ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
is, "Be ye not conformed to this world"; the positive, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." Being "conformed to this world" means being untrue to God. It means finding satisfaction in things that are displeas... ing to Him and dishonoring to His name. It means fa,iling to give a good testimony before the God...dishonoring, Christ.. rejecting, Spirit--resisting world. It means missing the pe~ce and joy of a life approved of God. Shall we be untrue to Him who died for us? Now the word "transformed" means "transfigure~." When Christ was transfigured before the three disciples, the Shekinah Glory did not shine on Him; it shone through Him. He is Himself light and glory; and what the disciples saw was just a glimpse of His uncreated glory, shining from within His whole being. In heaven "we shall be like him," but in this earthly life our bodies have not been redeemed. Yet, even in this life, we do have the power of the risen Christ; for our bodies are "the temple of the Holy Spirit." And He is able to trans.. form the vilest sinner into "a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use" (II Tim. 2:21 ). Christ wants to control your whole body, my friend. If you let Him, He will not only keep you from being conformed to the world; He will also transform you, so that you will be conformed to His image. There is a marvelous analogy be.. tween the transfiguration of our Lord and the reflected glory that shines from the face of a Christian who is yielded to God. That person's face shines with the love of God. There is a man in St. Louis who is called "Glory...face," because his very countenance beams with the joy of the Lord. Your manner of living will be transfigured with the glory of God if you present your body to Him. And even as Moses' face shone when he came down from the mount after talking with Jehovah, so your very life will radiate the love of God; for "we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from Page 226]
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