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Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
“Liturgies are those rituals or practices that are loaded with an ultimate Story about who we are and what we’re for.” James K.A. Smith
“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”
3 Assumptions
1. Everyone has a version of the “good life.”
2. Your vision is a lot less carried around in your thoughts and logic than it is your hearts, where your affections have been captured by something.
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
3. What we want is shaped by the liturgies/habits/rhythms of our lives. What we practice, we learn to love.
James 1:14-15
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
3. What we want is shaped by the liturgies/habits/rhythms of our lives. What we practice, we learn to love.
Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
They have mouths, but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
2 Kin
They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
They went after false idols and became false…
What we behold, we become, and what we liturgy, we love.
4 Observations
1. We have a sight problem (v.14-15)
2. Whenever anyone turns to the Lord in faith, that veil is removed (v.16-17)
3. What do we now have the privilege to see once the veil is removed? The glory of the Lord. (v.18a)
4. It is in the beholding and reflecting the glory of the Lord, that we are changed more and more into the same image by the Holy Spirit. (v.18b)
In Christ, the image of the invisible God (), we become the image bearers we were created to be ().
5 Responses
Show up Prayerful
Show up Present
Show up on Time
Take stock on rival liturgies in your everyday life.
Take stock on rival liturgies in your everyday life.
Set up habits to help us behold more of Jesus.
Set up habits to help us behold more of Jesus.