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In the Presence of My Enemies

Exodus 11:1-13:16

Introduction
Every week I wrestle with the Lord in prayer, asking him for help and insight to
bring you his message on Sunday morning. I ask him to help me to see what it is you need
that I might bring you a timely word from on high. By this I do not mean that I think about
you, pray for you, and then mine the Scriptures to collect the passages that apply to your
current set of circumstances. As most of you know, we here at Redeemer follow an
expository method of preaching, by which we mean that we preach through entire books of
the Bible “from verse one till we’re done,” as I like to say.

So it is not that I don’t know what text to teach you. The process guided by the
providence of God tells me. Right now we are preaching through the book of Exodus. And
in our study we are currently exploring the teaching of 11:1-13:16. So I know where next to
turn in the Bible for our sermon text—that’s not the issue.

The issue comes down to what I understand preaching to be. I do not think that I
have truly preached the force of the text if I have simply relayed exegetical and scholarly
information about the passages to you in a kind of lecture. I believe that my duty as a
herald of God’s word is to proclaim not simply what the text says (though that is absolutely
essential), but to place before you the significance of what the passage teaches, that you may
be impressed with the word of God. By impressed I do not mean “wowed”; I mean “deeply
touched” by the gravity and majesty of divine truth.

More than that, as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I have a duty to set before
you not only divine truth in the abstract and propositional senses, but more importantly
divine truth in the concrete and personal senses. My duty is to set before you the one who is
the truth. I believe with all my heart that it is the preacher’s responsibility to demonstrate
from careful exegesis of the biblical witness the person to whom the Bible is giving witness;
namely, Jesus Christ himself.

And when I fail to do this—and I do so to greater and lesser degrees—when I fail to

present from the Scriptures the glories of Jesus Christ, I have failed as a minister of the New
Covenant. True preaching presents Jesus Christ before all people. The Apostle Paul says
this in Col 1:28: “We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with
all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.” Believer and
unbeliever, we proclaim him so that every man may be complete in Christ. We need to see
Jesus Christ.

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I think that this is one of the most difficult things to believe in the Christian life; for
as we look at all our problems and difficulties, as we look at our marriages and our children
and our work situations and our relationships in our churches, we are tempted to think that
we need five principles for a healthy marriage, or three rules for childrearing, or seven
priorities for a fulfilling work life, or four non-negotiables for a successful church. But what
we really need, what is our deepest need is to know the Lord Jesus Christ.

We need to behold the crucified and risen savior. For in beholding Christ our
becoming like Christ ineluctably follows: “For 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”
(2 Cor 3:18). And as the church gathers for its public worship of the risen and reigning
Savior-King, I am firmly convinced that the glories of Jesus Christ must be the centerpiece
of the public proclamation of the word.

To preach the glories (plural) of Jesus Christ is not simply to preach how a man may
be justified by the blood and resurrection of Christ, but to preach the glories of Christ is to
preach every word of the Bible in such a way that Jesus Christ is magnified, it is to preach in
such a way that all of us may see how loving our spouse and training our children and
working as unto the Lord and serving one another in the believing community all function
to radiate something of the manifold beauty and perfections of the Lord Jesus.

This is an enormously difficult undertaking. It is far easier to tell you simply what to
do without relating it to Jesus Christ than it is to placard Christ before you through the
lifestyle that he calls us to live.

Now when it comes to the New Testament, a collection of documents dedicated to

explicating and elaborating upon the significance of Jesus Christ for all of life, there is at
least a more explicit connection between the person of Christ and the principles for holy
living. But as far as the Old Testament is concerned, the connection between the words of
the sacred writings and the person in whom they find their fulfillment is not always as clear.

But every time I come to our Old Testament sermon text, I am filled with a sense of
my responsibility for helping us to see the glories of Christ foreshadowed in the Hebrew
Bible. I desperately want to see Christ and I want you to see him with me. I want you to be
enamored of him and I never want you to lose sight of the one about whom Moses wrote.
Scripture is about Jesus Christ, so it is Jesus Christ we preach from Scripture.

