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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
2 Corinthians 4:12, “So then death worketh in us, but life in you.”
The context of this verse indicates that we need to inwardly coordinate with our environment (vv. 10-11), which means we need to exercise our spirit of faith (v. 13).
How does death operate in you?
Death operates by your coordinating the inward cross with the outward cross.
When does it operate?
It operates when you are handed over to someone’s long face, and you want to react.
But instead of reacting and carrying out your reaction to that long face with self-pity or vindictiveness, you call on the Lord and activate your spirit and do not agree with your kind of reaction.
In doing this your focus is immediately shifted from the person who gave you a long face to your reaction to that long face.
The fact that you could react in such a way is not Christ.
So you are taken immediately out of the realm of right and wrong.
You are not on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Your focus has shifted.
The one thing that matters is that you put to death this self that would indulge itself in pity or hurt feelings.
You put to death this thing that is not Christ, this thing that reacts in any other way than by turning the other cheek.
This is how transcendent the Lord’s life is.
This is the life that is to be wrought into our experience.
If someone hits you on one cheek, then turn the other cheek to him–not in a coping way, but in a crucified way.
Then you are living another kind of life.
You are not living just a good life, but a transcendent life (Matt. 5:38-48).
Thus, in the experience of coordinating with our environment, the outward cross must be matched with the inward cross.
By this, a little more of the outer man decays, and a little more of the inner man is renewed.
This is the proper vision for our daily living.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
TUESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Dan Haines – nerve damage in upper right arm which prevents his mobility
Terrell Loyd
Jodi Bateman
David Burnette
Dwight Byrd
Daniel Cooper
Sandy Paschal – surgery today
Amy Garner
Lamar Knight
Jim Mabe
Charlene Palmer
Lorraine Elliott
Eric Ward
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Sandra Graham
Doris Loyd
Linda Alexander
June Cronan
Jillian Gray
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Darlene Thaxton
David Harrison
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Easton Fielder
Erik Magusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
June Cronan’s Sister
John Austin
John McClain
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Rose Fuller
Scott Nix
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