Section 3
a result of two centuries of evangelization, of missionaries going out to the uttermost parts of the earth with the gospel, there is still very little growth. Where is the real growth in life? There is hardly any growth and no maturity. How then can we expect to have the harvest? I dare to say that the harvest will not come until the crop is ripe. During the last one and one-half centuries there have been many predictions regarding the coming of the Lord. However, the years passed and nothing happened. Every prediction failed to materialize.
We must realize that glorification with trans figuration depends upon our growing in life until we reach maturity. If we want to be glori fied, we must grow, for glorification comes as the issue of maturity. When we enter into maturity, that maturity will issue in glorification. Glorifi cation will not come as an accident, as an over night occurrence; it is the result of growth in life. Brothers and sisters, we need to grow. As God's crop we need to ripen until the time of harvest, the time of our transfiguration and glorification.
JOINT-HEIRS OF CHRIST
Romans 8:17 says, "And if children, heirs also; heirs of God and joint-heirs of Christ, if indeed