Stop being deceived.

How many people did you talk to about Jesus Christ today? Yesterday? Last month? Last six months?

How many brothers and sisters in different faiths did you invite to your home for a meal and sharing the good news? Today? Yesterday? Last month? Last six months?

How many human beings did you bring to Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit and they are now eternally secure? One? Two? Five? Ten? Today? Yesterday? Last month? Last six months?

How many poor, hungry, needy, sick, elderly, homeless did you reach out to? Today? Yesterday? Last month? Last six months?

Billions of human beings are lost, destined to hell and in need and living in poverty. But Praise God. We are Christians. A light shining in this evil dark world. We are so attentive to commenting, judging others, pointing out doctrinal issues and watching the convergence of signs and events. We understand Thanksgiving, and Christmas and are regular in Church.

Amazing.

Shameful.

Let's examine ourselves.

I'm so disgusted being called a born again Christian. Living in India, Im surrounded by poverty, families of 3-4-5 with small children, living on 100$ USD a month, in a room, smaller than your bathrooms. Lives of people shattered by poverty, illnesses and no hope. No Christ.

And no pastor daring to even go near such human beings or inviting them into their 'holy' congregations, coz these poor human outcasts, can't give monthly tithes and wear smelly clothes and live daily lives in horrific surroundings, open sewage lines and mud roofs, no sanitation and clean drinking water.

World is living in poverty and poor parents are selling their 10 and 12 year old daughters and sons, into prostitution to make ends meet.

Where is your heart and money going?

Brothels and perversion and evil rules the world but praise God, we Christians are stiff necked, holy, sin fighting, rapture excited, born again, holy folks who have nothing to do with Hindu, Muslim, Jew, etc brother and sisters. Forget the poor and homeless.

The lost call me for touching of hands for miracle healings and prosperity and happiness because all they see on Christian television and churches, is healing crusades, people falling on altars by power of god's holy spirit and raising the dead and holy men of Christ speaking in heavenly tongues.

What hands do I lay on you dear neighbor? When I am unable to handle my daily sins, my wretched vessel and unclean thoughts. Thank God for The Cross. Now that we have His Grace, shouldn't we share the good news and sow into the lost and the needy?

Are we at peace at night thinking we did enough for the lost and needy today? Billions are going to hell because The Church is suffering from Rapturitis and Sensationalism.

Most of the body of Christ worldwide is excited for stupid sensationalism news by fake pastors on Facebook/YouTube, selling them the rapture dream and tribulation events, pole shifting, and prophecy conferences, book sales, DVD's, and billions of dollars in tithes offerings. Israel Holy land Tours and Bible teaching Cruises. Travelin luxury and study! Duh.

Are we the salt of the earth? A light shinning on top of a hill in an evil and God-hating sin-loving world? Are we reaching out to the poor the needy the sick the homeless and brothers/sisters in other faiths?

Let's look at today's western Christianity...

Oh, borders are opened...

These wicked military aged refugees are entering our country...

We need to protect our homes and lives...

Buy guns...

Prepping...

Keep away from these disease full, poor, smelly, dangerous people coming into our country and neighborhood in the thousands to take away our comfort, peace and way of life...

Oh you comfortable Christians...

You have no idea about persecution...

Come to Africa. Pakistan. Afghanistan. India. China. Korea and the poor third world nations. And how, in suffering and affliction, they still honor God and reach out to the needy and share the gospel.

STOP BEING DECEIVED.

And what are you doing ?

Feeding billions to churches and teachers and pastors and Facebook/YouTube sensationalism teachers???

U.S. Christians collectively make $5.2 trillion annually — nearly half the world’s total Christian income (Health Research Funding). While 6 hundred million human beings on earth live under 3$ a day.

I am in touch with many brothers and sisters in the body, with 90% facing financial, marital, medical, depression, and substance abuse issues. Despite struggles, we rely on God as evil in the world worsens. On the Christian side, some appear blessed, happy, and passionate about God, teaching about the imminent rapture with dreams and visions. They emphasize prosperity, ministry, and giving, with answered prayers and signs of God's work. However, the discrepancy between the two sides raises doubts. It seems to revolve around money, tithes, and offerings, with their livelihood depending on others. More excitement attracts more followers, highlighting the disparity between struggling and seemingly blessed Christians.

Convergence is all around.

Be a blessing to the lost.

Share the gospel.

It's nearly time to go Home.

Are you truly prepared to meet your King, should the rapture happen tomorrow morning?

God forgive us and have mercy on the needy and the lost.

Strangers and Pilgrims! by James Smith, 1842.

Strangers and Pilgrims!

by James Smith, 1842.

"All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth!" Hebrews 11:13.

Every believer is a pilgrim. He is traveling back to God, from whom Adam revolted. He is going to his Father's house, to meet His brethren and sisters in the Lord. He is presently a stranger in a strange land, surrounded by temptations, trials, and foes. His journey lies through a great and terrible wilderness — therefore he must not expect a very smooth path, or many comfortable accommodations. He will have much to grieve and distress him, and perhaps most from quarters where he least expected it. His heart will be often burdened with grief, and filled with sorrow — tears are common to the Christian. He feels the unsuitableness of the things of time, to his spirit, profession, and aim. And therefore he confesses, "I am a stranger and a pilgrim — as all my fathers were!"
Psalm 39:12.

Weariness and painfulness are his portion now — but a rest remains for him. It is a glorious rest. It embraces and includes all the believer has prayed for — or can desire! It waits for him at the end of his journey, it was prepared for him from the foundation of the world, it is now promised to him in the faithful word, and it will be bestowed upon him when he has fought the good fight, and finished his course.

Everything at present may appear gloomy and distressing; but before you, believer, everything is glorious, magnificent, and blessed! Press on then, toward the mark, for the prize of your high calling. Fight the good fight of faith. Travel on in the strength of Jesus. You are going home — and you have a glorious home to go to! Angels will hail you to rest, Jesus will invite you to glory, and your fellow-pilgrims will rejoice to see you come!

All Heaven will be in harmony to see you safely reach your home; and the minute after you have entered your rest — you will forget all the fatigue, all the dangers, and all the difficulties of the way! You will perhaps be filled with wonder, that you should ever have allowed such trifles to vex you, or such little trials to discourage you — with such a glorious end before you.

Fellow-pilgrim, expect trouble — but expect also mercy to help you in time of need! Expect to feel your circumstances to be trying — but expect also your Savior's strength to be perfected in your weakness! You will soon join the illustrious company of Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, and Martyrs, in the kingdom of God! You will soon end your tedious, tiresome journey — and enter into the joy of your Lord.

Never forget you are a pilgrim — a stranger — only a sojourner here in this poor world. Here you have no continuing city — but you seek one to come.

Nothing can make this poor world, your rest; if you had all you think you want — you would find it a wilderness still. Be content then, to wait until you get home! There you shall enjoy — and always enjoy all your desires! There will not be one want, one wish, or one unfulfilled desire there! All will be satisfied — all will be full. Yet a little while, and you will see the portal of your Father's house, and hear Him say, "Come in, blessed of the Lord, tarry no longer outside!

Come, dwell forever with Me!"

Not all things else are half so dear,

As His delightful presence here;

What must it be in Heaven!

'Tis Heaven on earth to hear Him say,

As now I journey day by day,

'Poor sinner, cast your fears away,

Your sins are all forgiven!'

But how must His celestial voice

Make my enraptured heart rejoice,

When I, in glory, hear Him!

While I before His heavenly gate,

For everlasting entrance wait,

And Jesus on His throne of state,

Invites me to come near Him!

Come in, you blessed, sit by Me;

With my own life I ransomed thee;

Come, taste my perfect favor;

Come in, you happy, spirit, come;

You now shall dwell with Me at home;

You blissful mansions, make him room,

For he must stay forever!

Others May, You Cannot. G. D. Watson, in Living Words.

Others May, You Cannot.

If God has called you to be really like Jesus, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands of obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people, or measure yourself by other Christians, and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do things which He will not let you do.

Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful, may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes to carry out their plans, but you cannot do it; and if you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent.

Others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their success, of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing, and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.

Others may be allowed to succeed in making money, or may have a legacy left to them, but it is likely God will keep you poor, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, namely, a helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of supplying your needs day by day out of an unseen treasury.

The Lord may let others be honored and put forward, and keep you hidden in obscurity, because He wants you to produce some choice, fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade. He may let others be great, but keep you small. He may let others do a work for Him and get the credit for it, but He will make you work and toil on without knowing how much you are doing; and then to make your work still more precious, He may let others get the credit for the work which you have done, and thus make your reward ten times greater then Jesus comes.

The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings, or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over.

So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has a right to do as He pleases with His own. He may not explain to you a thousand things which puzzle your reason in His dealings with you, but if you absolutely sell yourself to be His love slave, He will wrap you up in a jealous love, and bestow upon you many blessings which come only to those who are in the inner circle.

Settle it forever, then, that you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, and that He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways that He does not seem to use with others. Now when you are so possessed with the loving God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of Heaven.

G. D. Watson, in Living Words

The Land Nobody Wanted. By Jack Kinsella.

The Land Nobody Wanted by Jack Kinsella.

The land claimed by Israel is smaller than the state of Rhode Island. In comparison to the Arab Middle East, Israel is like a single piece of sod on a football field.

Carrying the analogy further, imagine that one team has to defend that single piece of sod from an opposing team that outnumbers them 650 to 1.

The other team, claiming unfair advantage, is demanding the single piece of sod be divided and half of it be awarded to them.

The referees agree, and penalize the defending team for refusing to concede half of its 1/6th of one percent of the field to the opposition [that outnumbers them 650 to one]. The crowd loudly boos the defenders.

That is roughly analogous to the rules of engagement under which the Middle East conflict is being played out.

The Arab side makes two concurrent claims; 1) Israel has no historical right to the land; and 2) Israel, by its existence, has dispossessed the indigenous Palestinian people, leaving them with nowhere to go.

Except for a few decades of Christian control during the Crusades era, the land claimed by Israel was under Islamic control for 1300 years. This is one of the principle arguments advanced in favor of the Palestinian claim that Israel has no historical right to the Land of Promise.

That argument is bolstered by the existence of an Arab mosque atop what the Jews claim as Temple Mount, a mosque that has graced Mount Moriah for some 1,350 years.

According to modern Islam, the mosque atop Mount Moriah is the third-holiest site in Islam. Recenty Islamic tradition says the al Aqsa Mosque marks the place where Mohammed ascended into heaven aboard a winged horse.

For that reason, it now ranks third in line behind Mecca and Medina as Islam’s holiest cities.

In ancient times, Israel sat atop the most strategic crossroads of the known world. One couldn’t get from Babylon to Egypt by chariot without passing through it. Israel and Jerusalem have been fought over and conquered by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and finally, the British in 1917.

In each of its conquests, Jerusalem was strategic because of its strategic value as Israel’s God-given capital. From Nebuchadnezzar to Titus, each successive conqueror acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of the Jews.

When the region was conquered by Islam, taking Jerusalem was a strategic, rather than religious necessity. Whoever controlled the Jewish holy city controlled the remaining indigenous Jews.

The reconquest of Jerusalem became a holy religious duty only after the Crusaders claimed the city for Christianity. Since the city was holy to Judaism and holy to Christianity, it became holy to Islam, as well.

But ‘holy’ doesn’t mean the same thing to Islam as it does to Christians and Jews. To Christians or Jews, ‘holy’ means worthy of reverence, whereas to Islam, ‘holy’ means worthy of possession.

