1 john 3:2 sermon

A man may try and look at Christ for a lifetime. How much better that sight will be than what we have here! If we are absorbed into Christ, and Christ into us, when He is manifested we also shall be manifested with Him in glory. H. 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.'" 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? There will be no difficulty in recognising our unfolding of His life in the future. - W.J. We shall know Him, because He will be so much like the Bible Jesus, that we shall recognise Him at once. We can hardly venture to suppose that the excitement of desire, and the consequent offering up of prayer will constitute the connection, as they do a present connection, between seeing Christ and resembling Christ. This is not the world to appear in. "WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM." We shall speak of our Lord's manifestation without doubt. The other apostle pushes the matter a step further, and opens up what perhaps we may venture to call a profounder view of the subject. Young man, the text says, "We shall see Him as He is." -------------------- Moses himself asked that he might see God. We shall not see Him fight; but we shall see Him return from the fight victorious, and shall cry, "Crown Him! It enters into its nature and purpose to open before us great changes and developments. was the apostrophe of an ancient confessor. and doth lust tarry in thy old cold blood? God may yet do great things with them, so long as He can secure in them some seed of future life. Holiness now is clothed with beauty. It is by the law of assimilation that men are bound together into homogeneous communities and nations.3. PERSONAL IDENTITY. I must tell the rest in her own words. "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)His Deity was concealed in infirmity. The life in us is an exotic from a celestial clime, "and" hence "it doth not yet appear what we shall be." 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. 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 shall know Him well enough when we see Him. We shall see the hand, and the nail-prints too, but not the nail; it has been once drawn out, and forever. 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. No matter how they come; they are coming by the Spirit of Gods and they are coming in ways not to be turned aside. Here holy principle is imbibed and holy habit formed; but the scope and aim are always prospective. Almost as far off as the farthest star! This will be evidence of our being like Him, since none but the pure in heart can see God.(C. W. Hamilton, LL. Sheathe the sword; the battle's won.II. What is the explanation of that perfect likeness? It will not be the failure which distresses, but only the failure to use the failure for good purposes. Let us not think meagrely on such a subject, but under high analogies. It was the look of another, the face of another, that had passed into hers. But the apostle puts this dark background upon the canvas, that he may set in relief a central scene and figure — Christ and our relation to Him. This natural history should open our minds to the possibility of a like spiritual history. "We shall see Him as He is."I. In ways unknown to us these assimilative forces work deep down amidst the elemental mysteries of life. PERSONAL IDENTITY. In the next place, that this difficulty will be removed. (2)He will be manifest in perfect happiness. (1) That sight they have of Christ shall be but a short glimpse of His glory; for after their doom and sentence is passed, they shall be immediately banished out of His presence (Matthew 25:41). Now we see Christ reflected; but then we shall not see Him in the looking glass; we shall positively see His person. We find, as a matter of experience, that we can absorb and assimilate that on which we succeed in detaining the attention of our concentrated powers. Come, let us divide that "we" into "I's." hi the first place, here are its active duties, which a man should do between man and man, to walk soberly and righteously and uprightly in the midst of an evil generation. Young man, the text says, "We shall see Him as He is." Our faith is so assured that it becomes knowledge. In the next place, that this difficulty will be removed. -------------------- 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." 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. Here no suggestion of that vast society in heaven exhausts its meaning. Crown Him!" Not yet, but the root of what we shall be hereafter is here embodied in the soul. 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. It enters into its nature and purpose to open before us great changes and developments. If so, "we shall see Him as He is." Just as sometimes, when you are looking in your looking glass, you see somebody going along in the street. Pauline Epistles And within certain limits we do find ourselves possessed of power through which we approximate, in external conduct at least, to His standard of truth and righteousness and compassion.4. You have looked down to see the city and the streamlet below; you could just ken yonder steeple and mark that pinnacle; but they were all so swathed in the mist that you could scarcely discern them. Things are placed in a course of progression even now.II. The transcendent beauty of Jesus Christ casts a spell over us, and we long to copy Him. There is such a sense of disappointment when we, perhaps, have succeeded in obtaining a goal, and then have to discover that the moment the end is touched it has already begun to change, to move, to go further. Life is the school, the arena, the watch tower. To see God, therefore, is to enjoy Him. "WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM." 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 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. It disposes them to love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, and to believe in Him alone for salvation. But the infinite future lies before us: "It doth not yet appear." Our great business will be to love what we see, and our great happiness to have what we love. Childhood leads to maturity. "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, (4)He will appear surely, and so we speak of it as a date for our own manifesting — "when He shall appear."III. So seen, it is no aged and weary traveller tottering slowly down to his end; but it is a child still, with the fascination of a child all about it, the fascination of a life which is feeling its way forward by start, by gleam, by sudden intuition, by experiment, by tentative trial, by flashes of insight, by glances, by glimpses — yes, and by stumbles and falls and shocks and jolts, from out of which it still pulls itself together and runs on yet ahead. Ah! Oh! Hereafter it may be our failures that we shall most bless, as we see all they taught us. 