Series: Maintaining this Hope

Last week we established how each arrival of Jesus coincides with an entire church age and experience.

His first coming, at His birth, was for the suffering of death. So we went through the New Testament examining how this was also to be the experience of the first age of the church and is actually part of our calling.

Then we looked at the return of Jesus for His church which is associated with glory!

Jesus asked the Father during His hour of temptation and trial in Gethsemane to allow all of us who know, love and trust in Him to be with Him where He was going in heaven - that they might behold His glory which He had together with the Father from before the beginning of the world. He also told his disciples that we were destined to share in that same glory at His return.

It will be on THAT day that we receive the fullness of our salvation which includes the redemption of our bodies.

This entire process is outlined for us in Romans 8 where I want you to turn now, before we start examining the details of our bodily redemption in 1 Cor. 15.

So Jesus’ return for His church will be in glory nd we, as His bride will be glorified together with Him on that day!