Now are we the sons of God, now are we the germ of what we shall find ourselves in that fair land. This will make it free from error, and from the doubt which has pain with it. Something is already accomplished; an effect is secured. That is what damps the spirit. A sermon about being born again. Here is a woman who has seen Christ."' What heaven in such a look!(A. Now are we the sons of God, now are we the germ of what we shall find ourselves in that fair land. That will guarantee the rest. The heart here is the inward judge of the man." If we had seen our Saviour as He was, it would have been a triumph to see how He conquered, but still there would have been suspense about it. The men of the world aspire to be like God in greatness and power, but not in goodness and holiness. Furthermore, if we had seen Christ as He was, we should have had great love for Him; but that love would have been compounded with pity. This is not the world to appear in. And if this is so there is hope. now are we the sons of God." The natural comes first, then the spiritual, but it is no less full of germinant seeds and possibilities than the natural. And thou, who hast come to middle age, struggling with the toils of life, mixed up with all its battles, enduring its ills, thou art asking, it may be, shalt thou see Him? 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. Having a body like His body: sinless, incorruptible, painless, spiritual, clothed with beauty and power, and yet most real and true.2. To others a great teacher and nothing more. His principal ministry was at Westminster Chapel, in central London, from 1939-1968, where he delivered multi-year expositions on books of the bible such as Romans, Ephesians and the Gospel of John. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light... but he that doeth truth cometh to the light. That were sad indeed. Hawes, D. D.I. I do not refer to the everyday manifestations of God — the sunlight, the blessed order of nature, the daily food and daily joy of home, but to those occasions when life becomes momentous, when it gathers itself up in a crisis and all is changed for us. Here, too, how distantly we see Christ! You may trust the believer for knowing his Master when he finds Him.III. 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 may know it by the repentance we have experienced, if it has been heartfelt, arising from a true sense of sin, and resulting in its entire renunciations. Man has a capacity for endless advancement in happiness. 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. THE MODE OR MANNER OF THIS BEATIFIC VISION. And it also seeks to produce them. (1)He will be manifest upon this earth in person. It was the shadow of Christ that had come upon her. The earth, in its noiseless flight, gathers to itself cosmic dust, just as a miller in going to and fro amidst the revolving wheels of his mill draws to himself fine grains of flour; and the earth then conforms that dust to its own likeness. we are already lagging in the rear, we are passe, we have lost the cue. Man has a capacity for endless improvement in moral excellence or holiness. 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? 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. And oh! Here holy principle is imbibed and holy habit formed; but the scope and aim are always prospective. It is by the law of assimilation that men are bound together into homogeneous communities and nations.3. St. John doubtless had in mind the effect of the revelation of God in Jesus 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. If this earth of ours be all, how can we close our eyes to that nightmare? These two blessed changes are so vitally related to each other that one is a pledge and forecast of the other. Transfigurations go on in the social realm that are more or less consciously mimetic in their character. The gospel is constantly putting a man upon moral choices, and so it acts against the solidifying tendency of habit or native inclination; i.e., it keeps a man constantly in the world of freedom and out of the region of fixed habit. There is a great deal in every nature, and most of all in a Christian nature, which is like the packages that emigrants take with them, marked "Not wanted on the voyage." That is what damps the spirit. It is to act up to the dignity of our nature as made in the image of God, rational and immortal beings; is to look beyond the scenes of earth and time to those invisible realities which the Word of God presents for our consideration, and prepare to meet them; it is to love, reverence and serve the great Being who holds our destiny in His hand.2. 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. Things are placed in a course of progression even now.II. WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF THIS BEATIFIC VISION DOES PRINCIPALLY CONSIST. The lily life is subject to hostile climate, and hence is imperfect. But when we see Him up there it will be triumph without suspense. (1)His glory was veiled in flesh. The transcendent beauty of Jesus Christ casts a spell over us, and we long to copy Him. Our failures (above all, of course, our noble failures) are part and parcel of our spiritual history and growth. We shall never see Him thus; Bethlehem's glories are gone forever; Calvary's glooms are swept away; Gethsemane's scene is dissolved; and even Tabor's splendours are quenched in the past. Our failures (above all, of course, our noble failures) are part and parcel of our spiritual history and growth. If selfish or lustful or proud, these qualities tend simply to go on and harden into fixed form. 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. Oh! Both the earthly and the heavenly transfigurations rest upon a common act of contemplation. Come, let us divide that "we" into "I's." 