GLORIFICATION

Why Come

to Terms?

We want to be accurate theologians

discerning the fullness of salvation

We need to knowthe “full gospel” in order to live in the power of God

We long to love God more deeply

and worship more extravagantly

Why Come

to Terms?

We want to be accurate theologians

discerning the fullness of salvation

We need to knowthe “full gospel” in order to live in the power of God

We long to love God more deeply

and worship more extravagantly

SALVATION . . .

The total work of God by which

He seeks to rescue man from the ruin,

doom, and power of sin and

bestows upon him the wealth of His

grace encompassing eternal life,

provision for abundant life now,

and eternal glory

God’s Holy CharacterSatisfied

SubstitutionMan’s Rescued State Benefited

Propitiation

Reconciliation

Redemption Justification

Imputation Sanctification

Adoption Glorification

GLORIFICATION

GLORIFICATION DEFINEDglorification – a more splendid form of something. the state of being glorified.

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God

to be revealed.

Romans 8:18-19

glory - weightiness, heaviness. manifest an honorable opinion.

GOD’S GLORY IN SALVATION

Creation

Condition

Consequence

Covenant

CHRIST

Counselor

Church

Commission

Consummation

WHERE WE’RE GOING TODAY

Who

What

So What

When

Where

Why

WHO?

Colossians 3:4 NIV

4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

24 ”I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”

--Jesus (John 5:24) NIV

Those whose lives are in Christ.

Those who believe/trust/have faith in Jesus Christ.

WHO?

30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also 

glorified.

Romans 8:30 NIV

Those who are justified BY Jesus Christ will also be glorified WITH Jesus Christ.

WHAT?

Romans 8:22-23

2 Corinthians 4:14-18

Glorification is the ultimate physical, mental, and spiritual perfections of believers

1 Corinthians 15:41-44

SO WHAT?

Flesh and bone - Luke 24:39

Followers of Jesus Christ will receive a new resurrection body to live for

eternity in the fullness of God’s glory.

Like Christ’s - Phil. 3:21; John 3:2

Recognizable - 1 Cor. 13:12

Spirit predominates - 1 Cor. 15:44, 49

Not limited by time, space, gravity - Luke 24:31; John 20:19; John 20:26

Eternal - 2 Cor. 5:1

Glorious - Rom 8:18; 1 Cor. 15:41-43

WHEN?

1 Corinthians 15:51-53

Matthew 24:42

Glorification will BEGIN at the rapture and CONTINUE for eternity.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:3

WHERE?

1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Revelation 21:1-4 NIV

WHY?

JUSTIFICATION

SANCTIFICATION

GLORIFICATION

Before justification - not able not to sin

While being sanctified - able not to sin

Not able to sin

WHY?

God’s glory is MOST manifest in His grace on the Cross. 

It will take all of eternity to plumb the depths of this grace - the plan of SALVATION for sinners like us!