<p>3:21 <i>Who will transform our lowly body- </i>The link between our mortality and humility is brought out in Paul&rsquo;s description of our present state as being &ldquo;the body of our humiliation&rdquo; (Phil. 3:21 RV). Believing we are mortal ought to be a humbling thing<i>. </i>The fact we lose faculties and memory, needing to be cared for by others, is humbling. But it is built into our human experience purposefully, because God's whole game plan with us is to progressively humble us, to bring us down, so that He might exalt us in due time (2:2,5). We must go with the program and not resist it, humbling ourselves under His humbling hand that we might be exalted in due time (1 Pet. 5:6).</p><p><i>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</i>- There is a clear parallel in Rom. 8:11: &quot;But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies- through His Spirit that dwells in you&quot;. The gift of the Spirit given at baptism is the means whereby God is &quot;working&quot; within us. That gift is the guarantee of our eternal salvation (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5). The transforming work of the Spirit is leading us through processes which will come to their final term in our body being transformed into the form of His glorified body, at His return. Bit by bit, every part of our lives is being subdued to Him through the internal work of the Spirit. This is the huge significance of our death; that is the point at which we will have been humiliated and subdued unto Him. As noted on 2:2-5, we are called to have the<i> morphe</i> of the mind of the Lord Jesus, especially His <i>morphe</i> in His time of dying. This will be revealed in more physical terms at the second coming by our bodies being &quot;conformed&quot; to His body. This is the end intention of the entire working of the Spirit in transforming our minds now.</p>