The Completed Redemption
8: 18-39
This brings us to a new division in this eighth chapter of Romans. Not only are the bodies of believers going to be redeemed, but we’re going to find out that this entire physical universe, this earth on which you and I live, is to be redeemed. That is the purpose of God. In fact, we’re trading this old earth for a new earth, a new model, brand new, where there won’t be any sin. No curse will ever come upon it again (see the commentary on Genesis, to see link click Af – Revelation in Relation to Genesis). That is something quite wonderful. But we don’t have it yet. The politicians of the world have been trying to bring in a new world for centuries, but we don’t have it yet. But Messiah is going to bring it some day through His redemption, and at that time we will be glorified.223
Paul teaches about our salvation in three phases: the past, or justification (see Ax – The Universal Solution: Justification); the present, or sanctification (see Ca – The Spiritual Battle); and the future, or glorification, here.
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