Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 August 22, 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, 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, Kenny Johnson, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

A Thought From Pastor Johnson: The Sovereignty of God “Irresistible Grace” “For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.” John 5:21 This week we come to our 4th letter of TULIP which is “Irresistible Grace”. The doctrine of Irresistible Grace teaches that when the Spirit of God is sent to change a person's heart, that person cannot resist the change. This is another one that the religionist of today hate and will use a lot of “out of context” scriptures to attempt to disprove it, because God forbid that salvation is not totally in the hands of the lost sinner who is totally at enmity with God and has no desire to ever serve the God of the bible. But some how the old leopard is going to change his spots and turn to Christ for salvation. But God said (A.) Jeremiah 13:23 “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.” and (B.) Psalms 14:2 - 4 “The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. (3.) They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (4.) Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.” Now the religionist will say that God wants all to be saved, but apparently they do not believe that God can accomplish all His will because if God wanted all to be saved then all would be saved. So they will have you believe that while God cannot save the sinner (because it is totally up to the sinner) then I guess the sinner is more powerful than God. If one believes this theory then why do we pray to God for the sinner to be saved, why not just pray to the sinner since salvation is in their hands? And where is Grace, it has nothing to do with salvation since God has nothing to do with it. I guess Jesus was the great liar since He Himself said John 6:44 “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” But I must add if the Father draws man and then man rejects Christ then doesn’t that make God a FAILURE? Doesn’t that mean the “counsel of His own will” is not completed? They say that “God's will is frustrated by man” This means the will of God is “obstructed” by man because he chooses not to accept the call of God, but doesn’t this contradict Gods word in that His will is always accomplished? Thank God we were not there when He was creating the world because with that many bosses He would have never gotten it done. They like to quote 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” First of all there is no indication here that God is speaking of all mankind, secondly, this is speaking of Gods longsuffering and promises not salvation, and thirdly, if it meant that God absolutely willed all to be saved and some refused too then that contradicts the rest of the bible. Besides wasn’t Peter speaking about “us-ward” which would include those like him or those elected to salvation just as he was. They also like to use Romans 2:11 “For there is no respect of persons with God.” and there is not and this is why we believe in Unconditional Election also because God did not choose us because we are black, white, red, or yellow – Jewish, or Gentile, He chose us because He wanted too. This is like John 3:16 and the word “world” does God truly love everyone in the world, no He does not because He hated Esau and He also hates the “WORKERS” of iniquity Psalms 5:5. He loves the different Nations of the world not just the Israelites. God never said He loved all the people of the world just as He never said He wanted all the people to be saved. This is religionist preaching error #1. But beloved if God has chosen you to salvation then we will not resist His call but run and accept it without fail, and this is most glorious because without it we would all suffer the eternal wrath of God in Hell. Francis Turretin once said “This calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit, to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him.” – This is Irresistible Grace, Amen!

Wake-up! You Are the Problem: “… But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the ship master came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O Sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.” (Jonah 1:5-6) Now, Jonah is very typical of most churches and church members in our “modern” world. It is as if many of the opening prayers begin with - “Now I lay me down to sleep; if all should die and go to hell please do not my spirit shake! Bless us four and not one more, because You know ‘Lord?’ witnessing is such a chore!” Lord forbid that we should actually want to seek the face of God with heavenward worship, praising the Lord for His mercies and goodness toward us, and sing words that in fact have an earnest purpose of lifting up the Name of God and the blessed Christ Jesus. The whole of mankind is rushing towards the gates of hell, and the so-called “redeemed” are sitting firmly on the seats of do nothing and singing “I shall not be moved!” The world is in utter chaos, but the saints are snuggled down in their security blankets with their shinny halos pulled down over their eyes so they will not be disturbed. Sometimes they resemble the three little monkeys – “See not the commands of God, hear not the preachers’ warning, and speak not the witness of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!” God told Jonah to arise, go, and to cry out, but he would have nothing of it and sought to flee from the presence of God; but he could not. Then, he tried to sleep it off, but even in sleep the guilt of his sin roared in a tempest against him. Everyone around Jonah knew that he was the one that had brought these calamities into their lives. Jonah could not escape his guilt in a false sense of security. Far too many “believers” are lingering in their self induced comas adjusting their halos and plugging their ears. Paul wrote: “Awake to righteousness and sin not; … I speak this to your shame.” (I Cor. 15:34) “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,” (Eph. 5:14) Wake-up O Sleeper! YOU are the problem with the church! Wipe the sleep from your eyes and stare clearly into the mirror of God’s Word. Do you not yet see that you are the problem? Pop the Day Dreaming Bubble; WAKE-UP! The glorious Light of the Gospel of Christ grows dimmer! Do you care nothing of that? By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.