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Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 February 22, 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, Terry Hanson, 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, Brother David & Sister Anne Shortt, Brother Manuel Seymour, Zach Seymour, Doris Hammock, Letha Langford, Leacho Tittle, Bro. David Green and Family , Pastor Kelley and Sister Eyvonne Hinson, Anita Marsh, Brother Frank and Sister Cyd James, Charles Boyd Jr., Brother Larry Wilson and his 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:
No 'reverence' is due to me!
Assuredly, 'Reverend' and 'sinner' make a curious combination. And as I know I am the second, I repudiate the first. To me, it is surprising that such a flattering title should have been invented, and more amazing still, that good men should be found who are angry if this title be not duly given to them. "It is the Lord your God you must follow, and Him you must REVERE." Deut. 13:4 ".... so that you may learn to REVERE the Lord your God always." Deut. 14:23 ".... REVERE this glorious and awesome name: the Lord your God." Deut. 28:58 ".... REVERE Him, all you descendants of Israel!" Psalm 22:23 "Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world REVERE Him." Psalm 33:8 ".... holy and REVEREND is His name." Psalm 111:9 "I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will REVERE Him." Eccles. 3:14 "Who should not REVERE You, O King of the nations? This is Your due." Jeremiah 10:7 By Charles Spurgeon |
| A Thought From Our
Pastor: Don’t allow your sin be your ruin. We as believers need to be greatly reminded from time to time of our salvation and how it was accomplished. If I remember correctly it was by the grace of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I remember a day when I was minding my own business and living a very happy sinner’s life when all of a sudden I was convicted in my heart by the Holy Spirit and faith soon followed and I became a child of God and my life was never the same praise God. Then as time went on the Lord graciously taught me His word and I began to gain some spiritual intelligence in learning the truths of God’s Holy Script. All of this by the grace, kindness, and love of God. Beloved I told you all of this to remind you that salvation is of the Lord and no one ever changes their own will to repent and turn to Jesus. Romans 3:10-11 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (11.) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God." The Lord is speaking to the Nation of Israel here and to every member
in particular just as He speaks to us as a Christian people and every
member in particular. The Lord is telling these people of Israel to
prepare themselves because he is going to judge them and they are going
to answer to Him for their sins. The Lord is telling these folks to turn
from their sins before He judges them and their iniquity becomes their
ruin, which is their cause to fall. Not to fall from salvation because
we cannot undo what God by grace has done Romans 8:31 – 39, however we
do have an effect on what happens in our relationship to God. Let’s look
at it this way beloved, God by grace; that is by His own free will
elected us to be saved and in time brought about our salvation and in
doing so pardoned every single sin we had, have, or will ever have by
the precious blood of His own precious Son. In doing this He made a way
for sinners to stand before a Holy God completely without sin and giving
us the opportunity to live holy lives the rest of our days on this
earth. And to add to this much undeserved grace He is going to give us
rewards in heaven for our loyalty to Him on this earth. One day you and
I will be in heaven with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and some of
us will have crowns of righteousness for our labors on this earth.
Beloved this is going to be one fine day indeed. However some will allow
their lust for this world to come between them and their Saviour and in
the meantime loose all of the rewards that they have coming by following
the wrong roads in this life. Beloved I will say to us all as God spoke
to Israel, don’t allow your transgressions to be your ruin! Repent today
and make a new life with God and start fresh in following the road of
righteousness. Whatever road has come between you and God exit it and
get back on the road that is pleasing to God. God believes in second
chances and the fact of this is that you and I are saved. Remember this
there is a Judge and He is going to judge us all by our works on this
earth and it will be a happy time for some and a sad time for others. Is
what you are doing in your life today pleasing God? Truly pleasing to
God? If you please God in some areas and fail in other then those areas
that you fail in will subtract from the areas you are pleasing Him and
become your ruin. The Lord said, "Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath
bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a
judgment. Job 19:29 Have we lost the fear of God in our hearts, have we
lost the fear of ruin in our hearts? Beloved if we have; we had better
regain it and regain it today before we find it has become our ruin. |
| Happy Birthday:
Linda Mollette February 29th |
| March Bible
Conference Update: I spoke with Pastor Larry Wilson of The Northside Baptist Church in Oakdale, La. about the upcoming March Bible Conference and he has informed me I will be speaking twice during the three day conference. Saturday morning and Sunday Morning. Pastor Wilson also informed me of some of the other speakers and said he was mailing us a complete schedule in a few days and after we have it we will list all of the speakers on our web site. The Bible Conference will be held in Oakdale, La. March 20, 21, 22. I do know these men will also be speaking Pastor Jerry Dodson, Pastor Nathaniel Hille, Pastor G.L. Burr and three others that I cannot remember their names however by next Sunday I will have a complete list. Please plan to attend if possible. |