It is a matter of great importance that the Bible speaks to sinful men and women about the possibility of eternal life, eternal glory and everlasting happiness in the divine presence. In the mercy of God He has secured atonement and granted forgiveness from sin by the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. In His goodness and grace He encourages hope amongst fallen creatures for more and better than we deserve.   All of God It is the church’s eternal glory Paul is speaking about in our verses and again we note the apostle’s emphasis that glorification is the work of God alone. It is God who glorifies His people. He does so by endowing them with all the blessings He has prepared…

Justification is an act of God’s grace and mercy. It originates in the sovereign will of God to save and bless His people; those He has loved, foreknown, called and chosen in the Lord Jesus Christ. Justification is God making and declaring His people righteous. It results from God taking all the sins of all the elect and laying them upon, or imputing them to, the account of the Lord Jesus. Simultaneously, He imputes the righteousness of God in Christ to the account of His elect. God knows who are His Those foreknown of God were loved in the infinite wisdom of God and distinguished in the mind of the Almighty before the world was formed. With sovereign purpose the Father chose and ordained them…