Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church

1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
April 26, 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 Still 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, 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 and Jewel, 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 and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, 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 and Wesley, Anita Marsh, Brother Frank and Sister Cyd James, Charles Boyd Jr., Brother Larry 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.
A Thought For The Week:

The Unknown Baptist


Who is the Unknown Baptist?

We know such a title could not belong to any of the denominational bigshots of the many so-called Baptist groups, because said bigshots get their names and pictures in their publications, and if one of them kills a fly, the world must know all about it.
The Unknown Baptist is not someone in the "fundamental" group.

They have built churches as monuments to themselves. The Christian celebrities have built schools as "bastions of orthodoxy" that turn out "young champions for Christ". It would seem that the Lord could not get along without such "champions", and it seems their only message is the message of the horse¬leach's daughters ... "give, give".
No ... nothing unknown about these boys.
No, the Unknown Baptist is not Falwell, Criswell, Wayne Dehoney, Rice, Robertson, Roberson, Broadus, Conners, Bob Jones III, Curtis Hutson, Robert Sumner, Ed Young, Archer, Martin Luther King, Ralph Elliott, Roy Stewart, Frank Stagg, Fred Hubbs, Penrose Santa Mont, Annie Armstrong, Duke McCall. No! None of these is "unknown" and it would stretch things to call some of them "Baptist".

So, who is the Unknown Baptist? There is more than one answer. The Unknown Baptist is the little guy with no greater desire than to be faithful to his church. The doors open and he is there. He absorbs Bible preaching like a sponge. He gives and gives. He is many times taken for granted because he is so faithful. He does not care if his name is ever mentioned in church. This guy prays for his pastor, and his church. He is the head in his home. He is the one his neighbors call when in need, and they know of his love for God, but you won't see his name in public or his picture in "The Gospel Gazette".
The Unknown Baptist is the sweet lady whose countenance cheers all that see her. She loves God's Word and reads it to her children. She knows the Scriptural place of women and accepts it with humility and desires to serve God all the more. She cries over her lost family members. She prays for God's guidance and holds up the sick in supplication.
The Unknown Baptist is that man of God who has faithfully proclaimed God's Book by preaching Christ's precious blood, by preaching the blessed hope, as well as all God's full countenance. This man's meager pay barely provides for his family. He must work a job where he is known, only to be ridiculed for his testimony. His stand for truth keeps him from the "mainstream". This man stands for God in spite of desertion by family and friends, false accusations, true accusations, financial reversals, physical ailments, unanswered prayer, mental stress. Yet, he asks no sympathy and humbly rejoices that God called him to service.
No one of this world knows or cares about these Unknown Baptists, but the God that they love loves them much more 'and He carefully watches all that concerns them. The God that listens to their prayers in His good time will change the circumstance of each.

Thank God for these obscure folk. Thank God for caring!

By Bill Farmer
A Thought By: C. H. Spurgeon:

By Faith Not Feeling
"The just shall live by faith" Romans 1:17

I shall not die, I can, I do, believe in the LORD my God, and this faith will keep me alive. I would be numbered among those who in their lives are just; but even if I were perfect I would not try to live by my righteousness; I would cling to the work of the LORD Jesus and still live by faith in Him and by nothing else. If I were able to give my body to be burned for my LORD Jesus, yet I would not trust in my own courage and constancy, but still would live by faith.

Were I a martyr at the stake

I'd plead my Saviour's name;

Intreat a pardon for His sake,

And urge no other claim.

To live by faith is a far surer and happier thing than to live by feelings or by works. The branch, by living in the vine, lives a better life than it would live by itself, even if it were possible for it to live at all apart from the stem. To live by clinging to Jesus, by deriving all from Him, is a sweet and sacred thing. If even the most just must live in this fashion, how much more must I who am a poor sinner! LORD, I believe. I must trust Thee wholly. What else can I do? Trusting Thee is my life. I feel it to be so. I will abide by this even to the end.
A Thought From Our Pastor:

Being Confident
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" Philippians 1:6

What is there in our day that earns our confidence? We understand everything and everyone will someday bring us disappointment, and that total confidence in this life is truly unthinkable. Here we see Paul saying his confidence is in God, the very one who saved his unworthy soul and made him one of the greatest men in the history of this world outside of Jesus Christ. Paul had a total understanding that once God saved him and called him to his work that nothing or no one could ever stop what God wanted done. When Paul said "will perform it" he meant, what God has started He will also finish no matter how much other’s may try to stop it.
Beloved we as believers need to be confident that God does not get defeated therefore what God has started in your life He will see it through. We may be let down by so many in our life but God will remain faithful until the end and true to you. Hebrews 10:35 "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward." Therefore do not loose your faith in these troubled times and please remember God never promised we would not see hard times nor did He promise we would not have great troubles in this life, in fact He promised we would have many troubles and hard times, but our faith in Him is to remain true because HE WILL NOT LET US DOWN.