Beholding His Glory (2 Corinthians 3:18)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 2 Corinthians 3:18, David Platt invites us to look to Jesus so we can become more like Him. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:06.4	2 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 18,
0:09.7	and we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,
0:15.1	are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.
0:23.7	For this comes from the Lord who is the spirit. Oh, this is such a good verse. The takeaway from this verse to summarize in just a short way
0:31.5	is we become like what we behold. We become like what we behold. This is something we see all over
0:41.3	scripture as we read in the Psalms, for example, about people worshipping false gods. And the Bible
0:49.0	says that people become like what they worship. If you worship money, love money,
0:56.3	then your life will be transformed around money,
1:01.4	around wealth, around possessions.
1:03.7	If you worship your image, your self-image,
1:07.7	your reputation,
1:09.1	then your life will be transformed around yourself, around what promotes
1:15.3	your reputation. And the picture here in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18 is when you worship Jesus,
1:23.2	your life will be transformed to look more like Jesus. The more you behold Jesus in all of his
1:30.1	glory, the more you will be transformed into Jesus' image from one degree of glory to another. What a
1:36.9	phrase that you and I can be transformed today to look more like Jesus from one degree of glory to another.
1:47.0	How?
1:47.5	By fixing our eyes on Jesus, by fixing our hearts on Jesus.
1:52.1	How do we do that?
1:53.0	Through his word, through listening to His Word, in prayer, through fixing our minds on things
1:58.3	he calls us to fix our minds on?
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