Something Unusual Is Happening In Sunday School!

Lives Are Being Radically Changed.

It Is Beginning To Spread.

9:30 AM

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Colossians 3:4-5, “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”

Apart from our experiencing the cross and denying the self, the soul-life will be preserved.

The way for the self to be terminated is by denying it and taking up the cross.

To deny the self is to disregard it as your source.

Do not interact with it.

Do not consult with it.

We are not qualified to handle the self with the self.

Indeed, in Christ, we are no longer obligated to it (Rom. 8:12).

Instead, touch the source of the Spirit.

It is the Spirit that supplies self-denying power (Gal. 5:24-25).

In order to take up the cross, first discover the willingness for the cross in your spirit by crying, “Abba, Father!” (Mark 14:36, 38; Phil. 2:13).

Second, learn how to merge with the inclinations of the cross that are intrinsic to the leading of the Spirit (Rom. 8:13-14).

Third, obey the supplied impulse of life to interrupt the activity of the self.

Do not wait for the self to be agreeable to die.

Let the cross operate on it in the midst of its struggle to live.

The experience of the cross is not a long, drawn-out process.

The cross in the Spirit today is already an accomplished fact and reality.

It just needs to be executed by our touching the Spirit.

This is why Paul speaks in the imperative mood in Colossians 3:5: “Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth.”

This is execution.

The “therefore” in this verse is based upon the crucifying activity that is integral to the “Christ who is our life.”

That is, the nature of the life mentioned in verse 4 is crucifying life in verse 5.

In other words, life supplies death–death to the self!

Until Tomorrow,

With A Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Rodney Wiggins – Darlene’s Husband – Passed Away

Jim Mabe – Cancer

Ashton Bateman & Family

Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad

Brandon’s Dad

Dan Haines          

Darlene Thaxton – Breast Cancer

Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’Mother

Dr. Don Davis

Freddie May’s Mom

George Alexander

Jane Hick’s Mom

Joan Cronan’s Sister

Linda Hodges’ Sister

Michael Stanley

John McClain

Ronnie Palmer

Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother

Tom Witcher

Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend

Bentley Smith

James Garner’s Friend 

Kim McClain’s Mother

Lonzo Christian             

Ashley Burn’s Sisters

Bill Moody 

Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons 

Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother

Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace

Kenny & Nora Allison  

Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister  

Larry Barker  

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah

Mary Sims  

Marynell Ford

Pastor & Mrs. Driskell 

Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend 

Ricky Stubbs  

Roseleigh Osborn  

Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son 

Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend

Sheila Simmon’s Cousin

Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad