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Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church July 25, 2004 Bro. Randy Johnson, Pastor Pastor E-Mail: randy@countrybaptist.org Church Web Site: www.countrybaptist.org/sgmbc |
| Please Pray For:
Bro. Mink, Ronnie & Sarah Henderson, Sister Wall, Wendell & Hazel Henderson, Joe Henderson, Eddie & Lorain Murray, Larry & Linda Mollette, Donna Johnson, James Sherwood, Jim & Linda Meier, Mrs. Worsham, Leroy Sherwood & Family, Virgil Hoskins, Vinson Hoskins, Bro. & Mrs. Harace Hammond, Rosa Graves, Linda {Someone Bryan work’s with}, Della Oats, Tyron Evens, Shawn Bradford & Family, Brenda Tubbs, Justin & Holly Bookout, Mr. Loony, Gina & Bryan Thompson, Danny Hammond, Bobby Thompson and Family, Eld. Davis, Raymond Hammond, And All of Our Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East. |
| A Thought For The Week: NO MAN CAN COME... "See how invincible is the grace of Jehovah! No creature power can draw the sinner to Christ. Demonstrations, miraculous evidence, threatening, invitation, may all be used in vain. Jehovah alone can draw the soul to Christ. He pours out His Spirit with the word, and the soul is sweetly and powerfully inclined to run to Jesus. 'Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.' 'Is anything too hard for the Lord?' 'The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it whithersoever he will.' Take an example: a Jew was sitting at the receipt of custom, near the gate of Capernaum. His brow was furrowed with the marks of covetousness, and his jealous eye exhibited all the low cunning of the publican. Very probably he had heard much of Jesus; perhaps he had heard Him preach by the shore of the lake of Galilee; still his worldly heart was unchanged, for he remained at his wicked trade, sitting by the receipt of custom. The Saviour passed that way, and as He bent His eyes upon the busy Levi, said, 'Follow me.' He said no more. He used no argument, no threatening, no promise. But the God of all grace breathed on the publican's heart, and he was made willing; 'he arose and followed him.' It pleased God, who worketh all things according to the counsel of His own will, to give Matthew a saving glimpse of the excellency of Jesus; a drop fell from heaven upon his heart, and melted it; he smelled the sweet savour of the Rose of Sharon. What is all the world to Matthew now? He cares not for its gains, its pleasures, its praises, any more. In Christ he sees what is sweeter and better than them all. He arose and followed Jesus. Let us learn that a simple word may be blessed to the saving of
precious souls. Often we are tempted to think there must be some deep
and logical argument to bring men to Christ. Often we put confidence in
high-sounding words. Whereas it is the simple exhibition of Christ
carried home by the Spirit, which awakens enlightens, and saves. 'Not by
might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.' If the
Spirit be breathing on the people, these little words, 'Follow Jesus,'
spoken in love, may be blessed to the saving of a whole congregation." |
| News For The Week:
...The president of the Christian Defense Fund says a glaring omission in the new World War II Memorial needs to be addressed. Patrick Mahoney says the lack of any mention of God, faith, or prayer in the monument is very troubling. He says his group will try to raise private funds to place a General Douglas McArthur quote -- "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always" -- on the memorial. Mahoney notes that the Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson memorials all display references to God. "Why is it that this is the only monument within eyesight that [contains] no reference to God?" he asks. "It's the newest memorial. Is this now what we are starting to see? The systematic eradication from the mention of God?" The Christian activist says he is hopeful that the omission was unintentional. [Mary Rettig] Source: Agape News |
| Clean Today: by C. H. Spurgeon: "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." "Cleanseth," says the text--not "shall cleanse." There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look forward to pardon. Oh! how infinitely better to have cleansing now than to depend on the bare possibility of forgiveness when I come to die. Some imagine that a sense of pardon is an attainment only obtainable after many years of Christian experience. But forgiveness of sin is a present thing--a privilege for this day, a joy for this very hour. The moment a sinner trusts Jesus he is fully forgiven. The text, being written in the present tense, also indicates continuance; it was "cleanseth" yesterday, it is "cleanseth" to-day, it will be "cleanseth" tomorrow: it will be always so with you, Christian, until you cross the river; every hour you may come to this fountain, for it cleanseth still. Notice, likewise, the completeness of the cleansing, "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin"--not only from sin, but "from all sin." Reader, I cannot tell you the exceeding sweetness of this word, but I pray God the Holy Ghost to give you a taste of it. Manifold are our sins against God. Whether the bill be little or great, the same receipt can discharge one as the other. The blood of Jesus Christ is as blessed and divine a payment for the transgressions of blaspheming Peter as for the shortcomings of loving John; our iniquity is gone, all gone at once, and all gone for ever. Blessed completeness! What a sweet theme to dwell upon as one gives
himself to sleep. "Sins against a holy God; |