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You Were Asked To Pray For:
All of Our
Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East,
Zee Mink Fuller and Family, Her son’s Bryan Armstrong and Hunter Hackie,
Daughter Shannon, and Brother Philip & Sondra Thornsberry,
Virgil and Alice Hoskins, Helen Maggard, Renee
Jackson, Larry Mollette, Linda Mollette, Larry Mollette II and Family, Danny
& Nita Mollette, Mary Mollette’s Brother &
Sister, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Nita Jo Marsh, Justin Bookout, Mrs.
White, Thomas White, Wendell Henderson,
Judy Dunn, Joshua Kidd, Donnie Henderson, Rosalie Graves, Joe Henderson, Dollie Stagner and her father –
in - law, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don Hammond, Archie and Barbara Griffin
and son Daniel, Larry Platt, Edna Garvin, Bro. Kluth, Brother & Sister
Bob Keller, Wanda Fowler, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Mansfield Ohio,
Ernie & Lynn Ashworth and Family, Kathy Rosinbaum,
Brother Keith & Susie Kennison, Brenda Galusha,
Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Bobby Walker, Gary
Perkins and Wife, Luann Reynolds, Jack Hobbs, Bro. &
Sis. Pugh, Timothy Fails, Megan Whitaker, Kimberlee
McCool, Jim & Linda Meier, Crystal Hairston, Brother David and Sister
Anne Shortt, Brother David and Susan Hitt, Manuel Seymour, Andrew Preston, Shawn
Bradford, Donald Hobson, Mike Akins, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches
in Russia.
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Thought From C. H. Spurgeon:
BOW DOWN;
BE LIFTED UP
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may
exalt you in due time." 1Peter 5:6
This is tantamount to a
promise: if we will bow down, the Lord will lift us up. Humility leads to
honor: submission is the way to exaltation. That same hand of God which presses
us down is waiting to raise us up when we are prepared to bear the blessing.
We stoop to conquer. Many cringe before men, and yet miss the patronage they
crave; but he that humbles himself under the hand of God shall not fail to be
enriched, uplifted, sustained, and comforted by the ever-gracious One. It is
a habit of Jehovah to cast down the proud, and lift up the lowly.
Yet there is a time for the Lord's working. We ought now to humble ourselves,
even at this present moment; and we are bound to keep on doing so whether the
Lord lays His afflicting hand upon us or not. When the Lord smites, it is our
special duty to accept the chastisement with profound submission. But as for
the Lord's exaltation of us, that can only come "in due time," and
God is the best judge of that day and hour. Do we cry out impatiently for the
blessing? Would we wish for untimely honor? What are we at? Surely we are not
truly humbled, or we should wait with quiet submission. So let us do.
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A Thought For The Week:
Illegal Immigration
Lamentations 5:2 Our
inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
One of the greatest threats to our nation is that of the great number
of illegals crossing our borders from Mexico and Canada. There is a joke about
soup that humoursly demonstrates this great danger.
The lady of the house is making soup and suddenly she has unexpected company.
What does she do? She simply adds more water to the soup. This illustrates
what is happening to our country. Figuratively speaking, we adding more water
to the soup. We are watering down our society be adding people who are
completely diverse from our culture. They don’t speak our language, and often
times they don’t aim to learn our language. Their customs are completely
diverse from ours. They make no attempt to integrate into our society. They
insist on maintaining their own traditions and customs. They even bring
lawsuits against the very country they seem to want to succor them. This is
like suing your own mother.
We have just seen the minutemen on the Mexican border trying to do something
about this situation. (They are presently planning another campaign of this
same nature, headed up by Mr. Simcox.) These are
citizens that have exercised their constitutional rights and have
demonstrated it is possible to stop the flow of illegal aliens from crossing
our border. Yet, the press in general and several organization such as the
ACLU, have greatly criticized them for trying to make up for our government’s
short coming.
Congressman Tom Tancredo from Colorado
was asked what the explanation is for our government ignoring this situation
for so long a time that now we have a national crisis on our hands. He summed
it up something like this: The politicians want votes and the government and
businesses want cheap labor. But nobody seems to care what we Americans want,
which is exercising some common sense. After all, the primary purpose of
government is to protect its citizens. And it is refusing to do so at the
present time. And both Democrats and Republicans are both equally guilty of
this terrible breach of trust. Folks, our enemies are not primarily in Baghdad, they are in Washington!
And while we are on the subject, we might ask the question, how is it we can
guard the borders of various nations of the world, such as the Korean border,
the Afghan border and the Iraqi border, while at the same time we can’t
control our own? I ask you, how much sense does that make? Obviously it does
not make any sense. Yet, our government (translate that into elected leaders)
does not seem to want to do anything about it. I am reminded of the words of
The Song of Solomon, chapter 1, verse 6: "Look not upon me, because I am
black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry
with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have
I not kept."
Islam
Psalms 25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with
cruel hatred.
All indications seem to point to those of the Islamic persuasion as the ones
who flew the planes into the World
Trade Center
buildings. Our own government has repeated this over and over. Yet, we have
an abundance of these people in our midst. Judging from their own writings as
well as the writings of others, we have to conclude they are bent on changing
our nation into some kind of Islamic nation and government.
The Caner bothers are highly educated former Moslems, and are something of an
authority on this subject. They claim now to be Christians and have written
books on the subject of Islam (I have read at least one of them) and have
appeared on several different TV shows. They are also teaching in two
different Christian seminaries at the present time. They do not have much
good to say about the Islamic religion. They are promoting the idea that
these people are a menace to our form of government. And I might add the
Moslems in our midst are well organized and very vocal, being seen and heard
on various talk shows from time to time. Again it seems to get back to the
idea that we can take care of everybody’s business but our own. Nobody but a
fool takes a rattlesnake to his bosom. I don’t believe our national future
should be sacrificed for the so-called good will of anyone or any
organization. It seems to me it is time to start looking out for our own
interest and forget the woes of the world. We have enough of our own.
By: Brother Harold McSwain, from his article “The Object
of the Devil’s Ire”
You can
read his entire article on his web site at www.countrybaptist.org/mcswain
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Bible Conference:
Please remember our upcoming Bible Conference on September 22 starting
at 9:00am. Please plan to attend if you can. We have 5 speakers lined up as
to date and a couple of more who desire to speak. The speakers as to date
are: Pastor Harace Hammond from Sulphur Springs,
Texas, Pastor Kelley Hinson from Ft. Worth, Texas, Pastor Nathaniel Hille from Caldwell,
Kansas, Pastor Harold McSwain from Mansfield, La, and hopefully Pastor Keith Kennison from Mansfield, La.
Lunch will be served at our fellowship hall with our ladies graciously
serving us. We will have six or seven speakers this year and hopefully finish
around three or four o’clock Saturday afternoon. Please add this event to your prayer list.
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