BECOME LIKE JESUS

We are all born into different cultures

with different beliefs and practices that are worldly. Many are born
into church denominations and they cling to the culture and doctrines
of their church. None of those cultures are suitable for the kingdom
of heaven. If we want to have eternal life we need to accept Jesus,
be born again and live according to His words and commandments.
We need to become like Jesus.
Do not become like other
people. Do not become like the Christians. Most Christians  are
not following Jesus. They are following the cultures and doctrines of
men. Become like Jesus.
The words of Jesus, the words that He
spoke  and commanded, are the words and rules of the kingdom of
God. The words of Jesus are the only words that lead to eternal life,
if we obey them. Jesus delivered many of His commandments in the
sermon on the mount as recorded in Matthew chapters 5 to 7. We read
in Matthew 7:24-27. "Therefore everyone who hears these words of
Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his
house on the rock. 25“And the rain fell, and the floods came, and
the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not
fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26“Everyone who hears
these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish
man who built his house on the sand. 27“The rain fell, and the
floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and
it fell—and great was its fall.”
Many Christians disregard the
words of Jesus and rather follow the teachings of their churches and
the church of their fathers. Many regard their culture more than the
words of Jesus. Others stuby the Bible but skip over and around the
words of Jesus. They are building on sand. Those who disobey Jesus
will be disappointed. They will not have eternal life.
Jesus is
the way, the truth and the life. Treasure His words and obey them, as
they were also recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  Become
like Jesus, not like the world and the Christians. Jesus is the way.
Follow Him until the end, and you will have life.
May Jesus bless
you.

Most Christians Never Become Spiritually Mature

Most Christian believers never become mature children of God. A mature
born again child of God is led by the Spirit if God, he follows Jesus
Christ. He knows the Master's voice and he bears fruit for the kingdom
of God. He bears fruit because he is led by the Spirit and he is IN
Christ, he does what the Holy Spirit guides him into doing.
Most Christian believers never grow to that maturity. The majority of
them die as spiritual babes. Many think that they have salvation because
they just believe in Jesus Christ, but they do not realize that Jesus
will say to them one day:"Go away I never knew you, you workers of
wickedness."
We need to have a real relationship with Jesus Christ, the living God.
We must bear fruit for the kingdom of God, and we can only do that if we
have received and are led by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ.
Without Jesus Christ we can do nothing. Most believers are busy with
dead religious practices. Others occupy themselves with Bible study, and
many run after other people. They run after preachers, they look for
the fellowship of other believers, other Christians, but they have no
fellowship with Jesus.
We can only know Jesus for real, follow Him, and do what is pleasing to
Him if we are close to Him, if we hear His voice, if we know Him for
real.
Most believers never reach that maturity. They never get that close to
Jesus. They never take the time and the effort to truly seek Jesus with
all their heart, so that they can hear from Him, learn from Him, be led
by Him and receive revelation from Him.
Are we following Jesus? Do we truly know Him? Have we come to spiritual
maturity, where we know Jesus and nothing deters us, nothing prevents us
from following Jesus? Is our trust in Him? Are we so sure of our
relationship with Jesus that nothing moves us from following Him,
obeying Him and doing His will?
We have to grow to maturity to be able to bear fruit for the kingdom of
God. It is only through our relationship with Jesus, our obedience to
Him, being led by His Holy Spirit and doing His will, that we can be
pleasing to Him.
Have we become spiritually mature? Are we striving and seeking? Do we
really want to get into that close relationship with Jesus, or do we not
care enough about Jesus and the kingdom of God? Because, if we are not
serious about Jesus then we will have no place in His kingdom.
We must grow to spiritual maturity, as children of God, so that we can
work for the kingdom and inherit the kingdom of God that is promised to
those who love and obey Jesus Christ.
May Jesus bless you.

Become LIKE Jesus Christ

If we follow Jesus Christ we WILL become like Him. Jesus Christ did not come to do His own will. He came to do the will of the Father, His Father, God. Jesus Christ did not DO or SAY anything on His own initiative, not His own mind, not His own ideas, but EVERYTHING that He did was what He received from His Father. He DID what His Father commanded Him to do. He came to fuilfill the commission that the Father gave Him.

The words that Jesus Christ spoke were the words His Father. If we follow Jesus Christ and we OBEY His words then we will be BORN AGAIN, we will become LIKE JESUS CHRIST a son of God and we WILL do the will of the Father. We will become like Jesus, not like the world, not like the idea that the world has of Jesus Christ, but we will DO what our father God TELLS US TO DO.

His sheep LISTEN to His VOICE and they follow Him. Are we one of His sheep? Do we LISTEN TO GOD and do we DO what He TELLS US TO DO? Have we become SONS OF GOD like Jesus Christ? If not, then we are not following Jesus Christ and we are not born again.

May Jesus bless you.