All Things Working (Part 3)

In Romans 8:30 it reads "Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom
He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified". 
I would like to discuss what happens, in Christ Jesus, between justification
(when we receive Him as Saviour) and glorification (when we are found in
Him and are LIKE Him).


Verse 31,32 reads, "What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us,
who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up
for us all, how shall He not with Him (could this be tied to v.17 where it is
revealed that we must suffer WITH HIM to be glorified together with Him) also
freely give us all things?"  It appears to me (each one should seek revelation
in the knowledge of Him in this discussion so HE can make Himself real in it) the
THINGS spoken of point directly to Jesus leading us into ( just as the Holy Spirit
led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan) a place (the wilderness)
where tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril or sword could,
just as with Paul and the other disciples, prove us in Him. Verse 36 says,"for
Your sake (the word "your" is capitalized here refering to God) we are killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Verse 37, yet in all these things
we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us". Paraphrasing verse 39,
Paul says that none of these THINGS shall be able to separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus.

Key to this discussion is hearing what our Master says to us in the midst of the difficulty.
This speaks of the potential for the one who is willing to believe! Glorification
in Him comes as we persevere in difficult situations (hearing His voice and doing
what His voice says according to the Word of God).

All things (in this context) are those things that God leads us into, knowing that
if we will not persevere there, we cannot be made free from what binds US.
He knows that if we will look to Him in the midst of those things and be willing
to do what He says (repentance, essentially), you will become victorious in
Christ Jesus, walking just as He walked. Satan is counting on you to serve yourself,
removing yourself from the formula, resulting in lukewarm Christianity.