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 No matter what the circumstances of our life may be, We have been called to be an effective witness in the environment in which He has placed us.  He means us in the midst of the most wicked environment, to be the moral and spiritual aseptic of society.

The Christian  character is not mere moral or legal correctness, but the possession and manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit as found in Galatians  

(READ Gal. 5 :22-23)

Taken together  these verses  present a moral portrait of Christ “Its no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.

And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.  Gal. Ch.2:20

What we are saying in these  verses. Is

“The Christian life  is the Out-living of the In-living Christ.

Jesus Christ  was the image of  God, Jesus Christ  was pure in all his thoughts and words. He is the true benchmark of righteousness  I.e. “The ultimate of righteousness”

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness”  Ch.5:6

“Hungering and thirsting”  is the appetite for Spiritual things. As the physical body  needs nourishment to sustain in its daily toil of life, likewise the “Spiritual body”  needs to take in  “Spiritual food” to enable it to progress to that high calling of God.

We are encouraged by Paul In Phil 3:13-14 -

Brethren, I do not regard  myself  as having laid hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Paul uses the analogy of a runner to describe the Christian’s spiritual growth. The believer has not reached his goal of Christ likeness, but like a runner in a race, he must continue to pursue it.

The race toward Christ likeness  begins with a sense of honesty and dissatisfaction,  The believer is to forget what lies behind, refusing to  rely on past virtuous deeds and achievements, or to dwell on past sins and failures, We will never reach that goal of total Christian until we reach eternity, nevertheless we strive  for that goal.

Romans 8:29 says  -

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become  conformed  to the image of His Son.

Conformed to the image of His Son, is the goal of God’s predestined purpose for his own, that they would be made like Jesus Christ  “This is the prize of the upward call  spoken of by Paul in  Philippians Ch.3

The writer to the Hebrews in Ch.12. V1 says

“Let us run with patience the race that is set before us”

Though  the road is toilsome, we must hold out with patience, and be content to endure hardship.

The way is often one of weariness and hardship with many trials and difficulties and obstacles to overcome

What is our Response?

Next Study -  The True Work of  the Citizen of the Kingdom of God

Living in God’s Kingdom- - Study two

The True Commission of the

Citizen of the Kingdom of God-  Page 2

“A Spiritual Aseptic of Society”

There is something in you which, by the grace of God, is capable of stopping the impetus of iniquity. Yours is a life, a triumphant life,  a victorious life, a life of true glorious, God-given victory."