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122 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
the crown of life ." Revelation 2 :10, NW They
do not know what it is to be a spirit or what they
will be like in the resurrection, but they do know
they are now God's adopted sons, "born from water
and spirit ." With confidence they say: "Now
we are children of God, but as yet it has not been
made manifest what we shall be . We do know
that whenever he is made manifest we shall be
like him, because we shall see him just as he is."
-1 John 3 :2, NW.
12 When believers are justified or declared righteous
for their faith and by means of Jesus' blood,
they are then devoted to sacrifice and their baptism
into his death begins . To such ones the apostle
writes : "Do you not know that all of us who
were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into
his death? Therefore we were buried with him
through our baptism into his death, in order that,
just as Christ was raised up from the dead
through the glory of the Father, we also should
likewise walk in a newness of life. For if we have
become united with him in the likeness of his
death, we shall certainly also be united with him
in the likeness of his resurrection ; . . . if we have
died with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him. For we know that Christ, now that
he has been raised up from the dead, dies no
more ; death is master over him no more ." Romans
6 :3-9, NW So since Jesus' resurrection as
a glorious spirit to heavenly life he is immortal,
incorruptible . By being raised from death in the
12 . When does baptism into death begin? To what are
they raised?