YOUR VOTE MADE A DIFFERENCE! THANK YOU
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Romans 7:25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”
Being subjective will always manifest itself in one’s life by a stream of condemning thoughts.
The real source of condemnation with many people is simply subjectivity.
This is the kind of condemnation referred to in Romans 7 and 8 subjective condemnation.
A person lives with condemnation because he believes his own feelings and his own state of mind.
Thus, he is set up for the accuser of the brethren.
If we do not stand with four objective facts Christ, our spirit, the truth, and the Body we are left to the onslaught of condemnation from the enemy.
This is because we are identifying with the sin in our flesh.
It reacts, it moves, it has its tendencies, and it seeks to act itself out (Rom. 6:12).
Paul’s description of his subjective state in Romans 7 reveals that there was a fierce struggle going on within his being because he had no objective base to lay hold of.
There was no truth, no spirit, no Christ, and no Body.
So he ends up with a desperate cry, “O wretched man that I am!” (v. 24).
His wretchedness was due to being confined to his own thoughts and emotions.
His subjectivity in handling himself resulted in subjective condemnation.
Then Paul bursts forth in Romans 7:25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
And again in Romans 8:1-2 he declares, 1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death”.
These two facts uttered by Paul reveal the way he was delivered from subjective condemnation.
When he said, “Through Jesus Christ,” coupled with “the law of the Spirit of life . . . made me free,” he disclosed how he was delivered.
His deliverance did not come from any experience that he passed through.
His deliverance came as a result of moving out of his subjective state into the objective reality of Christ, the spirit, and the truth.
Not only did he know himself in Christ, but he also saw that everything now was to be processed through Jesus Christ.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Daniel Ford – Surgery This Week
Dan Haines – Surgery Thursday
Jim Mabe – Surgery Thursday
Scotty Nix – Surgery Thursday
Bill Moody – Hospice
James Burnette
Easton Fielder
Dan Wohey
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’Mother
Dr. Don Davis
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Jane Hick’s Mom
Joan Cronan’s Sister
John McClain
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Ronnie Palmer
Tom Witcher
Tony Breedlove
Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad