Beholding Christ: The Path to Transformation

"How are you being transformed according to this verse if you're not satisfied with the with the rate of progress in your life of coming into the likeness of Jesus this text says look more at the glory of Jesus look more at the glory of Jesus we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being changed are being transformed how are you being transformed by beholding Christ." [00:06:07]

"If you want to show Jesus this summer love somebody practically stretch out your heart open your face and your heart wide to people because it's not a normal thing to do in our society summer is for seeing and showing Christ winter in Minnesota s is you you pull it up over your head you run from Igloo to Igloo you don't care who you pass on the street it is not an ideal witness time so God takes it away for a month or two in Minnesota and he does it very specifically so that you can be outside." [00:66:56]

"The heavens are telling the glory of God and the firmament that big dome over top that Big Blue Dome is declaring his handiwork he made it all so as the sun rises out there in a new angle for another what 10 days before it starts Going Back Down The Horizon and as the moon is out in its new place and as constellations are a little different at night when you look up into the stars and As Leaves unbelievably come out of those hard ice cold dead Brown branches into soft little leafy green appendages you wonder where in the world and how did that ever happen." [00:142:68]

"God is speaking to the Twin Cities and saying summer is for showing Christ and summer is for seeing Christ and I just want us all summer long not to turn down the volume of praise and worship and piety and devotion and witness but to turn it back up again God turns it up in the summertime God turns it up he turns up the sun he makes the day longer he makes the sky different he makes the late beautiful he beckons with the grass God turns up glory in the summertime not that there's no glory in the winter but we love the summer we love what he does in the summer." [00:244:84]

"To show him you need to see him well let me add a phrase to show to show him by being like him you need to see him you need to see for who he is suppose last week and this happened for several I know by virtue of their testimony suppose God came last week during the service as I was talking about tender affections and not being able to do it on our own but needing the the Holy Spirit suppose you were filled with a longing that you become a new kind of person." [00:322:16]

"Beholding the glory of the Lord we are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as from the Lord the spirit now the main point of this verse I think is very clear namely all Christians in this room are being changed little by little from Glory to Glory into the image of Christ and that comes from the Lord who is the spirit not all at once but by degrees we become like him we grow in our capacity to show him." [00:420:24]

"If you spend that much time with Jesus if you look at him every day if you Embrace him if you spend time with him if you listen to him if you focus on him in the go gospels morning and night you will start to move like Jesus you start to think like Jesus you start to feel with Jesus beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord you are being transformed into his likeness summer is for seeing beholding and for sewing by becoming like Christ." [00:621:56]

"Now what is Liberty what does it mean where the spirit of the Lord is where the spirit of the Lord moves into your life liberty happens not bondage anymore not slavery to the law but Liberty but how how does that happen you turn to the Lord the Lord removes the veil which was causing you to distort the law into a burden that Crush you down and made you a legalist or a rebel and the Holy Spirit sweeps in because the spirit moves wherever you're looking to the Lord." [00:902:56]

"The Holy Spirit flows into their lives and begets a new person it's called New Birth and as a new person from glory to glory little by little these desires these drives these longings these yearnings that make us who we are become conformed to Jesus and we are free to do what we want to do when God says Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself we're free because the holy spirit is moving in Us by his fruit to awaken that kind of love so that we want to do what he says to do and therefore there's Harmony and it's Freedom." [00:1005:56]

"The key is looking to Jesus wherever you look to Jesus as in a mirror beholding the glory of the Lord the Holy Spirit does his work you know what the work of the holy spirit is primarily according to John 14 the work of the holy spirit is to glorify Jesus and therefore if you want the power of the holy spirit in your life you must direct the focus of your mind and your heart and your life toward what the Holy Spirit wants to glorify." [00:1089:67]

"If you walk out of here having heard this lesson from 2 Corinthians 3:18 that when you look to Jesus you are being transformed by the renewing of your mind as Romans 12 says you are being transformed from one degree of Glory if you walk out having heard that lesson and say I'd really like the Holy Spirit to work on me to take away some of these bad desires that I have and to conform me more to Jesus and then you dribble away your time cruising the web or you trifle for hour upon hour in front of the television." [00:1131:76]

"You must set your face to behold the glory of the Lord if I want to be like Dan Fuller I take courses from Dan Fuller if I want to be like Jesus I take courses from Jesus I get on his path and I follow him I get in his book I get with his people I look to Jesus I try to scan him if I'm outside taking a walk around a lake I say show me Jesus Where Are You Jesus I see you the heavens are telling the glory of the Lord what a God you must be to have such light flowing from you." [00:1202:96]