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When we with unveiled face are beholding and reflecting the glory of the Lord, He infuses us with the elements of what He is and what He has done. Thus, we are being transformed metabolically to have His life shape by His life power with His life essence, transfigured, mainly by the renewing of our mind (Rom. 12:2), into His image…Every kind of life has these three things...For example, a carnation flower has an essence and a power…As it grows with the life essence and by the life power, it is shaped into a particular form. It is the same with the divine life…The shape of the divine life is the image of Christ…As we open to the Lord, He as the life-giving Spirit enters into our being to infuse His life essence into us, to operate within us by His life power, and to shape us into His image. This is the constitution of life to make us ministers of the new covenant. (Life-study of 2 Corinthians, msg. 8, section 3)
Transformation is a metabolic process, a metabolic change. The Spirit's work in transforming us involves a change in our whole being—in life, nature, essence, element, form, and appearance. Transformation is not outward change, correction, or adjustment; transformation is altogether an inward, metabolic change of our being. Therefore, we may define transformation as a divine, spiritual metabolism wherein a new element is added to the old to discharge the old and to produce something new. (Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 316, section 3)
The image in verse 18 is the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ. The “same image” means we are being conformed to the resurrected and glorified Christ, being made the same as He is (Rom. 8:29). To be transformed into the same image from glory to glory means from one degree of glory to another degree. This indicates a continuing process in life in resurrection. This is “from the Lord Spirit.” “From” indicates that the transformation is proceeding from the Spirit rather than caused by Him. (Life-study of 2 Corinthians, msg. 8, section 3)
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- Listen to Broadcast 22 from the start of the programme until the 11:08-minute mark. Discuss the three stages involved in the process of spiritual metabolism for reconstitution, using the illustration of the making of petrified wood.
- Read Life-study message 23, section 3. Discuss the copper and gold analogy relating to the Christian life, and give examples from your own experience.
- Listen to Broadcast 23, from 5:04 to the 17:56-minute mark. The process of transformation altogether depends upon whether we have an unveiled face. What are the inward, dispositional veils that can cover and insulate us from beholding and reflecting the glory of the Lord?
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