Colossians 3:4
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When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
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Translate, "When Christ shall be manifested who is our life (Joh 11:25; Joh 14:6, Joh 14:19), then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory" (Pe1 4:13). The spiritual life our souls have now in Him shall be extended to our bodies (Rom 8:11). then--and not till then. Those err who think to find a perfect Church before then. The true Church is now militant. Rome errs in trying to set up a Church now regnant and triumphant. The true Church shall be visible as a perfect and reigning Church, when Christ shall be visibly manifested as her reigning Head. Rome having ceased to look for Him in patient faith, has set up a visible mockhead, a false anticipation of the millennial kingdom. The Papacy took to itself by robbery that glory which is an object of hope, and can only be reached by bearing the cross now. When the Church became a harlot, she ceased to be a bride who goes to meet her Bridegroom. Hence the millennial kingdom ceased to be looked for [AUBERLEN].
Open source ↗I. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world (Col 3:1-4). II. He exhorts to the mortification of sin, in the various instances of it (Col 3:5-11). III. He earnestly presses to mutual love and compassion (Col 3:12-17). And concludes with exhortations to relative duties, of wives and husbands, parents and children, masters and servants (Col 3:18-25).
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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.
so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.