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for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of oitr humilia,. tion, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto him self" (Phil. 3 :21). It is then and only then, that we are fully manifested outwardly as sons of God. We cannot but feel the limi tations of our present bodies, as good as they are for many purposes, and we often groan within ourselves "waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body" (Rom. 8:23). The redempton of our body comes when He comes, then the work of redemption is completed. We shall have a body like unto His own glorious body. This body will be incorruptible, not subject to decay, imper ishable, glorious, powerful (I Cor. 15 :42, 43). Our days of weariness and weakness will be forever at an end, the body will be able to accomplish all that the spirit pur poses. It will be free from all the limita tions of earth, and clothed upon with all the glory and power that pertains to the heaven ly world. In a word, it will be a "heavenly body" (I Cor. 15 :47-49). Our very bodies shall be luminous, shining, dazzling, bright like the sun. This is not imagination and
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