How We Are To Be

Like Jesus

1 Peter 2:21◦ For to this you were called, because Christ also

suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps

Hebrew 2:17◦ Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His

brethren… 1 Corinthians 11:1

◦ Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

Intro

John 20:31◦ but these are written that you may believe that

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

Philippians 2:6-7◦ …but made Himself of no reputation, taking the

form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

Galatians 4:7◦ Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son,

and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Son of God

1 John 4:9◦ …that God has sent His only begotten Son into

the world, that we might live through Him. Ephesians 1:5

◦ having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself…

Colossians 3:20◦ Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is

well pleasing to the Lord.

Son of God

Philippians 2:8◦ And being found in appearance as a man, He

humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

Revelation 2:10◦ Be faithful until death, and I will give you the

crown of life.

Son of God

John 1:29◦ …Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin

of the world! 1 Peter 1:18-19

◦ …but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Hebrews 9:13-14, 22◦ …how much more shall the blood of Christ, who

through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

◦ …without shedding of blood there is no remission.

Lamb of God

John 5:19◦ Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do

nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

John 5:30◦ I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and

My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

Lamb of God

John 6:38◦ For I have come down from heaven, not to do My

own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 1 Timothy 2:3-4

◦ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Lamb of God

John 10:14◦ am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep,

and am known by My own. 2 Samuel 24:24

◦ No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing.

John 10:27◦ My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and

they follow Me.

Lamb of God

John 14:15◦ If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Luke 11:28◦ …More than that, blessed are those who hear the

word of God and keep it! Deuteronomy 4:2

◦ You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Lamb of God

Revelation 22:18-19◦ …If anyone adds to these things, God will add to

him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Lamb of God

Luke 19:9-10◦ …for the Son of Man has come to seek and to

save that which was lost. John 12:27

◦ Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

Mark 2:17◦ Those who are well have no need of a physician,

but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

Cared About the Lost

Matthew 9:36-38◦ …The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers

are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

Romans 10:1◦ Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for

Israel is that they may be saved.

Cared About the Lost

John 7:16-17◦ Jesus answered them and said, ‘My doctrine is not

Mine, but His who sent Me. … John 6:63

◦ It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

John14:26◦ …He will teach you all things, and bring to your

remembrance all things that I said to you.

Teacher of God’s Word

1 Corinthians 2:13◦ These things we also speak, not in words which

man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

Matthew 28:19-20◦ … teaching them to observe all things that I have

commanded you… 2 Timothy 2:2

◦ And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Teacher of God’s Word

2 Timothy 2:15◦ Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a

worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

1 Peter 3:15 (KJV) ◦ … and be ready always to give an answer to

every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear

Hebrews 5:12◦ For though by this time you ought to be teachers,

you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God…

Teacher of God’s Word

John 8:12◦ … I am the light of the world. He who follows Me

shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.

Psalms 119:105◦ Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my

path. John 7:7

◦ The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

Light of the World

Matthew 5:14-16◦ You are the light of the world. A city that is set on

a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Light of the World

Romans 12:2◦ And do not be conformed to this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind 1Peter 2:9 (KJV)

◦ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people…

John 15:18-19◦ … Yet because you are not of the world, but I

chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Light of the World

Matthew 16:5-12◦ … Then they understood that He did not tell them

to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees

Matthew 15:1-9◦ … And in vain they worship Me, teaching as

doctrines the commandments of men. John 2:13-16

◦ … When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables…

Dealt with Error

Revelation 2:2◦ … that you cannot bear those who are evil. And

you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars

1 Corinthians 5:1-8◦ …Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the

whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened…

Dealt with Error

Acts 20:28-30◦ …Also from among yourselves men will rise up,

speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

Galatian 2:4-5◦ …to whom we did not yield submission even for

an hour… Jude 3-4

◦ …ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ…

Dealt with Error

Hebrews 13:8◦ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and

forever. Hebrews 7:3

◦ without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

John 8:56-58◦ Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was,

I AM.

Live for Eternity in Heaven

John 17:24◦ Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me

may be with Me where I am… 1 John 5:11-13

◦ And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son…

1 John 2:24-25◦ … And this is the promise that He has promised

us—eternal life.

Live for Eternity in Heaven

Romans 10:17 (Hear)◦ So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by

the word of God. Romans 3:23

◦ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

John 3:18 (Believe)◦ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he

who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Conclusion

Acts 17:30 (Repent)◦ Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked,

but now commands all men everywhere to repent Matthew 10:32-33 (Confess)

◦ Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

Conclusion

Acts 2:38 (Baptized)◦ Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every

one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins…

Galatians 3:27◦ For as many of you as were baptized into Christ

have put on Christ.

Conclusion

Philippians 3:12-14 (Live faithfully )◦ …Brethren, I do not count myself to have

apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Conclusion