Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church

1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
June 07, 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, LarryMollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Linda Mollette, Kirby Mollette, 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 Sr. and Jr., Brother Larry Wilson, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Michael Hiem, Jerry Hughes, Nita Bookout’s Niece, Kim McCool’s Mother and Father, Pastor G. L. Burr, Dina Taylor, Alicia Lightsey, Melody Carr, Bryan Thompson Jr., Betty, Tommy Walker, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

A Thought From Our Pastor:

Murder Is Unjustifiable
Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill.”

Let me please be open and honest right up front, the murder of partial birth abortionist doctor George Tiller was absolutely an unjust act and the murderer that done this horrible act should be judged, convicted, and the verdict should be to the fullest extent of the law. The only people that irritate me personally more than the pro-abortionist people are the religionist who protests against abortion. Murder is an unjust act and is a violation of God’s law. However bad it seems to be that Mr. Tiller was murdered does not seem to me to be near as bad as the thousands of unborn babies he murdered during his life on this earth. I personally have never protested because God is sovereign and He has never instructed His people to protest anything. Ephesians 1:11 “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” Beloved if God wanted abortion stopped He would stop it, if God wanted every soul saved He would save them, if God wanted every Christian to be healthy – wealthy – and wise then they would be, and etc. I am not going to shed any tears over Mr. Tiller’s death because he was a horrible person for his profession. Mr. Tiller also spit in the eye of every Christian that disagreed with him on abortion, and he enjoyed his work and made millions of dollars at it. I am not going to say he got what he disserved because no one has the right to murder another human being and both of these people will pay account to Jesus Christ before the Great White Throne for their unjust acts. Beloved this world is what it is and it is controlled by Satan. 2 Corinthians 4:4 “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” The people (not all but most) on both sides of this issue are lost and controlled by Satan and we have radicals on both sides of this issue. However the one’s that believe there is a right to murder unborn children will use Mr. Tiller’s death forever as a sacrificial tool for many years to come.  They will also ignore the murder of Pvt. William Long who was gunned down at an Army-Navy recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas just as President Obama did last week.

Beloved, Baptist ever since the Church that Jesus started has never been a violent people. As we read in the history of the Baptist church we never were we a violent people, in fact it was Baptist who suffered the worst violence from the people of religion. Fifty million Baptist and other Christians murdered from about 300a.d. until around 1500a.d. and most of this came from the Catholic Church as wall as other religionist Protestants out of the Catholicism. It is incumbent upon us as Baptist and Christians to live in this world, we may not agree with what they do but God is in command and nothing is done without His allowing it to come to pass. Luke 19:13 “…Occupy till I come.” The word “Occupy” means to carry on with trade until I come. We as Baptist and Christians cannot allow Satan to control our ministries, worship, and witnessing by happenings in the world. We must ignore them, trust the Lord, and let them go their evil way and we go our way bringing praise to the Lord Jesus Christ. Beloved these people are going to make Christians look horrible in the next years to come using Mr. Tiller and any other event they can to make Christians look like hate mongers. I expect it from them so it to no surprise to me. They are blindly walking into the tribulation period and during that time they will hate God even more, so let’s all just pray together that Jesus comes very soon and occupy until He does.       

A Thought From C. H. Spurgeon:

The Safest Place

"And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." John 10:28 We believe in the eternal security of the saints. First, because they are Christ's, and He will never lose the sheep which He has bought with His blood, and received of His Father.Next, because He gives them eternal life, and if it be eternal, well then, it is eternal, and there can be no end to it, unless there can be an end to hell, and Heaven, and God. If spiritual life can die out, it is manifestly not eternal life, but temporary life. But the Lord speaks of eternal life, and that effectually shuts out the possibility of an end.

Observe, further, that the Lord expressly says, "They shall never perish." As long as words have a meaning, this secures believers from perishing. The most obstinate unbelief cannot force this meaning out of this sentence.

Then, to make the matter complete, He declares that His people are in His hand, and He defies all their enemies to pluck them out of it. Surely it is a thing impossible even for the fiend of hell. We must be safe in the grasp of an Almighty Saviour. Be it ours to dismiss carnal fear as well as carnal confidence, and rest peacefully in the hollow of the Redeemer's hand.

 

That Spiritual Pipe

Christ is the most suitable good. In Him dwells all fullness, Colossians 1:19. Christ is whatever the soul can desire. Christ is . . .
  beauty to adorn,
  gold to enrich,
  balm to heal,
  bread to strengthen,
  wine to comfort,
  salvation to crown!

By Thomas Watson, from his article "Christ All in All")