Under Islamic possession, Jerusalem was just another dusty city of the province of Southern Syria. In the four hundred years Jerusalem was under Ottoman rule until 1917, the city was never even a regional or provincial capital. After the Ottoman Empire fell to the Allies in the First World War, British foreign secretary Lord Balfour put into writing Britain’s support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” When the League of Nations made Palestine a British mandate after the war, Lord Balfour’s declaration was assumed as part of the deal and the allied powers of the Great War all agreed. By 1935, there were more than 300,000 Jews in Palestine. Tel Aviv, founded in 1909, had 100,000 people.

In 1947 Britain, which had been handed the Palestine problem by the now-defunct League of Nations passed it on, with relief, to the newly born United Nations. The UN agreed to partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a neutral UN zone containing Jerusalem, a city sacred to three religions. The Jews were thrilled, the Arabs adamantly opposed.

In late 1947 the plan was ratified by the UN, and the State of Israel proclaimed on May 14, 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the country. The the British pulled out completely, and most of the Arab world- Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, as well as Palestinians- immediately attacked in an attempt to destroy Israel. By the time of armistice in 1949 Israel held three quarters of Palestine- twice as much land as the UN had proposed- Jordan had taken the land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and Egypt had taken the Gaza Strip. It is at this point in the story of the Middle East that history ends and the modern myth of the Middle East is born.

Assessment:

The modern myth is that at the end of the Israeli War of Independence, the indigenous ‘Palestinian’ people were dispossessed by Israel and left with nothing.

The historical fact is that, until the mid 1930’s, the term ‘Palestinian’ was a label applied to the Jews.

Until 1950, the name of the Jerusalem Post was THE PALESTINE POST; the journal of the Zionist Organization of America was NEW PALESTINE; Bank Leumi was the ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK; the Israel Electric Company was the PALESTINE ELECTRIC COMPANY; there was the PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND and the PALESTINE PHILHARMONIC.

All these were Jewish organizations. In America, Zionist youngsters sang “PALESTINE, MY PALESTINE”, “PALESTINE SCOUT SONG” and “PALESTINE SPRING SONG”

In general, the terms ‘Palestine’ and ‘Palestinian’ referred to the region of Palestine as it was prior to 1948.

Thus “Palestinian Jew” and “Palestinian Arab” are straightforward expressions. “Palestine Post” and “Palestine Philharmonic” refer to these bodies as they existed in a place then known as Palestine.

The adoption of a Palestinian identity by the Arabs of Palestine is a recent phenomenon. Until the establishment of the State of Israel, and for another decade or so, the term ‘Palestinian’ applied exclusively to the Jews.

The claims of the Arab ‘Palestinians’ to be a separate people is an utter fiction. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Arab Palestinians.

Arab Palestinians are indistinguishable from Jordanians (recent British inventions all), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

Syria was created by the British and subsequently given to France as the French Mandate. The Syrians declared independence after the British left in 1946, two years before Israel did the same thing. Jordan was created by the British in 1921.

The same British government that created the modern Arab world in 1920 at the San Remo Conference in Italy — by decree — also created a Jewish homeland the same way at the same conference.

And the Jewish Palestine of the Balfour Declaration as confirmed at San Remo encompassed a much bigger chunk of ground than Israel claims today.

Until the Jews renewed their claim to the land of Palestine, nobody else wanted it. The Jews petitioned for statehood on the principle that Palestine was “a land without a people” and that the Jews were “a people without a land.”

Arab revisionist historians say that claim was ‘a myth.’ History and mathematics tell a different story — if anybody were interested in the facts, that is.

In 1948, there were about 735,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs in Palestine. There were about 716,000 Jews. Since the same land now supports a population of more than 12 million combined Arabs and Jews, the argument that the Arabs were ‘crowded out’ by the Jews makes no sense.

The ‘Palestinian refugees’ languishing in ‘refugee camps’ in Jordan, Lebanon and elsewhere, were not interned by Israel. They were interned by their own governments after those governments lost the war with Israel.

