Unveiled Face

     Grace and Peace to you, Church. My daily reading of the scriptures brought me to II Corinthians this morning. And as you know when reading “a” scripture from the Word we need to read all around it to actually understand what is being said. Scripture verses do not stand alone, they “have” to be read in their entirety to be understood; verses before it and after it and even the references will help with the understanding but first and foremost the word in Proverbs needs to be understood and practiced.

Proverbs 2:6

     “For the Lord gives Wisdom, from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

     Depending on God’s Spirit “in” us is the key to Wisdom, Saints. Now let’s go to the verse that caught my attention with the title of this writing.

II Corinthians 3:18

     “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” What does the ‘unveiled face’ mean? Paul is saying “we”, God’s Children, have unveiled faces before Christ.

     Let’s go back to the beginning of chapter 3 in II Corinthians. Paul is telling the Corinthian Church (who had started to be swayed by false teachers) who they are through the New Covenant Ministry.

II Corinthians 3:2-3

     “You (he is talking about “us” here too, Church) are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; you are manifestly an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.”

     We need to have such trust through Christ towards God (not within ourselves) that we will be made “sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” Paul goes on to say:

II Corinthians 3:7-8+11

     “But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit (Gal. 3:5) not be more glorious?”

“For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.”

     The rest of chapter 3 tells us how we can have unveiled faces before our God; through hope and how we are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

II Corinthians 3: 12-17

     “Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech (Eph. 6:19) unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. (Gal. 3:23) But their minds were hardened. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.” (Isaiah 25:7)

     We as Children of God have unveiled faces so we can see the Glory of the Lord, and with God’s Spirit living and abiding “in” us we can have the ‘Spirit’s assurance of Final Victory’ (Romans 8:31-39)

     With unveiled faces we “see” our God and we KNOW that NOTHING will be able to separate us from the Love of our God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

     Church, Romans 8:37-39 is the bases of how I end the web writings that I put up, because it is a TRUTH from God and I want to keep it foremost in my mind and heart.

How?    By:

 

Trusting and Believing in God’s Love for us

 

All scriptures are from: New King James Version of Prophecy Study Bible, General Editor-John C. Hagee unless otherwise stated.