At the very moment God's effectual call goes forth and a once-ruined sinner responds with repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that person's spirit is alive forever — born anew of God's own Spirit. But what about the body? What about the "body of death" that Paul and all fellow Christians so desperately desire deliverance from?

When will that take place in God's plan of salvation? And what is God accomplishing as we wait for it?