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 life of selfish beings, voluntarily rejecters of God's life, of the true life of heaven, which Jesus calls "eternal life." Without the development of life on the spiritual plane we can never be fashioned into the moral image and likeness of our Heavenly Father. To live spiritually, or on the spiritual plane, is to truly live. To refuse to live on that plane is never to be really born into the image and likeness of God. It is the equivalent of moral death, for it means the separation of the unregenerate man from God through refusal to receive His life. The supreme effort of our lives. should, therefore, be "to follow the Son of man in the regeneration."

Jesus called the process in his case glorification. Let us note some of the passages where reference is made to it:

The ﬁrst reference is John 7:39: "But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified."

John evidently refers to that state of complete union with the Father when the Son was "gloriﬂed," completely exalted, and made one with the