as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, and as you do
you will be "transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2
Corinthians 3:18, NKJV).
Notice it's the Spirit of the Lord that transforms
you into Jesus' image so that you look on the outside
like who you are on the inside. You don't do it by
beating yourself up over all the ways you've missed it,
and trying in the flesh to live under a set of laws. No,
that's legalism and there's no life in that.
Life, Jesus said in John 17:3, comes from knowing
God. It comes from spending time with Him in the
Word and in prayer, maintaining a living connection
with Him and walking in the spirit. For if you "walk
in the Spirit…ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh"
(Galatians 5:16).
When you're walking with God in the spirit, you
don't live legalistically. You aren't thinking all the
time, I can't do this, and I can't do that, and struggling
to put off the old man. You're focused on the can-do's
and putting on the new man. You're seeing yourself
in the Scriptures and thinking, I can live righteously
because I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I've
been made holy with His own holiness, so I can live a
holy life and let others see His glory in me!
Years ago, I heard Sister Clara Grace, a prophetess
who used to minister sometimes with Brother
Hagin, say this is how Jesus Himself lived when He
was on earth. I found Myself in e Book, He said to
her once during a spiritual visitation. Every time I
laid My head down and rested on the bed, I meditated
on what God's Word said about who I am.
Jesus Had to Live
by Faith, Just Like Us
Many Christians have the idea that Jesus was able
to live as He did when He was on the earth because
He had special divine power. at He could be holy
because He's God. But that's not correct. Jesus laid
aside His divine privileges as deity when He left
heaven and took on flesh. He came to the earth
as a man. As a man He had to overcome sin and
temptation, just as we do. He didn't just live a holy
life automatically. He had to resist the devil, stand on
God's Word and "live by faith" (Romans 1:17).
Since "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God," the Word was the foundation
of Jesus' entire life and calling. Remember how
He first introduced His ministry in Nazareth? He
quoted from the Scriptures. He opened to what
Isaiah prophesied about Him and said: "e Spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed
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