What we do know about God’s elect is Rom 8:1 There is no condemnation now for those who live in union with Christ Jesus.
Keep reading in in Romans 8 and it explains how/why there is "no condemnation" for the elect in this life, the Spirit of Christ indwelling has given them spiritual Life.
Rom 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
My question is when one of God’s elect dies doesn’t he or she still have carnality residing within them ? So, what does God do at the resurrection to make us completely spiritual?
Well as long as we are flesh and blood we certainly are subject to the pulls of the carnal flesh... yes the Spirit indwelling is the Helper/Comforter to teach and train and prepare the elect. But there certainly is a tremendous change for the elect at resurrection.
1Cor 15:42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
v. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
v. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
The elect will be given a "spiritual body" no longer subject to the pulls of the flesh. They will also be "raised in glory," made perfect and become one/united with Christ and the Father and then have the Spirit without measure like Christ does (John 3:34). What a incomprehensible glorious state of being, as Paul put it so well.
1Cor 2:9 But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
v. 10 But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Hi Mike,
Actually I believe that is what happens in this life now for the elect, that is dying to self (1Co 15:31), it is to take on the mind of Christ now.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
Eph 4:22 For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
v. 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
v. 24 And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.
And it will be the same process in the next age of dying to self first while in the physical body, that is their second death (Rev 20:6), then and only then will the world learn righteousness.
Isa 26:9 With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
mercy, peace and love
Kat