Several in our Church have either Covid, Upper Respiratory Infection or the Flu.
Your safety always comes first!
So out of precaution and concern for our church family, we will meet “ONLY” online this week.
NO SERVICE THIS SUNDAY ON CAMPUS!
If anyone needs your Tithes, Offerings, or End-Of-The-Year Giving recorded before January, you may do so on our website at www.belmontbaptistchurch.com, bring them by the church or mail them.
We will resume regular services next Sunday, January 9, with Sunday School at 9:30 and worship at 10:30!
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Romans 8:2, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
We need to be renewed in our minds about a part of us–our spirit.
This part of our being is the law of our being.
It is something working and operating constantly.
When my spirit is regenerated, the Lord’s life is immediately imparted into me.
My spirit is filled with Christ as the life-giving Spirit.
He resides in me as such a One.
Our spirit is the part of us that is joined to the Lord, who is the Spirit.
The two spirits have become one.
So we do not wait for an inspiration or some kind of feeling to prompt us to pray, to sing, to speak, or to call on the Lord.
Just as my body has been born, and all my faculties are mine, and I learn to use my faculties, so my spirit has been born and my spirit is mine.
With my spirit, I can take the initiative to pray and open myself up to the Lord.
By contacting the Lord with my spirit, I can turn my mind.
Whenever I use my spirit, I merge with the law of the Spirit of life.
Let me illustrate what it means for us to relate to a law.
The airline industry is not based on an intermittent phenomenon that happens with airplanes.
Flying an airplane is not an unpredictable occurrence.
It is not that one time an airplane “happens” to make it up in the air, but the next time it does not, and then the next time maybe it will.
No, it does not work that way.
There is a law of aerodynamics.
In the same way, in whatever you are passing through, if you use your spirit–that part in you that is regular and reliable–then you are in the right realm to be freed.
The law of the Spirit of life is the realm that freed us from the law of sin and death.
“Freed” in Greek is in the past tense–it has already happened.
We have already been freed.
Now we simply enter into the good of the freedom.
We merge with the freedom.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Carol Lawhead
George & Linda Alexander
Hall Family
James Parker
Jean Partee
Jill Haines
Marynel Ford
Pastor Discroll
Randy Bond’s Son in Law
The Graham Family – Brandon’s Friends
Torbich Family
Amy Garner’s Mother/Dad
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead’s Brother
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford – Good News
Michael Stanley
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher