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Sovereign
Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor Bro.
Ronnie Henderson, Song Director "Where The Truths Of God’s Word Are Still
Taught" |
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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, Derrick & Alecia and sons Coty
& Carson Clements, Bryndon Thomas, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Helen Maggard,
Renee Jackson, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kirby
Mollette, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Verna Mae
Allen, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Kevin
Henderson, Ronnie Henderson Jr., Vickie Sims, Debbie Farmer, Morgan Murchison,
Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don &
Neil Hammond, Charles Hammond, Eric Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin
& son Daniel, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Wanda Fowler, Kathy Rosinbaum, Brenda Galusha and
Jewel, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, 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, Brother
& Sister Kelley Hinson and Kelley Lee, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister
Nita Bookout and her Niece, Roger Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr,
Betty, Janie Capps, Scott and Gina Sillivan, Katie
Norton, Sadie a child, Imajo Tracy, Sister Jean
Dodson and Family, Helen Rowe, Linda Hughes, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia. |
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A Thought From Pastor Johnson: Our God Is Sovereign! This week we want to look at
the word “called”, who exactly are the called of God. Please let us start by
putting this word in context, those that God foreknew He also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his Son and those that He did predestinate,
He also called and them He called He also justified. So in context we know
for sure that those that God called God did justify them. So the only people
who are justified were foreknown, predestinated, and called of God. Therefore
this is a fact; all called are saved or will be saved, therefore the thinking
of the religionist that all are called of God and it is up to their choosing
to accept or reject Christ is mythical. If it is God who justifies then all
that are justified have been made accepted by the power of God and through
the blood of Christ Jesus. The thought that we somehow choose Christ is
mythical because it is a man made fact and not a fact of God or the bible, the
fact of God is that all called of God are saved. This better explains so many
scriptures in the bible. Let us look at this fact, “For many are called, but
few are chosen.” Matthew 22:14 this does not say “For all are called and all
are chosen” it says for many are called (by the gospel) but few are chosen by
God to be His justified. This explains two calls, one by man or by the
preaching of His word, and the other by God to salvation which also explains
Revelation 22:17 “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” If the Holy Spirit
and the Church say come then come and he may accept Christ Jesus as his
Saviour. By the Spirit calling also explains Romans 8:14 “For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” For all that are called
of God (or led by the Spirit) are saved because God does not fail to
accomplish what He chooses to accomplish. This also explains John 3:5 “Jesus
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
Being born of water is the natural birth as explained in verse 6 of John 3,
but to be born of the Spirit is to be foreknew, predestinated, called, and
justified by the power of God. Now with all this in mind we find an
explanation of Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” we are saved by Gods grace
through faith or believing in Christ as our sufficient Saviour because it (or
salvation) is of God and a glorious gift of God. Now lets look at 1 Peter 1:2
“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” We find here that we
were chosen (or elected) “…according to the foreknowledge of God the Father…”
So those God foreknew He also chose to be saved and those He chose to be
saved He pre-determined them to be called and them He called by His Holy
Spirit He also justified by “…conformed to the image of his Son” Romans 8:29.
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Happy Independence Day: Samuel
Adams - Signer of the Declaration of Independence
and Father of the American Revolution "And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of
the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves
than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of
tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars
may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been
among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that
holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the
sceptre of Him who is Prince of Peace." Roger
Sherman -
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution "I believe that there
is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance equal in power and glory. That
the scriptures of the old and new testaments are a revelation from God, and a
complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. That God has
foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, so as thereby he is not the author or
approver of sin. That he creates all things, and preserves and governs all
creatures and all their actions, in a manner perfectly consistent with the
freedom of will in moral agents, and the usefulness of means. That he made
man at first perfectly holy, that the first man sinned, and as he was the
public head of his posterity, they all became sinners in consequence of his
first transgression, are wholly indisposed to that which is good and inclined
to evil, and on account of sin are liable to all the miseries of this life,
to death, and to the pains of hell forever. Happy
Independence Day - from the membership of the Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church in
Texarkana, Texas |