Destined for Glory (July 18, 2021)

Well, it's great to be with you this morning and to turn to the Book of Romans again, and to continue in this four-part series on the doctrine of salvation, remember a doctor and is something that we believe that is so important to us, that we would be willing to die for it. Not all doctors, but there are certain Central doctrine of the faith that fall into that category and salvation is currently one of them. What we believe about salvation is what makes us Christians. Its it defines our identity and it is so critically important. So it's important for us to grasp the, the the magnitude of Salvation and the breadth of Salvation and I had to see it as more than just an isolated, little event that might happen once in our lives, but to see it in terms of God's perspective, that's what we want to do. So, we're looking at justification by faith and then sanctification by the spirit. And then today, glorification destined for Glory. And the next week will conclude with the last part of chapter 8, surely one of the Five Points of scripture and that wonderful passage on a shrimps. So the reason we're looking at Romans for the doctrine of salvation is because Paul had to explain to the people at Rome, what he was teaching about salvation. He was, of course, a famous Rabbi involved in persecuting the church converted by Christ himself on the road to Damascus commission to be the Apostle to the Gentiles and he was writing in 8057 on his third missionary journey, from Corinth to the church at Rome Church, made up of both Jews and Gentiles large church, and he want their support for a fourth missionary journey that he envisioned taking after. He went back to Jerusalem, he wanted to go to Spain, the farthest reaches of the Greco-Roman world of that day, to take the gospel as Jesus commanded to all the nations, and that was what he wanted to do. So he wanted Rome's support but there was a problem. You see Paul had a reputation and he was famous for inviting the Gentiles into the Christian church and not requiring that they before they become juice. Now, you might say won't course, that's what we all do, right? But it was new in Paul's day. Paul was the first one to do this. All was the first one to actually teach that. The Gentiles did not have to become Jews in any sense. In order to become followers of Christ that, that, that in Christ, they had the temple. And they had the lawn, they have the sacrifices that they had the profits, they had everything in Christ. All this was very controversial in, as you can see, from Acts chapter 15 and the Council of Jerusalem called to discuss this this question, because the central problem with this was from the Jewish perspective and Gentiles did not take on the obligation to keep the law of Moses. And if an end for Jews at that day, to say that you don't need to keep the law of Moses to be safe. Was very, very concerning. Because did this mean that these Gentiles who were coming from the Greco-Roman World which was famously characterized by deep and pervasive and decadent immorality. Does that mean they were just going to bring those immoral Lifestyles into the church? Does that mean that you could be a Christian and you could live anywhere you want? You could live the way, the pay your Pagan neighbors clipped. And so the this this was a problem. And so what they were what Paul was doing in chapters 1 2, 8 of Romans was to explain to the Christians at wrong, exactly what he was teaching about salvation. And about the Gentiles in about the lawn about justification and salvation in general and to explain how it is that the objection is not valid, that the Gentiles will just live in the old way they want. Once they come into the church, that is a problem. This is there to question all through history. Watching just a question in Paul's day. It wasn't just a question this in this one situation but it was a question that was all over all over the Bible and it's all over church history. Because people even today wonder if Paul's right in Romans 125, in teaching that we are justified by faith alone, apart from works. Not by The Works of the law. But by faith alone, if Paul's right about that, Well, doesn't that mean that we're definitely going to have? People living lives of loose Morality In the church, you know. James chapter 2 deals with the same issue. Many people read James 2 and they conclude that call my husband wrong. Because James seems to say that salvation is by faith plus works. The key passages in Chapter 2, verses 14 to 17. What good is it? My brother's if someone says he has Faith but it does not have Works in that face safe. If a brother or sister is really close that mocking and daily food in one of your sister, then go in peace, be warm. Be filled without giving them. What is the things needed for the body? What good is that? And then the key question, so Faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead, And so a lot of people read this and they say well James is right? Who can deny that? This is coming since this is obvious and Paul must therefore be wrong. You say that it's by faith alone. As if that wasn't bad enough, they can also point to the example of Jesus, because Jesus seems to be making the same point is James in this parable of the Good Samaritan, you know, the question is, who is my neighbor? And Jesus tells a story in a man, goes from Jerusalem down to jerk off, and he falls among robbers, and he gets beat up and left for dead and a Levi passes by and ignore some of the priests passes by and ignores him. And then a Samaritan man, takes pity on him and take some to it in bandages as wounds and takes care of him. And Jesus says know, who was the neighbor, who is really the neighbor to this man and the audience, obviously the man who helped him. In other words, maybe the Pharisee, or, or maybe the priest with the levite Monticello, I am, his neighbor, theoretically, I read in the Bible, I'm in, but his neighbor, everybody. Today, remind you, these clothes Diamond neighbor, the neighbors one, who actually shows his neighborly neighborliness by his actions. Your faith is revealed by your Deeds. And so, Seems like Jesus and James are knobs with Paul here. It seems like they're saying Bass by itself is no good, calling yourself a neighbor by itself without helping the man is no good. You need faith and works in order to. But actually the truth is that James Peter James, Jesus, and Paul all agree. They all agree on the same point that they all are teaching. The same thing. James is, obviously, refuting people who claim to have faith but don't live it up while doesn't disagree with that. This is what Paul needs to get across to the people that roam. He needs to convince them to show them that he's not saying you can live in your way. You want. Saying that we should expect the Gentiles to flood in and then leave their immoral lives in the church. He's not saying that at all. Explain Paul. And so that's what, Romans, 6 to 8 is about, Roman 628 is Paul explaining how he agrees with James and Jesus, how he is greedy agrees, that that immorality in the church is not a good idea. He thinks that real faith will result in. Holy living, notice at the beginning of chapter 6. We looked at last week, verse 1, what shall we say then are we to continue in sin that Grace May abound by no means Paul sent by no means. No, of course not. We don't just live and send so that God can keep on forgiving us. If a little bit of forgiveness is good, maybe a whole lot is better. So we just sin, sin sin, and God forgives for gifts for guest passes. No, that's not what I'm saying at all. That's not my point. So we need to understand us and Roman 628 is where he works out the explanation.

so, Paulson says, okay I already said this. It that Paul Paul says, no, we don't live in sin that Grace May abound by no means. But now he's going to explain. Why is that the case? Why does faith produce Works in there? Two parts to his answer, what is sanctification wanted for vacation last week? We looked at sanctification this week, we're looking for fication. And so, what were what we're looking at today, is the idea of where this whole Christian life is going where the process of Salvation is leading, It's not just a static thing, it's a process, it's an ongoing thing and it's going somewhere in particular and the destiny of the Christian and the place that we're going Paul calls that Glory or glorification. Glorification will happen when Christ returns and raises from the dead. The bodies of all believers real-time who have died, who unites them with their souls and changes. The bodies of all, believers, who remain alive thereby giving all believers at the same time Perfect. Resurrection bodies like his own Perfect, Resurrection bodies like is on. That is glorification. That is what we that's what Paul discuss in detail in 1st Corinthians, 15, if you want to read 1st Corinthians 15th, he says a lot more things about the resurrection body and what it's like, and so on, and so forth. But the point is that the end goal of the process of Salvation is glorification in our resurrected perfect bodies bodies that are like the resurrected Christ, So, justification you saw this lie before is a point in time for fication is a point in time justification that the beginning of the Christian Life glorification is at the end of the Christian Life in between, you have some vacation, which is a process that goes on from salvation all the way to Dad. And then you see that where is justification is a Judicial declaration That. Both sides vacation and glorification are an actual change. This is really important to get your mind around. Look if I said, if I, if I was to be mean to somebody and insult them and say, you're a rat, you're a dirty rat. What does that mean?

This up, the being of that person actually change into a rat. No. But if you reading a story, a fairy tale in a magician, turns a prince into a frog, the prince really does turn into a frog. The prince actually becomes a frog. He's no longer a man. Now he's a frog bite. Just call somebody a rat. That doesn't mean the person's rat person, still a person. When I called somebody a name it's just it's just indicating how I feel about that person. It's something in my head, it's in my mind on my perception of that person is your dirty right. But when the magician turns the prince into a frog and the prince really turns into a project which is salvation more like which way is salvation is salvation, just God looking at us and say yeah, I know you are dirty right answer but I'm going to regard you as Justified. Or is salvation? God actually making us good actually changing our being And Paul says why it's both. It's both. It starts with justification. Paul says justification, is God regarding us in a different way than he did before regarding I says not guilty. Where's before we were guilty regarding us as as under grace rather than under judgment

and so justification then is a totally a matter of Grace and it's instantaneous and its total, you can't get a little more Justified tomorrow, then you already are today, you're either Justified or you're not.

