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Welcome to the
Series that we've entitled:
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The Sanctuary,
Salvation and our Savior.
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My name is David Shin
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and I'm honored
to have you join us
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as we journey
through the sanctuary...
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to discover the relevance to
our practical Christian lives
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as well as understanding
the work and ministry
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of Jesus Christ.
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Today, I'd like to begin by
talking about Jack Lalane...
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Jack LaLane was a health
enthusiast and a nutritionist
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and these are some
of the notable feats
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that he was able to accomplish.
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At the age of 42, he set
the world record for pushups
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by doing over
1,000 in 23 minutes.
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At the age of 60, he swam from
Alcatraz to Fisherman's wharf,
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a distance of 2.4 kilometers...
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he wore handcuffs and
also towed a 1,000-pound boat
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but that was not all,
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at the age of 70, he
swam a 1.5-mile section
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of Long Beach
Harbor by towing 70 people
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in 70 boats while
handcuffed and shackled...
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this was in
celebration of his 70th birthday
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and he towed these 70
individuals in 70 boats...
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I can't imagine...
and this is a photograph
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of Jack LaLane
when he was over 90,
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I hope to look like that
when I'm 70 or even 50...
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there he is with his
muscles and cut and so forth...
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now, we marvel at
individuals like Jack LaLane
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because it seems like
he defies the aging process
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but there's something
about aging and even death
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that we can delay
but we can never avoid
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and this is a result of sin.
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Sin has not only affected
our characters and our morality,
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but it's also
affected our physical nature.
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We were never meant to die,
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we were never meant to age,
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we were never
meant to deteriorate
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and Jack LaLane...
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even though he was able
to delay the aging process,
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he was not able to avoid it.
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Now, on the
screen, I have this graph
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that depicts the
ages of individuals
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in the book of Genesis,
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have you ever read
the... the chronology
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or the... the lineage
in the book of Genesis?
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these individuals...
their lives were not measured
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in decades... but rather,
it was measured in centuries.
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When you look
at the age of Adam,
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he lived over
900 years of age...
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930 to be exact...
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Adam lived to that age.
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Methuselah lived
to the ripe old age...
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the longest man that ever
lived recorded in Scripture,
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969 years of age...
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this is a remarkable time period
and then you have Noah there...
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he lived 950 years of age.
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The Bible indicates that Noah
did not start having children
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until the year 500...
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until he was age 500...
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this is remarkable...
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imagine how much productivity
you can have in your life
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but when you look at the graph,
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you can see
that after the flood,
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the timeline or
the age of individuals
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takes a precipitous decline.
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For instance, you can see that
Abraham lives 175 years of age.
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Now, that's still a long
time but compared to 969,
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that is dramatically different
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and then, you get
down to Jacob who lives 147
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and by the time you
get to the time of David...
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David died in his 70s.
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Now, what happened?
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you can see that the vital
force of man after the fall
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begins a decline and
so, after Eden was lost,
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there was not only a
deterioration of our morality
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and our spirituality
and our mental capability,
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there was also a deterioration
of our physical nature.
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sin had a dramatic
affect on creation as well.
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Our earth... our planet...
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it is not the way
that God created it,
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even the way that
animals relate to each other
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has been dramatically
shifted and changed.
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When we look at
the plan of salvation,
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through the lens
of the sanctuary...
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through this framework,
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we can see that God
wants to bring us back to Eden.
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Eden was lost and
God wants to restore Eden
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and this is where Adam and
Eve were in Edenic perfection.
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In the
Most-Holy-Place experience,
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face-to-face
communion with God that was lost
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and through the sanctuary
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we are shown how God
wants to bring us back...
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He wants to bring us
back into the Courtyard
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that is where we experience
pardon and justification...
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He brings us
into the Holy Place...
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that is where we experience
power and sanctification
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and then He brings us
into the last phase...
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the Most-Holy-Place experience,
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and that is where we
experience glorification.
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In other words,
in the last phase
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where God brings us from the
Courtyard into the Holy Place...
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into the Most Holy place,
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He will restore us back to the
nature of Adam before the fall.
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Not only in terms
of our physical nature,
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but in terms of the
environment as well.
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Adam and Eve lived
in a perfect environment
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and God in glorification
would restore that back.
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So, here we have the summary,
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the Court is where we
experience justification,
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the removal of sin's penalty.
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The Holy Place is where we
experience sanctification...
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the removal of sin's power
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and in the Most Holy Place,
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that's where we
experience glorification
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which will be the
subject of our topic today
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and that is the
removal of sin's presence.
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So, you can see
in the sanctuary,
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even as we see three
distinct compartments...
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the Courtyard... the Holy
Place and the Most Holy Place,
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God has three
stages of bringing us back.
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Justification... sanctification
and glorification.
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In Romans chapter 8
verse 30, the Bible says,
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"And those whom He
predestined, He also called;
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and those whom He
called, He also justified;
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and those whom He
justified, He also glorified. "
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Now, the interesting
thing about this text
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is that Paul here
omits "sanctification. "
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He includes "justification"
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and then
mentions "glorification"
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and people are like, "Hey, where
is sanctification in this mix?
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Is Paul not
believing in sanctification?
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You can see in
other parts of his gospels
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or in his
epistles, I should say,
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where he
mentions "sanctification"
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so, Paul was a
believer in sanctification
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and theologians believe
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that the reason why Paul
transitioned from justification
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to sanctification
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is because
sanctification actually begins
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the glorification process.
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In other words,
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the
transformation of our characters
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to becoming more
and more like Jesus
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is a part of the
glorification process
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that God has in store for us.
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The book
"Education" says on page 15,
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"To restore in man
the image of his Maker,
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to bring him
back to the perfection
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in which he was created.
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To promote the development
of body, mind, and soul,
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that the divine
purpose in His creation
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might be realized...
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this was to be the
work of redemption. "
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In other words, God wants
to bring us all the way back
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and this process of restoration
would actually be incomplete
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if God pardoned
and gave us power
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but He left us with
our physical natures.
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Can you imagine?
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God says, "I pardon
you... I give you power...
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but I can't glorify you...
I can't give you new bodies...
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I can't restore the earth...
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I can't create a new
heavens and a new earth... "
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no, no, no, God says,
"Look, I'm going to complete
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the process...
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I'm going to bring
you all the way back
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to where Adam and Eve
were before the fall... "
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and it begins with our
character transformation
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here and now.
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Glorification is an
important final phase
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of the process where
God will bring us back.
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I'm looking forward to that day.
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I am tired of back
aches... I'm tired of the flu...
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I'm tired of people
getting cancer and dying...
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all of these things
are a result of sin.
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Aging... baldness...
wrinkles... all of these things
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came as a result of sin...
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God never meant us to age,
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God never meant us to die
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but as soon as Adam and Eve
ate of that forbidden fruit,
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there was a
change in human nature.
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Our physical nature...
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Adam and Eve began to die.
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The planet began to wax old
like a garment as the Bible says
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and God's plan of
salvation is to bring us back.
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The first point of
glorification is...
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glorification is
spiritual restoration...
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glorification is a
process that begins
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with our character
transformation now.
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In other words,
glorification is not just
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"Pie in the sky by and by"
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where I say, "Oh, at the
second coming of Jesus...
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there I will be glorified... "
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but according to Scripture,
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the glorification of
our spiritual nature...
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our character actually begins
the moment that you accept Jesus
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as Savior and Lord
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and God says,
"Look, I want to begin
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this process of sanctification,
glorification of your character"
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how do we know this?
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In 2nd Corinthians chapter
3 verse 18, the Bible says,
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"But we all, with unveiled
face, beholding as in a mirror
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the glory of the
Lord, are being transformed
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into the same image
from glory to glory,
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just as by the
Spirit of the Lord. "
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Notice the
terminology that Paul uses
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in 2nd Corinthians
chapter 3 verse 18,
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he says that you are
going from glory to glory...
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from character to character...
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from
transformation to transformation
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and this is talking
about our character.
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You are being
transformed into the same image
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and this is where
glorification ultimately begins.
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In other words,
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if our characters
have become like Jesus
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and we allow God
to work His work in us
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to make us more like Jesus,
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we will be glorified at
the second coming of Jesus.
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Glorification is a surety
if we allow Jesus to pardon us,
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to give us power and to make us
and mold us to become like Him.
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Glorification
actually begins right now.
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As we go on, John Piper says,
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"In Paul's mind the
process called sanctification
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in this life...
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the process of transformation
from one degree of holiness
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to the next,
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is the first stage
of glorification. "
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He echoes what Paul says there
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where he
transitions from justification
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directly to glorification.
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Sanctification begins
the process of glorification
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even now.
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We come to our next
point of restoration.
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Glorification involves
physical restoration...
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glorification culminates
with our physical transformation
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at the second coming of Jesus.
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Can you imagine what
that's going to be like?
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When Jesus comes the
second time, the Bible says,
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"The trumpet will sound
and the dead will be raised
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and in a moment...
in a twinkling of an eye
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we shall be changed. "
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I'm looking forward to that day.
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Can you imagine if
we're laid to rest...
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and we don't have the
privilege of being translated
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without seeing
death and we're there
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and we're raised
in the resurrection
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and then we look up
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and suddenly we
look at our hands
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and we see new hands...
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we are resurrected
to immortal bodies...
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and this is a
part of glorification.
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Glorification
begins with the character
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and if we allow
Jesus to work in us,
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He continues that process
and at the second coming,
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we will receive new bodies
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because of the power and
the majesty of Jesus Christ.
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I want to be there
at the second coming.
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I want to be there
when the clouds open
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and Jesus comes
again to glorify us.
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We're going to
take a short break
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and when we come back, we
will continue in our study
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of glorification...
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of how God brings us
back to Eden restored...
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the restoration of
the image of God in us...
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not only in spirit
but in physicality.
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