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Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Dr. (Wake Village) Texarkana, Texas 75501 April 10, 2005 Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor Bro. Ronnie Henderson, Song Director Pastor E-Mail: sgmbcpastor@countrybaptist.org Web Site: www.countrybaptist.org/sgmbc |
| You Were Asked To Pray For: Virgil and Alice Hoskins & Great Grandson Coty, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Vinson Hoskins, Ronnie & Sarah Henderson, Wendell & Hazel Henderson, Joe Henderson, Randy Henderson & Shelly, Larry & Linda Mollette, Larry Mollette II, Danny & Nita Mollette (about moving here and getting a job), Donna Johnson, Jim Meier, Rosa Graves, Bobby & Vickie Thompson and Family, Mrs. Thompson, Brad Hensley, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Mansfield, Ohio, Zee Mink and Family, Her son Bryan Armstrong and Sister – in - law Sondra Thornsberry, Charles & Debra Burton and Family, Randi, Larry Platt, Leroy Sherwood, Mrs. Evens, And All of Our Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East. |
| A Thought For The Week:
"HE SAW HIS GLORY" John 12:41 Ministers who do not preach Christ, and sinners who do not speak of Christ, are objects of pity, not of our wrath; their eyes are blind to his matchless glory; their hearts do not understand his unparalleled love. But when once Christ's glory is displayed and his love believed in the heart, the tongue will speak of him. So Isaiah found it. So did the poor woman of Samaria, "she ran into the city," she took hold of one and another, she eagerly cried, "Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ? Surely it is, what think ye?" John 4:29. She had sweet experience. Here was no self-exalting; no cry, "See me, admire me; what fine experience I have had." One is sometimes grieved to read or hear people tell of their experiences, when they tend only to make the poor sinner appear somewhat glorious in his own eyes, and to be admired by his fellow-sinners: this is not right. If the sinner's vileness is not fully explored, and the Saviour's glory only exalted, such souls know not as they ought to know; such experiences are not profitable, they are not worth attending to. When sinners see Christ's glory, they will speak of him to God the Father; they will come in his name; they will plead his blood only for the pardon of sin, his righteousness alone for the justification of their souls, his intercession for their obtaining every blessing in earth and heaven. Thus we come boldly to a throne of grace; thus we expect freely to obtain mercy to relieve us and grace to comfort us: thus we are sure, perfectly sure, that we are welcome to God; for he hath told us so. "It pleased the Father" that in Christ all fullness (of grace and glory) should dwell, Col. 1:19; that "out of his fulness we should receive." John 1:16. Having seen Christ's glory, we come to him for this grace. The sight of Christ's glory blinds us to our own fancied glory. The more we see of Jesus, the less we like ourselves: we grow out of love with ourselves. What glory is there in a cage of unclean birds? Worse, inexpressibly worse are our hearts. Yet, astonishing love! Jesus displays the glory of his grace to us. Nothing but unbelief prevents our beholding it: "Said I not unto thee, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see my glory?" John 11:40. By: William Mason (1719-1791) |
| News for the week: ...Arkansas lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit
school officials from interfering with prayers that are initiated and
led by students. A sponsor of the bill, which was approved by a House
committee, says students should feel free to pray at baccalaureate
ceremonies and other events. Rita Sklar, who heads the Arkansas chapter
of the American Civil Liberties Union, warned that the bill could be
struck down by the courts for violating separation of church and state.
A lawmaker responded that the ACLU seems uninterested in protecting
religious liberty. [AP] |
| His Silence: by C. H. Spurgeon "If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" --Luke 23:31 Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is full of teaching: "If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself --the dry tree--shall fall into the hands of an angry God?" When God saw Jesus in the sinner's place, He did not spare Him; and when He finds the unregenerate without Christ, He will not spare them. O sinner, Jesus was led away by His enemies: so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. Jesus was deserted of God; and if He, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" what an awful shriek! But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "O God! O God! why hast Thou forsaken me?" and the answer shall come back, "Because ye have set at nought all My counsel, and would none of My reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." If God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you! What whips of burning wire will be yours when conscience shall smite you with all its terrors. Ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners--who would stand in your place when God shall say, "Awake, O sword, against the man that rejected Me; smite him, and let him feel the smart for ever"? Jesus was spit upon: sinner, what shame will be yours! We cannot sum up in one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Jesus who died for us, therefore it is impossible for us to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. You may die so, you may die now. By the agonies of Christ, by His wounds and by His blood, do not bring upon yourselves the wrath to come! Trust in the Son of God, and you shall never die. |
| "Death gives us
infinitely more than he takes away! To stand before that throne upon the sea of glass mingled with fire, to bow within the presence chamber of the King of kings, gazing into the glory that excels, and to see the King in his beauty, the man that once was slain, wearing many crowns and arrayed in the vesture of his glory, his wounds like sparkling jewels still visible above! Oh! to cast our crowns at his feet, to lie there and shrink into nothing before the Eternal All, to fly into Jesus' bosom, to behold the beauty of his love, and to taste the kisses of his mouth, to be in Paradise, swallowed up in unutterable joy because taken into the closest, fullest, nearest communion with himself! Would not your soul burst from the body even now to obtain this rapture?" By: C.H. Spurgeon |