WTAT IS CHRISTIAN?

A CHRISTIAN:is acopy of

Christ.His inner and outer

Man are to be copies of Christ.

It is Christ’s footsteps he is to walk in .

It is Christ’s image that he is to refrect.

It is not Paul Peter or other apostle

Tha he is to copy, but

Christ Himself. Other models may

Illustrate this, and so help in the

Imitation of Christ; but only in do

Ing this are they useful; otherwise

They are dangerous. What then is a

Christian man(or woman)?

 

 

1.HE IS A MAN OF FAITH

 

It was by giving credit to God’s word

That he became a Christian; for it is

By faith tha we become sons of God

And his whole life is to be a life of

As a believing man.The more that he

Understands of Christ’s life,the more

Will he see the faith that marks it, and

Will learn to copy it, to live, act,speak,

And walk by faith.

 

2. HE IS A MAN OF PRAYER.

 

In this,too he follows Christ.

Christ’s life was a life of prayer.in

The morning we find him praying,a

Great while before day. All night we

Find Him praying more. No one

We would say, less needed prayer ; yet

prayed more. And the disciple

imitates the Master in this.He prays

without ceasing. He is instant in

 supplication.

His life is a life of prayer constant 

intercourse with God.

 

3. He is a man of hope

 

Christ looked to the joy set before

him, and so endured the cross. He

anticipated the glory, and so was a

man of hope. There is the hope,the

same glory the same joy for us. our

prospects are bright, and we keep

them ever in view. the kingdom,the

crown,the city,the inheritance, these

are before our eyers. They cheer,and

sustain, and purify us. were it not for

the hope, what would become of us?,

What would this world be to us?learn

to hope as well as to believe.

 

4. HE IS A MAN OF HOLINESS.

 

He is the follower of a holy Master.

He hears the voice: Be holy, for I am

holy. He knows that he is redeemed –

to be holy, to do good works,to follow

righteousness, to be one of peculiar-

people. He is not content with being-

saved; he seeks to put off sin, lust,evil

vanity,and to put on righteousness,hol

iness, and every heavenly characteristic.

He seeks to rise higher and higher; to –

grow more unlike this world more like the

world to come . He marks Christ’s footsteps

and walks in them.

 

5. HE IS A MAN OF LOVE

 

 

He has known Christ’s love,and

drunk it in,and found his joy in it

so he seeks to be like Him in love

the Father, to love the brethren, to

love sinners, to show love at all ti-

mes, in word and deed. His life is-

to be a life of love his words the –

words of  love,his daily doings the

outflow of a heart of love he is to –

be a living witness of the gospel of

love. love- not hatred, nor coldness,

nor malice, nor revenge, nor selfish

ness,nor indifference. love such as –

was in Christ.