Jerry begins by expressing a deep longing to see the Lord’s loving face, praying that seeing His beauty becomes our constant occupation and vocation. He emphasizes that only in God's beauty are we truly set free, protected, and fulfilled, as Jesus is our substance, forgiveness, grace, life, peace, and armor. He asks for the Holy Spirit’s anointing to help us truly see and hear with unveiled hearts and minds, acknowledging our dullness and need for divine grace. Jerry reflects on how faithful Jesus is to forgive, contrasting this with our tendency to doubt or take His forgiveness for granted, much like Peter’s question about how many times to forgive. He highlights that Jesus is always faithful to forgive, absorbing our failures on Calvary, where He took our sins and nailed them to the cross, offering complete cleansing. The focus then shifts to the importance of the mind of Christ, especially in relation to the helmet of salvation, which guards our thoughts. Jerry stresses that we must have the mind of Christ—humble, teachable, single-minded, servant-hearted, and loving—modeling His humility, obedience, and sacrificial love. He urges believers to consecrate themselves daily, drink the cup of God's will, and behold Christ’s face to be transformed. Ultimately, he calls us to live out our divine vocation as members of Christ’s body, soldiers in His army, and living sacrifices, all rooted in the mind of Christ, which is centered on love, humility, and service.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.