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The deliverance will come when the sons of God are revealed.

The sons of God, as Christ lives in them and works through them, will release the physical creation from its slavery to corruption and will bring it into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

The Church, the Body of Christ, is being created as an enlargement of the Head—Christ. When the Lord Jesus returns to the earth it will be for the purpose of manifesting His glory through His saints.

The Head cannot return until the Body is ready. Therefore each of us should give full attention to the work of the Holy Spirit in forming Christ in us. If Christ intended to return to the earth apart from the perfecting of the Body, He would have come long ago and would have spared earth’s peoples the unimaginable anguish that fills each day of history.

The fact is, the coming visible demonstration to the peoples of the earth of the triumphant victory over death accomplished by the Lord Jesus is related to the forming of that same resurrection in His saints now. Our inner resurrection and His open manifestation to the world are all part of the one resurrection of Christ. We shall appear with Him in glory.

He in us will pass from person to person on the earth, releasing each of the saved into God’s glorious liberty. This will not be a mass, impersonal action. It will be fashioned in the most tender, loving care for the persons involved, just as our own resurrection always will be a personal relationship between ourselves and the wonderful Person and power of the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:21).

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-We are looking forward fervently to our adoption as sons of God, an adoption demonstrated by the redemption of our bodies.
+The deliverance will come when the sons of God are revealed.
-It is important to note that it is the first resurrection, the redemption of our mortal body, that signifies our adoption as a son of God.
-Today we possess the firstfruits of the Spirit of God. This means what we are experiencing in our inner born-again nature is the freedom of the glory of the children of God that one day will permeate the material creation.
+The sons of God, as Christ lives in them and works through them, will release the physical creation from its slavery to corruption and will bring it into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
-Our physical body is dead—cut off from the Life of God because of the law of sin that abides in the members of our body.
+The Church, the Body of Christ, is being created as an enlargement of the Head—Christ. When the Lord Jesus returns to the earth it will be for the purpose of manifesting His glory through His saints.
-When Jesus returns He will abolish every claim of sin on our mortal body and will fill and transform our body with incorruptible resurrection life. This is the first resurrection from the dead, the redemption of our body from the hand of the last enemy, death.
+The Head cannot return until the Body is ready. Therefore each of us should give full attention to the work of the Holy Spirit in forming Christ in us. If Christ intended to return to the earth apart from the perfecting of the Body, He would have come long ago and would have spared earth’s peoples the unimaginable anguish that fills each day of history.
-The transformation of our mortal body by the resurrection life of Christ will establish us as sons of God, just as Christ was declared to be the Son of God when the Holy Spirit exercised the power that raised Him from the dead (Romans 1:14).
+The fact is, the coming visible demonstration to the peoples of the earth of the triumphant victory over death accomplished by the Lord Jesus is related to the forming of that same resurrection in His saints now. Our inner resurrection and His open manifestation to the world are all part of the one resurrection of Christ.
+We shall appear with Him in glory.
-As soon as our body has been redeemed we will be able to think, speak, and act in perfect righteousness, holiness, and obedience to God.
+He in us will pass from person to person on the earth, releasing each of the saved into God’s glorious liberty. This will not be a mass, impersonal action. It will be fashioned in the most tender, loving care for the persons involved, just as our own resurrection always will be a personal relationship between ourselves and the wonderful Person and power of the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:21).
-Our inner, spiritual nature is born of God, but our body is adopted.
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