But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand], for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ. But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart, but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit.
[2Corinthians 3:14-18 AMP]


"...their minds were hardened...they lost the ability to understand...the veil remains unlifted…"

Before a man ever has his initial contact with spiritual things through a conversion experience, though he is physically alive, he is actually dead. As far as God is concerned, a man is regarded dead because he does not have the life of God, which is the eternal life heaven recognizes as the real life. Even though he has eyes to see, he can navigate his ways around and recognize objects, yet, he is regarded blind. The deep things of God do not have any taste on his lips. He is spiritually incapable. The natural, normal man cannot understand all the things of God. He cannot perceive or even receive them, they are complete foolishness unto him.

"But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him, and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters] " 1Corinthians 2:14 AMP

"...but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away…"

But once the light of Jesus shines through a darkened, deadened heart, immediately, there is a quickening and awakening of his spirit man. Suddenly, he that was dead comes alive. Light comes in, and the blind can now see. It is like a veil is being removed from the eyes, and the things of the spirit now begin to make sense. Things of God that were not interesting before suddenly become attractive. The world becomes dirty, the joy of the Lord floods the heart, and God becomes the most important treasure of a lifetime. Praise the Lord...

However, the problems being faced today, is that once this initial veil has been taken away, a lot of Christians just assume that they have arrived. What God designed to launch them into His fullness suddenly becomes an end in itself. They remain perpetual babes struggling with milk, and never realize that this experience of being born again is ONLY the initial, prerequisite step that launches the believer into the rich things of God. He whose eyes initially got opened, now begins to dwell in darkness and stagnancy again, since further heavenly glories and deep things of God are yet unveiled to him.

"...seeing ...the glory of the Lord, are progressively ...transformed ... from one degree of glory to [even more] glory…"

It is very clear here that there is progressiveness about spiritual things. Things of God are in degrees, they are in levels. The moment a man receives a vision or the revelation of the Lord at conversion, that man has taken the preliminary first step, from where he ought to begin to climb. Though he has plunged into God, yet, there are levels and heights ahead that he still needs to enter as he continually walks hand in hand with Jesus. These levels are degrees of glory that graduate in power, revelations, insights, riches and knowledge of God as you climb. They are like steps on the rung of a ladder that take you closer to the top. The higher you climb, the clearer and closer glorious things become, and the further away you go from common, ordinary things. Spiritual things are never achieved by sudden flight, and just as every living thing grows, the spiritual being is also expected to grow from one degree of glory to another on a daily basis.

For every level (of glory) that is attainable in God, no man can just enter and pierce through to the next stage or degree of glory automatically. It looks like there is a gate separating one level from another. There are doors that restrict and prevent entrance into the next level. This door appears like a veil that covers the eyes of anyone who wants to behold a greater glory. Unless this door is opened at every stage, or rather, unless this veil is removed at every level, the believer cannot gain entrance into the next glory level. He cannot perceive, receive and partake in a greater degree of glory that God had prepared ready for him. As he gained entrance into the first level of glory at salvation by breaking through the veil of the world that blocked his views from seeing Salvation, so must he continue to break through several veils ahead of him that covers every entrance into higher glories. The veil/door to the next level has to be opened before you can gain entrance and move ahead from one degree of glory where you currently stand, to another degree of glory ahead of you.

"...until this very day... the same veil remains unlifted, ... a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart…"

Of these varying degrees of glories, because an entrance into any level of glory is actually the tearing and removal of the veil that blocked the entrance to that level, there is an excitement that overwhelms the one that has gained entrance. He begins to enjoy the moment within that glory, without an awareness of a greater level of glory still ahead of him.
God does not intend any man to remain within a single circumference where he operates forever. No matter how glorious a level of glory is, God has prepared several other levels of glories He intends His children to attain, as he grows in Christ. In fact, his growth is measured by how deeper he has climbed into God by breaking through several veils that lied within the entrance.
When a man enters one level, he is captivated by the present. He is overwhelmed by the glory. It is like heaven on earth. Joy fills his whole being and it is like "let us remain here on this mountain top, and make tabernacles for Jesus, Moses and Elijah, so that we can dwell here perpetually". This is the danger of glory... Each level of glory is limited. It has a scope and does not continue forever. The eyes, though gloriously opened to the present, are yet veiled, unable to see greater things. The eyes need to be opened afresh and at every junction before he can see the next level and pursue it.

For a man therefore to continue to enjoy and perpetually bask in glory, he must move from one level of glory to another, or else, glory will soon run out of steam... This is the reason why you find great men who entered some levels of glory years ago, and it overwhelmed everywhere and everyone. But they unnecessarily remained within that sphere without moving on to a greater level. Therefore, within a short space of time, the aura about them faded into insignificance when they exhausted all the resources within that glory.

Gods glory or revelations could be likened to the gear system of a car. Of course, this is a weak description of glory, but it gives a picture, since it operates on different levels. You move progressively from one gear to another in order to keep going at reasonable speed. All gears are important, and useful, but each has its scope and minimum/maximum limits of operation. You need to change from one gear to the next before your journey can be progressive and smooth. Do not think that Gear 2 can take you to 80mph, and trying to push a lower gear beyond its scope could cause further harm to your car. In fact, you would employ all the energy to push the gear far, yet, it will all be efforts in futility. All you need is simply a higher gear at that high speed, and the car moves swiftly.

Jesus, You are changing me.
By Your Spirit, You are making me like You,
Jesus, You are transforming me,
That Your loveliness
May be seen in all I do,
You are the Potter,
and I am the Clay,
Help me to be willing
To let You have Your way.
Jesus, You are changing me,
As I let You reign supreme within my heart.
My Heart is now a dwelling place,
Where God Himself can live,
A place where Gods Spirit comes,

Is peace and joy to give.
A house where Gods beauty
and glory may be seen,
My heart is now His temple,
He has made me new and clean.
Friend, do you know the difference,
That Christ can make to you?
He can change your attitudes,
And make your heart brand new,
But He can only do it,
If you let Him take control.
His tender love and mercy will make you whole…

Marilyn Baker

When a man first enters a level of glory, there is so much to captivate and excite him. There is so much to explore, and he finds it intriguing. But for the growing, progressive Christian, he finds out that all that the level holds, he soon exhausts it after a while. With the passage of time, everything is finished. The freshness he once enjoyed, and the excitement of new things, is all gone. Everything that was once new is now common. It is not that he backslid, it is just that all the glory he got in that level is exhausted, and everything becomes familiar now. He now loathes today the manna that captivated him yesterday. Everything gets spent. All his messages are ended. He then begins to stagnate and repeat himself. He has reached his highest height and he is not going further, since there is nothing new to grab at that level. Unless something breaks through and the door opens to the next level by breaking through the veil, he cannot progress further. His works start getting stale. He surely needs a fresh revelation to enter the next level. He needs the veil to be taken away. He needs the door to open to see a fresh glory in the face of Jesus that will quicken him again.

It is disheartening that many people remain put. They remain in blindness and stagnation, doing maintenance ministry... Since all the freshness and new things are no more, you find many introducing lots of rules and regulations to safeguard all they got while glory boomed. They cook up natural things to prevent all they have amassed though no longer fresh from dissipating. Because there is no stagnancy in the spirit, and it is either you are progressing or retrogressing, and once you stop adding, you start waning, you therefore find lots of natural, human wisdom being employed now to retain manually, what men got spiritually.
The veil has returned, preventing them from moving to a greater glory. Hence, lots of energy are being expended on what should naturally flow by divine operations if the Spirit of God was still in charge.

"…but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away…"

The veil has to be taken away... and that, at every level. If you are marking time at a spot, you need the veil to be taken away, so that you can see a fresh revelation of Jesus that launches a man into something greater. Even things like unseriousness to spiritual things, dry messages, lifeless church, people getting tired of what excited them before, God starting to appear cumbersome and no more exciting, when you have all the excuses why you are not what you ought to be, and you have to literarily force yourself to behave right, it is an indication that the veil has returned, and needs to be removed.

The veil has to be taken away at every level, and this happens when a man turns to the Lord. Many times we think we can turn to our strength, our wisdom, experience, devotion and self-denial in other to launch us into the next level we so much desire. But those cannot take us far. It may try, but it will soon dump us halfway. The veil is only taken away as "we turn to the Lord". Even our exploits during the past level of glory cannot help us now, God ONLY is the One capable of giving us something fresh again.

For something spectacular to happen to any man, the veil has to be taken away. A man must see the glory and the possibilities of an occurrence before he can focus and fix his gaze on it and receive it. If the veil has not been taken away, there is no persuasion or cajoling you can give a man, he cannot touch the glory. He will give several excuses why it will not work. Any hindrance to not touching the glory is a genuine excuse to him whose eyes are still veiled.

When the veil has not been taken away, you will argue with the required. You will see reasons why something is impossibility. You will be okay with status quo. But once the veil is removed, you will find an excited man who can move on. Nothing wrong will be enough potent excuse why he should NOT touch the glory.

At every junction of life, there is always a veil. To experience any genuine experience with God, there is the veil. In getting great things done for God, there is the veil. When you find men passionless and unmoved about things they should rush for, it is because there is a veil that has reduced them from plunging into God. A man could go to a meeting, he could understand the Mathematics and Theory of all the messages preached, but to launch into the Spiritual, the veil must be removed.

Are you a spiritual leader leading fellowship or Sunday school, you could continue your routine performance without getting men for God. You could teach men, and they would understand, but for them to catch God, yourself must SEE the glory. The veil must be rent from your eyes for you to see Gods glory in the face of Jesus.

As little as sleeping in church is, men can correct you endlessly, but if you do not SEE it, you will keep giving excuses, justifying yourself why you cannot help it. But the day the veil over it is rent from your eyes, you will find a man who SEEs the grace in God to deal with every issue completely.
Are you grappling with sin, and it appears you will never be free? You have been turning to your own strength perhaps. You have been turning to rules, discipline, laws, resolutions without turning to the Lord. You need the veil to be taken away from off your eyes so you can see the cross of Jesus where all matter of sin was settled, and Jesus declared, "it is finished".

Friend, stop giving excuses. Stop justifying your impotence and self. You can become great for God. Men under you can be broken. Even if you thought you were a weakling, it is a lie of the flesh. It is the veil over your eyes that is deceiving you. You can spend hours in prayers. You can dwell perpetually in Gods presence. You can know Him experientially in His word, if only you can turn to Him to remove the veil.
A glorious work that was once booming and exciting suddenly becomes a wilderness. The reason is because men stopped moving from glory to glory and tabernacled with what they got initially. What they got was great, but it finished. The oil got spent in their vessels, and the wine finished. The glory they saw initially was wonderful, but it is incomplete in itself. It cannot take them beyond itself, unless they switch to the next gear of glory. The great things that God will bring forth in the life a man is directly connected to the amount of Christs glory and revelation that he has seen, and that happens from one degree of glory to another greater degree of glory.

Friend, how much of Christ have you seen? Are you satisfied with the consignment you got at salvation? No matter how great your yesterday was, there is something greater still in God. There is no stagnancy in Jesus. If you are not ready to move from glory to glory, thinking that what you got initially is enough for you, I am sorry you will soon begin to stink. The glory you saw and operated in, though beautiful, has its limits and heights. You need a greater one to pick you up and move you on from where the previous one stopped.

Selah!!!!!!!!