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We shall all be changed. 1 Cor. 15:51.
ALL! Yes, every believer shall “bear the image of the heavenly.” This is the grand prospect for all. No more shall any of us be representatives of the earthy, of fallen Adam, but of Him who is the Beloved of the Father!
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We shall be like Him. 1 John 3:2.
At this very hour “we are the children of God,” but we are not royally attired. Far from it. We are in the world, in bodies which could not endure the sight and presence of His present glory. But we shall see Him “as He is,” in His radiance, and we shall be made “like Him” in order that we may do so.
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Like unto His glorious body. Phil. 3:21.
This very body, so often the servant of self and of folly, so often weary and spent, and unable to attend the desires of the spirit, Jesus Himself will fashion like unto His glorious body. He is brighter than the sun; He is more glorious than the angels―we shall be glorious as He.
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That where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:3.
At home in heaven, in the Father’s house, Jesus Himself making heaven home for us. Thus does He cheer and comfort us personally by His personal love to us.
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Then face to face. 1 Cor. 13:12.
“Now―Then!” Now, through a glass darkly, now in a riddle; but when this short now is past, then face to face; “then shall I know even as also I am known.” Then with divinely-given ability to behold His glory, and to understand Him! Changed! Like Him! With Him! No sorrow, no mist; face to face with Christ, and “for ever with the Lord.”