by Ken Alexander

Created on: August 27, 2008

To be like Christ is to actually displace our own human nature with the nature of Christ. No matter how we act or what we say that we think is the way Christ acted is being like Christ. Analyzing "what would Jesus do" in a situation is not being like Him. Neither is taking on a religious persona. The only way to be like Him is to actually become Him.
The Old Testament contained various laws that the Jews were to follow in order to please God. Although the Israelites tried to follow the laws, they failed over and over again. They were conquered many times because they were disobedient, following after other religions and worshipping idols among other things. The point of the Old Testament laws was to make man aware that even though he had God in his midst, he could never fulfill the law in himself. Thus Jesus Christ became necessary to fulfill the law for us.

Jeremiah 31:33-44 and Hebrews 8:7-13 state how it was under the New Covenant (New Testament) enacted by Christ:

"BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD,
WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT
WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH;
NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS
ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND
TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT;
FOR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT,
AND I DID NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS THE LORD.
"FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD:
I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS,
AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS.
AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD,
AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
And when He said, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear".

No longer does Israel (spiritual Israel of this time) have to obey God's laws by their own strength or stamina. Now the laws will be written on their hearts. With this new nature they will no longer sin because it will no longer be in their nature to do so. A majority of Christianity today seems to cling to the old and obsolete law that was if you do certain things, works and actions, God will be pleased. God is not pleased with anything done on the human level. He is only pleased by His Son and those who are becoming like Him. Any works that please Him come from the Spirit sand are not man's works but Gods.

There is no question scripturally that we are to be like Him.
1 John 3:2 says:
"Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will

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