From Eternity to Eternity

Romans 8:28 gets quoted like a comforting poster, but we want to read it like Paul wrote it: as a claim about God’s purpose that holds steady in tribulation, distress, persecution, and loss. The “good” isn’t that suffering feels good, or that life becomes easy. The good is that God is conforming His people to the image of His Son and He uses every thread of our story to do it. 

We trace the full chain in Romans 8:28-30, step by step: foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, and glorification. We talk about foreknowledge as God’s counsel and plan, not mere foresight, and we connect it to election and the way Scripture describes God declaring the end from the beginning. Then we move into predestination through Romans 8 and Ephesians 1, showing how being chosen in Christ shapes assurance, identity, and the way we understand redemption and inheritance. 

We also slow down on calling, distinguishing the general gospel invitation from the effectual calling that draws God’s sheep to Christ. From there, we rejoice in justification by grace through the blood of Jesus Christ, where God remains just while declaring the believer righteous. Finally, we lift our eyes to glorification: the redemption of the body, the promised transformation into a glorious likeness of Christ, and the Holy Spirit as the down payment that guarantees what’s coming. 

If you’ve wrestled with predestination, election, or what Romans 8:28 really means when life hurts, this will steady your feet. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs assurance, and leave a review with the biggest question this raised for you.

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From Eternity Past To Future

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From eternity past to eternity future. Today on the Jason DeMars Podcast, we're stepping into one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring passages in all of Scripture. Romans 8, 28 through 30. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified. In this episode, we're walking through the entire divine chain of salvation: foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, and glorification. And seeing how every link reveals the breathtaking grace of God. We'll discover that God's foreknowledge is far more than just knowing what we would choose, it's intimately connected to his eternal plan and purpose. We'll look at what it truly means to be predestinated, to be conformed to the image of His Son. We'll distinguish between the general call of the gospel and the effectual calling of the elect. We'll rejoice in the wonder of justification, standing before God as though we had never sinned, and we'll fix our eyes on the glorious hope that awaits every believer, the full redemption and glorification of our bodies. This is more than doctrine. This is the story of how God has been working from before the foundation of the world to bring many sons into glory, and how every detail of your life is wrapped up in his eternal purpose. So open your Bible, open your heart, and let's journey together from eternity to eternity. Greetings, Bible believers and followers of the end time message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason Demars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, Jason Demars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the scripture, guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10 7 and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee, and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions, and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasendamars.com. 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So please remember that in prayer, and you can support the work on our Present Truth Ministries website. Let's get started with our main text for today's podcast, Romans 8.28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. So it's not merely that fate would have that somehow things work out. This is specifically telling us that God works on our behalf through all things for our good. Romans 8.35 tells us that all things are tribulation, persecution, distress, famine, nakedness, peril, and sword. This working that he is doing is specific. It's not a general good. We cannot say it is good to be persecuted, beaten, be impoverished. It's decidedly not good. But good takes those things that are difficult and works them for our good. Let me back up. God takes those things that are difficult and works them for our good. So what good is that? So let's keep reading. We'll look and see what that good is. Verse 29, for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. So the good he is working is our conforming to the image of his son, so that the son might be the firstborn among many brethren. So God is working towards his own glory through his son, and then through many sons. God is making tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, and sword to work in such a way so that we are conformed to the image of his son. That is the good he's working. So all things work together for good. The good he is working is conforming us to the image of his son. That good that he is working out in us is in fact predestinated by foreknowledge. Keep reading. Verse thirty. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified. So we read in these five verses different works of God that are chains linked together for our process of salvation. One leads to the other, leads to the other, etc. None exists independently of the others. All are necessary in the work of redemption. Redemption speaks of buying back that which originally belonged to you. So we came from God and we go back to God. The only way you're going to go back to God is if you belong to Him in the first place. So here's the five links. One, foreknowledge, two, predestination, three, calling, four, justification, five, glorification. So I want to examine those five works of God in light of the scriptures. Each of them are critical components to understanding the grace of God and salvation. It's basically like looking from eternity past to eternity future, from what God saw when he dwelt alone with his attributes to what he will be in full manifestation upon the new earth with his family fully expressed. So foreknowledge, let's start there. Is foreknowledge simply God knowing our choices that we make out of our own free will, or is it much more connected to a plan he has? Let's read Isaiah forty six, nine through eleven. Verse nine. Verse ten, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executed my counsel from a far country, yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass, I have purposed it, I will also do it. So first the Lord says he declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things are not yet done. This is not merely God as a prophet, nor in the future. Next we find he says, My counsel shall stand. This is the word Etza, and it means advice, and it implies purpose or plan. He is saying, My purpose will stand, my plan will stand. In other words, no one's gonna no one's gonna thwart my plan, no one's gonna stand in the way of what I have purposed. So God declares the end from the beginning because it is his plan, and then he says, I will do all my pleasure. He declares it and he lets us know it is his plan, and then he informs us that he is working to make sure that his plan is accomplished. So God does four things. One, he planned it, two, spoken it, three, does it, four, brings it to pass. This is not merely God foreknowing the choices of free creatures on their own. Rather, his foreknowledge is rooted in the fact that he planned it. Every choice and decision we make was first determined by God before the foundation of the world. Acts 2 23. Him, Christ, being delivered by the term determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. So Jesus Christ being taken or arrested by the Jews was predetermined, even down to the fact that they delivered him to wicked hands, the Romans, to be crucified and slain. Every aspect of what was what happened was actually predetermined by God and foreknown by him. One of the meanings of the word prognosis, foreknowledge is prognosis, or we call it prognosis, and it has a different meaning actually in English, but in Greek the word is pronosis, and it means pre-planned. Not merely foreknown, but it's foreknown because it is pre-planned. For let's read 1 Peter 1, verse 2. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. So the fact that we obey the word and are sprinkled and forgiven by the blood of Jesus Christ comes to us through the sanctification of the Spirit. So the sanctification of the Spirit comes through election. So elect speaks of being picked out or chosen. So if you think about it in this case, out of the mass of humanity that was to exist throughout history, he chose you to receive mercy and allowed the rest to receive exactly what they deserve. He foreknew you, but remember the process in Isaiah forty-six. Four things go into that. He he planned you, he spoke you, he called you, and he brings it to pass. He he planned it, he spoke it, he does it, he brings it to pass. And so that's the basis of his foreknowledge. Planning, speaking, doing, bringing to pass. And so you're choosing, his bringing it to pass is us obeying, us being sprinkled. His doing it is sanctifying us through receiving the Spirit. So God is not responding to things in time that suddenly surprise him. You know, we'll read places in the scripture. Well, you'll find that you did that because you did this, is your anger bur kindled against them. This was not God being shocked by what they did and becoming quickly angry like we are. No, God knows what's going to happen and he knows what he what he's going to do from the beginning of the world. Brother Branham in things that are to be says your birth here was pre-planned. I guess you believe that. Every one of you knows that our birth was pre-planned. Did you know that your being here never originated just at a myth or a thought? Everything was all pre-planned by God before the foundation of the world that you would be here. The infinite God knowed, and to be infinite, he had to know every flea that would ever be in the earth, and how many times it would bat its eye. That's infinite. See, you our little minds cannot fathom what infinite means. The infinite God, he knowed all things, therefore there's nothing out of cater. Again, God knows it because he preplanned it, even down to how many times an individual flea would blink his eyes. Keep going. Romans nine, verses eleven through thirteen. For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger, as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. So we see the reason that God chose Jacob and hated Esau was so that the purpose of God according to election would stand, not so that the free choice of the individuals will stand. And of course they had free will, but their free will did not override the plan of God. And so when we look at that, Romans 9 16 in the NLT, so it says, so it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it. In the KJV it says, it is not of him that willeth or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. So it's not foreknowledge based upon our choosing, it's foreknowledge based upon God's predestinated plan, his purpose of election. All right, so we've been talking about predestination. It's hard to talk about foreknowledge without talking about predestination and election. So let's look now at predestinations. Romans 8 29. We read it before, we'll refer to it again. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. So predestinate comes from the Greek word pro-orizo, and it means to limit in advance, that is fig uh predetermined, determine beforehand, ordain, predestinate. So limit in advance. So predetermine. It is to fix our destiny beforehand. All right, now you can't speak about predestination without reading Ephesians chapter chapter one. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings and heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. So he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. This is not merely God making a choice in his mind. It says we were chosen in Christ. It also shows us the choice was done in love. So he chose us and therefore loved us and put us in Christ. So God cannot love something that doesn't exist. Without existing, there can't be love. You could say he's going to love us in the future, but he chose us, predestinated us in love before the foundation of the world. That means that in the mind of God, we already existed and were part of his life. There was a part of us, spiritual part of us, that was already existing within Christ as a part of the life of God before there was even a speck of stardust created. Verse 5, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. An important part of redeeming us is making known to us wisdom and prudence, so that we would understand the mystery of his will. And he purposed all this within himself. So God wanted to, if you think about it, kind of go to the big picture, God wanted to reveal himself to us. And he not only wanted to reveal himself to us, he wanted to reveal to us who we are and his plan for us within his eternal purpose for unfolding of himself. Verse 10, that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him. In whom, verse 11, we have also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Once again, we're seeing the emphasis that God works all things after the counsel of his own will, not after the counsel of his creation's will. All these things God is doing and his people are done because he chose to do it for his own good pleasure, to the praise of the glory of his grace. So this is his predestinated purpose. So predestination looks to the destiny that he has fixed for us beforehand. So it's a predetermined destiny that he has for us. And how he works that out in our life is calling. This is something we don't look at often, but let's review what the Bible references as calling. In fact, you'll see there's many, many times through the New Testament this this is used, and we could probably say that this is a real doctrine of the New Testament. So you could see calling, the called, the call of God. So we want to dive into the scriptures, and the first thing people think when they hear the rest of the scriptures, they then come back to this verse in Matthew 20. So I'm going to start from that place, Matthew 20, verse 16. So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many be called, but few chosen. So many are called, but few are chosen in this sense. So this is a general call to all when they receive the opportunity to accept God's pardon through the preaching of the word of reconciliation. So this is different than the calling refer referred to in Romans 8 30. And so let's examine this through the rest of the New Testament, Romans 1 6, among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ. Verse 7, to all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. So called of Jesus Christ. So this is this is you are the called. So what is he giving us? That's actually a title for believers. You are the called, just as in Romans 828, all things work together for good for them that love God, for them who are the called according to his purpose. So we can say Amen. I'm the called of Jesus Christ. Romans 9 24, even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. First Corinthians 1 verse 2, under the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours, so we're called to be saints. First Corinthians 1 9. God is faithful by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. So we're called unto fellowship. But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk, and so ordain I in all churches. Verse 21, same chapter. Art thou called being a servant, care not for it, but if thou mayest be free, use it rather. So soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. So Paul says, by all observances, you've been called into the grace of God, you've received the Holy Spirit, and then the Judaisers came behind, and they're giving you another gospel, and you're bearing with them. And he's teaching them, Don't bear with them, come back to the word that you already received. Verse 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace. So as we look at this term throughout the New Testament, and we're going to read a lot more, we find this word calling. And it's I think it's an important one. It's a part of the process of our salvation. The word is the Greek word kaleo, and it means simply to call aloud, to invite, to be called, to summon. So we we see that there's a difference between God calling just by giving the gospel, the preaching the gospel out to everyone. The ones that are chosen, they're the ones that are called. So we're foreknown, predestinated, and then called. So God puts a special call into the hearts of everyone that's predestinated. So they hear the word preached, and God calls them unto himself. He summons them to himself. It's a divine summons. And that this is what you'll often see as an effectual calling. It means effectual because when God calls you, you are not resisting. Ephesians 4 4. There is one body and one spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling. Again, you see, this is very significant. Colossians 3 15. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body, and be ye thankful. First Thessalonians 2 12, that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. Again, calling. Second Thessalonians 2 14, whereunto he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of Jesus Christ. He called you by the gospel. So the preaching of the word to you struck that something in your heart, and you responded. That was God calling you. Second Timothy 1 9, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, called us with a holy calling, set apart, separated, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. So the grace, the purpose and grace was given to us before the foundation of the world in Jesus Christ. And because that was given to us, then in time, in the right season, he called us. And that calling he's called us to is a holy calling. First Peter 1 15. But as he which called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. And first Peter 2 9. But you're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. So this is an incredible spot where we see him speaking of our calling. You're called. And so the question is: can we resist the call that God makes upon our lives? And you can look at it, you know, you you may be able to resist it for a season. But ultimately, even that resisting it for a season, God is going to make sure that we are called because he doesn't lose one of his sheep. He'll never lose one of his sheep. All that the Father, Jesus says, all that the Father has given me will come to me. So even if you resist it for a season, it's not going to last because if the Father has given you to Christ, you will come. John 6 44. Then we put it this way is the other way around is no man can come to me except the Father which has sent me, draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day. So all the Father has given me will come to me, but no can no one can come to me unless the Father draws him. So this is the call of God. It's drawing. So him using the means of the preaching of the word and the power of the Holy Spirit to work with us and to call us unto himself. So he's he's drawing us. This word drawing is the word helku in Greek, and it literally means it's to drag. To drag. So God, if you think about this, the Bible says, My spirit will not always strive with man, for he is but flesh. So God, by his Holy Spirit, works in many different hearts, and that's where you find, I think in Matthew 7, you find that the Holy Spirit even works miracles through people who at the end Jesus says, Depart from me, you workers of iniquity, I never knew you. And we find the Jesus says the rain falls on the just and the unjust. And of course, that's speaking of literal rain, but we can also understand it speaking of spiritual rain, because the Holy Spirit will fall on elect and non-elect alike, predestinated seed and non-predestinated seed alike, and they can be anointed. Balaam was anointed with the Holy Spirit to be a prophet, and yet he was lost because he brought false doctrine. And so brought Israel into spiritual fornication. And so you can be anointed with the Spirit and yet resist the purpose of God and and and and reject it. My spirit will not always strive with man. So there's a striving, the Holy Spirit striving with the heart of man. Now you say, Well, is God not strong enough to overcome? Now remember, God offers grace to all. Cain was offered grace, right? Cain was offered the opportunity of mercy. Cain rejected that. Why? Because he was serpent seed. And so people can be anointed with the Holy Spirit to do miracles. You know, read that in Matthew chapter 7. Have we not prophesied in your name? And have we not done many cast out devils and healed the sick in your name? And Jesus says, Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. They refused to do the will of God, which is the word of God. So how do we reconcile this thought? Is the Holy Spirit makes the general call. Many are called, but few are chosen. So the ones that, if that's in that terminology, now we bring it down to here, to this terminology of calling, is God only calls his elected, which were in him before the foundation of the world, his seed. So he calls them only. He doesn't call everyone in this sense. The gospel is available to all, but only those who are called, or as Jesus said, drawn, dragged to him are the ones that will come to him, because no man will come to me unless the Father draws him first. Now you say, what about the people they're saying, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? They're calling him Lord. They came to him, they're doing miracles in him. They came, but they didn't come to him. They didn't come to do the will of God. They didn't come to obey the word. They came for their own purposes, to accomplish their own desire and plan. They didn't come to take up their cross, to lay down