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How to become like Christ
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Title: How to become like Christ
Author: Marcus Dods
Release Date: September 15, 2004 [EBook #13460]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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HOW TO BECOME LIKE CHRIST
CONTENTS
How to Become Like Christ The Transfiguration Indiscreet Importunity Shame on Account of God's Displeasure Naaman Cured The Lame Man at the Temple Gate
HOW TO BECOME LIKE CHRIST.
"But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as 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."--2 COR. iii. 18 (Revised Version).
I suppose there is almost no one who would deny, if it were put to him, that the greatest possible attainment a man can make in this world is likeness to The Lord Jesus Christ. Certainly no one would deny that there is nothing but character that we can carry out of life with us, and that our prospect of good in any future life will certainly vary with the resemblance of our character to that of Jesus Christ, which is to rule the whole future. We all admit that; but almost every one of us offers to himself some apology for not being like Christ, and has scarcely any clear reality of aim of becoming like Him. Why, we say to ourselves, or we say in our practice, it is really impossible in a world such as ours