Be Ye Followers of Me

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If we are living the life of Christ our joys will be outside of this scene, excepting the joy of obedience and service (John 4:34; 15:1134Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. (John 4:34)
11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. (John 15:11)). The rich young man treasured blessings here (Mark 10:2222And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions. (Mark 10:22)), but Paul was beyond that, and he says, "Be followers of me" (Phil. 3). He saw Christ in glory so that the things that were gain to him here he counted loss for Christ. It was not that he might know Christ as Savior, for he knew that; but he had Christ before him to meet and to be like at the end of his journey, and that caused him to count all that was of worth to him as a man in the flesh as "loss" and "dung."