Sunday Will Be Power Packed. It Will Be A Shorter Service (I Think) Doctors Orders, But Going To Be So Good. Don’t Miss It. Invite Family And Friends To Join Us. We Will Add Children’s Church Back To Accommodate Parents And Kids. I Can’t Wait.
Daily 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 “from now on, we know no one according to 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, “Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer” (v. 16).
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
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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Ashley & Jason’s Friend
Bill Lawhead
Doris Strickland – Better
Jeff & Kristen Fowler – Kristen Passed
Johnny Page – Better
Nathan McKean – Phyllis’ Grandson
Richard Blount – Better
Tyler Welborn – Better
Amy Garner’s Mother
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace
James Garner’s G’Son
Joyceann – James Garner’s Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford – Pray For Guidance
Michael Stanley
Nancy Brown’s G’Daughter
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom
Pastor Stucke– Nikki’s Dad
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sharon Blalock
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher