0118 Christian - Imitate the Heavenly Pattern

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Imitate the Heavenly Pattern

Israel’s weakness is in imitating the earthly pattern (Ex.32:7-11)

Israel imitated Moses (earthly image) because he led them

Moses became the god of Israel who delivered them out of Egypt (even said that)

Moses acknowledged the dependency on heavenly pattern

Building the dwelling place of God (Ex.25:8-9, 20)

Tabernacle was a dwelling place of God, so it had to build according to heavenly pattern

Heavenly pattern is seen on the mountain with God and is build off the mountain with people

We are the temple of God (1Cor.3:16)

You are God’s building – we are God’s fellow workers

Foundation – Jesus; what you allow to build is what you will become

Fire tests the work

You build of what you have seen and of what you know

People would always imitate the heavenly pattern

Aaron followed the pattern that God shown to Moses (Num.8:4)

Philippian Church followed the pattern of Paul (Phil.3:17)

Imitate me as I imitate Christ (1 Cor.11:1)

Heavenly Pattern on Earth

Jesus is the Teacher that has heavenly and earthly natures

Disciple is imitator of his Teacher (Luke 6:40)

I your Teacher did this, so you ought to do that also (John 13)

We are commanded to imitate His earthly pattern to win and disciple (Mt.28:19)

We are promised to imitate His earthly pattern of life of miraculous (John 14:12)