Those Jordanian citizens that lived in Jordan’s West Bank and the citizens of Egypt’s Gaza Strip (who, on May 30, 1967 were still Egyptians), became instant ‘Palestinians’ on June 7, 1967.

From the moment of its declaration of statehood, the Jews of Israel have lived under the constant threat of annihilation by the surrounding Arab states.

As Golda Meir observed during the Yom Kippur War, “the Arabs can fight, and lose, and come back to fight another day. Israel can only lose once.”

What makes this significant is that NONE of this is a secret. Knowing this, the entire world prefers the fictional account advanced by the Islamic world; that the Palestinians pre-existed the Jews, that the Jews stole ‘Palestinian land’ dispossessed its inhabitants and locked them away in refugee camps.

Remember the football field and the single square of sod analogy. To the world, dividing that single square of sod defended by a team outnumbered 650 to one that holds the rest of the football field is an example of ‘leveling the playing field’.

It is nothing short of madness. But it is a madness that seems to have infected the world at large. The Islamic version of the Arab-Israeli conflict is a monstrous lie being advanced in favor of a claim to land that nobody wanted until the Jews did.

In the midst of a global war on terror, the world is prepared to countenance an openly terrorist government ruling over a ‘people’ that do not exist, (a people whose only goal is the ANNIHILATION of another people whose history is THE most documented record of ancient times) based on the argument that the Jewish claim to Jerusalem is historically invalid. That lie is so delusional that it boggles the mind. Yet it is the basic reason for a global war on terror that now threatens to spill over into an all-out war of civilizations. Israel, by its very existence, is a stench in the nostrils of the secular world. It is a constant reminder of the existence and reality of God, and therefore, man’s accountability before Him.

Paul explains it this way:

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind. . .” (Romans 1:28)

The secular world’s war, blind anti-semitism so ingrained in its psyche it is blissfully unaware it even exists.

Any critically-thinking person can see the truth, yet the UN consistently finds the ‘anti-truth’ when it involves Israel. It is almost supernatural in its scope and breadth. In fact, scratch ‘almost’ from that last sentence.

It IS supernatural.

This Letter was written by Jack Kinsella on April 11, 2006

What is Hermeneutics?

Biblical Hermeneutics is the study of the principles and methods of interpreting the text of the Bible. 2 Timothy 2:15 tells believers to be involved in hermeneutics: “ Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

The most important law of biblical hermeneutics is that the Bible should be interpreted Literally. We are to understand the Bible in its normal or plain meaning, unless the passage is obviously intended to be symbolic or if figures of speech are employed.

A second crucial law of biblical hermeneutics is that passages must be interpreted historically, grammatically, and contextually. Interpreting a passage historically means we must seek to understand the culture, background, and situation that prompted the text.

The purpose of biblical hermeneutics is to help us to know how to properly interpret, understand, and apply the Bible. What the author meant, context, intended audience, title, location, date, purpose, message, method, sources, and structure while applying a literal, grammatical, historical approach.

A third law of biblical hermeneutics is that Scripture is always the best interpreter of Scripture. For this reason, we always compare Scripture with Scripture when trying to determine the meaning of a passage.

Exegesis, is the correct way to interpret Scripture. Eisegesis, is when a reader imposes their interpretation of the text.

 

The Fig Tree Generation is not The Church. Psalm 90:10 ?

The Fig tree generation mentioned in Matthew 24:32-34.

There's a lot of big Prophecy Ministries that are making fundamental mistakes because they haven't been taught correctly to begin with, and they're throwing the Body of Christ into confusion and these are the people that have the massive YouTube channels, pack out the conferences, and they over and over again make a mistake concerning the fig tree generation despite its lack of solid biblical foundation.

This further links this generation to Psalm 90, which states that a man's lifespan is 70-80 years. Some claim that Israel's birth in 1948 marks a countdown to 2028 for the Second Coming. This theory was popularized by Hal Lindsey and Zane Hodges in 1967. Both Lindsey and Hodges, respected scholars, promoted the idea that the generation from Israel's birth in 1948 would witness significant events leading up to the Second Coming.

