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We Reflect Christ to the World, October 16
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved
them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:23
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In the intercessory prayer of Jesus with His Father, He claimed that
He had fulfilled the conditions which made it obligatory upon the Father
to fulfill His part of the contract made in heaven, with regard to fallen
man.... He declares Himself glorified in those who believe on Him. The
church, in His name, is to carry to glorious perfection the work which He
has commenced; and when that church shall be finally ransomed in the
Paradise of God, He will look upon the travail of His soul and be satisfied.
Through all eternity the ransomed host will be His chief glory
“We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit
of the Lord.” We are to keep the Lord ever before us. Those who do
this, walk with God as did Enoch, and imperceptibly to themselves, they
become one with the Father and with the Son. Day by day a change is
wrought upon mind and hearts, and the natural inclination, the natural
ways, are molded after God’s ways and Spirit. They increase in spiritual
knowledge, and are growing up to the full stature of men and women
in Christ Jesus. They reflect to the world the character of Christ, and
abiding in Him, and He in them, they fulfill the mission for which they
were called to be the children of God,—they become the light of the world,
a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid. “No man, when he hath lighted a
candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it
on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.” Those who
have been lighted from above send forth the bright beams of the Sun of
Righteousness
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3 SP 260, 261
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The Youth’s Instructor, October 25, 1894
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