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Surviving The Holidays
Sunday 2:00-4:00 PM
Invite Those Who Have Recently Lost Their Loved Ones!
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
1 Corinthians 4:3, “But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.”
Man’s day is a term used in contrast to the Lord’s day.
Man’s day means that man’s opinion and man’s judgment hold sway.
Man’s day means that it is man’s turn to judge, view, and analyze.
The Lord’s day means that the Lord comes in, as in Revelation 1:10: “I was in spirit on the Lord’s Day.”
On the Lord’s day the Lord came in to walk among the churches to judge them (Rev. 23).
The Lord’s day means that now it is the Lord’s turn to judge.
With this realization Paul says, “Yea, I judge not mine own self.”
He is saying that he is not trustworthy to analyze himself.
Then in verse 4 Paul continues, “For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.”
To deal with our fallen state of subjectivity, we just need to stop ourself.
Do not interpret anything concerning yourself or others.
Do not argue or debate with yourself.
Do not analyze yourself.
Do not trust your view, opinion, and reasoning.
Call a halt to this self that has controlled and lived out its life for so many years.
The way to be transferred out of your self and into the spirit is to stop your self.
Say, “Lord, I open to You with Jeremiah 17:9, ‘The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?’ “
Who can know the heart?
Who can know our real state?
Verse 10 says, “I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind.”
The Lord is the One who is qualified to know you and change you.
In the New Testament, there is a compound Greek word translated “heart-knower.”
The Lord is the Heart-knower.
He is the One who really knows your heart accurately.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Daniel Ford – Surgery Went Well
Dan Haines – Surgery Thursday
Jim Mabe – Surgery Thursday
Scotty Nix – Surgery Thursday
Bill Moody – Hospice
James Burnette
Easton Fielder
Ellen Boyd
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
Rusty Turner
Tom Witcher
Tony Breedlove
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
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad