Paul says to us, “Follow my example as I follow the example of Christ” (1 Cor. 11:1, NIV). He says, “Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you” (Phil. 4:9, NIV). We then, within our modern view of life, busily set to work explaining how, of course, we are following him as he follows his Lord. Don’t we believe and say the same things he did? But our lives are not like his life at all. We do not do the things he did. Yet it is surely Paul’s practice that alone explains his marvelously victorious life in the
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