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Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church July 11, 2004 Bro. Randy Johnson, Pastor Pastor E-Mail: randy@countrybaptist.org Church Web Site: www.countrybaptist.org/sgmbc |
| Please Pray
For: Bro. Mink, Ronnie & Sarah Henderson, Sister Wall, Wendell & Hazel Henderson, Joe Henderson, Eddie & Lorain Murray, Larry & Linda Mollette, Donna Johnson, James Sherwood, Jim & Linda Meier, Mrs. Worsham, Leroy Sherwood & Family, Virgil Hoskins, his Brother, Bro. & Mrs. Harace Hammond, Rosa Graves, Linda {Someone Bryan work’s with}, Della Oats, Tyron Evens, Timothy Chris, Shawn & Christine Bradford & Family, Brenda Tubbs, Justin & Holly Bookout, Mr. Loony, Gina & Bryan Thompson, Danny Hammond, Wynell Hammond, Inez Stinson, Bobby Thompson, And All of Our Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East. |
| A Thought For
The Week: Homosexuality 1. Is wicked and sinful (Gen.13:13; 18:20). 2. Is an abomination (Le. 18:22; De. 23:17-18; I Ki. 14:24). 3. Is a capital crime deserving of capital punishment (Lev. 20:13). 4. Is of the Devil or Satanic (Judg. 19:22 ). 5. Is folly or foolish to get involved in (Judg. 19:23). 6. Is condemned by God (I Ki. 14:24; Col. 3:4-6; II Pe. 2:6; Jude 7). 7. Is to be eliminated by government officials, not tolerated or encouraged (I Ki. 15:11-12; 22:46; II Ki. 23:7). 8. Is common in proud, prosperous, materialistic, self-sufficient societies (Ez. 16:49-50; Ec.10:18). 9. Is characteristic of a society that has rejected or turned its back on God (Rom. 1:24-32). 10. Is characteristic of a society in which the creature is worshipped more than the creator; an idolatrous, man-centered society instead of God-centered society (Rom. 1:25). 11. Is a sin that keeps people out of heaven (I Cor. 6:9-10; Gal. 5:19-21). 12. Is a sin from which one can be delivered (I Cor. 6:11). 13. Is contrary to sound doctrine (I Ti. 1:9-10). 14. Is just as wicked as witchcraft, hatred, heresy, idolatry, adultery, thievery, covetousness, drunkenness, extortion, murder, prostitution, kidnapping, lying, perjury, sorcery, or any other sin (I Cor. 6:9-10; Gal. 5:19-21; I Ti. 1:9-10; Rev. 22:15). 15. Is fornication (Mt. 15:19; Mk. 7:21; Acts 15:20,29; 21:25; Rom. 1:29; I Cor. 6:9, 13, 18; 7:2; 10:8; II Cor. 12:21; Gal. 5:19; Eph. 5:3; Col. 3:5; I Thes. 4:3; Rev. 2:14, 20-21; 9:21). 16. Is based on a selfish misunderstanding of sex (I Cor. 7:2-5). 17. Can be overcome through salvation and a Biblical marital relationship (I Cor. 7:2-5). 18. Results from man's depravity (Mt. 15:19; Mk. 7:21). 19. Dishonors the human body (I Cor. 6:13 ). 20. Is to be avoided at all costs (I Cor. 5:18; 10:8; Eph. 5:3; II Th. 4:3). 21. Is a work of the flesh (Gal 5:19). 22. Is contrary to God's will (I Th. 4:3). 23. Is unseemly or improper (Rom. 1:27). 24. Is against nature and is vile (Rom. 1:26). 25. Is unclean and dishonorable (Rom. 1:24). ~The Flaming Torch |
| News For The
Week: ...A spokesman for a well-known restaurant chain says the company has never regretted keeping its stores closed on Sundays. The comment came in reaction to the recent move in Virginia that accidentally brought back "blue laws" banning work on the Sabbath. The law, passed by legislators and signed by Governor Mark Warner, was meant to clear some old state statutes off the books. But in the process they inadvertently brought back a decades-old "blue law." It reportedly sent many business leaders into a panic. But for some companies, like Chick-fil-A, it is just "no business as usual." Spokesman Jerry Johnston tells Family News In Focus that the company views Sunday closings as a benefit. "And if you look at the numbers, our chain continues to grow -- we continue to open new restaurants each year -- [and] sales continue to increase," he says. "We've been very blessed as a company." He says the company's founder, Truett Cathy, always believed you could apply biblical principles to business and be successful. [Bob Ditmer/FNIF] Source: Agape News |
| Separated By
Principle by C. H. Spurgeon: "And God divided the light from the darkness." --Genesis 1:4 A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered, and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul's words in the seventh chapter of Romans: "I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members." How is this state of things occasioned? "The Lord divided the light from the darkness." Darkness, by itself, is quiet and undisturbed, but when the Lord sends in light, there is a conflict, for the one is in opposition to the other: a conflict which will never cease till the believer is altogether light in the Lord. If there be a division within the individual Christian, there is certain to be a division without. So soon as the Lord gives to any man light, he proceeds to separate himself from the darkness around; he secedes from a merely worldly religion of outward ceremonial, for nothing short of the gospel of Christ will now satisfy him, and he withdraws himself from worldly society and frivolous amusements, and seeks the company of the saints, for "We know we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." The light gathers to itself, and the darkness to itself. What God has divided, let us never try to unite, but as Christ went without the camp, bearing His reproach, so let us come out from the ungodly, and be a peculiar people. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners; and, as He was, so we are to be nonconformists to the world, dissenting from all sin, and distinguished from the rest of mankind by our likeness to our Master. |
| A Special
Prayer Request: Bryan Thompson’s brother Bobby and his wife suffered a total loss of their home, car, and all they had in a fire. Only by the grace of our Lord did they get out alive. Bobby is very I’ll, in fact he is on Hospice and cannot work to replace what they had. Bryan has asked all of us to remember Bobby and his wife in prayer. The family has asked if anyone can help them to please contact Bryan. They need everything from a house to live in to clothes to money and everything else we have in life. If you or your Church would like to help them please contact Bryan at: 870 – 773 – 2738 |