Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
January 11, 2009 
Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor                                             Bro. Ronnie Henderson, Song Director  
Pastor E-Mail: sgmbcpastor@baptistsonline.org                      Web Site: www.baptistsonline.org/sgmbc

"Where the truths of God’s word are taught"
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 Hoskins and his daughters Liz Janis and Debbie Gray, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Helen Maggard, Renee Jackson, Larry & Linda Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kirby Mollette, Shawn, Bridget, and Destiny Bradford, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Verna Mae Allen, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn her father Elmer Harvey, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Donnie Henderson, Kevin Henderson, Ricky Henderson, Rosalie Graves, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Larry Platt, Edna Garvin, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Wanda Fowler, Kathy Rosinbaum, Brenda Galusha, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, Bobby Walker, Luann Reynolds, Bro. & Sis. Curtis Pugh and his brother Billy Jack Cooper and family, Abigail Cattemull, Timothy Fails, Jim & Linda Meier, Ernie & Lynn Ashworth, Brother David & Sister Anne Shortt, Brother Manuel Seymour, Zach Seymour, Doris Hammock, Letha Langford, Leacho Tittle, Cody, Jill Green and Isaiah , Pastor Kelley Hinson, Tammy Hairston, Anita Marsh, Brother Frank and Sister Cyd James, Charles Boyd Jr., Bro. Larry Wilson’s son Gerrod Wilson , Pastor and Sister David O’Neal, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Michael Hiem, Jerry Hughes, Nita Bookout’s Niece, Kim McCool’s Mother and Father, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.
Thought For The Week – By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.:

Choose Life
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: …" (Deut. 30:19-20) "Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31)

In this merry making season that the world refers to as the "Christmas Season" the great multitudes dance and prance around the "Christmas Tree" with other things than sugarplums dancing in their heads. They crowd the stores and spend, spend, spend, then rush off to their lustful drunken revelries to make fools of themselves. But, to sooth their darkened consciences they blame it all on the birth of the Son of God. They mound gifts upon each other, but where are the gifts to the supposed "birthday boy"? Isn’t it odd that the one who is suppose to be in the center of the birthday celebration never receives a thing but the blame for their reprobated partying hardy. I’m sure the Son of God is really impressed and overwrought with unspeakable joy! (Sarcasm)
The fact is all heaven and earth are called to record and to give witness against the decisions and action of mankind. Man is without excuse, for he has seen and heard the testimony of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. God has unequivocally given ample evidence and witness of the way of truth and eternal life in every generation. The ways of life and death, blessing and cursing have always stood as great mountains in the view and paths of men. Many choose to continue in pretence of ignorance, but all heaven and earth will be called to give testimony of what has been written in the records.
You are directly responsible to God for your decisions and actions. What you choose in this life you must bear in eternity! You must also understand that what you choose will have an impact on your children and your children’s children. Maybe you ought to take time to examine what you are choosing for yourself and for your descendents. Perhaps, you should choose life and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, then gift the knowledge of Him to your children.
A Thought From Our Pastor:

The coming of our Lord is drawing nigh.
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. (5.) For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. Matthew 24:4-5

Beloved remember this one simply fact, the Lord Jesus Christ is going to return! I know the time has arrived where there is great doubt, but Jesus, Who cannot lie promised He would return "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:3, the angels promised that He would return "Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." Acts 1:11 and others also promised. Therefore in order to believe He is not going to return is to call Jesus, the angels in heaven, and others liars. Therefore we as believers need to be like the five virgins that were intelligent enough to buy oil for their lamps. We have so many today that have separated themselves from the word of God for man pleasing doctrine that it has came to the point it can be classified as innumerable. Many have died separated from the Lord’s church and therefore being separated as a member of the Bride of Christ who will at the wedding feast regret their actions here on earth. Ask any Bride at any wedding and she will tell you it is much more glorious to be the bride than to be a guest.

I see the times aligning themselves in a proper order for the Lord’s return, Apostasy is in full swing, America and Israel are constantly at war with the Muslims, and people are everywhere claming to be Jesus Christ. Maybe not using His name but claiming to be the saviour of mankind and even calling themselves or accepting others to call them the messiah. We heard this word used in the last election and people actually believe he is their saviour and believes he has the power to deliver us from our economical woes. We have so many deceivers in pulpits, on the television, and on the radio who only seek to please the flesh that it seems unreal. We have not noticed the deception so much because it has gradually come about. Let’s look at it this way; those of you who are older will remember when the movie "Gone with the wind" came out and the word damn was used and the controversy it caused, in fact some would not watch the movie because it contained this word, and over time the words got worse and worse and yes even worse until we have the mess on television we have today. This is the way deception and the Apostasy has come about, it just kept getting worse until we have the mess we have today. It is so bad today that many no longer believe in their hearts that Jesus is truly going to return. Just as some in politics use children to draw more money out of our pockets, deceivers use children to draw believers out of churches to their deception by entertainment in Sunday school, by having programs aimed at the children, and by having gymnasiums. Those of you that are old enough, please return you mind back to thirty years ago at what the church was and travel through time until today and see what it has became, and ask yourself is this what Jesus (the creator) of the church willed for it, it becoming secular like? Beloved deception has over time become so great that it is deceiving the very elect of God. They have reached the point that secular affairs are more important than the word of God. It has taken generations to get to this point but we are here and Jesus is much, much closer to His return. They (the secular churches) may have doubts and may create doubts in the hearts and minds of their flocks but this is fact, Jesus is going to return like it or not. So many will suffer great loss because they allowed themselves to be deceived but remember this, their will be no excuses.

SEE HIM AS HE IS:

Here we are too prone to think highly of our knowledge; but when we arrive in yonder world of light, to see Him as He is, we shall be ashamed of the highest conceptions we had of Him, and of our most labored attempts to express them, while we were imprisoned in this distant land. Then we shall say with the queen of Sheba, 'Behold the half, the thousandth part, was not told us!' In the meantime, He is pleased to accept our imperfect stammerings, to assist our feeble inquiries, and does not disdain (as He justly might) to hear us take His name upon our polluted lips!

By John Newton 1725-1807