BECOMING MORE LIKE CHRIST!
ARE YOU BECOMING MORE LIKE JESUS CHRIST IN YOUR FAITH JOURNEY?
The Lord God authorized me to cultivate, enlighten, and empower Jesus Christ's nations and daughters in His love and grace. Please know this: I am not in the work of ministry to beg for money, but I do need financial supporters. I am in Christ's work and ministry to hear Jesus Christ say, "Well done, good and faithful minister." This is the everlasting reward we are expecting to hear and receive. Glory to God in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ told His disciples that the primary way the world would know they were His was by their love for one another ( John 13:35 ). If we love Jesus, then we will love what He loves, which is people. And as we practice loving as He loved, we become more like Him.
Becoming more like Christ is the desire of every Jesus Royal Believer Way Saint, and it is encouraging to know that God has the same desire for us. In fact, the Bible says that God “predestined Christ Believers to be conformed to the likeness of His Son” ( Romans 8:29 ). Making us Christ-like is God’s work, and He will see it through to the end ( Philippians 1:6 ).
However, the fact that God will transform us into Christ-likeness doesn’t mean we can sit back and be carried to heaven “on do-nothing beds of ease.” The process demands our willing cooperation with the Holy Spirit. Becoming more Christ-like requires both divine power and the fulfillment of human responsibility.
There are three things which contribute to our being more Christlike: our surrender to God, our freedom from sin, and our spiritual growth in His Better Way of Love and Grace.
1.) Becoming more Christ-like is the result of surrender to God. ( Romans 12:1-2 ) says that worship involves a total self-dedication to God. We volunteer our bodies as “living sacrifices,” and our minds are renewed and transformed.
When Jesus Christ said, “Follow Him,” Levi left his money tables immediately ( Mark 2:14); so do we freely surrender all we have for the sake of following the Lord Christ Jesus. As John the Baptist said, “He must become greater; I must become less” ( John 3:30 ), so we focus more and more on Jesus and His glory, losing ourselves in His will.
2.) Becoming more Christ-like is the result of freedom from sin. Since Jesus lived a sinless life, the more we consider ourselves “dead to sin” ( Romans 6:11 ) and live a life of purity, the more like Jesus we will be. As we offer ourselves to God, sin is no longer our master, and we are more clearly identified with Christ ( Romans 6:1-14 ).
Jesus Christ invites us to follow Him, and we have His example of obedience ( John 15:10 ), sacrificial love ( John 15:12-13 ), and patient suffering ( 1 Peter 2:19-23 ). We also have the example of the apostles, who modeled Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1 ).
When it comes to restraining sin in our lives, we have divine help: praise the Lord for the Word of God (Psalm 119:11), the intercession of Christ ( Romans 8:34) ( Hebrews 7:25 ), and the power of the Spirit who indwells us ( Romans 8:4; Galatians 5:16 )!
3.) Becoming more Christ-like is the result of Christ-like faith growth. When we are first saved, we are immature in wisdom and knowledge and inexperienced in grace and love. But then we grow. In each of these things, our charge is to become stronger—and more Christlike. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” ( 2 Peter 3:18 ). “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else” ( 1 Thessalonians 3:12 ).
Right now, God works in us: “We, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord” ( 2 Corinthians 3:18 ). One day, however, the process will be complete: “When He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” ( 1 John 3:2 ). The promise of being fully Christ like in the future is in itself motivation for becoming more Christ like now: “Everyone who has this hope in him purifies Himself, just as He is pure” ( 1 John 3:3 ).
However, the fact that God will transform us into Christ-likeness doesn’t mean we can sit back and be carried to heaven “on do-nothing beds of ease.” The process demands our willing cooperation with the Holy Spirit. Becoming more Christ-like requires both divine power and the fulfillment of human responsibility.
There are three things which contribute to our being more Christlike: our surrender to God, our freedom from sin, and our spiritual growth in His Better Way of Love and Grace.
1.) Becoming more Christ-like is the result of surrender to God. ( Romans 12:1-2 ) says that worship involves a total self-dedication to God. We volunteer our bodies as “living sacrifices,” and our minds are renewed and transformed.
When Jesus Christ said, “Follow Him,” Levi left his money tables immediately ( Mark 2:14); so do we freely surrender all we have for the sake of following the Lord Christ Jesus. As John the Baptist said, “He must become greater; I must become less” ( John 3:30 ), so we focus more and more on Jesus and His glory, losing ourselves in His will.
2.) Becoming more Christ-like is the result of freedom from sin. Since Jesus lived a sinless life, the more we consider ourselves “dead to sin” ( Romans 6:11 ) and live a life of purity, the more like Jesus we will be. As we offer ourselves to God, sin is no longer our master, and we are more clearly identified with Christ ( Romans 6:1-14 ).
Jesus Christ invites us to follow Him, and we have His example of obedience ( John 15:10 ), sacrificial love ( John 15:12-13 ), and patient suffering ( 1 Peter 2:19-23 ). We also have the example of the apostles, who modeled Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1 ).
When it comes to restraining sin in our lives, we have divine help: praise the Lord for the Word of God (Psalm 119:11), the intercession of Christ ( Romans 8:34) ( Hebrews 7:25 ), and the power of the Spirit who indwells us ( Romans 8:4; Galatians 5:16 )!
3.) Becoming more Christ-like is the result of Christ-like faith growth. When we are first saved, we are immature in wisdom and knowledge and inexperienced in grace and love. But then we grow. In each of these things, our charge is to become stronger—and more Christlike. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” ( 2 Peter 3:18 ). “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else” ( 1 Thessalonians 3:12 ).
Right now, God works in us: “We, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord” ( 2 Corinthians 3:18 ). One day, however, the process will be complete: “When He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” ( 1 John 3:2 ). The promise of being fully Christ like in the future is in itself motivation for becoming more Christ like now: “Everyone who has this hope in him purifies Himself, just as He is pure” ( 1 John 3:3 ).
Jesus Christ was undiscriminating in the way He loved. He warned us that it is easy to love those who are like us ( Luke 6:32–33 ). But Jesus loved even His enemies and expects His followers to do the same ( Luke 6:35 ). He healed, fed, and ministered to many who would later cry, “Crucify Him!” ( Matthew 27:20–22 ). He washed the feet of Judas Iscariot, knowing that within hours Judas would betray Him ( John 13:4–5 ). He made a point of ministering to the hated Samaritans ( John 4 ), even making a Samaritan the hero of a parable ( Luke 10:25–37 ). Rich and poor, young and old, religious and pagan, people flocked to hear Jesus because He loved them (Mark 10:1; Matthew 9:35–36; Luke 18:18). Let His Churches say, Amen.
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( 2 Corinthians 5:17 )
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he or she is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Amen.
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Brotherly Love Is A Command From Our Lord!
( 1 Thessalonians 4:9 )
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you, for God teaches you yourselves to love one another just as He loves us; Amen and Amen.
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