Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 August 08, 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: The Sovereignty of God “Unconditional Election” Romans 3:9 - 10, 18 “What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; (10.) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (18.) There is no fear of God before their eyes.” This week brings us to our second letter of T.U.L.I.P. which is “Unconditional Election” or God by His own choosing elected a limited number of sinners to be justified before creation. While this teaching may on the surface sound horrible on Gods part it is not when the bible is taken in context. If Total Depravity is true and it most certainly is as proven last week, then Unconditional Election has to be true and it most certainly is. If all of mankind is totally depraved then no one can or will come to Christ without being delivered. Now the question is who will God deliver? If the answer is all of mankind then God has failed because He was unable to deliver all of mankind, but the scripture has concluded that God elected to hate Esau and to love Jacob, twin brother that God chose to love one and hate another. The average Religionist Pastor will say election shows a non-loving God but that is false because while God did not have to love one single person He elected to love a limited number of mankind. If you study the bible there is a 100% more scripture to prove unconditional election than there it to prove that salvation is man choice which is not biblical at all. Election concerning Israel: Israel is most certainly a product of Gods electing grace which is proven in Deuteronomy 7:1 “When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;” God chose Israel over all of the other nations of the world but I must as WHY? Was God unjust to the other nations of the world? Was God unjust to Egypt and Pharaoh in using them the way He elected too? I don’t hear the Religionist Pastors denying this election by God, but they laugh and mock when we say that God elected Gentiles. Romans chapter 9 clearly explains in verse 15 “…I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” And God goes on in verse 16 to say “So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” No one is a child of God because they chose too, but rather because God chose them to be His children. In verse 18 God gets clearer when He said “Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.” I.E. Pharaoh, and Esau, God could have chose to love these two men but He chose rather to hate them and use them in evil ways and neither of these men could have ever chosen to be saved. Election concerning Gentiles: Everyone that is not an Israelite is a Gentile. Religionist Pastors will explain that election in the New Testament refers to Israel but if that was true then only Israelites would be saved, however God changed things in the New Testament and no longer uses the Israelites but now uses the elect Gentiles and Gentile churches if you will notice the Israelites are setting idle among a bunch of heathen who wishes they were dead rather then being used of God. Let us also notice in Romans 9:24 God said “Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?” He said He also loves some Gentiles. Now notice in 2 Corinthians 4:6 “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” If God “COMMANDED” the light of the Gospel to shine then it must shine without fail or God failed in His will. Beloved there was nothing about us that brought about our salvation and we could never cause salvation because we cannot overpower Satan. 2 Corinthians 4:3 – 4 “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: (4.) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” It is evident that only a limited number of mankind will be saved and that God has elected that number and since this election was before the world was created then it must be unconditional. 1 Peter 1:2 “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”

Rules For Prosperity: "Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest" Josh. 1:7 Yes, the Lord will be with us in our holy war, but He demands of us that we strictly follow His rules. Our victories will very much depend upon our obeying Him with all our heart, throwing strength and courage into the actions of our faith. If we are halfhearted we cannot expect more than half a blessing. We must obey the Lord with care and thoughtfulness. "Observe to do" is the phrase used, and it is full of meaning. This is referred to every part of the divine will; we must obey with universal readiness. Our rule of conduct is "according to all the law." We may not pick and choose, but we must take the Lord's commands as they come, one and all. In all this we must go on with exactness and constancy. Ours is to be a straightforward course, which bends neither to the right nor to the left. We are not to err by being more rigid than the law, nor turn out of levity to a more free and easy way. With such obedience there will come spiritual prosperity. O Lord, help us to see if it be not even so! We shall not test thy promise in vain. By Charles H. Spurgeon from his “Faith's Checkbook” series

Church Service Update: Pastor Johnson will be absent from the pulpit on September 5, 2010 and Brother Larry Mollette and Brother Ronnie Henderson will be speaking on that Sunday. Brother Randy will be speaking at the Country Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs that Sunday.