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GRACE, Exploring Its Riches


                                      mind, that you may prove what is that good and

                                      acceptable and perfect will of God.”

                               Paul  was  testifying  to  the  transformation  or
                               Metamorphousthe that the Holy Ghost performed in him
                               when in Philippians 3:7-10 and 20-21 he says,

                                      “But what things were gain to me, these I
                                      have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also
                                      count all things loss for the excellence of the
                                      knowledge  of  Christ  Jesus  my  Lord,  for
                                      whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
                                      and count them as rubbish, that I may gain
                                      Christ and be found in Him, not having my
                                      own righteousness, which is from the law,
                                      but that which is through faith in Christ, the
                                      righteousness which is from God by faith;
                                      that I may know Him and the power of His
                                      resurrection,  and  the  fellowship  of  His
                                      sufferings,  being  conformed  to  His
                                      death....For  our  citizenship  is  in  heaven,
                                      from  which  we  also  eagerly  wait  for  the
                                      Savior,  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who  will

                                      transform  our  lowly  body  that  it  may  be
                                      conformed to His glorious body, according to
                                      the  working  by  which  He  is  able  even  to
                                      subdue all things to Himself.”






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