When we See Christ in His Holiness, we Repent, we Deny Ourselves, and we Gain Christ

When we see the Lord, when we see who He is, we are terminated, finished, and we deny ourselves and abhor ourselves, for we are men of unclean lips, so we repent and are purged by God; seeing God issues in gaining God, for when we see who He is, we gain Him and partake of what He is to become like Him!

Amen, Lord, we want to see You today! Unveil us to see who You are. May we see Your beauty, Your holiness, Your righteousness, and Your glory. Shine on us. Expose us. We repent, Lord. We abhor ourselves. We deny ourselves. We come to You. Cleanse us. Purge us. Fill us. Saturate us. Sanctify us. Make us the same as You are. Amen!

We believers in Christ today live in the last days, just before the Lord’s coming, and the days are evil; however, we are those who want to see the Lord and even behold Him.

Like Isaiah in the Old Testament, we may look at the outward situation and see the wickedness and corruption among people today, and we may look at the general situation of degradation and corruption among God’s people, and we may be in depression.

If we truly love the Lord, if we care for His interest here on earth, and if we pursue Him with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart, we will have a certain feeling concerning the situation today.

We do not agree with what is happening in society, we do not agree with the enemy’s work of corrupting and degrading the church, and we hunger and thirst for righteousness.

We may even weep over the situation today, for we realise that the whole world is in open rebellion against God, and even in the church today, there is so much degradation and Christ is not welcomed or expressed. Oh Lord!

However, we do not remain in our depression; rather, we want to see Christ. We want to see the Christ in glory.

When we come to the Lord concerning the current situation, when we open to Him regarding what is going on today, we will see the vision of Christ in glory. Such a vision is what we need today.

In spite of what is going on outwardly in the world and what is going on in the church in general, in spite of all the failures, rebellion, iniquities, and corruption around us and even in us, Christ is the King, for He is on the throne!

He is enthroned far above all, and the God-man Jesus is Lord of all! Praise the Lord! We all need to see a vision of the enthroned Christ as the God-man. May we come to Him in His word to receive such a vision today!

Seeing Christ in His Holiness based on His Righteousness Exposes us, and we Abhor ourselves, we Repent, and we are Purged by Him

In Isaiah 6:2-3 the prophet saw Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness. The seraphim signify or represent the holiness of Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God.

They were standing there for Christ’s holiness. Christ’s holiness is based on His righteousness; because Christ was always righteous, He was sanctified, separated from the common people (5:16).

When Isaiah saw the vision of Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness, he was exposed, he abhorred himself, he repented, and he was purged by God.

As a result of his seeing this vision, he was terminated, finished; he realised that he was a man of unclean lips, dwelling in the midst of a people of unclean lips (6:5). Oh Lord!

Actually, before he saw Christ, the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. The shaking signifies solemnity, and the smoke signifies glory burning in awe.

When we turn to our spirit to touch the Lord, when the Lord grants us a vision of Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness, we are in awe.

We will respond as Isaiah did, Woe is me, for I am finished. As a result of seeing the vision of Christ in His holiness, we are terminated, finished.

We realise that, even though we love the Lord and seek after Him, we are men of unclean lips. Our speaking is exposed. We realise that we talk too much every day, and a great percentage of our words are evil.

We may not speak evil things like the people in the world, but we may complain a lot, we may criticise others, and we may murmur and mutter. Oh Lord!

Our lips are unclean; we do speak something of the Lord, we do speak some praises and prayers, and we do utter some appreciative words toward others, but so much of our speaking is unclean! Oh Lord!

If we were to eliminate murmuring, reasoning, gossip, and criticism from our speaking, we may realise that we have very little to talk about.

Like Isaiah, when we see Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness, we are exposed, we repent, and we abhor ourselves.

We realise that our lips are unclean. We realise that we live among people with unclean lips. Oh, when we see Christ, we are terminated, finished, for we see who we are!

