Wednesday Thanksgiving Pie Fellowship
6:30
Bring My Favorite Desert & A Testimony
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Philippians 2:7-8, “But made himself of no reputation (emptied Himself), and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
We need to allow the cross to operate to completely terminate this self and to germinate resurrection life.
In this way, the life that is manifested in us is life out of death (2 Cor. 4:10-11).
Life out of death!
For this we need to let the cross operate.
And how do we let the cross operate?
Philippians 2 gives us the way: we empty ourselves, not grasping anything, just as the Lord Jesus emptied Himself.
And then He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death.
In that emptying and humbling, God was operating.
These verses are in the context of Philippians 2:13, “It is God who operates in you.”
Let God operate.
You cannot do anything.
You simply empty.
Empty out your energy, your striving, your self in its religious workings.
This is the meaning of Paul’s word, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I” (Gal. 2:20).
Terminate and end that self.
Just empty it out.
And then humble yourself.
The humbling is uniquely related to obedience.
Though you cannot change yourself and you cannot reproduce resurrection life, you can let God operate by emptying out your own energy and self and then obeying.
Just go along with whatever He is saying, whatever He is doing.
In our emptying and in our obeying, God is operating.
The cross is operating.
Death is operating to change us, to transfer us out of our self into the Spirit, and to reproduce Christ in our being until we are completely conformed to His image.
This is God’s New Testament economy (Rom. 8:29).
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Sollie & Jane Hick’s Mom Passed
Daniel Ford – Recovering
Dan Haines – In Much Pain
Jim Mabe – In Much Pain
Scotty Nix
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
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