The document discusses Christlikeness and becoming conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. It makes several key points: 1) God's plan is for believers to be predestined to be like His Son Jesus. Being made in God's image, He desires for humans to resemble Christ. 2) To become like Christ, it is important to understand what Christ was like based on the Bible - including being a servant, compassionate, gracious, and holy in His relationship with God. 3) Christlikeness should define Christians' goals and plans, as that is what they were created by God to become. The document encourages committing to this purpose.

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29And For whom He
foreknew, He also
predestined to be conformed
to the image of His Son, that
He might be the firstborn
among many brethren...
(ROMANS 8:29,
NKJV).

2. “Resemblance?”
Every animal on earth resembles
its parents.

3. “Doubts in likeness?”
Hmmm.?
By DNA testing , it can be
proven!

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How close is the resemblance?
What hope do we have of ever
looking like Christ?
Do we desire to look like Christ?

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I. Is your Life Goal
Christlikeness?
What will I be when I grow up?
What are your dreams/goals in life?
..I want to be a
Pilot..
..I want to be
Doctor..
..I want to travel the world, universe
rather
I want to be d’ richest person in the
world.
..I want to be a famous person in the
world
..I want to be like Christ…

6. It isn’t just that God desires that we
become like Jesus.
It is that God has created us for this
purpose.
A being much more like Himself.. aspecial
When God first created human beings,
He made them in His own image.(Gen.
1:27)
When Adam and Eve sinned against God
through their disobedience, they destroyed
the image of God in them. But through
Christ’s death on the cross, the image we
have before
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7. This is God’s plan, His intention for us.
“For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the likeness
of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brothers.” Romans 8:29
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 predestined to be conformed
this indicates God’s plan for those who
follow Him.
He has created us and intends for us to be
just like Jesus.

8. His purpose why He died on the cross was
to
make us like himself before he takes us to
heaven.”
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We have been created to be like Jesus.
Does Christlikeness define how we set
goals, plan the activities of our life and
work towards the things that are important
to us? 1Cor.10:31
Having been created to be like Christ, are
you cooperating with God’s purpose for
your life?

9. 2. What Does Jesus Look Like?
Please draw for me an “okapi”
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It is difficult to draw anything you don’t
know
Drawing is a form of imitation and if we
don’t know anything about what we are to
imitate, we can hardly do it.
The same is true for us in Christ. We are to
become like Christ, but if we don’t really
know much about Christ, how can we
imitate Him?

10. “Dear friends, now we are children of God,
and what we will be has not yet been made
known. But we know that when he appears,
we shall be like Him, for we shall see him
as he is.” 1John 3:2
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It tells us that we will be like Jesus when
we see Him, then we will become what God
has
created us to become - like Jesus.
Knowing what we are to imitate will allow
us to imitate it.
Knowing Christ will help us
become like Christ.

11. What is Jesus like?
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Let us look at a few Scriptures which give
us a picture of what Jesus is like so that we
can know what we must imitate.
“Just as the Son of Man did not come to be
served, but to serve, and to give his life as a
ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28
A. Servant
His whole life was a life of service to God
and service to people.

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Making Himself available to all kinds of
people in their need -, feeding the hungry,
comforting the sorrowing.
The ultimate picture of servanthood is the
image of Jesus hanging on the cross.
When we realize that he went to the cross
not for his own sake, but for ours, we know
that Jesus truly came to serve and give his
life as a ransom for many.
If we want to imitate
Jesus, we must imitate Him in his servant
attitude and His servant lifestyle.

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“When he saw the crowds, he had
compassion on them, because they were
harassed and helpless, like sheep without a
shepherd.”
Matthew 9:36
B. Compassionate
Jesus is also clearly a man of compassion.
He saw not only the surface needs of
people,
but saw the deep hurt in their hearts.
Once again, it is his love as demonstrated
on the cross that most clearly shows how
much he loves.

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One of the incidents which powerfully
depicts graciousness of Jesus is the story of
the woman caught in adultery. John 7:53–
8:11
C. Gracious
They wanted her to stoned to death as the
law demanded for her sin.
He was gracious in extending hope of
forgiveness and the hope of a new life to
her.
He was not quick to judge those who were
caught in sin, but was quick to offer a hope
of change.

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He is the only one who has never sinned.
D. Holy
“For we do not have a high priest who is
unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,
but we have one who has been tempted in
every way, just as we are—yet was without
sin.”
Hebrews
4:15
He is sympathetic, but that never caused
him to accommodate to sin.
His life was a picture
of the life apart from sin which is so
difficult for us, but was lived by Him as a
human being.

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It was not a life without temptation, but it
was a life of obedience to all of God’s will.
D. Holy
Jesus was holy and if we want to imitate
Jesus, we will need to learn to imitate Him
in His holiness.
E. Loving The Father
Another picture we have of Jesus is the
picture of his relationship to the Father.
“The one who
sent me is with me; he has not left me alone,
for I always do what pleases him.” John 8:29

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In his connection with the Father, we see a
passion for God, a living relationship with
the Father, a deep love for the Lord of all, a
willing obedience to the one who rules over
all and a great concern to please Him.
E. Loving The Father
If we are going to become like Jesus, we
will need to imitate his passionate
relationship with the Father in heaven.

18. Conclusion!
Let us be encouraged that Christlikeness is
God’s goal for us.
Remember Romans 8:29, “For those God
foreknew he also predestined to be
conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he
might be the firstborn among many
brothers.”
We become what we are committed to.”
God has created us to be like Jesus. I want
to encourage us to remember this goal and
commit to it firstborn among many
brothers.”
Are we in tune with God’s purpose for us?

19. Thank You So Much!!!
A Blessed Sunday
Brethren!!!
God Bless Us All !!!
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