Fourth of July Celebration Sunday at 6:30!
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Romans 6:5, “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”
The word in the original language is translated as “grown together.”
This adjective, therefore, denotes the organic union in virtue of which one being shares the life, growth, and phases of existence belonging to another.
Organic union means that one being shares the life of another.
This is the nature of the organic union in our spirit.
In our spirit we are sharing the life of Another (Rom. 8:10).
Our entire being is made up of spirit and soul and body (1 Thess. 5:23).
Our spirit is the deepest part of our being, referred to in Ephesians 3:16 as “the inner man.”
It is in our spirit that the organic union is effected in us.
It is Christ Himself, His very resurrected Person, the real Jesus, alive, the One who died, rose, and ascended, who is now transmitted directly into our spirit.
Our human spirit is joined to His risen life (Rom. 7:4, 6).
In this spirit-union I am joined to a Person.
He is the Person in my person.
First Corinthians 15:45 describes the nature of Christ’s Person: “The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.”
“The last Adam” means that He is the proper and genuine Man of all men, the proper Person of all persons.
In the Gospels the Lord called Himself the Son of Man more than any other title.
He is the representative man.
He is the real man.
He is the real personality.
He is the real human being.
He is the proper human life.
He is the Son of Man.
This Person wants to be our person, so His Personhood became a life-giving Spirit who is now joined to our spirit.
Thus, what we are joined to is the life of the last Adam, the perfect Person, who is God’s wisdom to us, including righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30).
Now our person is Christ living in our spirit.
When we speak of the organic union, it means we share the life, the growth, and the phases of existence belonging to Him.
In our spirit we are partaking of all that Christ is and has accomplished!
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
FRIDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Karen Slane – Improving
Tony Breedlove – Home
Dan Haines – Continuing to improve
Terrell Loyd
Jodi Bateman
David Burnette
Dwight Byrd
Daniel Cooper
Sandy Paschal
Amy Garner
Lamar Knight
Jim Mabe
Charlene Palmer
Lorraine Elliott
Eric Ward
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Sandra Graham
Doris Loyd
Linda Alexander
June Cronan
Jillian Gray
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Darlene Thaxton
David Harrison
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Easton Fielder
Erik Magusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
June Cronan’s Sister
John Austin
John McClain
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Rose Fuller
Scott Nix
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