What shall take place in our life

The fruit of Christ-likeness will begin to show in our own personality and behaviour, and also in the personality and behaviour of those to whom we minister.

By the expression Christ-likeness we do not mean an imitation of Christ; although Jesus certainly is the best example of a human being that mankind has ever seen and He is well worth imitating.

By Christ-likeness we mean the moral image of Christ, which will begin to be formed and expressed in our personality and behaviour because He—Christ Himself—is being formed in us and is dwelling in us. His likeness cannot be reproduced by the efforts of flesh and blood. His likeness can come only from Himself.

The only true righteousness, according to the judgment of almighty God, is that which proceeds directly from God through the Lord Jesus Christ by means of His substitutionary death, and also by His living Presence and will, which are revealed within us as we are pressed by the Holy Spirit into His death and into His resurrection.