most certainly...we must walk as Jesus did....unto death
like I said not all can accept..as the masses said...this is very hard teaching who can accept it..
It matters how much each person understands
“And that servant,
which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
But he that
knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.”
Luke 12:47-48
what you are saying about walking as Jesus did is the truth and agreeable to any Christian and the high goal I believe that when we find out where we really need to be we have that goal you are articulating and even though we never quite reach it and say “ I’m there I’m actually like Jesus “
it’s meant to produce humility , patience, integrity and those types of things the proper mind in Christ is just about where you are having that goal set as high as the heavens just remember also about the standard going up for some and remaining lower for mothers based on what they understand of the gospel
A good perfect mind in Christ seems to be in the pursuit of him and not actually having achieved the goal
“Brethren,
I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore,
as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if
in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless,
whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.”
Philippians 3:13-16 KJV
as we walk in the lord we need to live up to the things we do understand of him. But my standard that is my judgement is based upon my understanding God knows everything I know and what I’ve done
but others will be judged based upon what it is they know and what they’ve done
I think the pursuit of perfection in Christ keeps us moving forward I would hate to reach a point I thought I had become just like Jesus because infeel
I would be fooling myself because he is really really really far above me in every way