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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER OF GREATER FORT WAYNE THE RESULT OF BIBLICAL INTERCESSION 2 COR 3:18

2 Cor 3:18 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 from the Lord, the Spirit.
* I want to talk again tonight about this topic of the Result of Biblical Intercession and the Glory of God God's glory is the perfect harmony of all his attributes into one infinitely beautiful being. John 1:14-18 John 12:27 For this I have come....Gods response....I have and WILL glorify my name John 17:22-24 Man there is so much here Father....I want your Glory...your desire....this is the epicenter of Jesus intercession Beloved - I submit that at the center of our intercession must be an undivided passion for the Glory of God upon the earth! As it is in Heaven let it be on the earth..... Basis of Biblical Intercession = the character and declaration of the Character of God The Goal of Biblical intercession = The Glory of God The Result of Biblical Intercession = The Glory of God Manifested....2 Cor 3:18 2 Chronicles 5;11-14 2 Chronicles 7 Shekinah.....kabowd glory of God fills the house .... powerful mind blowing..... Priests could not enter For the most part in my charismatic - pentecostal journey - this idea of tangible glory manifesting was the goal..... With this goal is the reality that you can both invite or inhibit the tangible glory.... * Could be such a thing as Ichabod.....the glory has departed.....

And the secret is simply this Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Col 1:27b JB Phillips

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER OF GREATER FORT WAYNE THE RESULT OF BIBLICAL INTERCESSION 2 COR 3:18
* The other was the opposite....the tangible glory of presence.... and I am pretty sure i have literally experienced this in real time....man its intense.... but again I cannot tell you the amount of times that I have heard and even repeated.....well look at 2 Chronicles....they had it.....we arent there yet.... In the NT Revelation 7:15-16....he will spread His tabernacle over the martyrs Rev 21:3...read this a boku funerals.....now the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell among them.... * For the vast majority I have heard these words and scriptures declared as a future yet to come reality and place...... Can I just say....this was likely exposing more about our weak understanding of both the Glory and especially the reality of the covenant we now live under..... Because we have seen the Glory of God as Distant and fading......! Yet Paul says 2 Cor 3:18....ever increasing glory..... Lets turn to John 1 Interesting.....for the Jewish people....to this day....watch this Divinity was and is not personified visually..... So the closest testimony they have is Moses....encounter But then the next is the Tabernacle....Shekinah....cloud..... Look at John 1 Watch Johns use of language....the word became.....flesh....personified and dwelt original word...tabernacle.... Does not stop there...we saw His Glory..... This was that.....Jesus became flesh....law...came Mt Sinai.....Grace and Truth that Moses heard declared on Mt Sinai.... were realized through Jesus Christ.... Did you catch this.....the glory the Priests could not enter.... Entered Humanity......vs 18....the God that Moses could not see was explained by Him.... Col 1:27....Col 2:8-10 ( read aloud ) The Glory has entered humanity....and you have been entered into Him! And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Col. 1:27b JB Phillips 8/31/2012 page 2

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER OF GREATER FORT WAYNE THE RESULT OF BIBLICAL INTERCESSION 2 COR 3:18
Lets not miss this critical piece...the Glory of God - according to John is a person! Heb 1 - who is the exact representation of the Father...... Can I submit beloved that an active reality of Biblical intercession is the encounter of the human heart with the beauty and splendor of God.... leads to an encounter of the beauty of who we really are in Him.....His beloved.....

The Result of Biblical Intercession - The Glory of God - Manifested in us!


Look at 2 Cor 3:18 a bit closer JB Phillips 12-17 With this hope in our hearts we are quite frank and open in our ministry. We are not like Moses, who veiled his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing its fading glory. But it was their minds really which were blinded, for even today when the old agreement is read to them there is still a veil over their mindsthough the veil has actually been lifted by Christ. Yes, alas, even to this day there is still a veil over their hearts when the writings of Moses are read. Yet if they turned to the Lord the veil would disappear. For the Lord to whom they could turn is the spirit of the new agreement, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, mens souls are set free. 18 But all of us who are Christians have no veils on our faces, but reflect like mirrors the glory of the Lord. We are transfigured by the Spirit of the Lord in ever-increasing splendour into his own image. I was encouraged to perhaps take a little more time and look at this together....it is a profound reality The result of Biblical Intercession - is the Glory of God manifest in us.... Again some have really focused on this word - transformation....with a heavy emphasis how we must be changed....so beloved my prayer again is that we will see what this transformation really is... 2 Cor 3:18 - Transformation... for the most part I have both taught and understood this a progressive work...in my life... gradually become more and more like Jesus. However beloved I have become convinced is mind set that is based in self effort.

And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Col. 1:27b JB Phillips 8/31/2012 page 3

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER OF GREATER FORT WAYNE THE RESULT OF BIBLICAL INTERCESSION 2 COR 3:18
I am not growing more complete..... I am simply growing in an understanding of my completeness in Him.... Transformation....metamorpha... 4 times in the NT Matt 17:2, Mark 9:2....mount of Transfiguration....something literally changed on Jesus then here in 2 Cor 3:18 and again in Romans 12:2 Lets Look at 3 things.... Who does the transforming - What it looks like and How it is manifested 1. Who Manifests...this glory of transformation....??? 2 Cor 3:17 KJV - Phillips....Now the Lord is that Spirit.....and where the Spirit of the Lord is... there is liberty.... A lot here A. The first and most obvious....see this....entire chapter is about this new covenant agreement...vs 6 - vs 8...... Paul says that spirit of the new agreement, the life giving spirit, that is filled with glory....that is Jesus! He is the the person, the event and the place that established vs 9 this abounding glory..... Again let me make this as clear as possible.... Transformation is not a Process....but a Person. This glory is about what He accomplished not what we can achieve.... His intent is to manifest this glory....like a mirror to us and through us! B. That glory is not Distant and fading And you have been made complete in Him! Col 2:8-10 Our Union with Christ declares that 2 Cor 3:18 is if I can say it this way...our birthright! And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Col. 1:27b JB Phillips 8/31/2012 page 4

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER OF GREATER FORT WAYNE THE RESULT OF BIBLICAL INTERCESSION 2 COR 3:18
Where He is ....in us....He is revealing Gods good opinion! 2. What does Transformation look like? 2 Cor 3:17.....Liberty to do or omit things having no relationship to Salvation - liberty is not about who can become the most obnoxious or push each others buttons.... - liberty to choose love and reject anything that does not have to do with the truth of Gods love for mankind. - liberty from sin - guilt - etc. The best way to understand this....from the words of Jesus in John 8:33-35 - Truth will set you free.....to know who you are... - direct terminology with Jesus is this.... Msg 33Surprised, they said, "But we're descendants of Abraham. We've never been slaves to anyone. How can you say, 'The truth will free you'?" 34-38Jesus said, "I tell you most solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave. A slave is a transient, who can't come and go at will. The Son, though, has an established position, the run of the house. So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through. I know you are Abraham's descendants. But I also know that you are trying to kill me because my message hasn't yet penetrated your thick skulls. I'm talking about things I have seen while keeping company with the Father, and you just go on doing what you have heard from your father."

3. How then are we experience Transformation? 2 Cor 3:18 Now we all with unveiled face....beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord * This is without a doubt the incredible power and simplicity of Biblical intercession The Mirror.....this is what I went back to verse 17....the question that needs to be answered clearly is about the Mirror....

What is this Mirror...?? And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Col. 1:27b JB Phillips 8/31/2012 page 5

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER OF GREATER FORT WAYNE THE RESULT OF BIBLICAL INTERCESSION 2 COR 3:18
Some who quickly drift to 1 Cor 13 where Paul says....we see in a mirror dimly * Some who have noted that many mirrors were faded.....hard to see clearly kind of things made out of steel or even glass.... * Biblical history....2 types of Mirrors... A. Lucid Specular - clear reflection - vision..... Numbers 12:6-8....I will speak mouth to mouth...openly - lucid Specular B. Numbers passage gives clarity to the second....dark sayings.... Second are the Obscure - dark specular.... Ezekiel 1:4-5....storm, fire, sound....intense.... Point is that to this day..... Meanings that Eternity alone will unfold * Point is in this type of mirror....eternal realities that will not be comprehended until we see the Lord. * That beloved is the Mirror of 1 Cor 13....(riddled) * The Mirror of 2 Cor 3:18 ? Hebrew writer...said....God spoke...in various ways and means But now He has spoken in His Son.....whom He appointed heir of all things..... * This is a Clear Reflection - of whom...? 2 Cor 4:6 Col 3:10 Adam Clarke put it this way by earnestly contemplating the Gospel of Jesus, and believing on him who is its Author, the soul becomes illuminated with his Divine splendor, for this sacred mirror reflects back on the believing soul the image of Him whose perfections it exhibits; and thus we see the glorious form after which our minds are to be fashioned; and by believing and receiving the influence of his Spirit, , our form is changed, , into the same image, which we behold there; and this is the image of God, lost by our fall, and now recovered and restored by Jesus Christ: for the shining of the face of God upon us, i.e. approbation, through Christ, is the cause of our transformation into the Divine image.

And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Col. 1:27b JB Phillips 8/31/2012 page 6

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER OF GREATER FORT WAYNE THE RESULT OF BIBLICAL INTERCESSION 2 COR 3:18
2 Cor 3:18b ...from Glory to Glory..... Word glory in NT = doxa in the New Testamen - Always means to be a good opinion..... Here is the Glorious revelation in Christ.... God has a good opinion of you! Really! His passion and desire....are towards you. From Glory to Glory is to grow in deeper and deeper revelation of His good opinion! Biblical intercession....goal = the Glory of God.... As I look in this mirror.....this is who I am.... This is what I have in him.... leads us to faith....in this mirror....I see GRACE AND TRUTH Eph 1:3 blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms... vs 8 lavished forgiveness...redemption....the mystery of His will..... Goal of intercession - the glory of God Not a result of effort Growing in the revelation of what defines us...... The Result of Biblical Intercession - Transformation - the Glory of God manifested in and through us! Shema.....listen - Pay attention....Israel....my people.... The Lord.....the living active God...is One....who holds all things is in you..... Love the Lord and Love one another...... as surely as I live declares the Lord...my Glory will cover the earth.....

Beloved it is not a job to be accomplished but an accomplishment to be believed!

And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Col. 1:27b JB Phillips 8/31/2012 page 7

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