In this lesson, I want to talk about the attitude or character of a disciple. A disciple supposed to look like his master. In character, behaviour, life style, way of talking and even dress sense. He wants in all entirety to reflect the master.
The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household! - Matthew 10:24-25 NIV.
You don't want to be different from your master. When this becomes your goal, you study your master closely. Somehow, the disciples achieved that in the garden of Gethsemane. There was no difference between Jesus Christ and His disciples when the Pharisees and the leaders of Israel came to arrest him, they coundn't recognize who is the Jesus. They needed a kiss of betrayal to identify him.
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Then since Jesus is not physically with us today, we need to study him in the Bible. We need to check how he talks, his manners, his preferences, his habits, his hobbies. Where he likes to go, how he spends his time, how he fasts often, how he is compassionate. If we know these attributes of him, we can imitate him.
Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. - 1 Corinthians 11:1 NIV.
This was Paul instructing the early Christians to follow his example as he follows Christ. As Christians we ought to live an exemplary life that reflect Christ. I will be talking more about exemplary lifestyle soon so stay tune.
The scriptures are designed to imitate the teacher.
I love that line where Paul says "follow my example as I follow Christ." We all need people in our lives who we can emulate but we also need to know the character of Christ so that we don't get led astray by false teachers.
On my own opinion, Christ message throughout his life is to enable us rediscover our position as children of God. Lots of us get crowded with day to day activities and fail to acknowledge God in our lives until we retired for the day. God is closer to us than the air we breath in. Living in God, with God and for God is the message. Seek first the kingdom of God and everything follows up. Gratitude to God should be done as a per second duty for anyone that wants to be great and successful
Sometimes a leader will be a follower and this is a type of eample to follow which Jesus did when he was on earth.
I am a Born again. Thanks for the Word of God.
Those are the word of wisdom. We Christians should spread the good news.
I will like to invite you to today's Christian curation show in the whaleshares discord server. Kindly read this post announcing it.
Tuesday Christian Curation show
Venue: whaleshares community discord server: https://discord.gg/CDFaync
Time: 2:00 PM EST or 7:00 PM GMT/UTC
God Bless you as you come to fellowship with other Christians.