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“Them He Also Glorified””

Romans 8:30

I cannot say very much about this yet, because I don’t know much about it yet. I haven’t experienced this part of the text yet. But I hope to know more soon.

This much I know: ― Glorification is exactly the opposite of condemnation. God removed the guilt of sin from us in justification; and he shall free us from all the evil consequences of sin in glorification.

Our great God has predestinated us to be conformed to the image of his Son. That shall be accomplished in glorification. God’s goal for his elect is absolute and everlasting glorification. His designs of love and grace (Ephesians 1:4-6) will have their absolute, full accomplishment in our glorification. Nothing less than our absolute, full, perfect conformity to Christ in glorification will satisfy God’s purpose of grace and fulfil his will. In everything he has done, is doing, and shall hereafter do, our glorification is his object.

But here the Holy Ghost declares that our glorification, like our calling and justification, is something done by God at one time in the eternal past, with no other implication.

Is our all-glorious Lord Jesus Christ glorified in heaven today? Is he now glorified as our Surety, Mediator, and Savior? Indeed, he is! He is glorified with that glory that he had with the Father as our Surety before the world was (John 17:5). Just as he was glorified as our Surety in the eternal purpose of God, we were glorified in him before the world began, fully, completely, absolutely glorified by the will and decree of God. And that eternal glorification in the purpose of God guarantees and makes certain our glorification experimentally in resurrection glory.

In that great day, when Christ comes to be glorified in all his saints, as he was publicly and manifestly glorified as our Redeemer in his ascension, all God’s elect, every redeemed sinner, all the called, all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, all who were glorified in him, with him, and by him from everlasting, shall be publicly and manifestly glorified with him in the resurrection. — Oh, blessed, blessed hope!

Don Fortner

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