still pulls itself together and runs on yet ahead. To which I answer, that if such knowledge will add to our happiness we shall surely enjoy it. "We know that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.". We call it then an opal. and doth lust tarry in thy old cold blood? Our life begins with a look "Behold the Lamb of God." Christ not only so acts upon us as to conform us to His holy and exalted pattern now; when He comes again it shall be to reflect His glory into the persons of His believing followers.1. (2) A warring and waiting condition like the present would not be a fit opportunity for unveiling. Young man, you have got a mother and her soul doats upon you. In ways unknown to us these assimilative forces work deep down amidst the elemental mysteries of life. The main quality asserts itself more and more strongly, shapes the features, gives tone to the voice, and gesture to the body, directs the conduct and becomes the spirit of the life. So we shall feel awe when we see Christ on His throne; but it will be awe without fear. We notice —I. (1)He will be manifest upon this earth in person. It is pleasant to believe His grace, but we had rather see it. The chrysalis is no longer affected by the colour of its surroundings when it reaches the last stages of its development. And the law holds in human life. Thirdly, the mean, or condition on our part, whereby we are incorporated into Christ at present, is our faith, but in the life to come faith shall be swallowed up in perfect vision, we shall see God as He is, and the sight of infinite perfection shall set us on fire and make our hearts burn with love as pure and bright as our knowledge; and it being the property of love to clasp the object beloved into the closest union, we shall enjoy all things possible in common with the ever-blessed Trinity. We should have feared lest He might not overcome. 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