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- Every child of God wants to be more like Jesus. And, by God’s grace, this actually happens. The name the Bible gives to this process of becoming more Christ-like is “sanctification.” To be sanctified is to become more dedicated to God and separated from sin (Rom. 6:22). It’s to live out the deep principles of salvation.
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Jan 4, 2022 · There are three things which contribute to our being more Christlike: our surrender to God, our freedom from sin, and our spiritual growth. 1) Becoming more Christlike is the result of surrender to God. Romans 12:1-2 says that worship involves a total self-dedication to God.
Jan 4, 2022 · God’s goal for the believer is to be like Jesus. First John 3:2: “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
- Practice compassion. Today, it is common to pit people against each other—to divide and judge. Ancient divisions—rooted in race, creed, gender, color or ethnicity—continue to flame into violence.
- Seek the Kingdom of God. Jesus practiced what He clearly taught: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). Jesus’ consistent message centered on the coming Kingdom of God.
- Take up your cross daily. One familiar scene from Jesus’ life is when He carried His cross (John 19:17). Historians differ about what this wooden stake may have looked like—it may have been a beam or a T-shaped device.
- Be a Sabbath-keeper. The modern world is hectic, chaotic and overwhelming. Jesus taught and practiced a solution. God created and blessed the weekly Sabbath, making the seventh day of the week (Saturday) a holy time of rest (Genesis 2:1-3).
Jan 4, 2022 · It is important to realize that becoming more like Christ starts by receiving Him as Savior from our sins. Then we grow in our knowledge of God by reading the Bible daily, studying it, and being obedient to what it says. This process causes us to grow and occurs over an entire lifetime in Christ.
Romans 8:29 reads that God has predestined His people to be conformed to the image of His Son: that is, to become like Jesus. We all know that when Adam fell he lost much—though not all—of the divine image in which he had been created. But God has restored it in Christ.
Aug 9, 2023 · Jesus prayed to His Father for those who would belong to Him, “that they may be one just as We are one” (John 17:22). God’s will is for us to become more and more like Christ. It is that simple—and also that complex.
The church is the Body of Christ on Earth, and it is important to join with other followers of Jesus Christ to learn from one another, to encourage one another, and to obey God’s Word. This is how we grow in faith. Christ will work in us and through us and we can know that His hand is upon us.
