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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
2 Corinthians 5:14-15, “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.”
For God to be our source, we need to see that God is not going to improve us.
He is not going to mend us or even upgrade us.
We may upgrade our computer software, but when it comes to improving the self, there are no upgrades in God’s arrangement of things.
God is not going to improve me, nor is He going to render some help to me, as if I was the source of my life.
Christ becomes our righteousness in order that we might be torn away from ourselves and catapulted into Another life and source.
God does things in absolutes.
He crucifies the self and terminates it.
He does not even give it a chance to try to work out its own righteousness.
The fact that we “all died” in His death deals with the matter of source.
A dead person can no longer live to himself.
Christ comes to replace us.
He comes to be the very source of our being.
He comes to exchange our life for His life.
He does this by joining Himself to our spirit, so that we become one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17).
God’s goal is to come into my spirit to become my source.
The way He does this is by first taking me completely out of the realm of my self by crucifying me outright.
This co-crucifixion with Christ quickly ends my religious history.
God terminates me in one realm that He might resurrect me in another.
The experiential effect of this co-resurrection, where Christ Himself is now my righteousness, is that I become completely reoriented.
It is truly no longer I, but Christ in me, who is living to God.
Because Christ is my life, God is now my source.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
Tuesday’s Prayer Requests
Sandra Graham – Surgery Thursday
Dan Haines
Doris Loyd
Linda Alexander
June Cronan
Jillian Gray
Ethel Proudfit – Hospice
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Ashton Bateman
Brandon’s Dad
Charlene Palmer
Darlene Thaxton
David Harrison
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Dr. Don Davis
Easton Fielder
Erik Magusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
Jim Mabe
June Cronan’s Sister
John Austin
John McClain
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Mike Ferus
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Rose Fuller
Scott Nix
Terrell Loyd
Tom Witcher
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christin
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Coly/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
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin