Following Christ

Rev Dr Timothy Ong

29 Jan 2012

*Relate in the way we think and react to each other
*How can we be more of Christ in our thinking and doing

Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. ¹ You have searched me, LORD,
   and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
   you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
   you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
   you, LORD, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
   and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
   too lofty for me to attain.
 ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
   Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
   if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
   if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
   your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
   and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
   the night will shine like the day,
   for darkness is as light to you.
 ¹³ For you created my inmost being;
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
   your works are wonderful,
   I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
   when I was made in the secret place,
   when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
   all the days ordained for me were written in your book
   before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
   How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
   they would outnumber the grains of sand—
   when I awake, I am still with you.
 ¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
   Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
   your adversaries misuse your name.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,
   and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
   I count them my enemies.
²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
   test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
   and lead me in the way everlasting.

-Crafted by God. Our identity, way of life
- we must have Jesus in our life because our life cannot walk alone
*We should have the mindset and thinking like Jesus, to live like Him
*The status of your life on earth has not changed but we begin to relate more to people surrounding your life
*Meaning of fear and trembling-seriousness of being like Christ
*Fearful of failing God who has been at work with us and making us more Christlike
*We complain because we do not get what we want
*We must uphold our weaknesses to Jesus Christ
*Our focus must always be on Jesus
*Crooked and depraved generation because they have been deprived of Jesus
*They feel depress and longing to hear some real good news that will bring life to them
*We've got the good news
*He said that He will never leave nor abandon us
*A beacon of light= comfort, purpose
*If we are able to be more like Jesus Christ, it is worth everything
*In becoming more like Jesus Christ, we must put our ego self away and constantly live in awareness of Christ presence with us in all that we do and think


**Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path**