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ascension, and it will consummate at His com ing back. Christ's ascension is for glory. There fore, Christ's death is for God's righteousness, His resurrection is for God's holiness, and His ascension is for God's glory. When Christ comes back, the glorification of His saints will be con summated.
This thought is found in Romans 8. In verse 17 Paul says that if we suffer with Christ, we shall be glorified with Him. In verse 18 he goes on to say, "For I reckon that the sufferings of this pres ent time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed to us." The whole creation is eagerly expecting to "be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God" (v. 21). In verse 30 Paul says that those whom God has predesti nated, called, and justified, He has also glorified. As we are being sanctified, we are also being glo rified. With sanctification we enjoy a foretaste of glorification.
We have pointed out that glorification began with Christ's ascension. As believers in Christ, we are ascended with Christ and seated with Him in the heavenlies (Eph. 2:6). Christ is both in us subjectively and in the heavenlies objectively. Christ has brought us into the heavenlies, and