Risen from a State of Grace to a State of Glory

…yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. – Job 19:26,27

I must have you observe how Job has expressly made us note that it is in the same body. “Yet, in my flesh shall I see God;” and then he says again, “whom I shall see for myself, and mine eye shall behold and not another.” Yes, it is true that I, the very man standing here, though I must go down to die, yet I shall as the same man most certainly arise and shall behold my God! Not part of myself, though the soul, alone, shall have some view of God, but the whole of myself—my flesh, my soul, my body, my spirit shall gaze on God. We shall not enter heaven, dear friends, as a dismasted vessel is tugged into harbor; we shall not get to glory some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship—but the whole ship shall be floated safely into the haven—body and soul both being safe! Christ shall be able to say, “All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me,” not only all the persons, but all of the persons—each man in his perfection! …All the saints shall be all there, and all of all; the same persons precisely, only that they shall have risen from a state of grace to a state of glory.

…There shall be personal conversation with God; not through the Book, which is but as a glass; not through the ordinances; but directly—in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ—we shall be able to commune with the Deity as a man talketh with his friend. “Not another.” If I could be a changeling and could be altered, that would mar my comfort. Or if my heaven must be enjoyed by proxy, if draughts of bliss must be drunk for me, where were the hope? Oh, no; for myself, and not through another, shall I see God! Have we not told you a hundred times that nothing but personal religion will do, and is not this another argument for it, because resurrection and glory are personal things? “Not another.” If you could have sponsors to repent for you, then, depend upon it, you would have sponsors to be glorified for you! But as there is not another to see God for you, so you must, yourself, see—and yourself find an interest—in the Lord Jesus Christ! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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