"Up to this very day, whenever they read Moses, the veil remains over their understanding but, for whoever turns to the LORD, the veil shall be removed. The LORD is Spirit, and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom.
So, with unveiled faces, we all reflect the glory of the LORD, while we are transformed into HIS likeness, and experience HIS glory, more and more by the action of the LORD, who is Spirit.
Since this is our ministry, mercifully given to us, we do not weaken.
In fact, if the gospel we proclaim remains obscure, it is obscure only for those who go to their own destruction. The god of this world has blinded the minds of these unbelievers, lest they see the radiance of the glorious gospel of CHRIST, who is GOD's image. It is not ourselves we preach, but CHRIST JESUS, as LORD; and, for JESUS' sake, we are your servants. GOD, who said, Let the light shine out of darkness, has also made the light shine in our hearts, to radiate, and to make known the glory of GOD, as it shines in the face of CHRIST." - 2 Corinthians 3:15-4:1. 3-6
(The LORD is Spirit. Paul says this twice in verses 17 and 18. He does not confuse LORD, CHRIST, with Holy Spirit but plays with the words spirit and Spirit. He recalls that the person who turns to the LORD goes beyond a first stage of faith [that Paul calls the letter] where he found GOD through laws and practices. He enters the adult age of spiritual life where, through GOD's Spirit, we know ourselves and act towards GOD like sons and daughters and free persons. So Paul means: To find the LORD is to receive the Spirit and accede to the "spirit" [see Romans 2.29].
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