Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Dr. (Wake Village) Texarkana, Texas 75501
February 13, 2005 
Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor                               Bro. Ronnie Henderson, Song Director  
Pastor E-Mail: sgmbcpastor@countrybaptist.org           Web Site: www.countrybaptist.org/sgmbc
Please Pray For:

Virgil and Alice Hoskins & His Daughter Debbie Wenske & Great Grandson Coty, Ronnie & Sarah Henderson, Wendell & Hazel Henderson, Joe Henderson, Randy Henderson, Larry & Linda Mollette, Donna Johnson, Vinson Hoskins, Rosa Graves, Bobby & Vickie Thompson and Family, Mrs. Thompson, Raymond Hammond, Fay Johnson, Brad Hensley, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Mansfield, Ohio, Bro. Curtis & Sister Janet Pugh, Zee Mink and Family, Her son Bryan Armstrong and Sister – in - law Sondra Thornsberry, Larry Mollette II, Danny & Nita Mollette (about moving here and getting a job), Charles & Debra Burton and Family, Tammie Hairston, Howard Flescher, Randi, Larry Platt, And All of Our Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East.
A Thought For The Week:

"The back door to hell?"

Better not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to be turned back again. The worst of men are those traitors who leave the army of truth to side with the foe.

I believe in the doctrine of the final perseverance of every true child of God; but there are in all our churches certain spurious pretenders who will not hold on their way, who will blaze and sparkle for a season, and then they will go out in darkness. They are "wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever."

Better far make no pretension of having come to Christ, and of having been born again, unless through divine grace you shall hold fast to the end.

Remember the back door to hell! Remember the back door to hell!

There is a public entrance for the open sinner; but there is a back door for the merely professed saint. There is a back door for the hoary-headed professor, who has lived many years in apparent sincerity, but who has been a liar before God. There is a back door for the preacher who can talk fast and loudly, but who does not in his own heart know the truth he is preaching. There is a back door to hell for church members, who are amiable and excellent in many respects, but who have not really looked unto the Lord Jesus Christ and found true salvation in him.

God grant that this may wake some, who otherwise would sleep themselves into perdition!

"O my God! my God! Am I, after all, mistaken? Have I played the hypocrite, and must I take the mask off now? Have I covered over the cancer? Have I worn a golden cloth over my leprous forehead, and must it be torn away? and must I stand, the mock of devils and the laughter of all worlds? What! have I drunk of your cup, have I eaten with you in the streets, and must I hear you say, I never knew you, depart from me you worker of iniquity? Oh! must it be?"

By: Spurgeon,"A SERMON FROM A RUSH"
News for the week:

...Legislation in Virginia would prevent homosexual groups from indoctrinating school children with propaganda. Virginia legislators have proposed a new law that would bar access to public schools to groups focused on supporting, assisting, or justifying any lifestyle involving sexual behavior. Joe Glover of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network says homosexual groups are upset because they say the law would harm "Gay Straight Alliance" clubs in schools. Glover finds that argument interesting -- because homosexual activists claim the Gay Straight Alliances have nothing to do with sexual behavior. "What a tap dance they're putting on at this point," the activist says. "On the one hand they're saying that the Gay Straight Alliances are threatened by this legislation, [but] on the other hand they're saying that Gay Straight Alliances have nothing to do with sexual lifestyles." The whole matter, he says, demonstrates the "hypocrisy" of the homosexual movement with regard to accessing public school children. Glover says this demonstrates that the homosexual agenda is focused primarily on recruiting children into that lifestyle. [Rusty Pugh]

Source The Agape News Press

Dependent on Grace:
by C. H. Spurgeon

"Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?"

--Ezekiel 15:2


These words are for the humbling of God's people; they are called God's vine, but what are they by nature more than others? They, by God's goodness, have become fruitful, having been planted in a good soil; the Lord hath trained them upon the walls of the sanctuary, and they bring forth fruit to His glory; but what are they without their God? What are they without the continual influence of the Spirit, begetting fruitfulness in them? O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that thou hast no ground for it. Whatever thou art, thou hast nothing to make thee proud. The more thou hast, the more thou art in debt to God; and thou shouldst not be proud of that which renders thee a debtor. Consider thine origin; look back to what thou wast. Consider what thou wouldst have been but for divine grace. Look upon thyself as thou art now. Doth not thy conscience reproach thee? Do not thy thousand wanderings stand before thee, and tell thee that thou art unworthy to be called His son? And if He hath made thee anything, art thou not taught thereby that it is grace which hath made thee to differ?

Great believer, thou wouldst have been a great sinner if God had not made thee to differ. O thou who art valiant for truth, thou wouldst have been as valiant for error if grace had not laid hold upon thee. Therefore, be not proud, though thou hast a large estate--a wide domain of grace, thou hadst not once a single thing to call thine own except thy sin and misery. Oh! strange infatuation, that thou, who hast borrowed everything, shouldst think of exalting thyself; a poor dependent pensioner upon the bounty of thy Saviour, one who hath a life which dies without fresh streams of life from Jesus, and yet proud! Fie on thee, O silly heart!


A bad sign:

It is a bad sign when a minister has the smiles of worldly professors.

"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. No servant is greater than his Master.If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also." John 15:18-20

By: William Tiptaft