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Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Dr. (Wake Village) Texarkana, Texas 75501 August 28, 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, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Ronnie & Sarah Henderson, Wendell & Hazel Henderson, Joe Henderson, Larry & Linda Mollette, Larry Mollette II, Danny & Nita Mollette, Donna Johnson, 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, Larry Platt, Leroy Sherwood, Bro. & Sister Frank James, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Mrs. Nita Bookout, Earl Quinn, Timothy Fails, Gina & Bryan Thompson, Barbara Griffin, Jonathan Bartlett, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler. Wanda Fowler, Central Baptist Church Little Rock, Ark, Edna Garvin, Randy & Shelly, And All of Our Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East. |
| A Thought For
The Week: "Wretched Man That I Am " "O wretched man that I am!" -- Romans 7:24 Now, these feelings which the Apostle groaned under are experienced by all the quickened family. Blessed then be the name of God most High, that he inspired him to trace out and leave upon record his experience, that we might derive comfort and relief from it. What should we otherwise have thought? We should have reasoned thus: "Here is an apostle perfectly holy, perpetually heavenly-minded, having nothing but the image of Christ in him, continually living to the Lord's glory, and unceasingly enjoying communion with him!" We should have viewed him as a perfect saint, if he had not told us what he was; and then, having viewed him as a perfect saint, we should have turned our desponding eyes into our own bosom, and seen such an awful contrast, that we should despair of ever being saved at all! But seeing the soul conflict which the Apostle passed through, and feeling a measure of the same in our own bosom, it encourages, supports, and leads the soul on to believe that this is the way in which the saints are called to travel, however rough, rugged, and perplexing it may be to them. Be assured, then, if you have never cried out from the depths of your soul, "O wretched man that I am!" you are dead in sin, or dead in a profession. If internal guilt, misery, and condemnation never forced that cry from your bosom, depend upon it, the life and power of God is not in your soul. But if there has been, and still is, from time to time, this cry in your breast, forced out of it by the pressure of sin and guilt, you have a testimony that the same Lord who taught Paul is teaching you. |
| News For The Week: Janet Folger of Faith2Action says her predictions in a new book are coming true before our eyes. In her book The Criminalization of Christianity, Folger warns that there is coming a day when believers could face jail for defending their faith and its teachings on homosexuality. She says it appears the day is here; and yet the Church remains silent, for the most part, on the lifestyle God calls an "abomination." "If the church is going to be silent, this is the issue that's going to do it," the activist and author says. "And we as Christians do have the right to remain silent -- but I believe if we use that right very much longer, we're going to be seeing the inside of a prison cell." Folger maintains the secular culture is trying to demonize the Christian faith. It is time, she says, for believers to get aggressive. "Instead of reacting, responding, and defending a shrinking piece of real estate, if we work together proactively, taking back ground, and focus not on our uniforms but instead on where the battle is the hottest, we actually can win," she says. "We can use our freedoms while we still have them." [Bill Fancher] |
| "Comprehensive Love"
by C. H. Spurgeon "The Lord taketh pleasure in His people." How comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of His people's interests which He does not consider, and there is nothing which concerns their welfare which is not important to Him. Not merely does He think of you, believer, as an immortal being, but as a mortal being too. Do not deny it or doubt it: "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in His way" It were a sad thing for us if this mantle of love did not cover all our concerns, for what mischief might be wrought to us in that part of our business which did not come under our gracious Lord's inspection! Believer, rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your meaner affairs. The breadth of His tender love is such that you may resort to Him in all matters; for in all your afflictions He is afflicted, and like as a father pitieth his children, so doth He pity you. The meanest interests of all His saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God. Oh, what a heart is His, that doth not merely comprehend the persons of His people, but comprehends also the diverse and innumerable concerns of all those persons! Dost thou think, O Christian, that thou canst measure the love of Christ? Think of what His love has brought thee--justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life! The riches of His goodness are unsearchable; thou shalt never be able to tell them out or even conceive them. Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus' marvellous lovingkindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment? O my soul, tune thy harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to thy rest rejoicing, for thou art no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by thy Lord. |
| I am not what I ought to
be; ah, how imperfect and deficient. I am not what I wish to be; I abhor
what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good. I am not what I hope
to be soon; soon I shall put off, with mortality, all sin and
imperfection. Though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be,
nor what I hope to be, I can truly say that I am not what I once as, a
slave to sin and Satan. And I can heartily join with the apostle and
knowledge that by the grace of God I am what I am. By: John Newton |