What causes? That's not all the risk of Salvation. There's also sanctification and glorification. There's also this process that goes on where buy you are gradually changed and the goal. It's really important to know where we're going. It's really important to know what the endgame is. It's really important to know where this all ends up. Thing that you are involved, you called Christianity, you go to church and read your Bible. You pray, you sing, you do all these Christian things. Where is this all leading? Endpoint is glorification Total Transformation of your being so that you are perfect.

There are no perfect people in this world, they're just people who think they're perfect. None of us is perfect. I'll going to be perfect. That's very important information to have. It's very important to know where this is going. Because if it really defines our life in the body, now here in the in this world, we are on a journey that has a certain destination and that destination is already determined. And so everything that everything that we experienced in this world in this life has to be understood in light of the destination. What does it mean for us to sin, as Christians? What does it mean for us to grow in Grace? What does it mean for us to be neighbors to one another? What does it mean to do? Good works. Well, it all has meaning in the sense that we are gradually, being transformed into perfect resurrected, glorified bodies, people who are like Jesus, and people who have been completely redeemed. Salvation is not just God changed his mind about us salvation is God changing us, it starts with him, changing his mind about us. That's the beginning point but it doesn't end there.

The key package is 18 to 30. And you noticed that chapter 8 verse 18 says for I consider that the sufferings of, this present time or not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us and then at the end of that section verse 30 and those he predestined he also called, was it called the also Justified those he justified he also glorified. So in this section, Paul begins and ends with this concept of the glorification and he makes this to be the goal to which we are moving now. He says, you know, in this world, suffering is normal. Now, you got to stand something. Suffering happens to us because sometimes because of circumstances, somebody just happens to get a certain disease. Or have a car accident. Other times suffering happens to us because some Foster person outside of us, does something to us that we don't have any control over. And sometimes suffering happens in the Christian life because of faithfulness, because we're being faithful to the gospel, faithful to Christ faithful to our war. Paul says, you know, as long as you are a partly redeemed person living in a fallen World, guess what? Suffering is going to characterize the Christian Life. We think that suffering in our modern, modern scientific Advanced Western Civilization. We think that when you suffer that there's something wrong that you're not supposed to suffer, everything supposed to be perfect, life is supposed to be smooth suffering, and not supposed to be a part of it. And so we think suffering is the exception rather than the rule. But the Bible sees it the other way around the Bible sees suffering as the rule rather than the exception. You're going through a period of your life, where there's nothing wrong. Finances are in order your help. This in order to families and order your jobs in order. Everything is going well. That's the exception. Not the rule. What we should do is we should expect something to happen. and because we are in the process of changing We are in the process of being shamed by the Holy Spirit. As we move from being Sinners to being Saints and growth and change are bound to be difficult.

Until Paul thinks suffering is normal. But the suffering has a goal. That's purpose, there's a place that it's going to. This is our identity as we look at this passage, we can see for basic section. So we can see that Paul talks about the suffering of this present time. He talks about the hope of redemption, he talks about the help that the spirit gives us as we go along. And then he set the whole thing in the context of the overall plan of a Plan of Salvation. This is, by the way, what the Illusions call personal eschatology, as opposed to eschatology, in general eschatology study of last things eschatology, and general talks about heaven and hell the day of judgment that the return of Christ. All that personal eschatology is focused on. How does the believer move through that. And, and move through the return of Christ in the day of judgment and the end Eternal State and all that. And polystyrene about that. Hear you talking about? What is our individual fate as at our destiny is Christian. What where are we going? What's going to happen to us? Probably do it putting your daily life today in perspective. And it's really important that you understand your daily life. Today in the right perspective, You're why you're going through today is not. Eternal.

Where you're hot. What is happening to you? Maybe you're in a season of life where you are suffering a lot right now. What you are going through had a beginning and it how it will have an end. It's not just going to go on and on and on.

