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like Jesus. That’s the beginning; but what is the process? I want us
to look at the process.

Once again there is a Bible illustration in 2 Corinthians 3:18, “But
we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory,
just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” James 1:23-25, “For if anyone is
a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at
his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and
gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he
was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of
liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but
an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.”

God’s illustration is a mirror. The Bible is called “a mirror”. It’s a
wonderful illustration of the process of becoming like Jesus. In the
New Testament the mirror was highly polished brass. Usually our
mirror are glass and on the back they are silver; something to reflect
light. We all know what a mirror does. It reflects what is in front
of it. If I look in a mirror I see me. Here’s a great a simple truth.
Mirrors don’t lie. There might be a trick mirror in the Fun House,
concave, that will distort things.

Sometimes my Lillian acts like my mirror. She’ll stand in front of
me and say, “You’ve got a big ugly hair coming out of your nose.”
When I see my Lillian come with the scissors behind her back I
know what is going to happen. She’s going to cut my bushy
eyebrows. If I stand in front of a mirror I see me. If there are
pimples, I see pimples. If there are wrinkles on my face, I’ll see
wrinkles. If yesterday’s breakfast is still on my face, I’ll still see
that. Mirrors tell the truth and they don’t lie.

2 Corinthians 3:18, “But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in
a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same
image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” The
Lord said that when you look to Him, He takes the veil away. Then