From Salvation's Launch to Glorification's Ultimate Landing

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``So the question is, where are you gonna land? Glorification or damnation? Two options. And I will tell you, it won't cost you anything. You don't need billions of dollars. You don't even need a penny. We don't want your money. We don't. We don't want anything from you. We want something for you. [01:17:00] (32 seconds)  #ChooseGlory Download clip

``But here's what I do know. You can't be sanctified, you can't be justified, and you can't be glorified unless you're saved. Salvation is the launch pad, and it launches us on a trajectory. And the integrity of the landing is based upon the integrity of the launch, and I can guarantee you the integrity of the launch through faith in Jesus Christ is unquestionable. Unquestionable. [01:15:11] (29 seconds)  #SalvationLaunch Download clip

``Well, we've reached the last week of this series, what just happened week seven, and today we are on the ultimate landing place. If salvation is the launch, glorification is the land. It is the ultimate purpose for which God saved you. It's the ultimate purpose for which Christ died for you. It was the eternal purposes of God that led he, the son, and the spirit to determine a plan whereby man could be made right once again with God. Ultimately, it's glorification. [00:29:59] (29 seconds)  #UltimateLanding Download clip

``Can't inherit the kingdom of God nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I'm gonna tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, which means die, but we will all be changed. This is rapture teaching. Okay? There's gonna be a moment when this great rapture, this catching up of the saints happens. [01:03:12] (18 seconds)  #RapturePromise Download clip

``How much activity are you pouring into the reality of your eternality and glorification in Christ versus trying to alleviate all the problems in your life? Listen, believe me, I I get it. I do the same thing. I'm a problem solving machine. But at the end of the day, the totality of my peacefulness is not found in my ability to solve my problems or the world's problems. [01:06:00] (27 seconds)  #InvestInEternity Download clip

``Throughout the New Testament, salvation is rarely emotionally defined. Because while it is emotional, it's not an emotional experience. Okay? It's a transactional experience where God takes your sin and puts it in Jesus's bank account, and he takes Christ's glory and puts it in yours. It's called the imputation of righteousness. It's a transactional term. It's transactional. It's an accounting term. [01:17:54] (32 seconds)  #ImputedRighteousness Download clip

``It's like God had the end in mind before there was a beginning. And the end isn't to make the earth like heaven. It's to make its people like Jesus. That's the plan. And should we yeah. God gives us all things for our enjoyment. Enjoy every minute of it here. Just don't allow the fears of worldviews to dictate the motivation and the choices with which you make on how to live. [00:56:31] (35 seconds)  #MadeLikeJesus Download clip

``See, God had the end in mind before he ever began anything. And the future moment can, and I would say must have present manifestations that we can't just hide. We gotta reflect. We gotta stand firm. We we we can't we just can't let the ungodly philosophies of this world lead us and guide us and control us to create fear within us. [01:14:11] (34 seconds)  #StandFirmInFaith Download clip

``And once I have assurance, I keep going, I persevere. Persevere, because perseverance develops character. Character develops hope, and that hope will never put you to shame, ever. And then it finally lands. It lands. It doesn't land in heaven. It lands in glorification. It doesn't land in heaven. It lands in glorification. Okay? [01:16:30] (30 seconds)  #PersevereToGlory Download clip

``It's that glorious moment when I'm finally everything Christ died to make me. And what will that be? Just like him, fully glorified for all eternity, fully magnified in the greatness and the glory of an unimaginable, unapproachable God. [01:06:26] (20 seconds)  #MadeLikeChrist Download clip

``This will freak you out. But God's ultimate goal for you and me was not that we get to heaven. It's that we'd be glorified, that we'd be like him. He's more interested in who we are and who we become than the place we're going to. Because if you're not glorified, you don't fit, you don't get in. [00:51:14] (19 seconds)  #GlorifiedNotJustHeaven Download clip

``There's something that's an even greater motivator than that. It's called glory. You're running around with your hair on fire? You're running around because gas is $4.19 a gallon or whatever it is right now? You're like, oh my gosh. You're more worried about oil than glory? You're more focused on on what is going on than what God is going to make you to be? [00:39:11] (23 seconds)  #PrioritizeGlory Download clip

``Suffering becomes a tool by which God begins to the one writer once said, it's the megaphone that God speaks through to the human soul. If we're just left here and it feels like heaven, then nobody will understand you're still going straight to hell. Right? See what suffering does? It prepares us to share in the great the glory of Jesus Christ. [00:46:34] (25 seconds)  #SufferingAsMegaphone Download clip

``Okay? I don't want unjust suffering. I don't wanna institute suffering. I don't like I'm just telling you, God is using the brokenness to mold us each and every day, more and more into the likeness of his son. Because then Paul says, I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us, in us. [00:46:59] (23 seconds)  #SufferingToGlory Download clip

``Comparatively, what makes them them? Oh, no. This doesn't get the honor. What gets the honor is their soul and their spirit. But it's raised you would think he says in honor, but it it's raised in glory. Think about the glory of God. Almost every time God revealed even a portion of his glory in the Old Testament, people fell on their faces. [00:59:44] (25 seconds)  #RaisedInGlory Download clip

``That what should be motivating us is that which is going to be, not that which actually is. Now, I'm not gonna downplay that which actually is. It matters deeply. But it doesn't matter nearly as as importantly as eternity. See, because the ultimate goal for humanity was glorification. Not God didn't send Jesus to save this planet. [00:39:34] (25 seconds)  #FocusOnEternity Download clip

``He sent Christ to save the people that are on this planet because there's only one eternal thing on the face of the earth at any given moment in human history, people. People. And if we're allowing fear tactics to motivate us, then we're not living with the great motivation, the epic reason for which you were saved in the first place, glorification. [00:39:59] (23 seconds)  #PeopleAreEternal Download clip

``And glory, everything God does, God does gloriously. Alright? So when God loves, he loves gloriously. He's gloriously almighty, gloriously omnipresent, gloriously holy, gloriously merciful, gloriously great, like, glory defines everything he is and everything he does. And guess what? That's where you're going. That's what you will be. [00:41:04] (24 seconds)  #GloriousDestiny Download clip

``The beauty and perfection will will be the the lot of your life, not brokenness. That where you're heading as a follower of Jesus Christ is brokenness to wholeness, from sickness to health, to a state and status of big that is unimaginable. No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind can know what God has in store for those who love him. [00:41:28] (29 seconds)  #BrokenToWholeness Download clip

``Okay? If you've cremated them, God knows where they're at, they're coming back. He's gonna take that which is and make it into that which you can't even imagine it possibly being. And if we're still here, then we're gonna be immediately transfigured and transformed into blink of an eye just like they are. Okay? So the dead in Christ go first, we who are alive, alright, in a flash, in the twinkling of not ten million years, Blink your eye. Ready? Boom. Over. [01:03:35] (27 seconds)  #ResurrectionPromise Download clip

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