Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

Ephesians 4:20-21, “But ye have not so learned Christ;  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:”

By observing the Lord’s life on the earth, we can become more familiar with the Lord’s life within us.

The one unique life that is described in the four Gospels is the very same life that is now living in us.

By studying the Lord’s life in the Gospels, we are not merely considering something objective to us, but something that is also subjective in our spirit.

His life lived out in the Gospels is what is now being reproduced in us by His indwelling.

As Christians we can have the assurance that the Christ who was once outside of us is the same Christ who is now inside of us.

Furthermore, the way Christ lived on the earth is precisely the same way He is living in us.

We must see that the kind of life He lived in the flesh is not something different from the life He now lives in us.

This is a basic biblical principle–learning how to apply the Lord’s life in the flesh to our own experience of Him in the spirit.

To “learn Christ” is to learn Him by His example in the four Gospels.

“The truth . . . in Jesus” means that Jesus lived a life of truth, or reality, by always doing things in the Father, with the Father, and for the Father.

This was the truth in Jesus demonstrated and recorded in the Gospels.

Now as believers having Christ as our life and being taught in the realm of our union with Him, we learn that the relationship He had with the Father in the flesh is the same kind of experience being repeated in us in the spirit.

We “have heard Him and have been taught in Him.”

Thus, to adequately learn the indwelling Christ in our experience, we need two things: to study the Lord’s example in the Gospels, and to watch how that same life is being worked out in us in the details of our daily life.

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor

Wednesday’s Prayer Request

Joel Bateman – Hospice 

Ethel Proudfit – Hospice 

David Burnette Family in passing of his Brother                                         Memorial Service Sunday at 2:00PM 

Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad 

Brandon’s Dad 

Charlene Palmer 

Darlene Thaxton 

Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother 

Dr. Don Davis 

Easton Fielder 

Erik Magusson

Freddie May’s Mom 

George & Linda Alexander 

James Burnette 

Jane Evans 

Jim Mabe 

June Cronan’s Sister 

John Austin 

John McClain 

Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom

Linda Hodges’ Sister 

Michael Stanley 

Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother 

Rose Fuller 

Sandra Graham 

Scott Nix 

Terrell Loyd 

Tom Witcher 

James Garner’s Friend 

Kim McClain’s Mother 

Lonzo Christin 

Ashely Burn’s Sisters 

Coly/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 

Sheila Simmon’s Cousin