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Jul 12, 2023 · This “eternal weight of glory” stands in stark contrast to the fleeting and transitory nature of present afflictions. The word eternal signifies the everlasting and unending nature of the glory that believers will inherit. It also highlights the incomparable duration and permanence of our future glory. In Romans 8:18, Paul expresses a ...
Dec 6, 2017 · Glory has to do with light and beauty, but those aspects do not sum up what the Bible means when it speaks of the glory of God. Interestingly, the Hebrew word kabod, which is translated into English as “glory,” has the root meaning of “weight” or “heaviness.” This offers a clue that glory has to do with weight, and this is confirmed ...
Jul 26, 2013 · Colossians 3:9–10: “You have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”. So the clue is the phrase “in knowledge.”. Our inner selves — our new regenerate, Christ-trusting selves — are being renewed “ in knowledge.”.
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The Christian doctrine of the eternal state of the redeemed is rooted in the concept of divine glory, which his chosen people will share with him in eternity. Glory is not a divine attribute like holiness, but the state in which God dwells and the way in which he is perceived by others. The biblical picture of God’s glory is usually derived from th...
The first stage in the glorification of redeemed humanity is a process of transformation that is outlined for us in 1 Corinthians 15:35–58. Paul describes the future state as a dying and rising again to new life, and it is in this passage that he gives the most detailed explanation of what that means. He tells us that the material body that we now ...
For Christians, the life of heaven will be the fulfillment of life on earth, first in what is called the intermediate state (from death to the resurrection) and then in the final or eternal or glorifiedstate—the life of resurrection. What is promised to us now will be given to us then. At its heart will be a deeper fellowship with God and greater o...
Jan 29, 2017 · 2. When Jesus is revealed from heaven, He will deal out eternal punishment to unbelievers. Paul says (2 Thess. 1:6), “For it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you.”. He adds (2 Thess. 1:8-9) that this will involve “dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of ...
Jan 20, 2023 · The glory of God is the beauty of His spirit. It is not an aesthetic beauty or a material beauty, but the beauty that emanates from His character, from all that He is. The glory of man—human dignity and honor—fades (1 Peter 1:24). But the glory of God, which is manifested in all His attributes together, never passes away.
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Now afflictions may be said to work eternal glory for the saints, not by way of merit, for they are not worthy to be compared with the glory to be revealed; there is no proportion between them; besides, the heavenly kingdom and glory was prepared from the foundation of the world, and is a free grace gift of their heavenly Father; but they work ...
