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Introduction:
HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness," says the Lord.
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Thomas Kempis the 15th century preacher who wrote “ The Imitation of Christ says, "We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts.
Let it be the most important thing we do."
The Imitation of Christ.
Kempis also states in another section: “Yet whoever wishes to understand fully the words of Christ must try to pattern his whole life on that of Christ.”
The Imitation of Christ.
The people of God are to imitate God
The people of God are to imitate God
Lev 11:44-45 See also Lev 19:2; 20:7,26; 21:8; 1Pe 1:16; Eph 5:1
The people of God are to Imitate God
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44 'For I am the LORD your God.
Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy.
And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth.
45 'For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.'"
"We must imitate Christ's life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts.
Let it be the most important thing we do."
(NASB)
7 'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
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7 'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
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7 'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
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7 'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
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7 'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
oYou therefore must be pperfect, qas your heavenly Father is perfect.
oYou therefore must be pperfect, qas your heavenly Father is perfect.
Why should we imitate God?
If we are to Imitate God, we will resemble Christ.
Webster's 1913 Unabridged English Dictionary.
defines imitate as:
1.
To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.
Despise wealth and imitate a dog.
Cowlay.
2. To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.
Point 1- Simulate God......v1
"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children" ( KJV).
The word "follower" means to imitate.
God's children should act like God's children.
In their conduct, they should imitate their heavenly Father.
Thus the believer should act like a believer.
We all wanted to to follow the pattern of someone else !
Some of us wanted to be Bruce Lee, Bruce Leroy if your in the hood.....
We wanted to look like super heroes, gangsters, fashion models,and everything else.
I wonder, what or who do we resemble throughout the week?
On a wall near the main entrance to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, is a portrait with the following inscription: "James Butler Bonham--no picture of him exists.
This portrait is of his nephew, Major James Bonham, deceased, who greatly resembled his uncle.
It is placed here by the family that people may know the appearance of the man who died for freedom."
No literal portrait of Jesus exists either.
But the likeness of the Son who makes us free can be seen in the lives of his true followers.
Mini-Me is a character played by Verne Troyer in the second and third Austin Powers films: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember.
Mini me would follow the pattern of Dr Evil to the letter.
From Dress to attitude.....
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11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good.
The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
You mimic, simulate who you follow.
Some people go so far as to get plasic surgery to simulate or imitate the one they idealize.
If you idealize anybody or anything else other than Jesus, then your an idolater.
You should look like your Father in heaven.
Every father/mother want to see themselves in their children .
They act like their parents in many ways....but in the end, others will know who child you really are.
Don’t imitate evil you see on the TV, or hear on the radio, or see out here in the street.
Don’t walk around with your pants down, like they do in prison.....Stop imitating Dr Evil, the devil and imitate your Father ....
We all wanted to to follow the pattern of someone else !
Some of us wanted to be Bruce Lee, Bruce Leroy if your in the hood.....
We wanted to look like super heroes, gangsters, fashion models,and everything else.
I wonder, what or who do we resemble throughout the week?
On a wall near the main entrance to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, is a portrait with the following inscription: "James Butler Bonham--no picture of him exists.
This portrait is of his nephew, Major James Bonham, deceased, who greatly resembled his uncle.
It is placed here by the family that people may know the appearance of the man who died for freedom."
No literal portrait of Jesus exists either.
But the likeness of the Son who makes us free can be seen in the lives of his true followers.
"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children" ( KJV).
The word "follower" means to imitate.
God's children should act like God's children.
In their conduct, they should imitate their heavenly Father.
Thus the believer should act like a believer.
Point #2 Stroll Like Jesus
Walk in Love () The first exhortation for God-like conduct is the exhortation to "walk in love" ().
This is logical for "God is love" ().
• The paradigm/pattern of love.
"Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God" ().
The model for our love is found in God's Son, Jesus Christ.
First, the superiority of the paradigm.
"Loved us."
No love is as great as Christ's love for us (, ).
Second, the sacrifice in the paradigm.
"Hath given himself" True love gives.
"God so loved... that he gave" ().
If we walk in love, we will give of ourselves sacrificially.
Third, the spirituality in the paradigm.
"An offering and a sacrifice to God."
This love is not like the world's love but it is spiritual.
It is not divorced from God. Love that leaves out God is not true love.
Much of the world's love is not true love because the world does not want God involved.
• The perverting of love.
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