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Glorification
In plain words
The final step of salvation, when God makes you completely like Jesus, body and soul, for ever.
Right now you are forgiven and being changed, but you still struggle. One day the struggle ends. When Jesus returns, God will finish what He started. You will be raised with a new body that never gets sick or dies, and you will be free from sin for good. This last step is called glorification.
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Paul lists the steps: those God called He justified, and those He justified He also glorified (Romans 8:30). He says it in the past tense, because it is that certain. John says when Christ appears we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is (1 John 3:2). Glorification does not mean becoming God. It means becoming fully human as God intended.
This hope helps you now. Present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory to come (Romans 8:18). When temptation is strong or your body is failing, remember the end of the story. Keep fighting sin today, because the day is coming when you will not have to.
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The Greek doxazo, to glorify, comes from doxa, glory, which in the Old Testament translates kabod, weight or splendour. Humans were made to reflect God's glory, fell short of it (Romans 3:23), and in Christ are restored to it. Paul says Christ will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body (Philippians 3:20-21) and that the dead will be raised imperishable (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).
Historic Christianity confesses the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Glorification completes the work of justification and sanctification. Eastern Orthodox Christians often speak of theosis, sharing in the divine nature, while Western churches more often speak of glorification. Both mean full communion with God and likeness to Christ, never ceasing to be a creature.
My verses
And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.