"At the point when Christ who is our life shows up, at that point you additionally will show up with Him in brilliance."

Paul guarantees believers that Christ, Who is our life, will return and that when He does we will

Experience an absolutely new measurement of life—we will be glorified, showing up in greatness with Him.

There are two "appearances" specified in Colossians 3:4. They are: Christ's appearance for us and our appearance with Him.

A. The Possibility of Christ's Future Appearance - "When Christ who is our life shows up… "

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Paul had no questions about the arrival of Jesus Christ. He didn't state, "If Christ who is our life shows up" – he stated, "When… he shows up… " The expressions of Jesus Himself should give all of us the certainty we require that He will return for us: "Let not your heart be beset; you have faith in God, accept likewise in Me. In My Dad's home are numerous manors; on the off chance that it were not really, I would have let you know. I go to set up a place for you. What's more, in the event that I go and set up a place for you, I will come back again and get you to Myself; that where I am, there you might be likewise" (John 14:1-3).

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The assurance of Christ's re-appearance saturates the pages of the New Confirmation. Does reality of the any minute return of Jesus Christ have any effect by they way you carry on with your life? Does it affect your affiliations, your dispositions and your activities? How can it impact your interests, your hobby, and your open way of life? Is it true that you are at the present time, right now, prepared and willing for Christ to all of a sudden show up?

B. The Guarantee of the Christian's Future Appearance - "you additionally will show up with Him in wonder."

Our unsaved friends and partners don't comprehend who we truly are in Christ. We are the recovered, the twice-conceived ones; our own is the shrouded life—"covered up with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:2). The unregenerate can't grasp our state or remaining with God. They may realize that we call ourselves "Christians"; they may have some dubious thought regarding what that implies; they realize that among them are individuals who are unique yet who are blemished; notwithstanding, what they don't know is that one day these "Christians" will all of a sudden have glorified bodies and be culminated in a definitive sense.

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1. The Believer's Glorification is Fundamental to Finish God's Redemptive Arrangement.

"Additionally whom He foreordained, these He likewise called; whom He called, these He additionally supported; and whom He defended, these He additionally glorified" (Romans 8:30).

1. The Believer's Glorification is Basic to Set up Our Bodies for Heaven.

"See, I reveal to you a puzzle: We might not all rest, but rather we should all be changed—in a minute, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised upright, and we might be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on interminability" (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).

1. The Believer's Glorification is Fundamental to Make us Like Jesus Christ Bodily.

"Dearest, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been uncovered what we should be, but rather we realize that when He is uncovered, we might resemble Him, for we might consider Him to be He is"

(1 John 3:2).

Conclusion

Heavenly Mindedness ought to be converted into heavenly direct on earth. Our admission of confidence is a certain something however the evidence of the validity of our confidence is found in our way of life.

Conviction is a certain something yet conduct is very another. Give us a chance to carry on our convictions!

An article in a San Francisco newspaper announced that a young man who once found a $5 charge in the city settled that from that time on he could never lift his eyes while strolling. The paper went ahead to state that throughout the years he aggregated, in addition to other things, 29,516 catches, 54,172 pins, 12 pennies, a bowed back, and a niggardly mien. Be that as it may, he likewise lost something—the eminence of daylight, the brilliance of the stars, the grins of friends, and the freshness of blue skies.

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A few Christians are thoroughly earth centered. They are so fascinated with the things of this world that they give little consideration regarding otherworldly and interminable qualities that are our own on the planet to come. The Christian who comprehends his distinguishing proof in Christ, whose brain is involved with Christ and who anticipates being glorified with Christ will never again live for this world yet for the world to come. He won't be so natural disapproved of that he is no heavenly great!