Becoming like Christ

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Session 7

• Becoming like Christ

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Knowledge Objectives

• Explain the importance and effects of the Bible
  doctrine of illumination in Christian growth.
• Understand the importance and effects of exposure
  to God and His attributes in the Word.
• Recognize the differences between communicable
  and noncommunicable attributes of God and the
  part each attribute plays in Christian growth.

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Application Objectives

• Respond by relying upon God to illuminate your
  mind when you read the Scriptures.
• Respond by looking for God and His attributes in
  the Word as you study it.
• Respond by realizing that revival is the result
  of Spirit-sent illumination.
• Respond by demonstrating biblical change into
  Christlikeness as you meditate upon God.

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Session 7

• Becoming like Christ

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More About Attributes

• A noncommunicable attribute is one that no
  creature of God can get.
• Omnipotence
• Omniscience
• Omnipresence
• Immutability

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More About Gods Attributes

• Being Christlike means acquiring His
  communicable attributesthe fruit of the Spirit.
• Love Joy
• Peace Longsuffering
• Gentleness Goodness
• Faith Meekness
• Temperance

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Communicable Attributes

• These come out of the tea bag when a
  Spirit-controlled believer is put into hot
  water.
• This is Christian character.

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II Corinthians 318

• But we all, with open face unobstructed view
  beholding as in a glass a mirror the glory of
  the Lord, are changed into the same image from
  glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the
  Lord.

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Changed by His Glory

• Gods glory is the manifestation of His
  many-splendored excellencies.
• No one exposed to the glory of God will remain
  the same.

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Matthew 1613-17

• Jesus asked his disciples, saying, Whom do
  men say that I the Son of man am? And they said,
  Some say that thou art John the Baptist some,
  Elias and others, Jeremias, or one of the
  prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye
  that I am?

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Matthew 1613-17

• And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the
  Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus
  answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou,
  Simon Bar-jona for flesh and blood hath not
  revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in
  heaven.

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Luke 2444-45

• And he said unto them, These are the words
  which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you,
  that all things must be fulfilled, which were
  written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets,
  and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he
  their understanding, that they might understand
  the scriptures.

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Illumination When God Turns the Light On

• Gods Spirit must personally show the realities
  of God to man.
• Tanned by the sun

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Evidences of Exposure to God

• Illuminated truth moves us intellectually.
• Validity This is right I must believe it!
• Illuminated truth moves us emotionally.
• Beauty This is wonderful I must praise it!
• Illuminated truth moves us volitionally.
• Urgency/Responsibility This is compelling I
  must do it!
• This is revival!

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Take Time to Reflect

• What is your view of God?

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Colossians 116-18

• For by him were all things created, that are in
  heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
  invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions,
  or principalities, or powers all things were
  created by him, and for him.

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Colossians 116-18

• And he is before all things, and by him all
  things consist. And he is the head of the body,
  the church who is the beginning, the firstborn
  from the dead that in all things he might have
  the preeminence.