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"You shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." (Matt 5:48).
Most great men who followed Jesus by their own strength when they came to this above verse, they stumbled and said we cannot be perfect like God who is perfect in heaven. When asked why, they said we are imperfect simple humans who cannot attain perfection like God. In fact, Jesus himself said about these above people by describing them as, "Blessed are those who do not stumble because of me." (Matt 11:6).
Jesus raised the righteous requirement of God to the highest level imaginable which is impossible to attain by any human standard in the whole wide world. If you ask me why these above category of people stumbled because of Jesus, they considered Jesus as a good teacher, prophet, righteous and a good man, a example worthy of emulating, etc...but they never come to know Jesus personally and intimately as the Son of God who is the only begotten one. Because they had a religious pride that said to them, whatever Jesus said can be kept by them likewise to gain perfection through their own righteous work that comes to them through the law, they believed that wrong thought and stumbled at Jesus. This prevented them from knowing Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and themselves to be considered as a unworthy sinner in need of Him and His mercies.
Lack of humility to humble themselves before God makes people to get stumbled at the stumbling stone of Jesus, while the humble make Jesus a stepping stone to perfection through the righteousness of faith that comes through believing Jesus as their perfection in whom they share equally all the wisdom and strength and righteousness in Him. Praise the Lord! God crowns the humble with perfection by sharing His very Divine Nature through which they become perfect just like their heavenly Father who is in Heaven.
While the humble never stumble, the prideful often mumble and stumble at Jesus, they can only receive God's blessing in Jesus only when they repent and receive Him humbly as their Savior. It is better to fall humbly at the feet of God rather than fall at the feet of every religious humans only to get kicked by one after the other. God shares his goodness equally to all humans on earth, we as God's children if we do likewise, that is true spiritual perfection! If we are able to forgive and love our enemies that is true spiritual perfection to be like God in our nature! To greet those who are unlike us, is God's nature that we can utilize to grow in our soul and glorify God on earth. Learn to walk in the perfect nature of God which is within your spirit which you have received when you were born again, those who do it will never be disappointed even for a second for eternity ahead as they will become filled and satisfied to the full by God who is in heaven.
LET US PRAY:
Dear Loving Heavenly Father, I thank you and praise for making me perfect in my spirit man and packing me with your very nature. Help me walk in the new nature that I have inherited from you, and let me keep the old nature at bay. I am perfect in Christ Jesus within my spirit, but in my soul I am being progressively made more and more in to the image of His likeness through walking just like Him. Make me walk worthy of your high calling and thank you for making me your child and your son for eternity ahead. In Jesus name I pray, Amen!
Much Blessings,
Apostle Abraham Israel
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