Don’t Miss the Last 2 Weeks of Summer Classes
6:30 Wednesday
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“FAMILY” FISHING ACTIVITY
HIKING TRAILS
SCAVENGER HUNT
August 27 4:00 PM
Bring Poles For The Family (Provided If U Don’t Have)
& An Empty Stomach For A Fish Fry (Hot Dogs Too)
At Joanie & Ben Bruce’s Farm In Madison
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
John 8:28, “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.”
When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing from Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things
God wants to effect in us a transfer of our source.
We see this transfer in Romans 14:7-8: “For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.”
This simplifies everything.
This makes everything uncomplicated.
This keeps us in the enjoyment of Christ hour after hour.
Then we no longer handle the self, consult with it, debate with it, or live it out.
We just know one thing–how to enjoy Christ, fellowship with Him, handle everything with Him, and relate to our environment with Him.
We find ourselves no longer living an independent, self-trusting life.
But increasingly we live dependent on the Lord, just as He lived dependent on the Father.
In John 8:28 He describes His own living: “I do nothing from Myself.”
He neither spoke nor acted from Himself.
It is this dependent life that the Lord supplies to us in our spirit.
This grace-wrought dependency is the goal of God’s dealing with the self.
It refers to a genuine transfer of source that takes place in us so that we live one spirit with the Lord.
Now the Lord wants us to become familiar with our spirit–to discover our spirit, use our spirit, and learn to take the initiative with our spirit.
In the past, our soul has been so activated that we have been flooded with our own thoughts and enmeshed with our own feelings and choices.
In Ephesians 2:3 Paul clearly defines our unregenerate state: “Among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts.”
“The desires of the thoughts” means that we have lived out Satan in our independent thoughts.
This characterized our old life, before we were regenerated.
Even after we are regenerated, we may still live out of the source of our self in many things.
However, in regenerating our spirit, the Lord has imparted His own dependent life into us.
He lived a dependent life, and that is the nature of His life in us.
Thus, our dealings with the Lord in our daily life will come in the things and in the areas where we live independent from Him.
Expect to be brought into an ever deepening dependence upon Him.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Joe & Kat Johnson
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Dan Haines
Darlene Wiggin’s Brother
Dr. Don Davis – Home
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Jane Hicks
Joan Cronan’s Sister – Surgery Sept. 1
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
John McClain
Linda Lanier
Mary Williams
Melisa Smith’s G’Father
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
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