Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 07016. Glorification is the final stage of salvation, the point at which the believer receives a glorified body and is made entirely like Jesus, with sin not simply restrained but permanently absent. It is the third tense of salvation. I have been saved from sin’s penalty, I am being saved from sin’s power, and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10114. The beatific vision is the theological term for the promise that the redeemed will see God face to face, and that this seeing will be the source of their endless happiness. The word beatific simply means happy-making, and the idea rests on a handful of texts that promise us sight of God rather…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10113. We will have free will in heaven, and we will have far more of it than we do now, but we will never sin. Those two statements only look contradictory if we have accepted a definition of freedom that the Bible never uses, namely that being free means being permanently poised between good…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 4199. The bond between the Spirit and resurrection is one of the richest truths the New Testament holds out to us, and it answers a question that sits quietly in the heart of every believer. What happens to me when I die, and how do I ever arrive at the glory God has promised?…