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TONIGHT 6:30
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VALENTINE’S BANQUET
February 10TH
6:30pm
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LADIES’ BIBLE STUDY
Every Thursday Beginning February 2nd
9:00am
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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
John 17:23, “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”
When the Lord prayed, “that they may be made perfect,” indicates that the effect of what happened in the past continues to be a present state and reality.
This tells us that He was not referring to a process of being perfected.
He was identifying a state of perfection that we are in.
Kenneth S. Wuest, in his Expanded Translation of the New Testament, translates verse 23 in a way that expresses the significance of the perfect tense: “I in them and you in me, in order that they, having been brought to the state of completeness [or, perfection] with respect to oneness, may persist in that state of completeness [or, perfection] . . .”
In other words, being brought to a state of perfection is simply equal to Christ indwelling us with the Father.
The “I in them” is inseparably linked to the “You in Me.”
“I in them” means that the Son is in us.
“You in Me” means that the Father is in the Son.
So we have the Father in the Son as the Spirit flowing into us as our state of perfection.
This perfection is the perfection of the oneness existing between the Father and the Son.
That oneness comes into us when Christ comes into us.
Therefore, perfection is not what we attain; it is what we receive when we receive Christ.
In every relationship in the Body of Christ, recognize the existing perfection, and then persist and continue in it.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Ann Stanley In Passing Of Her Husband, Larry
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Charlene Palmer
Ed Mays
Dan Haines
Darlene Thaxton
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’Mother
Dr. Don Davis
Easton Fielder
Ellen Boyd
Freddie May’s Mom & Friend
George/Linda Alexander
James Burnette
Jane Evans
Jim Mabe
Joan Cronan’s Sister
Joel Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Rose Fuller’s Nephew
Rusty Turner
Sandra Graham
Scott Nix
Terrell Loyd
Tammy Shellnut
Tom Witcher
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Colby/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 – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother