VILE TO GLORIOUS

VILE TO GLORIOUS

“Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.” Phil. 3:21

Part of the unfinished business of Christ. The third part of His ministry He was sent to the earth by the Father to perform. The third symbol of the communion service in John 13. The washing of the word cleanses towards perfection. Psa. 138:8; Phil 1:6. Eph. 4:13.

“His glorious body.” These “vile” bodies in which we now reside are subject to decay and death, along with the entire creation (Romans 8:20-22), but they will be instantaneously glorified and made like His body of glory when Christ returns (1 Corinthians 15:51-54; Romans 8:21; 1 John 3:2).

"working." This “working” (Greek energeia) could be effectively paraphrased as “creative energizing.” He who is the Creator of all the energy and matter of the universe (actually, even matter is a form of energy) is able to create new energy and matter to resurrect dead bodies and glorify living bodies to make them like His own eternally living resurrected body, no longer subject to decay and pain and death.