their lives and take up their cross and follow him daily. They came for their own glory and their own kingdom. So those who come to him are the ones that the Father has called. In the sermon The Second Seal, Brother Branham says, The people thinks that election is something that's just been hatched up here lately. My that's one of the oldest teachings that we have, election and calling. So Irenaeus, certainly the real students of scripture, always believed in election. So he puts together election and calling, and rightly so. Election and calling. So calling is part of the oldest teachings that we have. So God, when God calls, we're not gonna we're not going to be able to ultimately resist, because all that the Father has given to Christ will come to him. Next chain link in salvation is justification. Those who are truly called of God will be justified. And justified means to be rendered just. So be to be just in this sense means to be judged and to be found innocent. Now in our uh American legal system, we don't have anything like that. We either have guilty or not guilty. But in God's uh criminal justice system, he will judge and he'll say, You're innocent. But only under there's no one innocent except for Jesus Christ. Romans 3 23 through 31, for all have sinned and sh come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus, whereas boasting then is excluded by what law of works, nay, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, seeing it is one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law. So we look at this and say, Is it is it fair for God to have mercy on on someone? Just put it that way. If God is a good God, God is also a just God. So if God does not, if God gives a command and someone breaks that command, it is God must give forth the punishment which he promised within that command. Otherwise, God is not just. So if if two people, if Tom commits a crime and Jeff commits a crime, and I look at this, they committed the exact same crime, they're both guilty. And I say, Tom, you're sentenced to five years hard labor. Uh Jeff, you're free to go. Am I a just judge? No. So is God a just judge for having mercy on some and not having mercy and giving them what they deserve to others? Yes, he is. Why is he? Is because God laid the punishment for Jeff's sin on Jeff's crime against against uh the the law, he laid that punishment on Jesus Christ. So God is just and the justifier of him which is believes in Jesus because so this is declaring his righteousness. So God forgave sins in the past, but by the blood of good balls, bulls and goats, there's no forgiveness of sins. So he's just covering up those sins and pushing them forward, so he was forbearing his judgment for a season, so that when Jesus came and died on the cross, he was designed dying for the sins that were past and the sins that were future. So when Jesus was when God was pouring out his wrath upon Jesus, starting in Gethsemane, when he was beaten, when he was whipped, when he was walked to the walked to Golgotha, and when he was crucified, and when his side was punctured, all of this was God pouring out his wrath against my sin and against your sin. So what was he punishing? He was punishing the sins of the elect of all ages from eternity from from the beginning to the end. All of the sins of God's children were laid upon Christ there at the cross, and God poured out his wrath upon him. So God is just, he can rightly say, I have forgiven you. Not only that, but you're justified. You are stand before God as though you've never sinned in the first place. Galatians 2 16, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. So it's not by our own works, it's actually by the faith of Christ. And the faith of Christ is actually given to us as a gift. For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it's a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. So it's a free gift of God given to us. Galatians three, twenty-four through twenty-nine. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we're no longer under a schoolmaster, for you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. We weren't baptized into Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we're we're baptized into Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither neither there's neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you're all one in Christ Jesus. Verse 29, and if you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. So the promise was giv the promise of the blessing of Abraham was given to the seed of Abraham. And who's the seed of Abraham? The Jews? No, it's Christ. So the blessing that comes to the nations comes through the seed of Abraham, and that's Christ. He is the seed. And so that blessing comes upon us through Christ. And so we put our faith in Christ, then we graduate from the Academy of the Law. Now we're placed as sons. That's why God sends the Spirit of His Son into our hearts. And so we're justified. Brother Branham says this, you're standing completely justified, as though you never did it at the beginning. This is my message to the church now. As we go off the air just a minute, you're standing if you're standing on God's word and with God's word. Every amen, every jot, every tittle, where are you standing? I'm trying to tell you, pull away from them shucks and get out here in the wheat where you can get right before the sun. I hear the coming of the combine. You're standing complete, justified, like you never did it in the first place. Hallelujah. Talk about a Thanksgiving. I feel real good. I'm