He is to walk as our Lord walked, in his general deportment and relationship to everything that is good and correspondingly to avoid everything that is evil. He is to walk as nearly as possible in the footsteps of Jesus. This, however, does not mean that he either should or could, in an imperfect body, walk up to all the perfection of his Lord, who even in His flesh was perfect. It means just what it says, that we should walk as He walked—in the same way, in the same direction, toward the same mark and standard that He recognized and established.
To abide in Christ implies not only consecration and Spirit-infilling but also continuity in the consecrated attitude, deadness to self and the world, and aliveness unto God. Jesus fulfilled His consecration vows: He remained dead to self and the world and alive unto God. Therefore, He studied the Word, watched and prayed in harmony with the Word, spread and practiced the Word, and suffered in holiness for faithfulness to the Word. Whoever abides in Christ not only ought so to conduct himself, but surely in spirit will perfectly so do, and in flesh as nearly perfectly as his fallen earthen vessel will permit. A blessed walk indeed is the walk like Christ's. Who so does possesses all things.
John 15:1-9; 13:15, 34; Phil. 2:5-8; 1 Pet. 2:21-24; Matt. 11:29; 20:28; Mark 10:43-45; Luke 22:26, 27; Rom. 8:29; 15:2, 3, 5, 7; Eph. 5:2; 1 Cor. 3:13; Heb. 12:2-4; 1 John 3:16; 4:17; 2 John 1:9; Rev. 3:21; 14:4.
