NO SERVICE TONIGHT!!
Experience the joy of Christmas as our choir presents COME WORSHIP THE KING that celebrates the birth of our Savior. Together, let’s make this Sunday a time of heartfelt worship, reflection, and communion, ensuring there’s no room for anything but reverence and praise for Him.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Galatians 3:2, “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
To fully understand how God’s righteousness is applied to us, we need to see that it is related to hearing.
God’s righteousness is not only His procedure on the cross, but it is our hearing about it.
Galatians 3:2 and 5 calls this hearing “the hearing of faith.”
The hearing of faith consists of a hearing about the scenery of Calvary.
It is that kind of hearing that causes faith to come into being in us.
According to Ephesians 2:8, faith is a gift: “For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.”
The way this gift is given to us is simply by hearing about the scenery of Calvary.
God wants the appropriate response to Himself.
Faith is that response.
The way God secures this response of faith is by imparting it into us as a gift.
Furthermore, He gives the gift by putting us under a hearing which reveals God’s righteousness.
This is the significance of what Paul says in Romans 1:16-17: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
This is a righteousness of God that, when revealed, requires faith; and at the same time, while it is being revealed in the gospel, it gives and imparts the very faith that it requires.
Thus, faith in Jesus Christ is the faith of Jesus Christ (Gal. 2:16; Rom. 3:22).
Faith does not originate with us.
It originates with our beholding the scenery of Calvary that reveals God’s righteousness.
When we are in the process of beholding the scenery of Calvary through hearing(Gal. 3:1-2), we experience the faith of Jesus Christ.
When we respond to what we are beholding and hearing, we experience faith in Jesus Christ.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
WEDNESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Andrew Halevi & Daughter
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Brandon’s Dad
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Darlene Wiggins
David Burnette
David Harrison – Riverside
Deanna Fowler
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Donnie Butler’s Dad
Doris Loyd
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Easton Fielder
Ed Mays
Eric Ward
Erik Magnusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
Heather May
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Janie Roberts
Jillian Gray
Joanie & Jeanie
Joanie/Jeanie Mom
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
June Cronan
June Cronan’s Sister
Kailey Bateman
Kathy Mabe
Kim McClain’s Mother
Krista Hilscher – Improving
Larry Barker
Lee Cronan – Success
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lori Blount’s Mother
Lynn Garner
Marlon Cook
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
Miles Bradshaw
Nancy Proudfit
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Pat Chupp
Ricky Gipson
Ricky Stubbs
Robbie Edwards
Rose Fuller – Rehab
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Scott Lanier
Soso Nzolo – 17 Yr. Old South African Pastor’s Daughter
Susan & Alexis Tesone
Tom Witcher