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6:30 Wednesday

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

2 Corinthians 5:17-18, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;”

In the new creation, “old things have passed away.”

This means that my old existence, which was apart from God as my source, has passed away.

“All things have become new” means that now “all things are out of God.”

He is now my source.

When God reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, He produced a relationship that makes Him, not ourselves, the source of our lives.

He has the rightful place because He has imparted His Son into us.

Now, the source of everything in our lives is the Spirit of His Son sent into our hearts crying, “Abba, Father!”

To be “in Christ” in the new creation is to be in the source where all things are out of God.

His Son lived a human life on this earth for 33 1/2 years.

In all His living, He did nothing apart from the Father.

Whatever He spoke and whatever He did, He did out of the Father as His source.

He was wholly dependent upon the Father’s life as the source for His daily life.

We must see that the Son’s life lived out in the Gospels is now in us.

As the Spirit, He is operating to produce His dependent life in us, and to eliminate our independent living–a life of living to ourselves.

Our life in the old creation has been an independent life, in which we have lived out of our self as the source.

We have made our own decisions, done our own things, lived out of our own feelings and thoughts.

In brief, we have been the source of our life.

Thus, the Lord works in our lives to actually make Himself our source.

Why are we passing through all kinds of experiences and various environments?

They are designed by God to bring us into Himself as our source.

What we are going through right now is another step toward the goal of working a realization into our consciousness that our life is out of God Himself.

Until Tomorrow,

With A Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Joe & Kat Johnson in Passing of Joe’s Dad

Amy Garner’s Dad

Brandon’s Dad

Dan Haines

Darlene Wiggin’s Brother

Dr. Don Davis – Home

Freddie May’s Mom

George Alexander

Jane Hicks

Joan Cronan’s Sister – Surgery Sept. 1 

Linda Hodges’ Sister

Michael Stanley

John McClain

Linda Lanier

Mary Williams

Melisa Smith’s G’Father

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 

Charlie Sessom – Waiting  

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  

Rod Gustafson – Cancer

Roseleigh Osborn  

Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son 

Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend

Sheila Simmon’s Cousin

Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad