Jesus: Our Apples to Apples Example
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This week's lesson is entitled, "Dying Like a Seed." In the week at a glance section, we read, "What example of submission has Christ left for us?"
Today we wanted to talk about an essential lesson we can glean from the example of submission Christ left for us, which is this: There is never a reason to submit to temptation to sin.
Jesus gave us the example of submission to the truth, which is the basis for righteousness. He did this by cooperating with divine power. We are to follow his example and do the same. Through grace, just like Jesus, we can conquer temptation to speak wrong and do wrong.
Even though many of us have heard this precept before, the profound truth of it hasn't really sunk in, as evidenced by the fact that most Christians deny the possibility of being like Christ, and consider the notion when stated this way heretical. We are inclined to believe that we are not capable of or not expected to **actually** overcome **every** temptation to sin like Jesus did. We think of Christ's example as an ideal, but not something we could ever live up to.
But Jesus' example is only beneficial if there is a possibility we can actually follow it. For more studies on this, see:
"The Lost Gospel of Christ," by Trent Wilde
http://www.bdsda.com/home-3/the-lost-gospel-of-christ/
"Free from Sin - Actually Free!"
"We Must Walk in the Light, Just as God Walks in the Light,"
"Jesus Came to 'Bear With' Our Sins, Not Take Responsibility for Them,"
Sabbath School Q3 2022: In the Crucible with Christ - Week 12
"Dying Like a Seed."
A Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on the Sabbath School lesson.
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