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come in the day of glory. Nevertheless, before the full taste comes, God has given us a foretaste today.
While we are groaning and enjoying the firstfruit of the Spirit, we are expecting sonship. Here sonship means full sonship. Although we have sonship within us, this sonship has not yet become full. In that day we will know full sonship. What is full sonship? It is the redemp tion of our body. We have sonship in our spirit through regeneration, and we may also have sonship in our soul through transformation, but we do not as yet have sonship in our body through transfiguration. In the coming day we will also have sonship in our body. This is full sonship, our longing expectation.
While we are waiting we need to grow. Many among us are too young, too immature. We all must grow and be matured. The time of the coming of that glorious day depends upon our growth in life. The faster we grow, the sooner that day will come.
In verse 24 Paul says, "For we have been saved in hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope?" We have been saved in the hope that some day we will enter into glory. The thing for which we hope