{"id":302,"date":"2021-01-20T09:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=302"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:20:46","slug":"jesus-our-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Jesus our model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>Accepting Jesus as our model is surely the goal of every Christian<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>We certainly have a Greek nature, as I have argued elsewhere, and the New Testament pointedly highlights that the \u201cGreeks\u201d (or Gentiles\/ Heathens)constantly seek their worldly wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:22) at the expense of God\u2019s revelation. Our Greek nature is inherited via our opposition to God and it is imbibed through the worldly system in which we live. By contrast, we have to embrace our Hebraic natures. It is God\u2019s desire that we are transformed into Jesus\u2019 likeness, which means that ideally the World should see us as an assembly of \u2018little Jesuses\u2019. This is a Hebraic imperative, flowing freely from Scripture, yet has been overhauled by the Greek insistence on argument, in preference to action!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accepting Jesus as our model is surely the goal of every Christian We certainly have a Greek nature, as I have argued elsewhere, and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}