{"id":816,"date":"2012-12-09T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T23:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacksonwu\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-08-15T08:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:44:01","slug":"we-will-not-see-the-face-of-god-without-losing-our-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacksonwu\/2012\/12\/09\/we-will-not-see-the-face-of-god-without-losing-our-own\/","title":{"rendered":"We will not see the face of God without losing our own"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If Jesus has been born Chinese, he may well have said it this way, \u201cFor whoever would save his face will lose it, but whoever loses his face for my sake will find it,\u201d (cf. Matt 16:25).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some other passages for thought\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Rev 22:3\u20134, \u201cNo longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Rev 11:15\u201316, \u201cThen the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, \u201cThe kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God . . .\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>1 Cor 14:25, \u201c. . . the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Matt 10:22, \u201c. . . you will be hated by all for my name\u2019s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Matt 5:8, \u201c\u201dBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Jesus has been born Chinese, he may well have said it this way, \u201cFor whoever would save his face will lose it, but whoever loses his face for my sake will find it,\u201d (cf. Matt 16:25). 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