Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
2. The actual force of the expression. But, whatever the exact force of the word, the thing intended includes both acts. There is no reflection of the light without a previous reception of the light.
SAAR AMIN AUD iia iinet ee the Christian life described as one of contemplati on and mar n of the light of God.
B. The Object of the Vision.
1. It is Jesus Christ.
2. It is the glory of Jesus Christ. The glory which we behold and give back is not the incomprehen sible, incommunicable luster of the absocapnetee Loc ee ee ee
the heart, the contact with His gracious energy ae _ ing spirits.
2. It is a perception that all believers may have. "We, all? This vision does not belong to any select handful. Christ reveals Himself to all His servants in the measure of their desire after Him.
3. It is a contemplation involving reflection. What we see we shall certainly show. Nor is it only that our fellowship with Christ will, as a matter of course, show itself in our characters and beauty born of that communion "shall pass into our face," but we are also called on, as Paul puts it here, to make direct conscious efforts for the communication of the light which we behold.