SUNDAY CONCLUDES MISSION’S MONTH
Our Joash (Sacrificial) Offering may be given at any time during the year, but most usually give during February. Thank you for praying about your gift for this year. This annual offering is used for unexpected needs that arise for our missionaries on their field of service throughout the year.
Eli and Katie Guiltner from Japan will be with us this Sunday.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Colossians 3:5, “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”
The world is filled with all the things that stimulate the flesh–the television, the radio, the music, the lyrics.
Even the atmosphere in many worldly places is designed by the devil to ruin humanity for God’s purpose.
It causes humanity to become lower and lower in uncleanness, looseness, fornication, in all the moral filth that is filling the earth today.
So I say strongly that we need to exercise our spirit to be strict with everything immoral; otherwise there is no way to grow in our Christian life.
Some may think that this kind of fellowship is only for the unmarried.
But this is as much for the married as for the unmarried.
The flesh does not cease at marriage.
Lust does not stop, evil passion does not stop.
It may continue in married life.
This is why Paul said, 1 Thessalonians 4:4-5, “That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”
Possessing your own vessel can refer to possessing your own body, or it can also be understood as possessing your spouse.
Even in a legitimate marriage relationship, Paul exhorted that the believers were to be sanctified.
We were not called to uncleanness, but we were called in holiness and honor (v. 7).
This means we need to be specific to apply the cross to our members.
Our members here are not spoken of as being our eyes, ears, or mind.
Paul actually refers to our members as fornication and uncleanness.
That is how constituted the flesh is with sin.
So we must put to death.
We must kill.
Do not entertain.
Do not think.
Do not let anything start.
Immediately interrupt it with your spirit.
Allow your spirit to come out and put it to death.
“Lord, I am in Your economy.
I am not here being wasted in filth, wasted with my eyes, wasted with my mind, wasted in my flesh, giving my body to uncleanness.
I am not here for that.
My body is to be sanctified.
It is to be holy.
It is Yours, and one day it is to be conformed to Your glorious body.”
In this way, we inwardly apply the cross to our members.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Bill Lawhead’s Memorial Service is March 26 @ 11 AM
Charles Ward – Doing Well
James Garner’s Friend
Jim Mabe
John McClain
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Marli Page – Mission trip
Randy Bond’s Son In Law
Russell Paschal
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother
Terrell Loyd
The Graham Family – Brandon’s Friends
Amy Garner’s Mother/Dad
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead’s Brother
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Kenny & Nora Allison
Pastor Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tom Witcher