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!" Have you never heard of mothers having recognised their children years after they were lost by the marks and wounds upon their bodies? Princely beauty hides itself away in the sons of God everywhere, and if we only suffer the Spirit of God to come to us and assimilate our characters to the Christlike ideal, that beauty will adorn even the bodies of our humiliation, and will at last clothe our quickened and recreated flesh forever. Selby. II. R. Cocke, D. D.Loved ones, now are we the children (τέκνα) of God. Good things, from which men thirty years ago hoped so much, have been done only to show how much more remains to be done. THE ACTUAL PERSONS — "we shall see Him as He is." Spurgeon. Transfigurations go on in the social realm that are more or less consciously mimetic in their character. Oh! 2. Almost as far off as the farthest star! Remember, again: we are not to see Christ as He was, the despised, the tempted one. Something is already accomplished; an effect is secured. The sight of Him makes us like Him. This process is not human and ethical only. Perhaps while I have been speaking some have said, "Ah! 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. Hanford. "When He shall appear" all will be well; the life will unfold itself in divinest forms under the immediate sunlight of His countenance. if we ever should be sundered from those we love so dearly when the last day of account shall come! but we shall shout — "All hail the power of Jesu's name," etc. 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. 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. we shall know Him well enough when we see Him. Shall this mysterious law work through our fears and terrors, and conform us to the disease of which we may think and work towards death, and shall it not also operate through hope and admiration and worship, and assimilate us to the ideal of health, and be fruitful for glory and honour and immortality? And it also seeks to produce them. 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. Paul and John take hold of these inscrutable and stupendous transfiguration forces, and trace the effect of their working upon a man's moral life and character here, and upon his person and destiny hereafter. It’s the word used in John 11:44, where Jesus tells the others to release Lazarus from his grave clothes that were binding him, after Jesus raised him from the dead. 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. Every grace may be discriminated and may command its due need of homage, but all in vain unless there be a new and tender life to receive the imprint of the perfect personality thus presented to the thought and emotion. The transcendent beauty of Jesus Christ casts a spell over us, and we long to copy Him. O heavens! 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. 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. Not that we are to imagine that when we come to heaven, our understanding can or shall be raised to such a pitch as to be able perfectly to comprehend the infinite nature and perfections of God. Holiness now is clothed with beauty. It is pleasant to believe His grace, but we had rather see it. 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. There we shall see Christ entirely, when "we shall see Him as He is."3. But are thy grey hairs full of sin? Not yet, but the root of what we shall be hereafter is here embodied in the soul. Not yet, but the root of what we shall be hereafter is here embodied in the soul. I begin with the perfection of our knowledge. Princely beauty hides itself away in the sons of God everywhere, and if we only suffer the Spirit of God to come to us and assimilate our characters to the Christlike ideal, that beauty will adorn even the bodies of our humiliation, and will at last clothe our quickened and recreated flesh forever. He may have an adequate intellectual conception of this ideal character. 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. "WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM." "WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS."1. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point 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. This will be a full, perpetual, and never failing delight to us.II. 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 are already lagging in the rear, we are passe, we have lost the cue. Selby. If this earth of ours be all, how can we close our eyes to that nightmare? We shall not see the Christ wrestling with pain, but Christ as a conqueror. Oh! Because the world did not know Christ (John 1:10-11) the world will not know, or understand us either. )The beatific visionC. Princely beauty hides itself away in the sons of God everywhere, and if we only suffer the Spirit of God to come to us and assimilate our characters to the Christlike ideal, that beauty will adorn even the bodies of our humiliation, and will at last clothe our quickened and recreated flesh forever. This process is not human and ethical only. Let me go into the mint house and see heaps of gold, and I am never the richer; let me go to the pictures and see goodly faces, I am never the fairer; let me go to the court, where I see state and magnificence, and I am never the greater; but oh, Saviour! We gain cheerfulness in the face of change, and we gain hope just where we most need it. 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. There will be a time when all difficulties and confusions shall be removed, and that time is the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we who believe that this life is at its best but a germ, a start, a discipline, can afford to broaden our hope beyond all our seeing. And if there be a law of this sort, it must surely run out into higher and more momentous forms. But though the confusion may arise — in part — from the fact of your being placed in the thick of a spiritual struggle, it may be attributed still more to the difficulty of realising the things of the eternal world: a difficulty for experiencing which we are surely not altogether to blame.2. If we had seen Him raising the dead we should have thought Him a most majestic Being. We shall see Him, not with a reed in His hand, but grasping a golden sceptre.2. We call it then a diamond. But there is even a better prospect than this. It is because of this fact that the different parts of our common life at least match themselves into a congruous and harmonious whole. The life in us is an exotic from a celestial clime, "and" hence "it doth not yet appear what we shall be." But what if this life is all of it not an end, but only a beginning; all of it a suggestion of more beyond, none of it a goal attained? Love, obedience, fellowship, are sweetest flowers of earth, but they all look heavenward. Ruskin, in his "Modern Painters," tells that the black mud or slime from a footpath in the outskirts of a manufacturing town — the absolute type of impurity — is composed of four elements — clay, mixed with soot, a little sand, and water. III. Now are we the sons of God, now are we the germ of what we shall find ourselves in that fair land. Oh, let me be unquiet till I shall see Thee as I am seen! We cannot, must not, see Him as He was; nor do we wish, for we have a larger promise, "We shall see Him as He is."1. Have you never stood upon the hilltops when the mist has played on the valley? If man's nature is to be photographically sensitive to the celestial splendour of the Son of Man in His last glorious manifestation, the quickening from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, must be followed by a new birth of man's sentient life from the dust of death.7. You may trust the believer for knowing his Master when he finds Him.III. He is in us the hope of glory, and such a hope maketh not ashamed.(T. If selfish or lustful or proud, these qualities tend simply to go on and harden into fixed form. Now we see Christ reflected; but then we shall not see Him in the looking glass; we shall positively see His person. The cradle is not the place for judging of countenance or character in the perfect sense. PERSONAL IDENTITY. 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. Who knows what is going on in secret behind those very failures in others which most provoke us? There is personal identity. Paul and John take hold of these inscrutable and stupendous transfiguration forces, and trace the effect of their working upon a man's moral life and character here, and upon his person and destiny hereafter. 2. D.There is a very lofty sentiment in these words. It will not be the failure which distresses, but only the failure to use the failure for good purposes. We thought ourselves in the van — lo! 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. An unseen world is an unknown world; how can we be so sure of it? It may be good or evil fortune, the birth or death of love, a loss or a gain; all such things are revelations of God, for God is in our lives and not outside of them; but when He thus appears it is for purposes of transformation. (3)The prince serves as a soldier before he reaches the throne.3. IV. Yet more. 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. If we had seen Him raising the dead we should have thought Him a most majestic Being. The sight of Him makes us like Him. THE NECESSARY CONNEXION BETWEEN OUR LIKENESS AND CONFORMITY TO GOD, AND OUR SIGHT AND ENJOYMENT OF HIM. Come, let us divide that "we" into "I's." Think about what you have just said, "I am a child of the awesome, eternal God who created and sustains this whole vast universe. Not yet, but the root of what we shall be hereafter is here embodied in the soul. It is not a general belief, but a particular confidence. 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. PERSONAL IDENTITY. It enters into its nature and purpose to open before us great changes and developments. "Oh, blessed vision! From the nature of our communion with God in heaven thus explained, I proceed more particularly to the blessed effects of it. Transfigurations go on in the social realm that are more or less consciously mimetic in their character. Shall this mysterious law work through our fears and terrors, and conform us to the disease of which we may think and work towards death, and shall it not also operate through hope and admiration and worship, and assimilate us to the ideal of health, and be fruitful for glory and honour and immortality? Having a soul like His soul: perfect, holy, instructed, developed, strengthened, active, delivered from temptation, conflict, and suffering.3. We may be sure that God has not put all the wonders of His creation into our early physical life, and left the moral life bare and fixed. Here is a woman who has seen Christ."' Who knows what is going on in secret behind those very failures in others which most provoke us? Its first work is to lift us out of the order of nature where character tends simply to solidify and habits become fixed, and to carry us into another sort of world. Holiness now is clothed with beauty. Almost as far off as the farthest star! Perhaps while I have been speaking some have said, "Ah! We call it then an opal. 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. Brother, with snow upon thy head, wilt thou "see Him as He is"? That was almost the only revelation to which he gave much heed; the effect of it was the only spiritual effect of which he was conscious. (1) There are more to appreciate us, and it would be as though kings showed their royalty at a wake, or wise men discoursed philosophy before fools. God may yet do great things with them, so long as He can secure in them some seed of future life.3. 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. This natural history should open our minds to the possibility of a like spiritual history. 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? 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 habits of years of depraved life are not easily shaken off. Shall this mysterious law work through our fears and terrors, and conform us to the disease of which we may think and work towards death, and shall it not also operate through hope and admiration and worship, and assimilate us to the ideal of health, and be fruitful for glory and honour and immortality? W. Hamilton, LL. It suggests something which we shall find hereafter. THE APPREHENSION THAT WE SHOULD HAVE OF IT FOR THE PRESENT — "we know."1. Poetical Books Let me sit and look. 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