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. THIS CHANGE IS PREPARATORY TO ANOTHER IN A FUTURE STATE OF EXISTENCE. The soil may dwarf the Divine life and prevent its perfect development; nevertheless, we have that life in germ. It is the most comprehensive sense, hath the largest sphere, takes in the most objects, and discerns them at the greatest distance. (3) The present transfiguration is gradual, whilst the future is instantaneous. 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.4. It is because of this fact that the different parts of our common life at least match themselves into a congruous and harmonious whole. and doth lust tarry in thy old cold blood? Have you never stood upon the hilltops when the mist has played on the valley? G. Oh, let me be unquiet till I shall see Thee as I am seen! 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 shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is."IV. We are His children even now. 2. To some persons He is a mere man. III. 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. There will be no difficulty in recognising our unfolding of His life in the future. How degrading is a life of irreligion, a life spent in neglect of God and the soul; devoted to the cares and pursuits of the world! 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. And lastly, that if we are really looking forward to the clearing up or manifestation, which is coming, the effect of the expectation will be seen in the conduct of our daily lives. This is high probability; the Christian faith makes it a certainty. Reeves, M. A.As vain and troublesome a world as this is, and as short and uncertain as our abode is in it, yet are we so strangely charmed with the glittering appearances in our way as to forget the crown of glory at our journey's end. 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. (1) In holiness and purity; for that is the chief thing wherein God will be resembled by His creatures. It was the shadow of Christ that had come upon her. 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. It was the look of another, the face of another, that had passed into hers. Reeves, M. A.As vain and troublesome a world as this is, and as short and uncertain as our abode is in it, yet are we so strangely charmed with the glittering appearances in our way as to forget the crown of glory at our journey's end. 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. Let us not think meagrely on such a subject, but under high analogies. Now all that we can learn of what we shall be here after is to be sought here and now, in our human lot, amid our fellows, in our common brotherhood. See that the law of approximation to Christ is at work in all the occasions of common life. Oh! Sheathe the sword; the battle's won.II. 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. Young man, the text says, "We shall see Him as He is." G. R. Cocke, D. D.Loved ones, now are we the children (τέκνα) of God. Sheathe the sword; the battle's won.II. 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. 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. Perhaps while I have been speaking some have said, "Ah! (2) Internal and inherent, viz., the glory revealed in us, put into us, Now it is revealed to us, then in us. God may yet do great things with them, so long as He can secure in them some seed of future life.3. This natural history should open our minds to the possibility of a like spiritual history. Let me sit and look. I can see Thee here through symbols; if the eye of my faith be dim, yet it is sure. 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. 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. It points to an end of strife, to rest and peace; but there is something better than that. Christ rebuked it, and was consequently hated and crucified. Could your mother come to you this morning, she might take hold of your arm, and say to you, "John, we shall 'see Him as He is'; it is not I, John, that shall see Him for myself alone, but you and I shall see Him together; 'we shall see Him as He is.'" In politics, especially, we note how we are suffering from this cheerless disappointment. They labour with meaning and soar with aspiration. Thus I am summoned to new exercises of my nature. Yet more. It is, indeed, a pleasant thought that if I cultivate a spirit of patience, or sympathy, or self-control, it will become a fixed habit in me. )The final transgurationR. 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. St. John doubtless had in mind the effect of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. Oh! D.There is a very lofty sentiment in these words. One thing is sure, the gospel of Jesus Christ does not leave us alone with a law of heredity, and the bare hope that we may become confirmed in goodness; it opens before us a vista of endless growth and change. "Links1 John 3:21 NIV1 John 3:21 NLT1 John 3:21 ESV1 John 3:21 NASB1 John 3:21 KJV1 John 3:21 Bible Apps1 John 3:21 Parallel1 John 3:21 Biblia Paralela1 John 3:21 Chinese Bible1 John 3:21 French Bible1 John 3:21 German Bible1 John 3:21 CommentariesBible Hub, (4)He will appear surely, and so we speak of it as a date for our own manifesting — "when He shall appear."III. Last of all, the water becomes a dewdrop, and a crystalline star of snow. It will not be the failure which distresses, but only the failure to use the failure for good purposes. Now, if men by projecting themselves into moods of abstraction discover new powers of mind, find unknown fires begin to burn within them, and rise into worlds of spiritual ecstasy, what change, think you, ought to effect itself within us if with the same steadfastness we contemplate the personality of Him who is the Leader and Consummator of our faith? The righteous burst forth at once into the zenith of their destinies like stars into the swift kindling splendour of the firmament. If we had seen Him raising the dead we should have thought Him a most majestic Being. We are even now in conditions in which we are being attracted more or less swiftly into the image of Christ's spiritual loveliness, but ere long we shall be attracted into conformity to the unknown splendour which invests the humanity enshrined and enthroned in the highest heaven.5. We call it then a diamond. We are even now in conditions in which we are being attracted more or less swiftly into the image of Christ's spiritual loveliness, but ere long we shall be attracted into conformity to the unknown splendour which invests the humanity enshrined and enthroned in the highest heaven.5. The hints, the glimpses of the glory which is to follow, the beginning, the omen, the voice — all are here close about us in human nature trod in flesh and blood. Turn next to the wonders of redeeming love, and see how, from age to age, God has been operating for the salvation of our race. 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. In some of the Buddhist monasteries of Eastern Asia devotees are pointed out who have sat facing blank walls for years, and have gazed themselves into mysterious ecstasies. bitter, bitter thought that just now crossed my soul! There will be no difficulty in recognising our unfolding of His life in the future. Manton, D. D.)Man's capability of future glory and blessednessJ. Last of all, the water becomes a dewdrop, and a crystalline star of snow. Oh! You do not see the person, you only see him reflected. Now by seeing God we are not to conceive a bare intuitive knowledge only of the Divine essence, but a vision most lively and operative, warmed with all the affections of the heart, and an entire conformity of our wills to the will of God. Till the Holy Ghost comes to brood within us, the material of which we consist does not lead itself to these high spiritual transformations. 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. How much better that sight will be than what we have here! "We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him." Consider, first of all, that we shall not see Him abased in His incarnation but exalted in His glory. The vision here intended must be intellectual — a vision of the mind and not of the eye, a clear perception or sight of God in the souls of just men made perfect. There is personal identity. 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. That is the use to be made of such events as they touch us. The chrysalis is no longer affected by the colour of its surroundings when it reaches the last stages of its development. D.)The transforming power of the revelation of GodT. H. 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. The second thing promised at the appearance of Christ is a FULL VISION ON OUR PART — "we shall see Him as He is.". if we ever see our Saviour, we shall know Him by His wounds. If this earth of ours be all, how can we close our eyes to that nightmare? We are made holy as He is holy. While the preacher is inevitably tempted to focus in this sermon on John 3:16, rightly called the world’s most famous Bible verse, it would be good to remember that the single verse of John 3:16 — or any other verse, for that matter — is not canonical in and of itself. God is appearing all the while to those who have eyes to see Him. In the next place, that this difficulty will be removed. One thing is sure, the gospel of Jesus Christ does not leave us alone with a law of heredity, and the bare hope that we may become confirmed in goodness; it opens before us a vista of endless growth and change. THE POSITIVE NATURE OF VISION. We thought ourselves in the van — lo! On it was peace, and a smile, with her lips parted; but that was not all. 1. WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF THIS BEATIFIC VISION DOES PRINCIPALLY CONSIST. 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. But if society is capable of such transformations, much more must the individual be capable of them. You shall see Him. Life is the school, the arena, the watch tower. The mist will melt away, and all be made plain when Christ appears. If the broken gleams of Christ's life, the fragments of His tradition, the piecemeal presentation of His character and personality to the world by His followers, can effect such sublime changes amongst men, how much richer will be the transfigurations effected by His direct personal manifestation at His second coming "without spot unto salvation"? Now all that we can learn of what we shall be here after is to be sought here and now, in our human lot, amid our fellows, in our common brotherhood. but I want to see the Saviour, the Saviour of Calvary, the Saviour of Judea, the very one that died for me. And if there be a law of this sort, it must surely run out into higher and more momentous forms. Crown Him!" "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doth not appear what we shall be." We should have feared lest He might not overcome. If we are absorbed into Christ, and Christ into us, when He is manifested we also shall be manifested with Him in glory. (2) We are like Him in happiness and glory, that is, in a glorious condition (1 Corinthians 15:49). 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." So we shall feel awe when we see Christ on His throne; but it will be awe without fear. A commonly used phrase is "born again Christian"... a. We touch here a most vital fact — the revelations of God and their effect upon us. Having a body like His body: sinless, incorruptible, painless, spiritual, clothed with beauty and power, and yet most real and true.2. Thou hast had many years of fighting, and trying, and trouble: if thou ever dost "see Him as He is," that will pay for all. (a)The winter prepares flowers, but does not call them forth. And there is an assimilation to Christ's pattern that is more or less conscious, corresponding to these processes in the social realm around us. But in these transfigurations there are contrasts as well as analogies. 