Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church

1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
October 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 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 & Alice Hoskins, Grandchildren, and his daughters Liz Janis and Debbie Gray, Alecia Clements, Bryndon Thomas, 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, 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, Timothy and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jim & Linda Meier, Brother David & Sister Anne Shortt, Brother Manuel Seymour & Family, Doris Hammock, Letha Langford, Leacho Tittle, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson, Brother & Sister Frank James, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout and her Niece, Pastor G. L. Burr, Alicia Lightsey, Melody Carr, Betty, Gina, Janie Capps, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

A Though From Pastor Johnson:

Where is God’s respect?
Malachi 1:6 "A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you..."

God is no doubt speaking to the whole Nation of Israel here, because Israel was God’s Chosen son. This is not to be confused with God’s chosen people which are the elect of God. I have many times used the Nation if Israel as an example of what not to do, because when you view the bible as a whole Israel just did not show any reverence, love, or fear of God. Today she still has none of these things for God and therefore God has chosen not to use her in order to proclaim His word. However bad as it was and is for Israel, we as the chosen people of God have not done a very good job ourselves in these departments. Just look around at the people that call themselves Christians, and what you see is more or less heathens attempting to be Christians. We have Pastors sleeping with boys and girls, we have Pastors having same sex relationships with other men, we have we have church members going to nightclubs on Saturday night and to church on Sunday morning, we have adulterous relationships everywhere and all most everyone else using God’s name in vain as regular speech. We have Pastors that supports the President as he was having an adulterous relationship. We have Christians (as they call themselves) voting for people who support Gay’s and Gay marriage, these same “Christian voters” support a political party that is bound and determined to murder the unborn in the womb. Excuse me but I could just go on and on, but let’s look at it this way these very people have no respect for God or His beloved word. These very people will talk about their love for God, but I must ask how can you love God and support these things. I have had several of these people to tell me “I don’t support those things but the other ideas they have” well, I say look at Washington and tell me what is going on? Look at the heathens you have help to elect! Please tell me how this mess in Washington today glorifies God? This is the truth; you do not reverence God or His word, you attend churches that the Pastors and other church members could careless because they have no respect for God neither. These people and so called “Christians” have helped elect to office haters God and everything He is, they only quote scripture when they want to take it out of context and attempt to benefit their hellish ideas. Hate crimes legislation is still making its way through Congress against Pastor and churches as we speak, and you call yourself a Christian. This is a Christian thought for you; wait until judgment day and explain it to Jesus Christ, the One you helped persecute through His churches and Pastors.

This is a fact, there simply is very little respect for God today and truly never has been very much at all. The Lord asked “where is my honor”? “Where is your fear of me”? Well the truth is there simply is not much today. Most church services today are designed to please man rather than God and this is a disgrace to those in attendance. Where is the fear of God? Well there is not much of that to go around either. There better be a revival among some churches and their membership before Jesus returns or death takes us because once death has come then comes the judgment. The Lord asked Israel “where my honor is, and where is your fear of Me” and I must ask the same question because it doesn’t seem to be among some of those calling themselves Christians today. We better all wake up and respect God for what He truly is and not for what the secular world has made Him.

Hate crimes bill - law by the weekend?

A spokesman with the American Family Association says the hate crimes bill passed Thursday afternoon by the House could have a chilling effect on free speech and religious freedoms in the nation. If the bill passes the Senate, federal prosecutors will be able to intervene in cases of violence against people because of gender, sexual orientation, "gender identity," or disability.

Bryan Fischer is director of issues analysis for the American Family Association. The bill passed by the House, he says, is alarming. (The vote on HR 2647 -- the Defense Authorization bill to which the hate crimes legislation was attached -- was 281-146; see roll call vote)

"For the first time in American history we are criminalizing thought," Fischer laments. "Thomas Jefferson said the reach of legislation should extend to actions only and not to opinions -- and now we are punishing people not just for what they did, but what they were thinking when they did it.

"It's also going to have a chilling effect on freedom of speech, especially religious speech. And [in] other places where these hate crimes bills have gone into effect, pastors have wound up in jail or fined for preaching a biblical view of homosexuality."

Fischer says he would not be surprised if the bill passes through the Senate by the weekend. "I suspect the president is putting pressure on some Democrats in Congress to get this done so he can sign it by Saturday night," says the AFA spokesman. "[That very evening] he's going to give the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign dinner. That's the major homosexual advocacy group in the nation. I think he wants this scalp on his belt walking into that dinner."

He also has concerns about overturning such legislation in the near future. "Something like this is going to be very difficult to repeal," Fischer admits. "It's doable, but again [there's] a slim chance that Republicans or conservatives will have control of either the House or Senate in 2010 -- so we'll be fighting a rear-guard battle for some time now."

The hate crimes amendment is attached to a $681-billion Pentagon policy measure that now heads to the Senate.
Source: onenewsnow.com

Acts 5:26 - 29 "Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. (27.) And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, (28.) Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. (29.) Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."