Sunday, January 20, 2008

Kingdom Advancement

Isaiah 42:8
8 I am the LORD, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.

Romans 8:27-30
27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

1. To be glorified is to enter into the blessings of the full glory of God, which we now experience in part.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18
18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2. To be glorified is to receive our adoption as sons and the redemption of our body
- Romans 8:23
23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

3. To be glorified is to be free from corruption and death
- Romans 8:2
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

4. To be glorified is to experience the goal for which we were chosen, called and justified
- Ephesians 4:1
1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

5. To be glorified is to obtain that good for which God has been causing all things to work together.
- Romans 8:28
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

6. To be glorified is to have a share in the glory, which belongs to Israel
- Romans 4:13
13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

- Romans 4:16
16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

- Galatians 3:29
29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.