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Exodus chapter 34, verses 34 and 35.

Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he

came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, the skin of Moses' face was shining.

And Moses would put the veil over his face again until he went in to speak with him.

What a picture. Moses meeting with God.

And then when he comes out, he delivers the commands of God and his face is shining, a reflection of the glory of God. What a powerful picture. Now, it's interesting when we get to the New Testament, you go, you look at 2 Corinthians chapter 3, and Paul talks

about this picture in the Old Testament. But then he talks about how we, through Christ,

come before God and we see and know God in even greater ways, and we behold the glory of God.

You get into 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, we behold his glory in the face of Jesus.

And the whole picture is the more we are with God, the more we will reflect God.

The more we behold Jesus, the glory of God in the face of Jesus, the more our lives will

look like Jesus.

And so really, this is a picture of sanctification or the process of growing to become more and

more and more like Jesus. And the whole principle is pretty clear. You become like what you

behold. So Moses would go into the presence of God, be with God, and his face would shine, like radiate because he was behold. So Moses would go into the presence of God, be with God, and his face would shine,

like radiate because he was beholding the glory of God. So the more we behold Jesus, the more

we look to Jesus in His Word, the more we spend time with Him in prayer, the more our lives

will look like Him. So not necessarily like a physical shining

of our face, but the more our countenance, our character, our words, our thoughts, our desires,

our lives, our marriages, our relationships, our work, our everything we do,

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