FATHER’S DAY SUNDAY
We Will Honor Each Father With A Special Gift.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Romans 8:4, “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
Whenever negative thoughts are rising up in us or bothering us or trying to leech on us, we know that it is just a sign to us saying, “You need to get into the law of the Spirit, and you will find another set of feelings.
You will find another mind, another evaluation.”
But some of us would rather talk about our problems.
We would rather talk than call upon the Lord and get to God.
We are in such a syndrome that it seems we really do not want God.
We would rather just talk.
But it is wonderful to know that there is another law in us.
It is the law of the Spirit that freed us from the law of sin and death.
It is a realm where we are freed, literally freed, from that whole scenario that leaves us depressed, discouraged, and anxious.
Follow those symptoms back to their source, and you will discover that they come from the good flesh trying to outdo the bad flesh.
God sent His Son.
His Son came into us.
Now we are in union with Him in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us.
Notice that it does not say “fulfilled by us,” but “fulfilled in us.”
This means that something is happening in us.
Who is the “us”?
It is those who “do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
This shows that when we walk according to the Spirit, we are walking in the transcendency of Christ’s life that is freed from the law of sin and of death.
To experience this life is to experience a transcendent life.
You can know what realm you are in by whether you are “under it” or “over it.”
In the Spirit, there are feelings of “over it.”
But when you are in the other realm, you feel “under it.”
When you touch the Spirit, you discover that there is a ready-made life that has already won the victory.
The Christian life is entering into Christ.
It is merging with Him.
It is being transferred out of your self into Him.
It is not morbid introspection.
It is not religious effort.
It is not struggling and straining or using our own energy to try to get to God.
That is not it.
This life from the start is transcendent.
It comes to us that way.
You receive transcendency when you receive Him.
You do not receive a process.
You receive the finished product.
You and I receive the One who passed through every kind of experience.
Now we call on Him.
We call “Jesus.”
This is participation.
This is entering into the Person who is transcendent, who is “over it.”
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Amy Garner’s Dad
Charlene Palmer
Dan Haines
Dr. Don Davis
Freddie May’s Mom
John McClain
Kathi Mabe
Rose Fuller
Terrell Loyd
Tom Witcher
Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend
Bentley Smith
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Bill Moody
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kenny & Nora Allison
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad