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About seeing Jesus (part 2 of 4)…
Revelation 3:11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you
have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in
the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God
and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven
from my God;… (NIV)
It is more difficult to see Christ in or with our spirit
than it is to see Him with our eyes. It is more difficult to see Christ in spirit because
we have to do spiritual work to acquire our spiritual vision. To see Christ with our
physical eyes requires nothing from us other than the movement of our eyes to His physical
location. To see Christ with our spirit requires more from us than many people are willing
to pay. To see Christ in our spirit we must turn away from the sin plague of our lives. To
see Christ in our spirit requires we first see our lives as fallen into sin's deadly
grasp. After we come to grips with our sinfulness, we must then understand that Christ
took that very sin to the Cross with Him and He was crucified by that very sin. In His
death, Christ erased our sinfulness from our souls if we accept His sacrifice and accept
Him as the person who can truly guarantee us eternal life in Heaven. To see Christ, we
must see Him dying upon the cross for us personally. To see Christ, we must go through the
trauma of understanding we were each the ones who drove the nails into His hands. To see
Christ, we must let the sin in us be destroyed by His love. To see Christ, we must be
willing to give our very life up to Him as He is dying for us. To see Christ, we must
undergo a total meltdown of the soul He gave us and the soul that is corrupted by our
being born into this sea of sin and darkness we call life.
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