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• Jesus is God in human form and perfect humanity
• Jesus’ life on earth is our complete model
• Over 20 times, Jesus said “Follow me” – he
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me
will do what I have been doing. He will do even
greater things than these, because I am going
to the Father. (John 14:12)
• The following diagrams only approximate to …the LORD God formed the man from the dust of
the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis
2:7)
BODY/FLESH (soma/sarx)
SOUL (pusche)
(zoe)
“…but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it
you will surely die.” (Genesis 2:17)
BODY (soma)
SOUL (pusche)
Eve (and their descendants) after the Fall .being made in human likeness. And being
found in appearance as a man,… (Philippians 2:7-
8)
BODY (soma)
SOUL (pusche)
(zoe)
…he humbled himself and became obedient
to death—even death on a cross! (Philippians
2:8)
(zoe)
“…The reason my Father loves me is that I
lay down my life (psuche) – only to take it
up again.” (John 10:17)
BODY (soma)
SOUL (pusche)
(zoe)
“The man who loves his life (psuche) will lose it,
while the man who hates his life (psuche) in this
world will keep it for eternal life (zoe).” (John 12:25)
BODY (soma)
SOUL (pusche)
(zoe)
So will it be with the resurrection of the
dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it
is raised imperishable;… (1 Corinthians 15:42)
NEW BODY (soma)
SOUL (pusche)
(zoe)
• Jesus freely chose to go to the cross
“The reason my Father loves me is that I lay
down my life (psuche) – only to take it up
again.” (John 10:17)
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone
would come after me, he must deny himself
and take up his cross and follow me. For
whoever wants to save his life (psuche) will
lose it, but whoever loses his life (psuche)
for me will find it.” (Matthew 16:24-25)
“One terrible day, the burden seemed to become too
great for me - I could bear it no longer: I came in
from my work, and with heavy steps went straight up
to my bedroom, threw myself on my knees by my
bedside, and sobbed out the whole wretched tale to
me to Jesus. I told Him how I had tried and tried to
be good, and to get peace - and begged Him to take me
as I was, and just let me be His child henceforth - I
was so tired of myself. Perhaps the surrender was so
complete, the trusting Him so real - for, there and
then, as I knelt, light came, and a calm peace entered
into my very being. He revealed Himself, and I knew
Him!”
Susanna Spencer, My Life, (1917), p7 • Jesus went to the cross in faith that the Father would resurrect him (body and psuche). His zoe is indestructible.
• When you become a Christian, you lay down your psuche in faith that God will raise it up again and also give you his zoe life – all because of what Jesus has done.
• Because your psuche has died, you are no • Your body/flesh has not been redeemed and can still lead you into sin, but you can choose to be led by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:13 et al) • Your zoe life cannot sin – you can choose to 35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to
him. "Teacher," they said, "we want you to do for us
whatever we ask." 36 "What do you want me to do for
you?" he asked. 37 They replied, "Let one of us sit at your
right and the other at your left in your glory." 38 "You don’t
know what you are asking," Jesus said. "Can you drink
the cup I drink or be baptised with the baptism I am
baptised with?" 39 "We can," they answered. Jesus said to
them, "You will drink the cup I drink and be baptised with
the baptism I am baptised with, 40 but to sit at my right or
left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those
for whom they have been prepared."
33 He took Peter, James and John along with
him, and he began to be deeply distressed and
troubled. 34 "My soul is overwhelmed with
sorrow to the point of death," he said to them.
"Stay here and keep watch." 35 Going a little
farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if
possible the hour might pass from him. 36
"Abba, Father," he said, "everything is possible
for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I
will, but what you will."
Following Jesus symbolised by Baptism – Romans 6 3 …don’t you know that all of us who
were baptised into Christ Jesus were
baptised into his death? 4 We were
therefore buried with him through
baptism into death in order that, just
as Christ was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father, we too
may live a new life (zoe).
…John can boldly write: "Whosoever is begotten of
God doeth no sin . he cannot sin" (1 John 3:9), which is,
however, a statement that, wrongly understood, may
easily mislead us. By it John is not telling us that sin
is now no longer in our history and that we shall not
again commit sin. He is saying that to sin is not in the
nature of that which is born of God. The life of
Christ has been planted in us by new birth and its
nature is not to commit sin. But there is a great
difference between the nature and the history of a
thing, and there is a great difference between the
nature of the life within us and our history.
Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life, Chapter 4

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