Walk as Jesus Walked

Walk as Jesus Walked

My little children, these things I write to you, 

so that you may not sin.

 And if anyone sins, 

we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

And He Himself is the propituation for our sins,

 and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 

Now by this we know Him, 

if we keep His commandments,

He who says, “I know Him,”

 and does not keep His commandments, 

is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

But whoever keeps His word, 

truly the love of God is perfected in him.  

By this we know that we are in Him.

He who says he abides in Him

 ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

                                                                                                       1 John 2:1-6
“He who says he abides in Him  ought himself also to walk just as He walked” states John. How did Jesus walk. To find out we only need to read the gospels.       Contained in those four biblical books are the actions and teachings of Christ.
First and foremost Jesus came because of the Love of God. John 3:16 says it all, “for God so loved the world that he sent his only Son...”John 3:17 tells us Jesus came to save the world.
Luke 10:19 tells us He came to seek and save the lost.
Jesus defended the weak, John 8:3-11.
John tells the story of a woman caught in adultery brought before Jesus. He doesn’t condone her actions knowing that she was brought before him to try and trap him. Jesus simply states “if any of you is without sin let him throw the first stone at her.” John 8:7. 
As a result her accusers left her. After they were gone he told her he did not condemn her but to go and leave her life of sin.
Jesus told us in Matthew 7 not to judge. It is our job to go into the world and preach the good news to all mankind.
If we are walking as Christ walked we are not in the world to condemn the world but that the world should be saved through our testimony of the only one who can save the world Jesus Christ the Son of God.
God will one day judge the world there is no doubt about that, but to take a quote from 2 Peter God “is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish.”
If we are walking as Christ walked we should be like that also.
In John 8 the woman was clearly caught in adultery and Jesus, because he was God had the right to judge her, but he did not, because he came to save the lost.
We should never, never forget that fact. The fact that our principle job on this earth is to save the lost!
1 John 2:9 states “He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now” We cannot win a soul to Christ if we even show the hint of hatred.
The key to Christ’s encounter with the Adulteress woman was that he didn’t show contempt in any way toward her.
All to often we hear the phrase, “hate the sin but love the sinner” All to often the sinner sees it as “I hate you because you sin.”
God and the general public already know there is sin in the world. They need no reminding.
We need to be out their walking as Jesus did.  Looking beyond the sin in an individuals life.
In Love we need to be presenting the Gospel to all who will listen. That they may experience all that God has to offer.
Think about it.