We imitate God by walking in love, for God is love. Even His holiness flows out of His love. We are to imitate our God as His beloved (agapetos) children. He has a special, willing, intentional, sacrificial love for us! This should move our hearts to want to know more about and imitate God's great love. We are His children! We cannot imitate God without being born again.
The motivation of all of our obedience is love. The two come hand in hand. Love produces holiness, blamelessness, and obedience. If we love, all other commandments should flow naturally. Love requires will. Christ willingly lay down His life for us, and we should also be willing to lay down our lives for others.
Others should know that we are Christians because we mimic the love of Christ, which is the greatest indication of godliness and maturity in a Christian. We must gaze and feast upon Christ. We must strive and resolve to comprehend His great love by reading His Word that we would reflect His love to others. To be filled with the fullness of God is to comprehend the love of Christ and live it. We behave like Christ by beholding and believing in Him.
Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter.
Text-Featuring a sermon is a less expensive way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands on the right bar with optional newsletter inclusion. As low as $30/day.
Ryan Case has a passion to see the lost ushered into the Kingdom of God, as well as to see Christ's redeemed grow in all knowledge and grace. His 'heroes of the faith' include John Piper, D.A. Carson, and C.H. Spurgeon. Ryan graduated from the Toronto Baptist Seminary and was...
