Bible Study Course: Lesson 9 - The Transforming Power of God's Spirit
Our Final Transformation
If we have God’s Spirit, what is our destiny when Jesus returns?
"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait
for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that
it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which
He is able even to subdue all things to Himself" (Philippians 3:20-21).
Be sure to read Paul’s description in 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 of our
final transformation from our "lowly" physical, mortal bodies to glorious,
immortal spirit bodies. The apostle Peter summarizes the transformation that
God accomplishes in His saints in these words: "His divine power has
given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of
him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Thus he has given us, through
these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you
may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may
become participants of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:3-4, NRSV).
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