Peter also had the same realisation when he met the Lord in Luke 5; he simply realised how sinful he is, and he said, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord (v. 8).

Of course, the Lord did not depart from him; rather, after Peter repented, seeing who he is and who the Lord is, the Lord called Peter to follow Him.

When we see who we are in the Lord’s light, we abhor ourselves. Then the Lord can come in to purge us.

When Isaiah realised he was unclean, he was purged by one of the seraphim, signifying the holiness of God (Isa. 6:6-7); he was purged with an ember from the altar.

This ember in our spiritual experience signifies the effectiveness of Christ’s redemption accomplished on the cross.

When we see a vision of Christ in His holiness, we also realise who we are, and the Lord purges us by the effectiveness of His redemption accomplished on the cross.

We truly are unclean. We are even a totality of uncleanness. We may try to wash ourselves and improve our behaviour, and we may try to be better people, but we are still unclean.

The more we come to the Lord to see Him and enjoy Him, the more we realise how unclean we are. Our conscience is touched.

When we see Christ in His holiness, the feeling in our conscience is that we are sinful and unclean. The more we see the Lord, the more we are exposed; then, we confess, and our conscience is cleansed and void of offense.

Thank the Lord, we can confess our sins, impurities, uncleanness, and trespasses, and He forgives us, washes us, cleanses us, and purges us (1 John 1:7-9).

This is an instant cleansing, and it takes place in the spiritual realm. According to the facts in the old creation, we are not clean, for as long as we remain in the old creation, we can never be completely clean.

Our old creation is unclean; until we have the redemption of our fallen body, we will be unclean, and we need to come to the Lord to be cleansed and purged by Him.

However, how much we can be cleansed depends on how much we see the Lord.

The more we see the Lord and the more we are exposed, the more we are cleansed, and we can see God and be infused with God.

May we come to the Lord again and again to see Christ in His holiness and partake of what He is!

Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You! Grant us to see a vision of Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness. Amen, Lord, we want to see You! We want to touch You. Shine on us. Expose us. Enlighten us to see who You are so that we may see who we are. Shine on our uncleanness. Expose our sins, trespasses, mistakes, and dirtiness. Oh Lord, we repent. We abhor ourselves. We deny ourselves. Cleanse us and wash us. We repent for our words. We repent of our unclean lips! Oh, woe is me, for I am finished! We are men of unclean lips and we dwell in the mist of a people of unclean lips! Oh Lord, purge us by the effectiveness of Your redemption! Wash us and cleanse us with Your precious blood! Oh may Your blood cleanse us, wash us, and remove any impurities and uncleanness from us! Amen, Lord, we come to You as we are. We want to touch You in a fresh way! May we see Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness and may we deny ourselves, be cleansed, and be infused with God!

When we See God, we Gain God, being Infused with God: we Deny Ourselves, we Repent, and we Gain more of God!

Many Christians know that God is holy, but they have an unnatural fear of God, thinking that they can’t touch God, for He is so holy, glorious, and righteous.

It is true that God is holy, righteous, and glorious, but He passed through a process and was consummated to be touched by man, received by man, and enjoyed and experienced by man.

Today we can see God; the God we see today is Jesus Christ, for He is the incarnation of God.

We see God in Christ by exercising our spirit to touch Him as the Spirit. When we see God, we gain God (Matt. 5:8).

Seeing God equals gaining God. On the negative side, when we see God, we see who we are, we abhor ourselves, we deny ourselves, and we repent and confess.

When we see Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness, we first see who we are; we are unclean, sinful, and full of offenses and unrighteous deeds. So we repent. We confess under the Lord’s light what He exposes in us. This is on the negative side.

On the positive side, we gain what God is.  Seeing God causes us to see who we are and also infuses us with what God is.

God doesn’t obliterate us and then replace us; He exposes what we are by nature and in our conduct, and we confess under His shining, and the result is that He has a way to infuse more of what He is into us.

Seeing God transforms us, for it causes a metabolic process to take place in us.

On the negative side, what is old, negative, and natural is removed and discharged, for the Lord’s light exposes it and His holiness purges it. On the positive side, the new element of God, the divine element, is being added to us, and we are constituted with Him.

In this way we are reconstituted to be the same as He is; we behold God and we reflect Him (2 Cor. 3:18).

Seeing God is gaining God. Seeing God transforms us, because in seeing God we gain God and receive His element into us, and our old element is discharged; this metabolic process is transformation (2 Cor. 3:16—4:1; Rom. 12:2; Phil. 3:8).

We may think that, if we see Christ in His holiness based on His righteousness, we will be wiped out; actually, what happens is that we see Him, we gain Him, and we are transformed into His image.

There’s an inward, metabolic process going on when we see God. The more we see God, know God, and love God, the more we abhor ourselves and the more we deny ourselves (Job 42:5-6; Matt. 16:24; Luke 9:23; 14:26).

We may hear of God by the hearing of our ear, as Job did, but when we see God, when we realise who He is and who we are, we will repent in dust and ashes.

We open to Him, for we are nothing without Him. When we see God, we receive His element into us, and our old element is discharged.

He adds Himself to us to reconstitute us with Himself, and our natural element is discharged and removed. Little by little, day by day, we are transformed into His image.

This is a lifelong process consummating in all of God’s redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, transformed, conformed, and glorified people seeing God’s face eternally and continually (Rev. 22:4).

Today we want to see His face. We want to behold Him. We want to gain Him. We love Him. We don’t want to do anything without Him.

Seeing God issues in being purged and cleansed by God. Being cleansed by God issues in being sent by God to bring His chosen people into a state of living Christ so that they may express Him in His glory, be saturated with His holiness, and live in His righteousness (Isa. 6:6-8; 1 John 1:7-9; Acts 13:47; Phil. 1:21).

When we see Christ in His holiness, we are infused with Him, our old element is discharged, and we are sent by Him to others to bring them into the enjoyment of God to live Christ and express Him! Amen!

Lord Jesus, we want to see You face to face. We open to You. We turn our heart to You. Cleanse us and wash us. Remove any impurity and uncleanness from us. May we see God and may we gain God! Amen, may the old and natural element be discharged and may the element of God be added to us! Hallelujah, when we see God, we gain more of Him! Praise the Lord, when we see God, we abhor ourselves, we repent, and we are infused with what God is! Amen, Lord, we want to receive You in Your element, life, and nature! May we behold You and reflect You, being transformed into the same image as Christ from glory to glory! Praise the Lord, seeing God issues in being purged and cleansed! Amen, Lord, cleanse us so that we may be sent by God to bring His chosen people into a state of living Christ! Oh Lord, may we express You in Your glory, be saturated with Your holiness, and live in Your righteousness! Amen!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brother Ed Marks on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Job, msg. 30, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 33, The Vision, Experience, Enjoyment, and Expression of the Supreme Preciousness of Christ for the Genuine Church Life – day 5.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Lord, may Thy blood now cleanse me, / Wash all my sins away, / That with Thy Holy Spirit / Thou may anoint, I pray. / My service, I confess, Lord, / Is failure-full and weak; / The filling of Thy Spirit / To live for Thee I seek. / Oh, from myself deliver, / From all its misery; / I’d henceforth be forever / Completely filled with Thee. (Hymns #280 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – Walk in the light, and thou shalt find / Thy heart made truly His; / Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined, / In whom no darkness is. / Walk in the light, and sin abhorred / Shall ne’er defile again; / The blood of Jesus Christ the Lord / Shall cleanse from every stain. (Hymns #548 stanzas 2-3)
  – Him expressing from within, / Making Him to others seen, / I transparent have to be / That He may be shown thru me. / Transformation is my need, / To be broken more indeed, / That the clay may change in form, / To the treasure to conform. (Hymns #548 stanzas 5-6)