Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Romans 8:4, “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Whenever negative thoughts are rising up in us or bothering us or trying to leech on us, we know that it is just a sign to us saying, “You need to get into the law of the Spirit, and you will find another set of feelings.
You will find another mind, another evaluation.”
But some of us would rather talk about our problems. We would rather talk than call upon the Lord and get to God.
We are in such a syndrome that it seems we really do not want God.
We would rather just talk.
But it is wonderful to know that there is another law in us.
It is the law of the Spirit that freed us from the law of sin and death.
It is a realm where we are freed, literally freed, from that whole scenario that leaves us depressed, discouraged, and anxious.
Follow those symptoms back to their source, and you will discover that they come from the good flesh trying to outdo the bad flesh.
God sent His Son.
His Son came into us.
Now we are in union with Him in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us.
Notice that it does not say “fulfilled by us,” but “fulfilled in us.”
This means that something is happening in us.
Who is the “us”?
It is those who “do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
This shows that when we walk according to the Spirit, we are walking in the transcendency of Christ’s life that is freed from the law of sin and of death.
To experience this life is to experience a transcendent life.
You can know what realm you are in by whether you are “under it” or “over it.”
In the Spirit, there are feelings of “over it.”
But when you are in the other realm, you feel “under it.”
When you touch the Spirit, you discover that there is a ready-made life that has already won the victory.
The Christian life is entering into Christ.
It is merging with Him.
It is being transferred out of your self into Him.
It is not morbid introspection.
It is not religious effort.
It is not struggling and straining or using our own energy to try to get to God.
That is not it.
This life from the start is transcendent.
It comes to us that way.
You receive transcendency when you receive Him.
You do not receive a process.
You receive the finished product.
You and I receive the One who passed through every kind of experience.
Now we call on Him.
We call “Jesus.”
This is participation.
This is entering into the Person who is transcendent, who is “over it.”
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Sollie & Jane Hick’s Mom Passed
Daniel Ford – Recovering
Dan Haines – Home
Jim Mabe – Chemo
Scott Nix
Bill Moody – Hospice
James Burnette
Easton Fielder
Ellen Boyd
Dan Wohey
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’Mother
Dr. Don Davis
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Joan Cronan’s Sister
John McClain
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Ronnie Palmer
Rusty Turner
Tom Witcher
Tony Breedlove
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Colby/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 – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad