DAILY TRUTH - Imitating All Of Christ
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Summary
Jesus mocked the enemies of God. Not always, but frequently. In fact, even naming Peter the rock was an irony. He picks his weakest, most emotionally fluctuating disciple and says, "You're the rock."
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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with Christ, we're called to imitate him, right? In all measures. Now what people will say, well,
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look at Christ and we see how he mocks all the time. Like satire was one of the most favorite
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forms of Jesus in his discipleship. He's constantly being satirical. I mean, even naming Peter the
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rock was an irony. It was poking fun. He picks his weakest, most emotionally, constantly fluctuating
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disciple and says, you're the rock. I have no doubt that when Jesus did this, the other disciples
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were snickering. We miss some of the satire of Jesus. We miss some of these things. Now here's
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the deal. So Jesus mocked the enemies of God. Not always, but frequently. Frequently. Now the
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Christian is going to say, well, we're called to imitate Christ, but only some aspects of Christ.
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So we should seek to imitate Christ as he loves.
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All the attributes of God are always present at all times.
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So as Jesus is telling John chapter 8 that the Pharisees are sons of the devil,
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he is not mocking and putting love on the back burner.
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But the point is, even if we did that, which would be horrible Trinitarian theology,
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It'd be horrible theology proper in our doctrine of God.
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The reality is, even if Jesus was loving here and mocking there,
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And the person who says, well, we shouldn't imitate Christ in mocking
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And we don't have the wisdom and maturity necessary to mock properly.
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Well, by that logic, we could say, well, then we also shouldn't seek to love.
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What in the world makes you think that you have the wisdom to love properly?
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knowing that he's God and infinitely wise and that we're not
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but we're not going to imitate his mocking because we might mess that up.
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When we mock and fail, we don't say we shouldn't mock.
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We repent of mocking poorly and ask God by his spirit to help us mock better.
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