From
the Badlands and the Prairie of Western South Dakota
www.scatteredchristians.org
April
18, 2010
Audio
sermon
Video
sermon
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Are
We Really Supposed To 'Be Like Christ?'
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Am I bad to teach this? So many folks actually think we are to 'be
like Christ' in our daily walk. Is that what the Scriptures actually
teach to us today?
It is so heavily taught that even we fight that inner engrained teaching
that we still think we have to be like Christ... at least in some ways...
but that is NOT Scriptural.
Stay with me and see what the Scriptures truly teach!
The audio expounds upon the following information!
Are we to 'Be Like Christ?
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Rick Warren says so!
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Most ministers and pastors say so!
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Most serious preachers insinuate so!
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All modern Bibles say so!
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Most parents even expect their kids to act like so!
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Most Sunday School teachers expect their kids to do so!
A Rightly Divided KJB doesn't say so!
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Paul doesn't say so!
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so... then I don't say so!
But the Devil Does!
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as the god of this world!
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as the god of religion!
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as the god of education!
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as the god of the lost!
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as the god of those who think they are saved but are not!
I. To think you are walking like Christ
is the epitome of conceit!
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Adam and Eve couldn't!
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Noah couldn't!
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Abram couldn't!
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Moses couldn't!
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Jesus did... but...
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Paul couldn't!
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The tribulation needs the Spirit of God upon their flesh!
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but you think you can walk Christ like?
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Romans 11:25 -
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits...
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You think you are following I John 3?
2. The Devil is behind all this teaching!
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...I will be like the most High...
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Prepping for the Tribulation
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Daniel 11:21
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Daniel 11:36,37
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I Peter 4:1
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I Peter 21:21
3. Modern Bibles teach it along with the modern preachers sermons!
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Modern bible say to imitate instead of follow God, imitate instead of follow
Christ, imitate instead of follow Paul, imitate instead of follow the apostles,
imitate instead of follow your pastor!
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Ephesians 5:1 - Be imitators of
God
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I Corinthians 4:16 - Therefore I
urge you to imitate me.
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I Thessalonians 1:6 - You became
imitators of us and of the Lord...
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I Thessalonians 2:14 - ...became
imitators of God's churches
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Hebrews 6:12 - We do not want you
to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit
what has been promised.
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Hebrews 13:7 - Remember you leaders,
who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way
of life and imitate their faith.
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III John 11 - Dear friend, do not
imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good
is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.
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Quotes from an Online Sermon
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Ephesians 5:1 commands us to be imitators of Christ.
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The word 'followers' can be traced back to the Greek word "mimos" which
means 'to imitate.'
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The strength of everything must be tested for Kingdom worthiness.
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Personally, I wish every new Believe would be set apart for three years
in study of nothing but the words of Jesus. Nothing from Paul, Peter,
James, etc. Just Jesus!
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Charles Spurgeon wrote: A Christian should be a striking likeness of
Jesus Christ."
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The only thing that can possibly silence the critics of Christianity
is for Christians to act like Christ.
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The word 'Christian' means "little Christs" and "Jesus Juniors."
4. A wrongly divided King James Bible can be used to teach this
false doctrine!
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Online example goes from Luke to Jude.
5. Quotes from Rick Warren as he teaches his followers to become
like Christ!
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You were created to become like Christ!
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We already have what we have in Christ, but we haven't really fully
realized all of it yet.
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The wrath of God is coming... you used to walk in these ways... but
now you must rid yourselves of all such things... (Colossians 3:1-11 -
but not KJB!)
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"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who
love him, who have been called according to His purpose." Notice it doesn't
say that we know that in most things God works? God says, all things work
together for our purpose. (why did he change the word to 'our'
purpose - it says HIS purpose even in his modern bible...)
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For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness
of his Son." It says image, not likeness. Also, see Philippians
3:21. yes but not yet today!
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God knows that we are codfish in a catfish world. God allows all things,
even catfish type things to help us grow strong and if He kept us from
those things, we wouldn't grow into the image of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself
said, "In this world you are going to have struggles. You are going to
have troubles, tribulations, but be of good courage. I have overcome the
world and I am going to take those troubles and I am going to transform
you more and more in to my likeness." Everything that happens to you and
I as Christians, everything is designed by God to conform us to the image
of his son. Trials are situations designed by God to draw us closer to
him. Look at this passage from Romans 5:3 and 4.
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Every problem for a Christian has a purpose - to make us like our Lord!
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His preachy-prayer: Dear Father, life makes so much more sense
when we realize that it's not about our careers, it's not about our comfort.
It's all about character and becoming like Jesus. Help us to use life for
the reason that you gave it to us. Now, I want you to pray. If you would
just pray this silently in your own mind and heart. Dear God, I want to
grow in character. I want to become who you made me to be. Thank you for
Jesus and his model. I want to become more like Him in the way I think,
and the way I feel and the way I act. If that means taking me through troubles,
then I say, I want your will for my life. And, if you have never opened
your life to Jesus Christ, pray this prayer silently in your heart. Jesus,
I cant' live like you unless I know you. So I want to get to know you today.
As much as I know how, I want to ask you to come into my life and heart.
In your name I pray. Amen.
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He preaches to the people in his prayer?
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Notice: becoming like Jesus; I want to become who you made me
to be. Thank you for Jesus and his model. (Paul is suppose
to be our ensample today - not our model!)
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Come into my life and heart? Where is that in Scriptures?
Let's look at the truth from the King James Bible about 'being like Christ.'
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The audio expounds on the following verses:
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Romans 6:4 - "as"
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Ephesians 1:4,5
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Ephesians 1:10
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Philippians 3:21
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Ephesians 2:13
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Romans 14:17
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I Corinthians 3:10-15
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All things are lawful, so how does that play into 'being like Christ?"
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Our true purpose is His purpose - Ephesians 1:11-14!
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It isn't to be Christ-like.
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That will be the another Jesus - that will be antichrist.
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If we have people today that think they are actually walking like Christ,
then maybe they would fit with Matthew 24:24 -
For there shall arise false Christs, and
false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mike
Paulson
Trying
to do the work of an evangelist by teaching Paul's gospel of the Risen
Saviour!
www.scatteredchristians.org
The
entire King James Bible is written FOR us, but it is not all written TO
us!
We
learn from the "For" and we learn to apply the 'TO!"