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575. How to Attain Perfection (the one-step plan)

November 27, 2016 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

God has a requirement for all of us: Be perfect as He is perfect. How do we go about this seemingly monumental task? It hardly sounds like a good news gospel if we're going to apply our own works and efforts, because we'll never meet that standard. However, there is another way for us to enter into a state of perfection - believe in the work of Jesus Christ. The Jewish people could not arrive at being perfect through trying to keep rules, commandments or offering repeated animal sacrifices; nor could they escape a sin consciousness that brought them more guilt. With one sacrifice of Himself, Jesus brought an eternal perfection… And it looks really good on you!

552. Why Jesus Taught Two Covenants (Part 9): Be Perfect, As Your Heavenly Father

June 12, 2016 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

Jesus showed His disciples what the bottom line required when it came to trying to acquire righteousness through their works: It would demand that they be perfect. With this standard being taught, we can begin to see why many stopped following Jesus. They weren't rejecting a Christian message, but they came to realize their inability to meet the standard of perfection the law required in those commandments. Jesus did not always minister the good news gospel to His Jewish audience, but there was a purpose as to why He did this.

552. Why Jesus Taught Two Covenants (Part 9): Be Perfect, As Your Heavenly Father

June 12, 2016 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

507. As Jesus Is, So Also Are We

July 26, 2015 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

We can relate to Jesus being righteous, holy and perfect, but it can be quite another story when it comes to laying hold of our identity as believers. Since he abides in us, and we abide in him, we have inherited these same qualities and Jesus has become our righteousness, justification, sanctification and perfection. "By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world" (1 John 4:17).