We have already seen numerous connections between the instructions for the rituals
preserved here in Exod 11:1-13:16 and the person and ministry of Jesus Christ. And from
my discussions with some of you following the sermons, you, too, have been making
connections of your own. It is wonderful to see Jesus in the Old Testament, isn’t it? More
often than not, I find it to be electrifying. It should make the hair on the back of your neck
stand up and goose bumps form all over your body. For God’s careful orchestration of
every event in history has come together to present a symphony of majesty and beauty that
finds its climax in a man from Nazareth named Jesus, born under Pontius Pilate, living in

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real history, accomplishing his Father’s work in space and time for the joy of all peoples
through him.

Nothing that we read in the Old Testament is accidental; no comment can be thrown
away. Together every word and line and sentence and paragraph and literary
composition—narrative, poem, proverb, and apocalyptic—teach us about Jesus Christ. But
the Lord accomplishes this through his word in such a way that we cannot simply go to the
Old Testament, arresting verses from their contexts and making them Christian at our
whim.

No, we must understand the theology of the passage that was intended for the
original audience, and from there we can learn from the Hebrew Scriptures something more
of the awesome significance of the person of Jesus Christ.

In order to do this, I want to focus on just one verse. Turn to Exod 11:7 and read it
with me: “But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against
man or beast, that you may understand how the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt
and Israel.”

The Lord Makes a Distinction

This text places us in the middle of Moses’ announcement to Pharaoh that the Lord
has said that about midnight he will go out into the midst of Egypt to strike down all of
Egypt’s firstborn, from the greatest to the least of the people of Egypt (11:4-5). The
situation will be so awful that there will be unprecedented mourning. Verse 6 says that
there shall be such a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been before
and such as shall never be again.

Verse 7, however, tells us that Israel’s situation will be much different: But against
any of the sons of Israel a dog will not even bark, whether against man or beast.
Mourning will not be heard in Goshen; indeed, nothing will be heard there because no harm
will befall Yahweh’s people.

So verses 4-7 describe in straightforward terms what the final plague will entail.
Egypt will be judged through the death of their firstborn and Israel will be shielded from
harm. “And this,” Moses tells Pharaoh, “is for a reason.” The reason is given in the rest of
v 7. Look at it again: that you may understand how the LORD makes a distinction
between Egypt and Israel.

The doom experienced by the Egyptians and the peace experienced by the Israelites
works to show that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. Now the
word translated makes a distinction means to set apart, to discriminate.1 So Yahweh
practices discrimination.

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Now do not misconstrue what this means. The Lord does not sinfully discriminate.
God’s judgments are never made with false weights. All that he does is just and in perfect
accord with his holiness. Nevertheless, on the basis of this passage it is clear that Yahweh
discriminates. And if it true that he discriminates between people (in this case Egypt and
Israel), and if it is also true that he discriminates justly, then in order to understand his
choice we should probably try to ascertain his basis for that choice. What are the criteria he
uses to select Israel over Egypt?

Does he choose Israel because they are a faithful people? Because they are deserving
of God’s discriminating choice? You know the answer to this. Absolutely not! This
generation of Israelites is described by the psalmist Asaph like this: “A stubborn and
rebellious generation, A generation that did not prepare its heart And whose spirit was not
faithful to God” (Ps 78:8). Deuteronomy 7:7-8 says,

The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were
more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but
because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers,
the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of
slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

And you will remember that even while they were in captivity Israel fell into
abominable idolatry. Ezekiel 20:5-8 says,

Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when I chose Israel and swore to the
descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of
Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God, on that day I swore
to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for
them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. I said to them,
‘Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile
yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.’ But they rebelled
against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not cast away the detestable
things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.”

So God chose Israel not because of Israel’s faithfulness to God, but because of God’s
faithfulness to himself. For God had promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that they would
be a mighty nation and inhabit the land of Canaan. And when God promises something, he
always makes good on it.

Now you may be thinking that perhaps God chose Abraham because of something
good or commendable in Abraham. But this is not at all the case. Abram was from Ur of
the Chaldeans. And Genesis 12 says that the Lord simply told Abram to leave his country
and to go wherever the Lord would lead. Then the Lord promises to make him a great
nation, and to bless him, and to bless all the families of the earth in him. Yet nothing in the
text even remotely suggests that God’s choice was based upon anything other than his
sovereign and discriminating grace.

