“Eternal Glorification" …Octavius Winslow 1808 - 1878 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3:2 Perfect holiness is the eternal glory of the saints! The very utterance of the thought seems to awaken music in the soul. Seeing Christ as He is, and knowing Him as we are known—we also shall be like Him. Oh, what a conception! What a thought! No more elements of evil working like leaven in the soul. No more traces and fetters of corruption. No more evil heart of unbelief, perpetually departing from God. No more desperate depravity. No more sin warring within. No more temptation assailing from without. All is perfect holiness now! The outline of the Divine image is complete, for the believer has awakened in the finished likeness of his Lord! Extirpate all sin—and you have erased all sorrow! Complete the grace—and you have perfected the glory! You then have chased all sadness from the heart, and have dried all tears from the eye. That glory will be the glory of unsullied purity. Nothing of sin remaining, the preciousness of the blood of Jesus shall have effaced every stain. Oh, the greatness and sovereignty of that grace—which shall have brought us there, God be praised.
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