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(Rev. Jaehoon Lee)
This is Chapter 7 of Book 4

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'Let's Pretend'

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Let's begin

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Last time,

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we discussed the Triune God

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The purpose, or the goal

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of the Triune God's work

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(Human bios ➔ God's zoe)
is granting us

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His eternal life

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Chapter 7 applies this logic

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So how can we accept

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this work of salvation by the Triune God?

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When we receive Jesus,

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or accept Jesus as our Lord and our God,

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or believe in Him,

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this faith

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of Jesus as our Savior

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has to include this logic

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that we discussed

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What do we believe in?

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When we accept Jesus as the Savior,

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what is happening inside us?

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The Triune God transformed the bios life

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to a zoe life, from biological to eternal

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Faith is what we allow God to work in us

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Faith is yielding, allowing, accepting,

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and following God to transform us

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Therefore, it is

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not something we do within ourselves

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The work of the Triune God

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should be accepted so that

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it can work as our faith

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This acceptance

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may be misunderstood as

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that we decide things

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Our free will within us

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could reject this work

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until the end of time

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(Free will can reject)
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if we reject the salvation

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and do not accept it,

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then it will not be within us

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This is also why

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God treats us personally

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The title of Chapter 7

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'Let's Pretend'

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And it does not mean fabricating

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a situation or attitude deceitfully

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This pretension means participating in

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making the things promised to us

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in faith

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so that the promise,
the vision could happen a reality

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This requires our participation in faith

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That's the meaning behind 'Let's Pretend'

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Lewis takes two familiar stories

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as examples in this chapter

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First is 'Beauty and the Beast'

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A beauty has married a beast,

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and the beast turns into a man

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It's a fairytale story,

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but it would be marvelous

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if it happens in reality,

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that a beast turns into a gentleman

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It will be very touching

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Lewis says that this is what happens

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when we have faith in Jesus

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The corrupt, beast-like
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(Faith: Beast/Sinner ➔Man/Son)
transforms us into a being before God

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There is another story

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Since he is a literature scholar,

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I myself am not too
familiar with this story

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Someone who has been wearing a mask,

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and later that face becomes his own face

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This means,

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when we believe in Jesus

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It shows the kind of pretension

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that we need in our Christian life

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This isn't a pretension

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where the bad drives away the good

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The good drives away

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the bad in this pretension

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Therefore, in this chapter,

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Lewis claims that

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living in faith of Jesus Christ

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means retaining the hope

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to become like Him one day,

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enrobed in Him, pretending like Him

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And it will come true to us one day

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It is hard for us to accept this

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because this requires the faith

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in the work of Jesus Christ

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through the Triune God

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(Faith in God➔Pretension as His children
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Accepting Jesus as my Lord and God,

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believing that His cross
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and knowing that
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assures us that this promise
can indeed become a reality within us

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Therefore, God has seen

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that we'd become like Jesus Christ

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when He chose us and saved us

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It is something we must fulfill each day

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('...work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling' [Phil. 2:12])
Working out our salvation

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('...work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling' [Phil. 2:12])
is hoping for and striving
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to be like Jesus, and
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Here's another example

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This is an example of

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what changes within us

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as the good drives away the b ad

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When children do a role-play,

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they act like adults

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They do housework in the kitchen,

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which is just a toy kitchen

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They act like they're at work,

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in a business meeting,

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making a contract

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and building things

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Children act like
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But what is it in essence?

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Children are unable to

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work like real adults, either
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However,

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is this necessarily hypocrisy?

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This is not a mere child's play

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As children act like adults,

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they soon become adults themselves

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That is how they become 'real' adults

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It is like us becoming like Christ

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It is as if children act like
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which soon becomes their reality

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As we try to live like Christ,

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it is not something

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hypocritically distant

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As we stand in faith, work hard in Him

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to strive for realizing the promise

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in our daily lives,

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what can happen is

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that Jesus Christ works in us,

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transforming us

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to be more like Christ

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Let me read out

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a quote for you

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This is what Lewis says in the chapter

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'A child grows into an adult
by pretending to act like one'

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'Similarly, when we begin to
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the Son of God, Christ
Himself starts to transform

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our pretense into reality beside us'

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'The true Son of God stands by us

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and begins to change us
into beings like Himself'

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'He fills us with His own
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and turns us from mere tin soldiers
into living human beings'

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‘Christ works primarily through people'

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'Each person can be a mirror
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What we do

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is to accept God's work

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that happens within us

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It is yielding, obeying,
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The amazing thing is,

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that promise will manifest within us,

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revealing the power of God at work,

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transforming us

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to be like Christ

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Another quote says,

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'God looks upon us as though
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and Christ, being by our side, begins
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The baby cannot yet understand
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(Baby: Cannot understand (Human))
However the mother keeps talking
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(Mother: Treats the baby like an adult
(Pretend like Christ))
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(Understands and speaks (Little Christ))
gradually learns language
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be able to speak properly

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but their parents cannot

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mirror this nonsense language

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That won't help the baby,

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and they won't communicate

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The baby may be babbling

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but the parents continue

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to 'pretend' that the language is intact

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That's how the baby

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obeying the things

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that God tells us

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is learning the language of Heaven

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as well as being like Christ

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This requires ceaseless training,

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devotion, yielding and obeying in faith

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will be happening in us

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Book 4 Beyond Personality, or First
Steps in Understanding the Trinity
Chapter 8 Is Christianity Hard or Easy?

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This chapter is titled,
'Is Christianity Hard or Easy?'

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Our life in faith,

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is it hard or easy?

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It is both ways

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How is it hard?

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we cannot do it with our ability

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Then how is it easy?

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That’s because it’s not about following

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Let's take painting a portrait

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But instead of having rules
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it'll be much easier to have
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The ears should look like this,

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the eyes should look like that,

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and the hair should look like this

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these rules to paint one,

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It is much easier

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to paint based on a photograph

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Morality, to us,

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is like this list of rules

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copying a photograph

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That's how being like Christ
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what is the easiest way?

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(Christ accomplishes
everything (grants a new self))
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(The personal cross
(the death of the natural self))
What is difficult for us is that
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We must fully crucify
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Christianity is both hard and easy

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That's the point Lewis claims

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Let me quote an important
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'The Church exists to draw men
into Christ, to make them little Christs'

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'Without this, cathedrals, clergy,
missions, sermons, even the Bible itself,
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'God became Man for no other purpose'

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'It is even doubtful, you know, whether

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the whole universe was
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The Church exists solely to lead
people to Jesus Christ and transform
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(God's Plan (Son))
the Triune God planned,

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(Jesus' Atonement (The Cross))
Jesus fulfilled it on earth,

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(Death of Ego (Our Cross))
and requires us to deny
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For those who renounce themselves,
the power of the Triune God is present,

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working within them
to live out eternal life

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This is the gospel,

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the blessing

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that followers of Jesus gets

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Book 4
Beyond Personality, or First
Steps in Understanding the Trinity

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Chapter 7: Let’s Pretend
1. The Meaning of Pretending
Crafting a false attitude or situation (X)
Actively participating in what is
promised to us so it becomes real (O)

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2. Belief in the Triune God
Believing in the Triune God makes
our “pretending” as God’s children real

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Child and Adult
Child (Human)
➔ Play (in hope to be like Jesus)
➔ Adult (Becoming more like Jesus)

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Chapter 8: Is Christianity Hard or Easy?
1.	Living Like Jesus

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2. The Natural Self vs. the New Self
Self-Cross (Death of the natural self)
➔ Jesus completes the work
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3. The Church’s Purpose
The church exists solely to shape
individuals into 'little Christs'