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So then, God did not choose the descendants of Israel because of any merit of their
own. What, then, are God’s criteria?

Well, his criterion is singular: his interest in the magnification of his own glory. This
theme, as you know, is expressed through the narrative of previous plagues as well cf. 8:22;
9:14-16.

But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are
living, so that no swarms of insects will be there, in order that you may know that I,
the LORD, am in the midst of the land (Exod 8:22).

For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your
people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth. For if by
now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you
would then have been cut off from the earth. But, indeed, for this reason I have
allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My
name through all the earth (Exod 9:14-16).

And 1 Sam 12:22 says, “For the LORD will not abandon His people on account of
His great name, because the LORD has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.”
This is what motivates God’s discrimination—the glory of his matchless name, the
magnification of his glorious fame.

Now perhaps you are thinking that it is not fair for God to have chosen Israel and
not Egypt. And perhaps it seems like the criteria of the magnification of his own glory is
arbitrary and unjust. When we think such thoughts we are failing to remember that neither
Israel nor Egypt deserved to be chosen; instead, both deserved to be destroyed. In terms of
the righteousness inherent in Israel and Egypt, what would have been just would have been
for God to have wiped Egypt and Israel off the face of the earth. But in order to magnify his
glory, particularly the glory of his mercy, and according to his holy wisdom and justice, he
chose to spare and to bless Israel. As the judge of all the earth, he reserves the right to show
mercy to whomever he pleases.

I say that the Lord chose to spare and to bless Israel not simply because being spared
from judgment is itself a blessing (which is true), but because in addition to sparing them
from judgment, he also discriminated for his people by blessing them materially. Notice
11:2-3 and then jump down to 12:35-36.

Speak now in the hearing of the people that each man ask from his neighbor
and each woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold. The
LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Furthermore, the man
Moses himself was greatly esteemed in the land of Egypt, both in the sight of
Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people (Exod 11:2-3).

Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they
had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing;
and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians (Exod 12:35-36).

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The Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. He makes a distinction on
the basis of his own sovereign choice for the magnification of the glory of his mercy. And
the distinction that he makes results not only in Israel averting judgment but also in Israel
receiving many possessions. The Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

But with all that we have said about the Lord making a sovereign and gracious
distinction between Egypt and Israel, we have not really understood the reason Moses gives
for the plague of death in 11:7. Let’s read the end of it one more time: that you may
understand how the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

Vindicated in the Presence of His Enemy

The reason given here for the plague of death is not so that the sons of Israel may
know that God has graciously chosen them as his people, but so that Pharaoh may know
that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. God wants Pharaoh to know
that he has chosen Israel as a people for his own possession. He wants Pharaoh to
understand that Israel has a special relationship with the God of all the earth. And that
therefore Israel belongs to him in a unique and privileged way.

So then, God destroys the firstborn sons of Egypt in order to exalt Israel (and by
relation, himself) before his enemy. The Lord wants the enemy to know that Israel has been
chosen by God for glory and honor and blessing.

So God’s discriminating work is not only about favor, but it is also about
vindication. Israel will be vindicated as Yahweh’s servants (not Pharaoh’s servants) in the
presence of the king of Egypt. God’s enemies will recognize this and will be unable in the
end to deny it.

Now this theme, the vindication of God’s people as God’s people before their
enemies is one that is woven throughout the fabric of the Old Testament. God’s enemies
see Israel and Israel’s God exalted, even if it means their judgment. Let’s look at just two
examples.

Turn first to 2 Sam 22:47-51.

The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of
my salvation, The God who executes vengeance for me, And brings down peoples
under me, Who also brings me out from my enemies; You even lift me above those
who rise up against me; You rescue me from the violent man. Therefore I will give
thanks to You, O LORD, among the nations, And I will sing praises to Your name.
He is a tower of deliverance to His king, And shows lovingkindness to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forever (2 Sam 22:47-51).

Verse 51 is the key: He is a tower of deliverance to His king, And shows

lovingkindness to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever. God’s partiality
to David, to his king, to his anointed, is expressed from vv 48-50 in terms of David’s
vindication in the face of his enemies.

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And how has the Lord done this in David’s life? By making him exceedingly
successful in battle and by blessing him with an expansive and fruitful kingdom. Verse 51
teaches us that God executes this vengeance for David, that he brings down peoples under
him that all might know that David belongs to Yahweh. In this way, David and the God
who chose him would be magnified.

Now turn to Psalm 79.

Notice that Israel is vindicated by the Lord not on the basis of anything that they had
done; for in vv 8-9 the psalmist calls on the Lord to forgive Israel’s iniquity and to save them
in spite of their foolishness for the sake of the Lord’s great name.

And as you can see Asaph is jealous for the fame of God’s name, he does not want
Israel’s enemies to think that Yahweh is a God in absentia; a powerless God. The psalmist
wants the enemy to experience God’s vengeance so that Israel may be vindicated as God’s
people and the sheep of his pasture.

So then, Israel will be manifestly the people of God through God’s mighty acts of
vindication in the presence of Israel’s enemies. Psalm 23:5 says, “You prepare a table
before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup
overflows.” This how God behaves: he prepares a table before his people in the presence of
his enemies that all may know that God makes a distinction for Israel, thus magnifying the
fame of his own name.

So do you see what this passage in Exodus is expressing? It is simple, really: Israel is
chosen and favored and vindicated in the presence of their enemies to the glory of God.
What this means is that the defeat of this enemy is so decisive, that the vindication of God’s
name is so apparent, that even his sworn enemy, the one who said, “Who is the Lord that I
should listen to him?” (5:2)—even he can no longer deny that Yahweh is in charge of the
people of Israel, not himself. So then, Israel is chosen and favored and exalted in the
presence of their enemy to the glory of God.

Christ Chosen and Favored and Vindicated

Now then, let me ask you: about whom else may we say that he has been chosen and
favored and exalted in the presence of his enemies to the glory of God? About Jesus Christ,
of course. Isaiah 42:1 says, “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom
My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.”
The chosen servant of Yahweh is the Lord Jesus Christ. And this chosen servant is the one
in whom the Father delights. He is chosen and he is favored.

And this chosen and favored servant was despised and rejected of men, this favored
servant became the humble servant of all, becoming

obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. And for this reason also God
highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, so

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that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven
and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil 2:8-11).

Jesus’ exaltation over his enemies through his cross-work—life, death, burial,
resurrection, and ascension—this exaltation was manifested in the presence of his enemies
at the time of his crucifixion and resurrection, and will be made manifest in the future.

Of his exaltation in the presence of his enemies at the time of his cross-work we need
only to read John 12:27-33:

“Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me
from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your
name.”
Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it
again.”
So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had
thundered; others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.”
Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your
sakes. Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.” But He was
saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.

“Now at the time of my glorification, now judgment is upon this world. Now at the
time of my glorification through the cross, now the ruler of this world will be cast out.”
Satan, the god of this age, the prince of the power of the air, was dealt a definitive blow at
the cross. Jesus was exalted in the face of his arch enemy even at the time of his crucifixion
and resurrection.

The enemies before whom Christ will be magnified include principalities and powers
of the heavenly realms in the present, but also all the enemies of the gospel in the future.
Turn in your Bibles to 2 Thess 1:3-10.

Here in v 4, the Apostle thanks God for the Thessalonians’ perseverance and faith in
the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which they were enduring. And in v 5 he
says that their patient endurance under affliction is a plain indication of God's righteous
judgment so that they will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which they
are suffering.

Now read vv 5b-10.

This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be

considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. For
after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to
give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be
revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution
to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus. These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of

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the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes to be glorified in His
saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed-- for our
testimony to you was believed (2 Thess 1:5-10).

God is coming to pay back the persecutors of the church, the enemies of the gospel of
Christ. And this time of retribution will be simultaneous with Christ coming to be glorified
in his saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed. Christ will be
exalted in the presence of the enemies of the gospel.

Revelation 1:7 says, “BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and

every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will
mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.” “EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in
heaven and on earth and under the earth, and…every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:10-11).

And this exaltation/vindication of Christ before his enemies will be complete at the
end of the age when he casts Satan and his minions along with the last enemy, death itself,
into the lake of fire and brimstone. “Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of
fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire” (Rev 20:14).

So then, Christ the fulfillment of Israel is chosen and favored and exalted in the
presence of the enemies of God, all to the glory of God.

Conclusion
Now then, we have seen Christ in the Old Testament! We have seen him anticipated
by the work of God in the Exodus in the plague of death, in God’s making a distinction
between Egypt and Israel. Does this excite you? Well, if it is thrilling for you to see the
shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses, then one of two things are true of you.

First, you may love theology. Now be careful here. Loving theology and loving the
God or Theos of theology are two different things. Sometimes when we see Christ in the
Old Testament we are excited because it is a curiosity, it is interesting to us, it is like a piece
of fine art in a museum. But this is not the right reason to be thrilled, which leads me to the
second reason why you may be excited.

You see Christ in the Law of Moses and you are thrilled because seeing him there
fills you with love for him. You are moved by what it means that Christ is the chosen and
beloved and exalted son in the presence of his enemies. And you are moved especially by
what it means for you right where you’re at. You see how this truth applies to your current
circumstances and you see how Christ is uniquely suited to transform you in the midst of
them.

But for the rest of us, for those of us who are struggling to see why knowing what
Exodus teaches here matters, the connection is not that clear. Let me try to make one for
you.

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As I was reflecting on the content of this message I asked the Lord, “How does a
message that says Christ is vindicated in the presence of his enemies help me?” And what I
meant by that is how does it help a person who this week struggled with the same sins he
has struggled with the week before and the week before that and the week before that?! I
struggled with ungodly thoughts and attitudes (again), I struggled with a lack of self-control
(again), I struggled with an inordinate fixation on myself (again), I struggled with hard-
heartedness in my response to God (again!). So how does knowing that Christ is vindicated
in the presence of his enemies transform me in these circumstances?

Well, here’s my answer: hope! It gives me hope. And here’s why. All of the
enemies of God are defeated by Christ’s death and resurrection. The devil is defeated. Sin
is defeated. Death is defeated. Even the persecutors of the church are in principle defeated.

So there’s my hope in suffering for the gospel’s sake. There is hope for me even
though my unbelieving family members and co-workers with their snide remarks and
provocative gestures feel like a millstone around my neck in my pursuit of holiness. I can
love them and turn the other cheek and pursue their good and leave vengeance to the Lord.
“‘I will repay; vengeance is mine,’ declares the Lord” (Rom 12:19).

There is hope for me in my fight against the evil one. We are not unaware of his
schemes. Because of Christ’s definitive defeat of Satan through his cross-work, I can put on
the full armor of God in the power of the Holy Spirit and with all prayer I can stand fast
against his cunning. His accusations are patent lies. In Christ, I am chosen. In Christ, I am
favored. In Christ, I am exalted in the presence of Satan because greater is He who is in me
than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). So when Satan tempts me to despair and tells me
of the guilt within upward I look and see him there who made an end of all my sin!
Ultimately, he is powerless against me.

There is hope for me in my struggle against my sins. Because Christ defeated sin
through his death and triumphed over sin through his resurrection, I can say no to sin. The
fact that there is a struggle in the first place actually indicates that I am making progress,
even if I can’t see it right now; for until Christ’s work was applied to me, there was no
struggle against sin, I just obeyed my sin and offered up my members as instruments of
unrighteousness, and I was happy to do it. Sin no longer needs to dominate me. Though I
was a slave of sin, I am a slave no longer.

And there is hope for me even after death. Philippians 3:20-21 says, “For our
citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of
His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.”

Because Christ has been raised from the dead, I am no longer fearful of dying. I love
Heb 2:14: “Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also
partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power
of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to
slavery all their lives.” I have eternal life!

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Oh, I need to see Jesus Christ! We need to see Jesus Christ. For when we do we see
the stuff of everyday life in the proper perspective. And we see how the one who is truth
incarnate brings his transforming power to our lives. Seeing Jesus changes everything. “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 from the Lord, the Spirit” (2
Cor 3:18). Amen and amen.

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