Is it not true that it is Christ who forgives us our sins? And is it not true that we are called to forgive those who sin against us? Is that then not a type of Christ?

     And did Christ not lay down His life for us that our sins may be forgiven? And do we not lay down our lives and die to self when we forgive those who sin against us? Is that not a type of the pattern of Christ?

     And when Christ forgives us our sins, are we not set free from the captivity of those sins? And do we not likewise set those who have sinned against us free when we forgive them of their trespasses against us?

     For in dying on the cross that we should yet live, is that not the perfect pattern of loving His neighbour as Himself? For is it not true that we are called to love our neighbour as ourselves? Which is to love our neighbour as God loves His neighbour? For is that not what God demonstrated for His neighbour on the cross?

     And did Christ not come to fulfill the law, not to abolish it? And do we not fulfill the law when we love our neighbour like Christ loves us? For is it not written, “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” And is it not true that the sovereign word of God says that “on these commandments hang all the law and prophets”?

     And does Jesus not love His Father with all His heart and all His soul and all His mind? For did He not say, “Nevertheless, not My will, but Yours?” So do we not likewise fulfill all the law if we love the LORD our God with all our heart, and soul and mind, and love our neighbour as ourselves? Which is to say, ”Nevertheless, not my will, but Yours?” Does this then not make us all a type of Christ?

     For just like Jesus fulfilled all the law by loving His Father first and then loving His neighbour as Himself next, is it not true that before we can pour out the standard of true love as rivers of living water upon our neighbour (Matthew 22:39), we first have to drink from the fountain of true love that has its origins and source in the high mountain of the LORD (Matthew 22:37)?

     For are we not the branches of the tree of life? And is it not the branches that bear the fruit? And how else shall these branches bear the fruit of the Spirit unless the rivers of living water flow from the source to the branches that by our fruits we may be known as a type of Christ?

     And as our brother Charles Spurgeon said, “When the siren song of pleasure would tempt you from the path of right, reply, "Thy music cannot charm me; I am Christ's." When the cause of God invites thee, give thy goods and thyself away, for thou art Christ's. Never belie thy profession. Be thou ever one of those whose manners are Christian, whose speech is like the Nazarene, whose conduct and conversation are so redolent of heaven, that all who see you may know that you are the Saviour's, recognizing in you his features of love and his countenance of holiness.”

In everything, let your argument be, "I am Christ's!"

"Ye are Christ's." (1 Corinthians 3:23)