The key issue here is how the fig tree generation is being interpreted and applied to current events. Avoid making definitive claims about the timing of the Rapture and Second Coming. Instead, believers should focus on living faithfully and being prepared for Christ's return at any moment.

The Olivet discourse has nothing to do with the Church. It has everything to do with the Nation of Israel. Once that is clear, you stop believing in partial raptureISM. The Church has nothing to do with the Virgins. Stop thinking you've got to endure till the end of your life and have good works to prove you're one of the Elect, based on Matthew 24:13.
Dr. Andy Woods.

How does 1 Corinthians 6: 9-1, fit with free Grace salvation? It refutes it?

 How does (1 Corinthians 6: 9-11) fit with free Grace salvation? It refutes?

Dr. Andy Woods shares: This is one of the five Vice lists mentioned in the Bible. Basically what they say is if you're living such and such a way you're not going to inherit the Kingdom. 

The 1st Vice list, Galatians 5:19-21.
2nd Vice list, Ephesians 5:5.
3rd Vice List, Revelation 21:8.
4th Vice vice list, Revelation 22:15.
5th Vice List, 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11.

These verses are misinterpreted.

Using Grace Soteriology or Doctrine of Salvation, I would say, in all of these Vice lists, there's a switch in pronouns, where Paul switches from the believer with who he addresses as you, and he then, starts talking about the - they or the them, or the unbelievers who are living badly. Then he says, why would you live like them, because they're have a different Destiny than you, they will not enter the kingdom. Then he goes back to exhorting you. So there's a switch in all of these Vice lists from the second person addressing the Christian, to the third person addressing unbelievers, back to the second person addressing the Christian. So with all of these Vice lists, people really don't pay attention to the switch, from you to the they, or them, yet if you pay attention to that, you'll see very fast that these Vice lists are talking about unsaved and the Vice List just becomes an exhortation for the believer not to imitate the unbeliever. Paul is just making a simple point, that why would you imitate unbelievers in their lifestyle.

Suffering is a Gift.

“These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, (and distress and suffering) but take courage; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33. Emphasis added).

God knocks us DOWN, so we can look UP.

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. (Romans 5:3-5).   

Jack Nichols shares: Sometimes suffering does not come from the lack of faith, but in the midst of faith, or even because of faith, since the LORD often uses affliction as the means of upbuilding the soul and developing spiritual resilience and maturity (Prov. 3:1-2). In light of God’s sovereign power over all things, and God’s great love for you, regard your suffering a gift from your heavenly Father to help you grow (Job 5:17; Psalm 94:12; 119:71). Persevering in the midst of your struggle develops patience, humility, teaching you to know your own nothingness and to utterly rely upon the goodness, mercy of God. Over time, suffering strips away your illusions, so that nothing remains except the naked heart and the treasures of faith. Only then does the heart find its blessing in God. Alone. 

Rewards in Heaven? Are all Believers Equal?

Once Saved, Overcoming/Persevering is by OUR faith in HIS finished work (Tetelestai). It’s all HIS work. 1 John 5:4-5.

Fruit Bearing (Works):
IF WE DO
by being led by The Holy Spirit in us,
WE WILL BE
rewarded.

John 15:16. Salvation is Eternal. (John 5:24). 

However,
All Believers are NOT EQUAL in Heaven.
Our FRUIT BEARING will determine our
INHERITANCE. (Our identity in Christ & faithfulness to our calling).

Sanctification leads to
Partaking, leads to Overcoming, leads to Inheriting.

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Romans 8:17 KJV. 

Renew your mind.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will  his good, pleasing and perfect will.
(Romans 12:1-3).

It begins with a great “therefore.” Seeing all that God did on our behalf, therefore live like this. As believers, we are no longer conformed to this world because we no longer belong to the spirit of this age. We have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God’s Beloved Son (Colossians 1:13).

Therefore, rather than continuing to conform to this world, we are to be transformed by having our minds renewed.