Ch. 16.5: What Is Union with Christ? 2: Like Christ, With Christ

What does it mean to be like Christ?

• We imitate Christ in all of our actions, living as He lived

• Our lives reflect how Christ lived, bringing Him honor and glory

• We look to Christ as our example

• We are conformed to His image

• We become Christ and will be worshipped like He is for all of eternity

How are we able to imitate Christ?

• We imitate Christ by His strength in us, because He lived as a fully human being and thus can help us in our weaknesses

• We imitate Christ through our own strength, because we are able to do anything God asks us to do

• We imitate Christ by telling ourselves to try harder to do the things He did

• We can't actually imitate Christ because He's God and we're not

What are some ways we are called to imitate Christ?

• In patient suffering

• In sacrificial love

• In all of our actions

• In becoming God

When are we/will we be fully conformed to Christ's image?

• When we were chosen, before the foundation of the world

• When we get saved and Christ enters our hearts

• When we die and no longer sin

• When Jesus returns and we receive our resurrection bodies

What does it mean that we are with Christ?

• We have fellowship with Christ

• We are able to know Him imtimately

• We are able to work together with Him

• We live our lives in His presence

• He is physically with us on earth as a human

When do we enter fellowship with Christ?

• When we were chosen, before the foundation of the world

• When we are saved and He enters our hearts

• When we die and go to heaven

• When Christ comes back for those who eagerly await His coming

True or false: Jesus explicitly said that He desires fellowship with us. He is not ambivalent about it.

• True

• False

What does communion of saints entail?

• We have fellowship with other believers when we enter fellowship with Christ

• We enter into heaven (although not physically) with when we worship God

• We become so unified in Christ with other believers that we no longer have our own identities

• All the saints in heaven take communion with us when we partake in communion at church

Because we are in Christ, we are also brought into union with...

• Both the Father and the Holy Spirit

• The Father only, but not the Holy Spirit

• The Holy Spirit only, but not the Father

• Neither the Father or the Holy Spirit

Recap: What four things are part of being in union with Christ?

• Us being in Christ

• Christ being in us

• Us being like Christ

• Us being with Christ

• Us eventually becoming God