Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5:1-8, NRSV)
People will not die for others, unless they really love them.
Now yes you can say what about those in the armed forces who are fighting for our freedom, and to protect others. Yes they are dying for people they do not know and because of that we should consider them Christ Like because they are laying down their lived for others. And the Secret Service protects the president. I know a friend of mine is a Secret Service agent and when he almost got put on protection detail for a president neither of us thought was a great person we talked about how he would protect that man. And his response was that he would protect the position of president and die if he had to. That is Christ Like.
But you see, none of us get to the point that we are like Christ. And we have to understand that we are all unperfect. and Christ died for us while we were unperfect for a chance for Him to make us perfect. So judge no one for the way they sin, and love them. And let the love that Christ showed all of us on the cross cover them and let Him work in them.
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