That's very important to grasp. If you're being persecuted the same thing, if you're suffering physically, it's the same thing. You're going through relational turbulence, it's the same thing, the suffering that we go through in this life. Is not eternal. Term-limited, it will come to an end and then there will be something beyond that. It's very important to have that perspective because it changes your whole attitude toward life and to work things that happen to us in our lives. So it's just look at this passage in more detail. We see that our present suffering Paul says when you compare it to our Eternal future Destiny, the present suffering is almost nothing. If you don't have this eternal perspective, you just look at your life now. I've got people saying bad things about me. I'm struggling. And man, this life is meaningless. If you think that what you're going through now is just going to continue indefinitely. That's one thing. But if you see today in the light of Eternity, you have a totally different attitude. This is such a short. Of time, the 70 years or more or less that we have on this Earth. It's such a short little time. And compared to our Eternal Destiny. It's brief and it is not of Eternal total significance. We've got to learn to live. We got to learn to sit lightly to our circumstances. And if you don't have this eternal perspective is very easy to feel boxed in feel trapped feel like you have no alternative. I feel like you, you have no hope. It's very easy to get into that mindset unless you have this protective de Paul is talking about Paul reminds us in versus 19 to 22 of the Fall. He says, you know, the creation is falling and he uses image hear of the creation longing for freedom, from bondage to corruption. And it is, it is groaning and the Pains of childbirth and that's a very interesting image because you know in Genesis 3 pain in childbirth is one of the results of the Fall that is mentioned there. And so pain in childbirth, for women becomes a metaphor, or an image of the whole way of life, under the Fallen creation. Just living in this world is is, is is to be groaning in anticipation, but you know, childbirth is a very interesting image here because what happens when a mother gives birth after all of that struggle, and all of that pain and all about sweating, all of that work. The little baby is placed in her arms and all of that was forgotten and the goal has been reached and she sees her baby for the first time and she's overwhelmed with love and gratitude.

Well, that's exactly what's going to happen to us. When we see Jesus face-to-face. Then all of the pain and the suffering that was characteristic of the journey to get there is going to fade. It's going to be hard to remember all the things that right now are dominating your thought process and keeping you from thinking about anything else, all that's going to fade because the reality of the goodness of our destiny is going to be so overwhelming. And so overpowering that is going to just be be such that it it it causes the past pain to be forgotten. That's what salvation is about. That's what's going to happen to us, and it's not just human beings as individuals. The whole creation has been hurt by Adam sinned. And so the whole creation waits in anticipation of being set free, and that's the Spinx app. Free is is concentrated in the revelation of the sons of God, the glory of petition of Believers. That is where the create that is the means by which the whole creation is going to be transformed. And then verses 23 to 25 to talks about how we like the creation groan inwardly as we wait. But we it's not just a creation 423, but we ourselves who have the first fruits of the spirit grown eagerly as we wait for the Redemption of our bodies.

We're still waiting for something, even though we are fully Justified and partially Sanctified, we're still waiting for something. There's still a part of Salvation that hasn't happened yet. And this is why it's very important not to interpret the Bible through the grid of your own personal experience. But to interpret your own personal experience, through the grid of the Bible. Did you get that two ways you can read the Bible? You can read the Bible and interpret the Bible and what it says through the grid of your personal experience. Or you can learn, you can interpret your personal experience through the grid of what the Bible teaches. What Paul is trying to do in the chapters is to get us to interpret our present-day experienced in the light of this overarching process of Salvation that's going on. What is happening to you. if I say to you, what, what happened to you this week? What? What did you go through? You could describe it in different ways. It could be the same thing, but you could describe it in different ways, you could describe it as saying, I went through some meaningless suffering that just was a pain to go through and it was frustrating and I just thought impostor you could, you could explain that in it and that would be interpreting your your experience to your own grid you're on my mind. But what if you said what you said about the very same experience?

God taught me patience, as I struggled through that problem this week. It's a different perspective, but the same thing. The same thing happened to you but you see it completely different. Like this is what Paul is trying to get across to the Roman Christian. He's trying to say listen when you see yourself as being in Christ as being saved, you interpret everything differently. You're not going to just come from the Pagan Greco-Roman world and walking to the church and keep on living the same old way. Not, if you're really a Christian, this if you're really in Christ, you're going to start understanding yourself to be in Christ and on the way to glorification and that is going to affect what you consider meaningful, how you interpret, what happens to you and how you understand your life. We don't see the glory yet. We're on the journey. All of us around on a journey and we should all have some sympathy for each other. We should all have some understanding of each other. Because every other person you meet in this church, every leader in this church, every person that you work with every member of your family, every one of them is on a journey. None of us have arrived yet. None of us have experienced glorification. but here's the thing, we're all going to All going to.

As we suffer. And as we wait, we're not alone. The third part of this passage Paul points to the work of the spirit. He says, the spirit is at work in you and the spirit is helping and comforting, you and changing you. This is what it really means to be a Christian is what it means to be in Christ. You worried about these Gentiles bring you the real morality into the church will let me tell you. If these Gentiles have really not Jesus Christ. If they've really been saved, they got the spirit in them. And the Holy Spirit is at work in them. And the Holy Spirit, can transform them. And what Paul is trying to convey through the whole book of Romans is that the potential for change by the Holy Spirit working in the Christian is far greater than the potential for Changed by people trying in their own strength to follow the law. Also do you think the laws, the answer? No way. We had the law of how Paul would say we have the law for fifteen hundred years since Moses. 1500 BC to the time of Jesus, the Jews tried to live under the law policy. When he does say in Chapter 2, did any at any time? Did the Jews ever? Keep the law perfectly know why? Because we can't, because we're falling because we're symbol, we need the spirit, but man, when the spirit gets a hold of you, the spirit can actually change. You actually give you a new set of desires. Actually, give you a new heart. Actually, give you a new mind. That is something that can really change your life. Paul says don't be, don't think that my gospel leads to get more living my gospel? He would say is the only hope that human beings have I've ever really being changed so that they get past the legalism and the self-righteousness of trying to be La Keepers and actually experience that the working of God in them that really makes them into something different. That makes them more like the Frog, the church Prince turned into a frog Then like the person is just called the name, but the real transformation happens by the spirit, working in US. And then finally, he puts it all in the big picture plan in the final versus. He talks about God's point of view. This is so critically important for us, as Christians is to understand our live from God's point of view. Rather than from our own limited point of view. Anniversary 29 to 30. He talks about how God's plan stretches from eternity, past to Eternity future. You may recall this slide from from the last two sermon. These are what I call the ten steps and salvation and it starts an eternity past with election that ends in the future. After the second coming of Christ on the resurrection of the Dead with glorification and in between those two things you have. You've all these different steps and in this one concert me wonder, where did I get these? Ten steps. Did I just make them up? Now if if you were to consult the notes that I had on these, we would find that they're all in the New Testament. All these steps are talked about in various New Testament passages, but this one pass is right here just in a couple of verses mentions, five of the 10, the ones in yellow, it it, it may mention selection or another word for that is predestination mention calling it. Mentions justification that mentions adoption, and it mentions glorification. Sanctification. He's already mentioned the previous Chopper. And so what we see Paul doing here is putting the whole thing of Salvation into the perspective of God's perspective.

What does this mean? Well, here's some implications. First of all, we have a new identity in Christ by that. I don't mean that God calls us by a different name even though we haven't changed. I mean we are becoming different creatures there for Paul rights if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation in trying to describe the change that happens to us in Salvation. Paul is forced to reach for the language of creation. It's like a new creation, that's how radical it is. The oldest passed away, behold? The new has come That's what Paul is saying is happen to a fat. Is our new identity. We are in the process of being changed in our very nature, in our very being into Creature who are blessed and glorious and beautiful. We're kind of like the princess kissing the Frog and turning back into the prince, that's what's going on in Salvation.

And so Paul says, we should live up to that. if, if Paul saw you gossiping or speaking hateful words, or, or being mean or, or excluding somebody, or being dishonest, he would say, Stop living according to the old nature, that's not who you really are. It would say be who you really are because who you really are as in Christ. And that's why it's critical to know about glorification. It's critical to know that. At the end of this process, you will not be the person who started the process. You will be a different person and you will be a person who is like Christ. That is critical to know because that's where this is all heading. And so Paul says if you want to be authentic and you know how modern people always want to be authentic, you know, they want to send me your selfie, you're being true to your being true to thine own self to thine own self, be true. I guess the old saying says Some Modern people are captured by this idea. We want to be authentic. You know what, if you want to be authentic, be christ-like.

That's what it really means to be authentic. The world has a wrong notion of being a pathetic because they think that being authentic means. I just do what I feel like doing. I just do, whatever whatever comes into my mind as my desire. I just Implement that, that's being true to myself, that's being the real meat. No, it's not. It's being the old sinful you that is passing away. It's failing to be the new you in Jesus Christ, is going to be permanent.

it's always Christians, we understand that the real me, Is the me who is ultimately glorified and made perfect in Christ. And so Paul says, live up to that identity, you don't have to manufacture that identity. You don't have to cause yourself to be that the spirits doing all that in you. You just have to lean into it, you just have to surrender to it. You just have to let God make you what he means to make you. And and that is not not something that that you can do by yourself, but that's the whole point of Salvation. You're in Christ and his spirit is at work in you and it can do far more And you on your own could ever do.

CS Lewis in his book, the weight of Glory says There Are No Ordinary People, you have never talked to a mere mortal. Something very important for us to remember that important implication of this whole idea of core fication. when you talk to the people around you, your family, your friends, the People You Meet These people are not just animals. They're not just here for 70 years and then gone. Lies Ecclesiastes says like I missed her a vapor that disappears and dissipates. know, the person that you're talking to has an immortal soul, Will live forever will either live in Hell or Heaven forever. And the people that you encounter as Christians, I'm Lewis and another place says that. If you were to meet another Christian in that person's ultimate glorified State, you would be sorely tempted to fall down on your knees and worship that person. Think about that. if you were to meet somebody who is fully glorified, That person would be so radiantly, beautiful. That you would think. That was an angel, you would. You would feel like you were in the presence of something wholly. You would you, would fall down on your knees and, and want to worship that that person. And that could be your cleaning lady could be the kid weights on you at McDonald's or could be your boss, or it could be your friend, or your neighbor down the street, any of these people

have the same Destiny of Glory, if they're Christian, that changes, our whole outlook on other people we, we need to treat each other with respect, not just because people in their current Fallen State Merit respect that because of what God created us to be and to become Imagine. imagine being dismissive or mean to another Christian knowing that that person has a destiny to be glorified Also, it's really when you understand what's going on here. It's unthinkable.

As we grow in the Christian Life, we increasingly realize who we really are. It's like waking up from a bad dream. You know, when you wake up sometimes you're like me you wake up gradually. Some people just seemed open their eyes and spring to life in the morning. I'm not one of those people. Sometimes you had a bad dream and when you first wake up you go through a little. Of almost in between sleep and wakefulness. And during that time you're not quite sure if you're awake or asleep. And you kind of remember the dream but you're kind of losing the the dream is fading. Well, being saved is kind of like that process of being awake being asleep and having a bad dream and Nightmare. And then gradually waking up and when were asleep or dead and dead in our sins and then God regenerates us, we begin to wake up and when were fully awake, the dream is gone. And we're now we feel safe again. Maybe you were feeling threatened in the dream, maybe you were scared silly. Sanctification is like that in between. Between sleep and wakefulness. And it is a time when you're beginning to grasp reality. No, it was just a dream but you're not quite there yet. That's where you are right now. You are in the process of waking up from a bad dream.

And that's why all so many hens talk about. Waking up on Resurrection morning. When we, when we see, when we went our eyes open, and we behold. Jesus, and we have this new Resurrection perfected body, like his dad were with him, and in that moment will be fully awake. Right now, we're still half-asleep. This life is like a like a. Of being half asleep. What kind of marching through it without being fully awake?

Why does Paul then think we don't need the law? Why does he just likes? You think it's okay for these Gentiles to come in believing in Christ without taking on the obligation of keeping the Jewish law because we have been made new creatures in Christ and so we now live by the power of the spirit and we're destined for Glory. That's what Paul would say. If Paul were to sum up chapter 6, to 8 in a nutshell he'd say this is this to the wrong. This is why you don't have to worry about the Gentiles coming into the church. Because if they are really Christians, if they're really born again, if they're really have the spirit of God in them, Thunderman creatures. And they live now by the power of the spirit and they're destined for Glory and they may slip up in fall from time to time, they may make mistakes and they make, they may give into temptation but fundamentally they are in the process of being changed and here's what they're changing into. Perfect beings like Christ. Christian, then I say to you this morning, who Do You Think You Are? Who Do You Think You Are? Too many Christians. Don't know the doctrine of salvation. They don't know about glorification. They don't know about Roman 68. That's so they think of themselves as worms as worthless as as failures. Christian. Who Do You Think You Are? Who do you think you are? You know, it doesn't matter who you think you are.

Who are you really? That's the real question. Who does God think you are, who does God declare you to be in the gospel? Who how does God regard you? What is God doing? What is god making you into? That's the real question. Who you think you are needs to line up with who God thinks you are. I would say that's the key to this whole thing. If you're worried about, the problem of people may be living immoral lives after becoming Christian, the key to this whole thing is, Christian. Who Do You Think You Are?

God says, you're his creature Made In His Image.