IT IS A LIFE FULFILLING GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE Before the world was created or man was made to inhabit it, God had a purpose that He intended to carry out through His Son. Ephesians 3:11 “According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 2 Timothy 1:9 “Who hath saved…
IT IS A LIFE PERFECTED BY GOD’S HOLY PRESENCE I hasten to this point because I would not have anyone think even for an instant that conformity to the image of Christ is affected by imitation of a pattern, no matter how perfect. Such conformity as the Bible speaks of is not wrought in…
IT IS A LIFE CONFORMED TO GOD’S PERFECT PATTERN (CON’T) But the perfection of His character did not consist so much in the negative quality of sinlessness as in the positive one of holiness—a holiness so rare, so wondrous, so unearthly that it compelled His Father to break the silence of heaven three times…