We do not presume any one can walk as He walked, even in the relative and limited sense, according to our capacity, we are obligated to do, unless there is first, through the "exceeding great and precious promises given us" a destruction of the carnal nature and partaking of His Divine nature. Through the sanctifying Baptism with the Holy Ghost, received subsequently to regeneration, in response to obedience and faith, the Christ-nature is incarnated in the soul making walking in His steps natural.

"So then we are not to be mere imitators of Christ, but to partake of Christ; so that He becomes "our Life," and we have His divine nature, and possess His mind, and manifest His spirit, and bear His image, and walk even as He walked." Not as an experiment of a year, or for six months to imitate Him, but, "Being delivered out of the hands of our enemies (our sins) we might be able to serve Him all the days of our life, in righteousness and holiness."