
2 Corinthians 3:18
New King James Version (NKJV)
18 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 by the Spirit of the Lord.
In one beautiful sentence the Apostle captures the truth about how believers walk on a spiritual path of ever increasing glory as we gaze into the wonderful things of God. The exhortation to be transformed is one that recurs in the writings of Paul. Being conformed to the image of the Christ is the goal, looking more and more like him, or as the Apostle Peter put it, partaking of divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
I sense that amidst the hubbub created by the preaching of the new gospel of the acquisition of earthly prosperity as opposed to storing treasures in heaven, contentment and having all things common (Acts 2:44, Acts 4:32), we have missed the warnings Christ, the Apostle John, the Apostle Paul, the Apostle Peter and Jude. (See the end of this article for these warnings).
Commercial acumen and the gospel
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