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Sovereign Grace
Missionary Baptist Church Elder
Randy Johnson, Pastor Brother 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,
Frank Trusty, Bryndon Thomas, Frank & Dawana
Reigel, Andrew Preston, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry
Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Wendell Henderson, Judy
Dunn, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd,, Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Son
Kevin Henderson , Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs.
Hammond, Don & Neil Hammond, Charles Hammond, Archie & Barbara
Griffin & son Daniel, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, 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, Letha Langford, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson and Kelley Lee,
Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout, Justin Bookout, Pastor
G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Gina Sullivan, Katie Norton, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Marshall Risinger,
Lee Mollette’s friend, Dale Barnes, Keith Johnson,
Tammy Hairston, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia. |
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The Pastors Corner: Thank you Jesus! Blessed
is the man of whom God has had great mercy and grace on and hath delivered
his unworthy soul from eternal damnation. Blessed is the man whom God hath
elected and gave to the Son in eternity past. Blessed is the man because the
Father elected to make an eternal covenant with the Son before the foundation
of the world; that if He would give His life as the Son of man and spill His
blood on that wicked cross then He (God) would count it as just payment for
all the sins of all His elect. This is the reason the Son shouted just before
His death “It is finished” because payment had been paid in full. Blessed
indeed are we oh redeemed sinner stand and shout with happiness because Christ
Jesus did for us; something we could never do for ourselves. Thank you Jesus!
“Blessed
is he whose transgression is forgiven” – Blessed because our sins have been
“forgiven”, this word means – to lift up and to carry away, but it also means
to pardon – with this being said we must understand that our sins have been
lifted from us and carried away, but where did they go you may ask, they went
to the account of Jesus Christ and it cost Him his life on the cross. Since
Jesus carried our sins to the cross then we are blessed, the Lord reminds us
in Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” because we no longer
have them, “white as snow” is as white as white gets and pure is as pure can
get. Thank you Jesus! Romans 6:22 "But now being made free from sin, and
become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life." Since we are white as white can be and pure as pure
can be we can now serve the Lord God. “Blessed
is he whose sin is covered” – the word covered means - concealed or hidden;
or, in other words, so covered that they will never be seen again by God. –
When God sees His saved child He no longer sees their sins, never again
because they are no longer ever visible to Him. Our sins are covered by the
glorious blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ. To God we are no longer sinners
we are His children and as holy as holy can be. This is the reason we are
blessed, because even though sin is still in our lives God does not see it
nor charge us with it. Thank you Jesus! Psalms 85:2 "Thou hast forgiven
the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all
their sin. Selah." “Blessed
is he whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity” – The
word “impute” means – to recon or charge – The Lord will not recon or charge
us for our sins because that punishment was reckoned or charged to Jesus
Christ on the cross. This is why we as saved sinners will never have to face
God for our sins, God considered the death and shedding of blood of Jesus
Christ as just payment for our sins.
Since our sins went with Him to the cross and this is the very reason
He gave His life, then the sins of all of Gods elect have already been
punished and justice has been served. 2 Corinthians 5:19 - 21 "To wit,
that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. (20.) Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God
did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to
God. (21.) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him.” And one more time, thank
you Jesus! |
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Remind God Of His Promise "And
thou saidst, I will surely do thee good" Gen.
32:12 This
is the sure way of prevailing with the Lord in prayer. We may humbly remind
Him of what He has said. Our faithful God will never run back from His word,
nor will He leave it unfulfilled; yet He loves to be enquired of by His
people, and put in mind of His promise. This is refreshing to their memories,
reviving to their faith, and renewing to their hope. God's Word is given, not
for His sake, but for ours. His purposes are settled, and He needs nothing to
bind Him to His design of doing His people good; but
He gives the promise for our strengthening and comfort. Hence He wishes us to
plead it, and say to Him, "Thou saidst." "I
will surely do thee good" is just the essence
of all the Lord's gracious sayings. Lay a special stress on the word
"surely." He will do us good, real good, lasting good, only good,
every good. He will make us good, and this is to do us good in the very
highest degree. He will treat us as He does his saints while we are here, and
that is good. He will soon take us to be with Jesus and all His chosen, and
that is supremely good. With this promise in our hearts we need not fear
angry Esau, nor anyone else. If the Lord will do us
good, who can do us hurt? By Charles Spurgeon from
his "Faith's Checkbook" series |
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Bible Conference Update:
I
thought I would update everyone on the progress of our Bible Conference on
September 16 – 17. I am happy to announce that we have four of our six invited
guest speakers confirmed for the conference.
Pastor David O'Neal from the Grace Missionary Baptist Church, Tulsa,
Oklahoma - Pastor Harold McSwain from Naborton Baptist Church in Mansfield, Louisiana - Pastor
Ronnie Miller from The Divide Baptist Church Sulphur Spring's, Texas -
and Pastor Kelley Hinson From the
Landmark Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Ft. Worth, Texas. The other two
have until August 1st so it may be some time on them. Please
continue to pray about this event, and again thank you to all that have
worked so hard in preparing our building and landscape for this event. For
the latest updates please watch our church web site. |