more thankful for that than anything I know of. You're the pure, virtuous, sinless bride of the Son of the Living God. Every man and woman that's born of the Spirit of God and washed in the blood of Jesus Christ believes every word of God, stands as though you never sinned at the first place. You're perfect. The blood of Jesus Christ. How can you, if a man? Amen. So justification means you are you are standing before God as though you never sinned in the first place. Your sin is washed away. It's in the sea of forgetfulness. As Brother Branham spoke about at the beginning of the opening of the seals, he spoke about the bleach, and so an ink put into the bleach and it's washed away, and it goes back to the original elements. The bleach is completely clean again. Alright, now on to our fifth work of God's grace is glorification, whom he justified, he also glorified. Philippians 3 21, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able, even to subdue all things unto himself. So that's the glorious body, or the glow another way spoken of is the glorified body. So in this each of these spots I want to notice that God speaks of all of them as finished works, justified, for not for foreknown, predestinated, justified, glorified, called. All of them he speaks as past tense. None of us were born yet. We weren't justified in the sense of experience salvation. We weren't called, but in God's sight it was all of it was fit a finished work for us. Even before the foundation of the world the Lamb was slain. So even our living in our glorified body, God has already seen us and already declared seen us there. So it's just as good as finished. Romans 8, 22 and 23. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit. Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to wit, the redemption of our body. So we are waiting for our bodies to be redeemed. That's when our bodies be go from mortal to immortal. Change these vile bodies into his glor to be like his glorious body. Amen. Those bodies will be such in such a way that we'll be able to do like Jesus. We'll be able to pass we'll it'll be made up of flesh and bone. You'll be able to touch it and feel it. But we can we can appear from one place to another, we can pass through walls and doors, and we can fly through the air. We find Jesus doing all three of those things in his glorified body. Romans 8, 22 and 23, we just read, and so that's the adoption, that's the redemption of our body, adoption. So in other places, adoption is spoken of as us coming to maturity in Christ. In this place, it's spoken about as our body change. And then in other places it's spoken of as the spirit of adoption or us being play placed in the body of Christ. And so this Galatians speaks about it one way, Romans speaks about it another way, and Ephesians speaks about it even another way. It's another topic for us to address in other times. Ephesians 1 13 and 14, in whom you also you trusted. After that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory. Alright, so it's the down payment of our inheritance. It's the down payment. So the Holy Spirit is the down payment that we're going to get a new body. So if you've received the down payment of the Holy Spirit, that's the guarantee that you're going to get a new body in the rapture. In the fullness of the rapture. We'll put it that way. First Peter 1, 3 and 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. So once again, that body that we receive, it's incorruptible and undefiled, and it will not fade away. And it's in fact literally reserved in heaven for you. There's a body that's waiting for us. So that's our glorified condition. So all five of those things. So that, my friends, brings us full circle from eternity past to eternity future. From before the foundation of the world, God foreknew you, predestinated you to be conformed to the image of his son, called you with a holy calling, justify you as though you'd never sinned, and will one day put you in a glorified, immortal body just like Jesus Christ's. Every link in this unbreakable chain is held firmly in the hands of a sovereign, loving God. Nothing can break it, nothing can stop it, and nothing can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. So when tribulations come, when persecution or distress tries to shake you, remember all things are working together for this one great purpose, that you may be made like Jesus Christ. That is the good God is working. That is the eternal plan unfolding in your life right now. I pray this truth sinks deep into your heart and brings you unshakable peace and confidence in God's perfect plan. You're not a victim of circumstances, you're a child of destiny chosen in him before the foundation of the world. Once again, I want to thank every one of you who supports the podcast. Whatever amount you're doing, we appreciate your partnership means more than you know, and you can find the support link in the description. So please keep me in your prayers as I seek the Lord for the next steps in the missions, vision, and remember the upcoming trip to Zambia from May 26th to June 10th. Pray for open doors, protection, and a mighty move of God there. You can also support the work on our website at present truthmn.com. Thanks for listening today. If this episode blessed you, please share it with someone who needs to hear about the greatness of God's salvation. I'm Jason DeMars. This has been the Jason Demars Podcast. From eternity to eternity, he is faithful. Walk in that truth this week. God bless you, and I'll speak with you next time.