Workings of the Holy
Spirit
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| courtesy: Dean Williams 2012 |
We cannot see God face to face and live (Ex. 33:20). That’s
why, after God’s glory passed by, Moses saw God’s back parts (Ex. 33:23).
Whenever Moses met with God, glory reflected upon Moses’ face (2 Cor. 3:13).
However, Jesus did away with the glory of reflection because as glorious as
that was, it was still the ministry of death (2 Cor. 3:7). After he was
glorified, Jesus sent his Holy Spirit (John 7:39) and changed things up for
Christians (2 Cor. 3:8).
The glory that mĕtamŏrphŏō-transformed Jesus on the holy mountain (2 Peter 1:17), is the same
glory that mĕtamŏrphŏō-transforms
believers today. The ministry of the Spirit of life and of righteousness
transforms us into the Lord’s image, so that from inside-out, we beam forth his
glory—and live!
But we all, with open face beholding as
in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed (mĕtamŏrphŏō, transformed) into the same image from
glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3:18).
Thus, “from glory to glory” is the present and end-time
ministry of the Spirit because that which remains
(mĕnō, stays in a given place, state,
relation or expectancy) is more glorious than what is passing away (2 Cor. 3: 8-11).
Now is the time for the church to behold the glory of the
Lord so that the ministry of the Spirit of life might transform us while alive
that we might remain (perileipō, survive) until Jesus’ return (1 Thess.
4:15, 17)!
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Scriptures are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version, Cambridge 1769. Used by permission.
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