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Philippians chapter 1 verse 6, and I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you

will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Oh, what a great verse. The God who

begins work completes work. This is talking specifically about our salvation. How when God

draws us to Himself to faith in Jesus and think of all we pray according to if you've been

following along through Galatians and Ephesians now in Philippians sealed with the promised Holy

Spirit, seated with Jesus in the heavenly realms, saved, brought from death to life.

Well, God doesn't do all that to then just leave us alone. No, he has started a good work

that he is going to carry to completion. So our justification before God, being made right

before God through faith in Jesus leads to sanctification from God, meaning he has begun

a process in each of our lives as his sons and daughters for all who've trusted in Jesus. He's

begun a process of making us look more and more and more like Jesus. He's conforming us into the

image of Jesus and one day he's going to bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. What

we sometimes call glorification the time when we are fully transformed into the image of Jesus

in a first John 3 kind of way when we see Him and we will be like Him as He is. Obviously not

divine in the way Jesus is, but we will be fully conformed into His image free from sin and all

of its effects for that matter, sorrow, and suffering, and death. Like this is coming for you,

Christian, this day of completion. So how does that change the way you live today?

It hopefully, it is a reminder to you that God didn't just work in your life. However long ago

you came to faith in Jesus and He's not just going to work in your life in the future one day

when He brings you to heaven. God is at work in your life in the present. Today God is at work.

He started that work a long time ago actually before you even born, before the foundation of the

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