SUMMER CLASSES BEGIN JUNE 15

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Romans 7:25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

Being subjective will always manifest itself in one’s life by a stream of condemning thoughts.

The real source of condemnation with many people is simply subjectivity.

This is the kind of condemnation referred to in Romans 7 and 8 subjective condemnation.

A person lives with condemnation because he believes his own feelings and his own state of mind.

Thus, he is set up for the accuser of the brethren.

If we do not stand with four objective facts Christ, our spirit, the truth, and the Body we are left to the onslaught of condemnation from the enemy.

This is because we are identifying with the sin in our flesh.

It reacts, it moves, it has its tendencies, and it seeks to act itself out (Rom. 6:12).

Paul’s description of his subjective state in Romans 7 reveals that there was a fierce struggle going on within his being because he had no objective base to lay hold of.

There was no truth, no spirit, no Christ, and no Body.

So he ends up with a desperate cry, “O wretched man that I am!” (v. 24).

His wretchedness was due to being confined to his own thoughts and emotions.

His subjectivity in handling himself resulted in subjective condemnation.

Then Paul bursts forth in Romans 7:25, “Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord”.

And again in Romans 8:1-2 he declares, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”

These two facts uttered by Paul reveal the way he was delivered from subjective condemnation.

When he said, “Through Jesus Christ,” coupled with “the law of the Spirit of life . . . made me free,” he disclosed how he was delivered.

His deliverance did not come from any experience that he passed through.

His deliverance came as a result of moving out of his subjective state into the objective reality of Christ, the spirit, and the truth.

Not only did he know himself in Christ, but he also saw that everything now was to be processed through Jesus Christ.

Until Tomorrow 

With a Shepherd’s Love 

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Amy Garner’s Dad

Charlene Palmer

Dr. Don Davis

Freddie May’s Mom

John McClain 

Kathi Mabe

Rose Fuller

Terrell Loyd

Tom Witcher

Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend

Bentley Smith

James Garner’s Friend 

Kim McClain’s Mother

Lonzo Christian             

Ashley Burn’s Sisters

Bill Moody 

Charlie Sessom – Waiting  

Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons 

Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother

Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace

Kenny & Nora Allison  

Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister  

Larry Barker  

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah

Mary Sims  

Marynell Ford

Pastor & Mrs. 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

Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad