Study Jesus to be like Him?

[Vine Abider]

12 hours ago, com7fy8 said:

This means how God Himself is able to use any scripture to minister for us to be perfected in Christ and to love and share as His family and love any and all people the way Jesus was doing, on the cross.

Yes, and to clarify: Words from a page (even very good words like is in the Bible) will do nothing to to transform us into His image, unless the Holy Spirit is present and doing it.

"You search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life . . . but you will not come unto Me that you might have life." John 5:39-40

"The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."  2 Cor 3:4

"It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words (rhema - instant speaking) I speak (ongoing) unto you, they are Spirit and they are life."  John 6:63

"We . . . are being transformed into the same image. . . even as from the Lord the Spirit." 1 Cor 3:18

[steve morrow]

WILL  DO  NOTHING ????

 

ISAIAH 53:2  for  HE  shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground  HE  hath no form nor comeliness --- and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire  HIM ---

 

PHILIPPIANS 2:7  but made himself of no reputation and took upon  HIM  the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men

--2:8-- and being found in fashion as a man ---HE  humbled himself --- and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross---

 

2 CORINTHIANS 10:1  now I paul myself beseech you by the  ---  meekness and gentleness of  CHRIST --- who in presence am base among you but being absent am bold toward you

 

PSALM 31:21  blessed be  THE  LORD  for  HE  hath showed me  HIS  marvellous  -- kindness -- in a strong city

 

ACTS 17:11  these were more noble than those in thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind  --- and searched the   SCRIPTURES   daily whether those things were so ---

 

******* 2 CORINTHIANS --3:4--  and such trust have we through  CHRIST  TO  GOD - WARD *******

 

ISAIAH 2:22  CEASE  YOU  FROM  MAN  WHOSE  BREATH  IS  IN  HIS  NOSTRILS  ---FOR  WHEREIN  IS  HE  TO  BE  ACCOUNTED  OF ---

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

[Mr. M]

On 6/22/2023 at 11:41 AM, Vine Abider said:

Yes, and to clarify: Words from a page (even very good words like is in the Bible) will do nothing to to transform us into His image, unless the Holy Spirit is present and doing it.

"You search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life . . . but you will not come unto Me that you might have life." John 5:39-40

"The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."  2 Cor 3:4

"It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words (rhema - instant speaking) I speak (ongoing) unto you, they are Spirit and they are life."  John 6:63

"We . . . are being transformed into the same image. . . even as from the Lord the Spirit." 1 Cor 3:18

Words of Christ, like the Law of Moses (Deuteronomy),

the prophets and the apostolic doctrine

were meant to be spoken, i.e. read publicly.

Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

1 Corinthians 1:

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

Romans 10:

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:

“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

On a personal level, as we "search the scriptures", there is great power in praying through them as we go, that they may manifest in your life, not just be information to quote in a discussion. Here is a verse that I pray for whoever is on this forum seeking truth.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.