Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
2 Corinthians 5:15, “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.”
One of the main reasons that Christ died on the cross was to give us a new base of operation in our spirit, that we would no longer live to ourselves.
Thus, the practical issue of the cross in our lives is that we no longer live to ourselves but to Him.
This means we have a new center, a new point of reference, a new base from which we operate, a new source from which we draw our resources.
In Galatians 2:20 our new base of operation is described: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.”
Our base of operation is no longer our self.
The cross has freed us from ever again having to take the self as the source from which we live.
Now we can deal with everything from the Lord, in the Lord, and with the Lord.
We have to worship the Lord for coming to us by His mighty hand in our environment, through the members of the Body, and through the supply from the Word–all of which are to deal with our self to effect a transfer of source.
This transfer to a new base of operation means that we no longer operate out of the self.
When the self is denied, we are a person enjoying the Lord as our source.
This denying of self is not the practice of asceticism; rather, it issues from our enjoyment of Christ as the Spirit in our spirit.
By the Spirit we are putting to death all the practices of the body (Rom. 8:13).
In this way we are operating out of a new base.
However, the less we allow the Lord to deal with our self, the more we will crowd Christ out, not allowing Him to be our source and center from which we handle everything.
If the self is not denied, we are just little “gods,” doing our own thing and operating our own lives.
Our base of operation and understanding is just the self.
Thus, we can see that the goal of dealing with the self is to effect a subjective transfer of source, giving us a new base of operation.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
FRIDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Maureen Brown – Lite Stroke
Donnie Butler’s Dad
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Brandon’s Dad
Charlene Palmer
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Daniel Cooper
Darlene Thaxton
David Burnette
David Harrison
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Doris Loyd
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Dwight Byrd
Easton Fielder
Eric Ward
Erik Magusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Jillian Gray
Jim Mabe
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
June Cronan
June Cronan’s Sister
Karen Slane
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lamar Knight
Larry Barker
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Alexander
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lorraine Elliott
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Michael Stanley
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Ricky Stubbs
Rose Fuller
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Sandy Paschal
Scott Lanier
Scott Nix
Terrell Loyd
Tom Witcher
Tony Breedlove