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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Galatians 5:2, “Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.”
For Christ to no longer “profit” us means that we nullify Christ.
By speaking in this way, Paul brings out the serious consequences of losing the atmosphere of freedom.
When saints are being compelled to conform to a spoken or unspoken standard or practice, this constitutes the loss of freedom (Gal. 2:3; 6:12).
The saints had lost that precious freedom that preserves an atmosphere in which the love of God can freely flow from God to man, from man to God, and from man to man.
To preserve the flow of the love of God in all its sweetness, we must preserve the atmosphere in which it can happen.
This means that in the church life there must always be an atmosphere of freedom in which the love of God is able to flow among us.
Love cannot flow where there is no freedom.
When love does not flow, Christ has been nullified (cf. Gal. 5:2, 4 with verse 6).
Where there is law, where there is obligation, where there is a legal mind-set, it not only chokes the flow of love, it makes it impossible for love to happen.
For example, if I tell my wife, “I am your husband, I am your head; therefore you must love me,” the more I talk to her in this way, the more I make it impossible for her to love, even if she wanted to.
How could she freely give love when I am demanding it from her?
Love needs the atmosphere of freedom in order to exist.
If freedom is not the atmosphere in our relationships, Christ and love are nullified.
To love God and to love one another requires the atmosphere of freedom.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Doris & Terrell Loyd
Dr. Davis
Dwight Byrd
Katie Guiltner & Family
Gloria Young
Jean Partee – Rehab
Jill Haines
Joe Shelnutt
Josh Rocker
Kim McCain’s Mother
Hanna Hall
Randy Bond’s Son in Law
The Graham Family – Brandon’s Friends
Katie Torbich
Amy Garner’s Mother/Dad
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead’s Brother
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
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford – Good News
Michael Stanley
Kenny & Nora Allison
Pastor Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher