Living the Christ Life 40: The Golden Chain of Glorification Part 6

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*Foreknew- "to know by experience previously"

*Predestined- "to be conformed to Christ"

*Firstborn- "preeminent rank, superior"

*Called- "to fulfill God's purpose for your life"

*Justified- "by works, vindicated, maturity"

*Glorified- "the better resurrection out ahead!"


"Glorified"- doxazō

  1. to influence one’s opinion about another so as to enhance the latter’s reputation, praise, honor, extol

  2. to cause to have splendid greatness, clothe in splendor, glorify, of the glory that comes in the next life.

William Arndt et al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 258.‎‎‎


"Paul tells us there are two kinds of inheritance: all believers are heirs of God (birth-inheritance), and for those who set their life goal to be perseverance in suffering with Christ (even if they sometimes fail), they can become co-heirs with Christ (reward-inheritance).

To be a co-heir with Christ is what Paul elsewhere calls 'inheriting the kingdom.'” 

Joseph C. Dillow, Final Destiny: The Future Reign of the Servant Kings, 4th Edition (Houston, TX: Grace Theology Press, 2018).