That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. " Eph 5--Glory to Him ......and John 17:22 .The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.
2 cor 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,[a] are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 cor 4:17: For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
I Peter 5:5 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
below on this found here http://principiumunitatis.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-imitations-and-gospel.html
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“To give an illustration, the Reformed person—because of his zero-sum notion of divine action—should criticize Jesus for commanding and enabling the cripple to pick up his mat and go home. But the whole point of the Catholic gospel is seen in this action: Jesus doesn’t just heal the man and then carry him around for the rest of his life. Instead, he heals him and then enables him to live. And when that ex-cripple walks to the store the next day, he’s not threatening Jesus or robbing God of glory. Likewise, the Catholic understanding of Spirit-wrought obedience glorifies God rather than infringing on his turf.”
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