To walk in harmony with God, believers must surrender their lives to Jesus, embracing His teachings and example. As recorded in Matthew, Jesus calls His followers to deny themselves and take up their cross, illustrating the depth of commitment required. In John, Jesus declares Himself the way, the truth, and the life, emphasizing the exclusivity of His path. The apostle Paul, in Philippians and 1 Corinthians, exhorts believers to imitate Christ, counting everything as loss compared to knowing Him, and to follow his own example as he follows Christ. This surrender of heart and life is rooted in faith and confessed with the mouth, as Romans teaches.
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Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,
You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.