Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church

1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
August 09, 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, Ronnie Henderson Jr, 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, Pastor Kelley and Sister Eyvonne Hinson and Wesley, Brother Frank and Sister Cyd James, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Michael Hiem, Jerry Hughes, Nita Bookout’s Niece, Pastor G. L. Burr, Alicia Lightsey, Melody Carr, Bryan Thompson Jr., Betty, Tommy Walker, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

EVERLASTING LOVE:
“I have loved you, My people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to Myself.” Jeremiah 31:3

Here we have an everlasting thought of God, "in the beginning, before ever the earth was." Believer, travel back in imagination to the ages of the past. Before the trance of eternity was broken by any visible manifestation of power—before one temple was erected in space, before one angel waved his wing, or one note was heard of seraph's song—when God inhabited alone these sublime solitudes—then there was a thought of you, and that thought was—Love!
Think of the sovereignty of that love. He says not, 'You have loved Me with your poor earthly love, therefore have I drawn you.' No, no! It is from nothing in you—no foreseen goodness on your part. Grace is the reason of all He has done—"God who is rich in mercy for His great love with which He loved us." "I will have mercy," is His own declaration—on whom I will have mercy." "Jacob," (that cunning, scheming, crafty youth,) "I have loved."
Manasseh, (that miserable man who has defiled his crown, dishonored his throne, and deluged Jerusalem with blood,) "I have loved." That dying thief—fresh from a life of infamy, breathing out his blasphemies on a felon's cross—"I have loved." And why, let each of us ask, am I not a Cain or a Judas? Why am I not a wrecked and stranded vessel, like thousands before me? Here is the reason; "Yes, I have loved you." Before you had one thought of Me, yes, when your thoughts were those of hatred, rebellion, enmity—My thoughts towards you were thoughts of love!
And that Sovereign love, as it is from everlasting, so is it to everlasting—endless in duration—enduring as eternity. The love of the creature is but of yesterday—it may be gone tomorrow—dried like a summer-brook when most needed. But the love of God is fed from the glacier summits—the everlasting hills. We may estimate its intensity, when the Savior could utter regarding it such a prayer as this, "That the love with which You have loved Me, may be in them."
Oh, amid the often misgivings of my own doubting heart, with its frames and feelings vacillating as the shifting sand, let me delight to ponder this precious thought—the long line of unbroken love—every link love—connecting the eternity that is past with the eternity to come—God thinking of me before the birth of time—even then mapping out all my future happiness and heavenly bliss—and standing now, with the hoarded love of that eternity in His heart, seeking therewith to "draw" me!
It is "the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness towards us through Christ Jesus"—the moral gravitation-power of the cross, by which His true people have ever been drawn. "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Myself." Draw me, Lord, and I will run after You. Show me Your loving-kindness thus enshrined and manifested in Your dear Son. Constrain me to love You in Him, because You have first loved, and so loved, me."
How priceless is Your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of Your wings. Psalm 36:7

By John MacDuff, 1864

A Thought From Our Pastor:

I shall Not Be Moved
Psalms 30:6 “And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.”

When I was a child and just saved from eternal damnation my most favorite hymn of all was a song titled “I Shall Not Be Moved”. I did not at the time totally understand why it was but over the years since I have come to understand why. Here is some of the lyrics to the song “Jesus is my Savior, I shall not be moved; In His love and favor, I shall not be moved, In my Christ abiding, I shall not be moved; In His love I'm hiding, I shall not be moved, If I trust Him ever, I shall not be moved; He will fail me never, I shall not be moved, On His word I'm feeding, I shall not be moved; He's the One that's leading, I shall not be moved, Just like a tree that's planted by the waters, Lord, I shall not be moved.” This verse of scripture brought that song back to mind and praise God I shall never be moved. Oh, how sad it must be for those who believe that works are a part of salvation. They have no blessed hope, but beloved I do, I am standing in the faith of Jesus Christ and nothing can take that away from me for all eternity. I shall not be moved from being a child of the Holy God by adoption, what a blessing it is.

The Psalmist said in what he would not be moved from “…in my prosperity…” The word “prosperity” means – security – but comes from the Greek word shalah shalav which means - secure or successful: - be happy, prosper, be in safety. From this I shall never be moved. I shall not be moved from happiness because in Christ Jesus how could one ever be sad, eternal salvation is the greatest gift of all time. I shall not be moved because I am in Christ I can study, learn, and grow firm in God’s word and from what I gain from it I have firm ground to stand on my two feet. And third, I shall not be moved from safety, in safety there is hope and in hope there is security and in Christ that’s what I am secure. Though this world may hate me and all other Christians we will always beloved by Jesus Christ. His love is eternal and cannot be moved no matter what. So beloved I stand firm this day in great happiness because in Christ Jesus I am secure and cannot be moved.

Beloved only in Christ Jesus can we be secure, there is none other. Job told us “At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. Job 5:22” I know we live in troublesome time and this world is going deeper and deeper in sin against the Lord and His beloved but remember one simple but most secure fact, we cannot be moved from the love of God we have in Christ Jesus. Thank God for His grace of security.

Jeremiah 5:11-14 “For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. (12.) They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: (13.) And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. (14.) Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.