There is no glory to be compared with that in the face of Christ. Under law, you never get the light of the glory of God shining into the heart of man, without the conscience being awakened. I cannot stand in the presence of God; it tells me what I ought to be, and if I am not that, I cannot look at the glory. But when I see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, where do I see it? It is in heaven, in a Man, in the Man that hung on the cross for my sins. The meaning of the glory seen there is, that sin, death, and Satan have all been put away together. He, being made sin, died and went into the grave, was raised, and is gone into heaven, and the only part in it man had was sin, and hatred toward Him.

The glory of God is the witness that there is the complete cleansing away of all sin. That Person at God’s right hand, who was made sin, went under death, went into the grave, has passed it all, and is now in glory; and, in virtue of the work being accomplished, the testimony comes to me: the One who bore my sins is in glory, and all is done with. There we get the full testimony of the glory of Christ—the testimony of God’s value of it.

All this I get in the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ. Having been brought by Him to believe in God, I see the glory of God, I can look, and delight in it. The testimony of my salvation is the glory, and seeing it with an open face, we are changed into the same image from glory to glory.