October 24

JESUS, THE PATTERN SON / PART 8

CONCLUSION

-It has been our goal in this study to show that JESUS IS GOD’S GREATEST SIGN. He is a pattern for all who would follow in His footsteps. He was made a little lower than the angels ( Elohim ), for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man ( Hebrews 2:9 ) … The Captain of our salvation was made perfect through sufferings in order that He might bring many sons unto glory ( Hebrews 2:10 ) … It was for this purpose that Jesus went through all that He did. He laid down His life that He might be the Savior of the world, taking away the sin of the world. In doing so, He became a pattern ( sign ) as the only way to the Father.

-The mistake that is so commonly made concerning the life and ministry of Jesus Christ is that we do not apply His life, ministry, sufferings, temptations, trials, death, and resurrection to our own life. WE MUST SEE OURSELVES AS PART OF THE CHRIST, WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE ( Colossians 1:15 ) … We must see that our life is to be patterned after His life. Philippians 3:10-14 states, … That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus …

-The apostle Paul obviously understood that Jesus had laid down a pattern in which we were to identify with His death, burial, and resurrection. This process of being conformed to the image of the Pattern Son includes the transformation of our spirit, soul, and finally, our bodies, for Paul stated that Jesus Christ would change our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto His glorious body ( Philippians 3:21 ) … We are to realize that there is no stopping place in God. We have not fully apprehended or attained, but WE PRESS INTO THE HIGH CALLING OF OUR GOD! We press into this glorious process of SONSHIP! We are destined to become like …

-THE PATTERN SON!-