How do we Become like Jesus?

[farouk]

53 minutes ago, Willa said:

Joh 6:57  As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

Joh 6:58  This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."

Joh 6:63  It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

As others have said, it is feeding on God's word that helps us to see Christ more clearly.  The Holy Spirit uses the words of Christ to infuse us with His life.  Through this route the living water of His Spirit then flows out to others.  We see God's dealings with Israel as well as Christ weeping over Jerusalem, that He would have gathered her to Himself like a mother hen gathers her chicks.  Such loving compassion for those who reject Him.

 We behold Christ and are conformed to His likeness as we perceive God's heart.

@Willa There is so much in John 6 (I was actually discussing it yesterday...)

[Vine Abider]

7 hours ago, com7fy8 said:

"faith working through love" (in Galatians 5:6)

While we do things by faith, we are effected by God's love which changes us to become like Jesus in our character.

I agree.  And to be specific this working is a result of His indwelling Spirit.

[Vine Abider]

7 hours ago, Willa said:

As others have said, it is feeding on God's word that helps us to see Christ more clearly.  The Holy Spirit uses the words of Christ to infuse us with His life.  Through this route the living water of His Spirit then flows out to others.  We see God's dealings with Israel as well as Christ weeping over Jerusalem, that He would have gathered her to Himself like a mother hen gathers her chicks.  Such loving compassion for those who reject Him.

 We behold Christ and are conformed to His likeness as we perceive God's heart.

Worth quoting!

[Vine Abider]

11 hours ago, farouk said:

@Marilyn C So much depends on spiritual diet, right?

Which is why daily prayer and the Scriptures are so vital.....

Eating Jesus is the way!  (My words - they are Spirit and they are Life)

[steve morrow]

LIKE CHRIST

1 PETER 4:1  for as much then as  CHRIST  hath suffered for us in the flesh  --arm yourselves likewise  --  with the same mind-- for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin

--4:2--  that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh --to the lusts of men-- but to the will of  GOD--

 

JOHN 12:49  for I have not spoken of myself but  THE  FATHER  which sent  ME  HE  gave  ME  a commandment what I should say and what I should speak 

--12:50--  and I know that  HIS  commandment is life everlasting whatsoever I speak therefore even as  --THE  FATHER--  said unto ME  so I speak

 

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

 

 

 

[Mije]

@Vine Abider et al. This is a wonderful thread but I am wondering after reading through the posts- Is the consensus here that we actually DO nothing except read the Word and know by faith that the Holy Spirit is working within us? Isn’t faith without works dead?

[Selah7]

We must know Jesus if we want to resemble Him even a little. How do we go about doing that?  We stay in His Word and study it well.  Yeah, we endeavor to learn all about Him.

[Vine Abider]

6 hours ago, Mije said:

@Vine Abider et al. This is a wonderful thread but I am wondering after reading through the posts- Is the consensus here that we actually DO nothing except read the Word and know by faith that the Holy Spirit is working within us? Isn’t faith without works dead?

Yes, it's true the faith without works is dead, but the proper perspective is this - works that mean anything are the outflow from a living relationship with Him.  Our initial salvation is totally by faith in Christ and His operation; likewise our works need to be totally by faith in Christ and His operation.

Good works are the evidence of Christ living through us. If we get our focus off depending on Christ and living by Him, then our works are nothing.

[Vine Abider]

3 hours ago, Selah7 said:

We must know Jesus if we want to resemble Him even a little. How do we go about doing that?  We stay in His Word and study it well.  Yeah, we endeavor to learn all about Him.

Yes, and may I add that in learning all about Him in the written word, we constantly ask Him to illuminate our thinking and to live through us?

[David1701]

10 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

Yes, and may I add that in learning all about Him in the written word, we constantly ask Him to illuminate our thinking and to live through us?

Yes, exactly.  Learning about Jesus, on its own, does not make us like him.  It takes God to work in us, to will and to do of his good pleasure, to make us Christlike.