When we look in a mirror, we have a mental image of how we want to look. We use that idea to shape what we will eventually see in the mirror as we brush our hair and groom ourselves.
That is the image Paul gives us in 2 Corinthians 3:18. With no veil over our eyes, we can see the Lord Jesus as we read the Bible and listen to preaching.
The Bible is God's inerrant, infallible Word, but without the liberating work of the Holy Spirit enabling us to find Jesus, the living Word, in the written Word, it will do us not Spiritual good. That's what Jesus himself taught in John 5:39-41.
When we come to Jesus and are saved, it isn't because we said a prayer: Everyone who is truly saved sought the Lord Jesus until he found him.
What is true of the written Word is also true of the Visible Word, the Lord's Supper. Eating the bread and drinking from the cup do not do us good in and of themselves: We must find the Lord Jesus there.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...