Is our walk and life about “pattern”? I see this thought and objective expressed a great deal today. Be like Christ. Model yourself after Him and reparttern your lifestyle and days as was His life lived out.
From Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest” today:
He shall glorify Me. JOHN 16:14
The pietistic movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the Death of Jesus Christ, all that is required is a pious atmosphere, and prayer and devotion. This type of experience is not supernatural nor miraculous, it did not cost the passion of God, it is not dyed in the blood of the Lamb, not stamped with the hall-mark of the Holy Ghost. It has not that mark on it which makes men say, as they look with awe and wonder – “That is the work of God Almighty.” That and nothing else is what the New Testament talks about.
The type of Christian experience in the New Testament is that of personal passionate devotion to the Person of Jesus Christ. Every other type of Christian experience, so called, is detached from the Person of Jesus. There is no regeneration, no being born again into the Kingdom in which Christ lives, but only the idea that He is our Pattern. In the New Testament Jesus Christ is Saviour long before He is Pattern. To-day He is being despatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere Example. He is that, but He is infinitely more; He is salvation itself. He is the Gospel of God.
Jesus said, “When He, the Spirit of truth, is come,…He shall glorify Me.” When I commit myself to the revelation made in the New Testament, I receive from God the gift of the Holy Spirit Who begins to interpret to me what Jesus did and does in me subjectively all that Jesus Christ did for me objectively.
The Absoluteness of Jesus Christ
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Candice
, Nov 29 2017 09:36 AM
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Posted 29 November 2017 - 09:36 AM
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Posted 30 November 2017 - 05:04 AM
Thank you Candice!
Your words make me consider what it truly means to become a new creation (2 Cor 5:17). Certainly, this must be important, for the past is gone and we've become something we never were prior. In addition, we have God dwelling within, plus supernatural gifts that are meant to edify the rest of the church!
Lolly
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