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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
2 Corinthians 5:15, “And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.”
No longer living to ourselves is experiential.
The cross is a fact that transfers the source of our lives.
Now we are joined to Christ through regeneration.
What is the issue of this?
What is the purpose of it all?
It is that we no longer live to ourselves, that we no longer take ourselves as the point of reference for anything!
We no longer consult with ourselves or debate with ourselves.
To live no longer to ourselves, but to Him means that we have a new center, a new source, a new base of operation.
From this new source, we live to Him who died for us and has been raised.
Based upon this transfer and its experiential effect of no longer living to ourselves, verse 16 begins, “Therefore, from now on . . .”
Notice the words “from now on.”
In verse 15 it is “no longer,” and in verse 16 it is “2 Corinthians 5, “…Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: “.”
This means we do not interpret people or relate to one another in the way we did in the past.
“From now on” is the outcome of “no longer” living to ourselves.
Because we have a new base of operation, our whole attitude about one another and how we relate to one another is changed.
We no longer know each other according to the flesh.
This even includes the way we are related to the Lord, to Christ.
Paul testifies, 2 Corinthians 5:16, “Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”
Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
We do not remain in our human concepts, ideas, views, and imaginations about Christ.
But now we are firmly, solidly established in spirit–our new base, our new source, our new center.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
FRIDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Dan Haines – Serious Surgery June 7th
David Burnette
Dwight Byrd
Daniel Cooper
Sandy Paschal
James Parker
Amy Garner
Lamar Knight
Jim Mabe
Charlene Palmer
Lorraine Elliott
Eric Ward
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Sandra Graham
Dan Haines
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
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