1 john 3:2 sermon

They labour with meaning and soar with aspiration. 1. I must tell the rest in her own words. 2. And our pardon is pronounced by the judge sitting upon the throne.3. This will be the result of our being like Him.3. He is qualified to be perfectly conformed to the will of God, to be holy even as He is holy.4. We call it then a sapphire. The deep mental impressions of the mother often infix themselves legibly upon the young life she brings into the world. Brother, with snow upon thy head, wilt thou "see Him as He is"? 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. who can imagine it? How many "I's" are there here that will "see Him as He is"? These four may be separated each from the other. Such Divine contemplations will give a new turn of thought and quite another taste and relish of things; they will be of great use to cure a downward disposition of soul, and to raise us above the world.I. Now let it go. And in the spiritual realm this fact has its counterpart. There we shall see Christ entirely, when "we shall see Him as He is."3. It was the look of another, the face of another, that had passed into hers. By His coming the Body o… We shall see Him, not with a reed in His hand, but grasping a golden sceptre.2. It makes us feel that there will be a fitness in our frame for our future dwelling place. Both the earthly and the heavenly transfigurations rest upon a common act of contemplation. 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. Oh! If so, "we shall see Him as He is." This glorious sight will perfect our likeness.2. 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. 1. 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.'" Where are my children? Love, obedience, fellowship, are sweetest flowers of earth, but they all look heavenward. 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. "Beloved! (1)He will be manifest upon this earth in person. This glorious sight will perfect our likeness.2. We call it then a sapphire. In politics, especially, we note how we are suffering from this cheerless disappointment. Yet he has difficulties. But then, seeing everything in God, we shall be affected only as God is affected; we shall love one another for our relation and likeness to Him only, and as we are members of Christ united and informed by the same Spirit, which will be both the bond of our union and the cause of our love. 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 number and minuteness of these predictions, which have received accomplishment in the history of Jesus and the Church; the sublime nature of the doctrines of the gospel; the holy tendency of its principles; the pure morality of its precepts; the circumstances in which it was first promulgated, and the success which has attended its ministrations, convince us of the truth of that record, which reveals to us life and immortality. 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. The natural comes first, then the spiritual, but it is no less full of germinant seeds and possibilities than the natural. Have you never stood upon the hilltops when the mist has played on the valley? Let me stop here always. 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. 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. The clay particles, left to follow their own instinct of unity, become a clear, hard substance so set that it can deal with light in a wonderful way, and gather out of it the loveliest blue rays only, refusing the rest. Happiness in a rational being is the necessary result of the right and useful exercise of all His powers.III. But if society is capable of such transformations, much more must the individual be capable of them. We walk here by faith. It is not a bare conjecture, but a certain knowledge; it is not only we think, we hope well, but we know.2. 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.IV. The soot becomes the hardest thing in the world, and for the blackness it had obtains the power of reflecting all the rays of the sun at once in the vividest blaze that any solid thing can shoot. THE ACTUAL PERSONS — "we shall see Him as He is." 1 John 1:5-2:2 “How We Know God” Why We Don’t God is light without a hint of darkness (1 Timothy 6:16). Just as sometimes, when you are looking in your looking glass, you see somebody going along in the street. Under natural conditions character does not show a tendency to change its type or direction; it simply grows after its type, and sets steadily in its native direction and toward some permanent form. The sand arranges itself in mysterious, infinitely fine parallel lines, which reflect the blue, green, purple, and red rays in the greatest beauty. 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. but we shall shout — "All hail the power of Jesu's name," etc. We shall not see Him fight; but we shall see Him return from the fight victorious, and shall cry, "Crown Him! Both the earthly and the heavenly transfigurations rest upon a common act of contemplation. W. Hamilton, LL. We notice —I. You may trust the believer for knowing his Master when he finds Him. 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 shall know Him well enough when we see Him. If so, "we shall see Him as He is." Moses himself asked that he might see God. "When He shall appear" all will be well; the life will unfold itself in divinest forms under the immediate sunlight of His countenance. 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. )Life and character in GodA. She had seen Christ. It is not a bare conjecture, but a certain knowledge; it is not only we think, we hope well, but we know.2. We have been taught by the Spirit to understand Him. 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. 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? I bear my Master witness, I never saw Him yet without being profited by Him. Something is already accomplished; an effect is secured. who can imagine it? To some persons He is a mere man. 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!" for so it is given as a reason, "We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." The moulding forces of society tend to bring men into conformity with ruling types rather than to make them separatists. 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. Be children of God!" A man may try and look at Christ for a lifetime. 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." They labour with meaning and soar with aspiration. Quick as the kindling of light His exalted humanity will implant itself in us. But then it will not be to improve us, it will be to perfect us, when we see Him there. The manner of our seeing God in this life is either by a long train of consequences, by climbing up gradually from the effects to the cause, from the things that are made to the invisible things of the Maker, even His eternal power and Godhead; or by way of eminence, by inferring that the perfections we see in the creatures must of necessity centre all more eminently in the Creator; or negatively, by denying everything of God we conceive unbecoming the Divine nature, for at present we rather know what God is not than what He is; or else we see Him by faith, by believing upon the testimony He has given us of Himself by Moses and the prophets, Christ and His apostles. In ways unknown to us these assimilative forces work deep down amidst the elemental mysteries of life. In the sermon on the mount, no less than seven times Jesus spoke of God being our Father. He is qualified to be perfectly conformed to the will of God, to be holy even as He is holy.4. Probably the traditions of saints who had set themselves to meditate on the agonies of the pierced hands and feet, and at last received nail marks in their own persons, are not simple myths, but have a basis of scientific fact. The transcendent beauty of Christ imparts itself only in natures made tender by the Spirit. Perhaps I have not shown clearly enough the difference between the two visions — the sight of what He was and what He is. Hanford. We shall not see Him fight; but we shall see Him return from the fight victorious, and shall cry, "Crown Him! but I want to see the Saviour, the Saviour of Calvary, the Saviour of Judea, the very one that died for me. By degrees he comes to understand his position — he did not quite understand it at first — and he is full of gratitude when he contrasts what he is now with what he was some months or years ago. 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. bitter, bitter thought that just now crossed my soul! Ah! Yet more, we have known Him better than by Scripture sometimes — by close and intimate fellowship with Him. 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." Moses himself asked that he might see God. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doth not appear what we shall be." "Links1 John 3:2 NIV1 John 3:2 NLT1 John 3:2 ESV1 John 3:2 NASB1 John 3:2 KJV1 John 3:2 Bible Apps1 John 3:2 Parallel1 John 3:2 Biblia Paralela1 John 3:2 Chinese Bible1 John 3:2 French Bible1 John 3:2 German Bible1 John 3:2 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)A suitable object; and(3)The conjunction of both these.Now in the state of glory all these concur. Perhaps I have not shown clearly enough the difference between the two visions — the sight of what He was and what He is. 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. Our life begins with a look "Behold the Lamb of God." 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. The monks of Mount Athos hypnotise themselves into trance conditions by gazing at their own bodies. The one would have been astonishment, and horror would have succeeded it; but when we see Jesus as He is it will be astonishment without horror. But to see Christ as He is, is to contemplate Him with sympathy and love. Our last point remains yet untouched. The natural comes first, then the spiritual, but it is no less full of germinant seeds and possibilities than the natural. Again: how partially we see Christ here! All men are as one man; one is the whole and the whole are but one. (2)He will be manifest in perfect happiness. Having such dignities and glories as He wears: kings, priests, conquerors, judges, sons of God.IV. It is the same one. The life in us is an exotic from a celestial clime, "and" hence "it doth not yet appear what we shall be." Now let it go. Where are my children? "We shall see Him as He is."3. 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