Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 July 18, 2010 Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor Bro. Ronnie Henderson, Song Director Pastor E-Mail: sgmbcpastor@baptistsonline.org Web Site: www.baptistsonline.org/sgmbc "Where The Truths Of God’s Word Are Still Taught"

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, Bryndon Thomas, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Helen Maggard, Renee Jackson, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kirby Mollette, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Verna Mae Allen, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Kevin Henderson, Ronnie Henderson Jr., Vickie Sims, Debbie Farmer, Morgan Murchison, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don & Neil Hammond, Charles Hammond, Eric Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Wanda Fowler, 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, Doris Hammock, Letha Langford, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson and Kelley Lee, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout and her Niece, Roger Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Betty, Janie Capps, Scott and Gina Sillivan, Katie Norton, Sadie a child, Imajo Tracy, Sister Jean Dodson and Family, Helen Rowe, Linda Hughes, Michael Helm, Roy Lemmon, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

A Thought From Pastor Johnson: Our God Is Sovereign! “The glorified” Romans 8:29 - 30 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (30.) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” We now come to our 5th word in these two verses that describes the Sovereignty of God and that is “glorified”. It is not strange that this word is last because it is actually a future word. We have had five words in this study and they are divided 2 + 2 + 1 two past words foreknow and predestinate are words that tells us what God did before creation; there are two present words called and justified are words that tells us the due time of the two past words; and then the future word glorified which means - to render glorious – so the question is when will the saints of God be glorified, not until they are like Jesus or totally “…conformed to the image of his Son…” verse 29. Salvation while it is complete as far as we are concerned it is not in that we have not been completely glorified. Complete glorification comes with our new bodies at the second coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ. We read in 2 Thessalonians 2:13 “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: (14.) Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ...” The most glorious time for both the Lord Jesus Christ and the saints of God will be when we are all with Jesus in heaven not only in spirit and soul but as a complete trichotomy being in “…the image of his Son…” or as we call it being in our glorified state. All of the saint of God who have died are indeed most happy and are gloriously worshiping God and the Lord Jesus Christ all the time, however they are still lacking something and that is their new glorified body which will take place when the Lord Jesus Christ returns for His beloved church and all other believers that are still living during His return. 1 Corinthians 15:51 - 52 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (52.) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” Here the Lord is speaking first about the living at His return “…We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed…” to a new and final glorified state, then He speaks about the dead in Christ “…and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” Being raised incorruptible means their bodies because the saved are already with the Lord at His return 2 Corinthians 5:6, 8 “Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (8.) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” However glorious it will be to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord, and I am certain it will be glorious; it will be the more glorious to be present with the Lord in our glorified bodies when salvation is finally fully complete. There is nothing more wonderful than to be saved, because salvation is of the Lord our God, and all of this God has given to us that are saved even though none of us deserved it at all. However just imagine what a time it will be when all is said and done. When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, the tribulation period is done, the Millennium period is finished, the melting of the earth and the new earth is complete. No more sin, Satan, or evil of any kind, just us rejoicing with God in His kingdom for ever and ever in a complete glorified state, AMEN!

Happy Birthday: Jacob Ramsey July 23

Sovereignty - Success - Substitution – Satisfaction: Meditate today on these four words, as they relate to the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which we are redeemed: SOVEREIGNTY –SUCCESS – SUBSTITUTION – SATISFACTION. Here are four Words that will both instruct and comfort your hearts, and inspire your hearts with Thanksgiving and praise to the Lord Jesus Christ for his great redemption. The first word is SOVEREIGNTY – Our Lord's work of redemption was an act of Divine sovereignty. "He laid down his life for us." There was nothing in us which compelled him, or moved him to redeem us. He voluntarily laid down his Life for us, because it was the free and sovereign pleasure of his love to do so. The second is SUCCESS – Because our Redeemer is the eternal, sovereign God: we are assured that his death and his redemptive work is a success, and not a failure. The prophecy has been fulfilled - "He shall not fail." Whatever the Lord Jesus Christ intended to accomplish at Calvary, he has accomplished. The third is SUBSTITUTION – The Lord Jesus Christ died as a Substitute for a particular people. And those people for whom Christ stood as a substitute at Calvary, bearing their sins and enduring the wrath of God in their place shall never perish. They are redeemed! The fourth is SATISFACTION – Our blessed Savior's one, substitutionary sacrifice for our sins has completely and perfectly satisfied the wrath and justice of God against us. His sacrifice was infinitely meritorious, so that every sinner who believes on Christ is freely justified and fully pardoned. By Don Bell

Psalms 128:1-6 “Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. (2.) For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. (3.) Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. (4.) Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. (5.) The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. (6.) Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.”