MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LARRY STANLEY                                  SUNDAY JANUARY 29TH                                                                 10:30 AM

VALENTINE’S BANQUET                                                                     February 10TH                                                                               6:30pm 

LADIES’ BIBLE STUDY                                                                              Every Thursday Beginning February 2nd                                        9:00am                                                                                      Sign Up Sheets In Foyer

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Galatians 2:19-20, “For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.”

Here we see how God dealt with us in our relationship to the law–we died to the law in the death of Christ on the cross.

When Christ died on the cross, we also died (2 Cor. 5:14).

Indeed, Paul makes it clear in Romans 7:3-4 that when the body of Christ was hanging on the cross, we not only died with Him but we died to the law with Him.

The law demanded that the sinner die for his sin (Ezek. 18:4).

Thus, in our co-crucifixion with Christ, we legally and judicially died.

We were all judged on the cross in His death.

The law effectively put us to death in Him and dealt a final blow to our law-breaking flesh.

This is the meaning of Paul’s statement, “I through the law died to the law.”

Now that we have died to the law in the death of Christ, we no longer have a relationship with the law in ourselves.

Our relationship to the law is now Jesus Christ Himself.

He is not only the end of the law for righteousness to us (Rom. 10:4), but He is also the fulfiller of the righteous requirement of the law in us as we walk according to spirit (Matt. 5:17-18; Rom. 8:3-4).

We are no longer occupied with living to an impersonal law and demand that has no life in it.

We are living to God in a Person who is life and who gives life! Christ being my relationship with the law means that it is no longer the law-keeping “I” who lives, but Christ who lives in me.

This means I am forever delivered from slavery, bondage, legality, impotence, and fear.

I am now living to God in the Person of Christ.

Until Tomorrow,                                                                                                                                                         With A Shepherd’s Love                                                                                                     Pastor

 

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

 

 

Ann Stanley – Memorial Service for Larry – 1/29/23 10:30 AM

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