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II Corinthians 3:12-18

The glory of the new covenant gives us, new life, righteouness and the Holy Spirit and as such we have a true hope and great boldness. This hope is based upon the fact that God has made us sufficient and therefore we can confident of the results of Christ working thru us, making us bold, open and fearless in our “walk in Christ”.

Paul in these verses gives us a contrast between the old and new covenant.

The Bible teaches us in Exodus 34:29-35, that when Moses met with God on Mount Sinai and was given the Law that his face shone. We are now told that when Moses realized the glory of the Lord was fading from his face, that he wore a veil to keep the people from seeing the fading glory and to this day that veil still covers their heart (Rom 11:8), which keeps them from seeing the greater glory of the new. In our society today people wear all sorts of veils all of which keeps them aleininated from the glory of God.

In contrast when a person turns to the Lord as their Saviour, the veil is taken away which gives us the confidence that we now belong to Him. and gives us the freedom to serve the Lord without fear. We are free from thre penalty of sin and we have the freedom to be bold about in our new life of glory in Christ. God’s law is written on our hearts and we He begins to transform us into the image of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ from one degree of glory to another thru the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit.

In John 9:39,41, the account of Jesus healing a blind man teaches us that Jesus came for the purpose 1) of exposing our spiritual blindness (veils) that man might recognize his sinful condition and turn to Him and 2) to confirm the spiritual blindness of those who profess to “see” but did not because of their unbelief

The song “Take time to be holy” states it this way. “Turn your eyes upon Jesus; Look full in His wonderful face; And the things of earth will grow strangely dim; In the light of His glory and grace”.