'It was not her own look that was in her face. And plainly there is much force in the argument. Cheerfulness in the face of change. Both the earthly and the heavenly transfigurations rest upon a common act of contemplation. HERE IS FUTURE PROSPECT. Have you never stood upon the hilltops when the mist has played on the valley? 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. II. The nervous system seems curiously responsive to the environment, and accommodates itself to the forms and hues that predominate in it, In a stream near Ivybridge, into which white clay was poured, the fish soon became perceptibly lighter in colour. To wean us, therefore, from the place of our pilgrimage, and to set our affections on a better country, we must send out our minds, as Moses did his spies, to search the promised Canaan, and to bring of the fruit of that good land we are travelling to. Christ had drawn him out of his old, worldly, natural self up into this high sense and relation, so that he could say, "Now, I am a son of God" — a tremendous change, the greatest a human being can undergo. If we could see Jesus as He was, we should see Him with great awe. 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. 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. R. Cocke, D. D.)The blessed vision of ChristQuoted by Dr. And if this is so there is hope. Consider, first of all, that we shall not see Him abased in His incarnation but exalted in His glory. Just as sometimes, when you are looking in your looking glass, you see somebody going along in the street. But when we see Him, there it will be joy without sorrow; sin and sorrow itself will have gone; ours will be a pure, unmingled, unadulterated joy. It will not be the failure which distresses, but only the failure to use the failure for good purposes. 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. If we had seen our Saviour as He was, it would have been a triumph to see how He conquered, but still there would have been suspense about it. 4. 1 John 3 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. Our likeness to God in the purity of our souls is necessary to make us capable of the blessed sight and enjoyment of Him in the next life. This is not the world to appear in. We are even now in conditions in which we are being attracted more or less swiftly into the image of Christ's spiritual loveliness, but ere long we shall be attracted into conformity to the unknown splendour which invests the humanity enshrined and enthroned in the highest heaven.5. And I put down my candle, and I said, "Let me see this thing. 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. No matter how they come; they are coming by the Spirit of Gods and they are coming in ways not to be turned aside. WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF THIS BEATIFIC VISION DOES PRINCIPALLY CONSIST. First, the Holy Spirit is now given but in part, in proportion to the exigencies of a state of trial, and consequently our communion must be in part also; but in heaven, the place of reward, we shall all, to the utmost extent of our capacity, so be filled with all the fulness of God, and most perfectly joined to the ever-blessed Trinity in a most intimate, immediate, and ineffable union. D.There is a very lofty sentiment in these words. 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. In their opposition and resistance to it. 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. We call the result habit; it is rather the natural tendency of character, aided by habit, to consolidate; it is the loss of native freedom, for habit is the absence of freedom. But there is even a better prospect than this. There must be repentance and _____by the Holy Spirit – and man cannot control the Spirit. It is only a little while we get a glimpse of Christ, and then He seems to depart from us. We shall never see our Saviour under His Father's displeasure; but we shall see Him honoured by His Father's smile. In that life of unknown blessedness there will be scope for ever-enlarging knowledge, strength, dignity of nature; but men will rise at once into participation with the privileges of Christ's enthronement and conformity to His Divine kingliness.8. (3) The present transfiguration is gradual, whilst the future is instantaneous. Not yet, but the root of what we shall be hereafter is here embodied in the soul. )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. It enters into its nature and purpose to open before us great changes and developments. We call it then an opal. Perhaps I have not shown clearly enough the difference between the two visions — the sight of what He was and what He is. Guard unhurt the germ. But there is a fond inquiry whether we shall know our relations and acquaintances in the other world. Brother, with snow upon thy head, wilt thou "see Him as He is"? "Beloved! Looking beyond the question of privilege, He speaks of the disciple as deriving his spiritual existence from the Great Being into whose family he has been introduced. We are made holy as He is holy. If we had seen Him raising the dead we should have thought Him a most majestic Being. Life is the school, the arena, the watch tower. We call it then a sapphire. Oh! THIS CHANGE IS PREPARATORY TO ANOTHER IN A FUTURE STATE OF EXISTENCE. The sight of Him makes us like Him. 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. I see no reason to doubt this — that great changes are still to go on in us under the transforming power of Christ. Life is the school, the arena, the watch tower. 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