Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 October 24, 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, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Kevin Henderson, Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Daughter Ashley, Effie Smith, Lilly Stansord, 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, Letha Langford, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson and Kelley Lee, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout, Roger Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Gina Sullivan, Katie Norton, Imajo Tracy, Sister Jean Dodson and Family, Helen Rowe, Linda Hughes, Michael Helm, Roy Lemmon, Marshall Risinger, Jason Trout, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

The Pastors Corner: Pleasing God! “For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” Galatians 1:10 Do we please God in our lives? Do we go out of our way sometimes and even go against our own wants and wishes to please God? I wonder how many Pastors seek to truly please God and how many churches truly seek to please God. Most churches and Pastors seek to please man rather than God. If one is concerned in building an empire within the church then he seeks to please man because God said in 1 Corinthians 12:18 “But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.” If God hath set the member in the church as it hath pleased Him, then why does man seek to build the church into an empire? Oh he may say “God has done it” but that is just being modest because he truly expects the credit. I see many today only seeking to please God when it is convenient to do so, when it does not set them back on money or when they have nothing to do when church is in service. Many today do not seek to please God but rather to please themselves or someone else. Pleasing God is doing Gods will, and Gods will almost always include putting others before yourself. Selfishness is not pleasing to God, God is not selfish nor should we be. God sent His beloved Son into this world to die a death of humiliation so that we could have eternal life. He had no other reason to do this other than His love and kindness. However it seems that most have their selfish hearts set on what they want rather than helping others first. The greatest example is when we dive a car, have you noticed how selfish people are when we drive? Doing Gods will is learning His word and living what we have learned but there are a lot of people who fail to pay attention in church and fail to follow their Pastor in the study of Gods word. There are also people who fail to keep their children behaved in the services and allow them to interrupt the others trying to hear the sermon. There are those who dress inappropriate to be in a church who also distract from the services. If we seek to please the Lord, let’s all study and learn together and cast away the distractions. Pleasing God is to love one another and help one another. Do you have church members in need? In these bad economic times I am sure we all know someone in need, maybe you need to help them with a few dollars to make the budget, or with a few groceries, have you asked? God supplies our ever need, and it may be He wants us to help your fellow church member. God uses many sources to help us and sometime He uses us to be the helper of others. Being a good church member goes beyond your tithe to the church, and it includes also helping your fellow church member. Before you give to outside organizations that are not church supported how about your church, fellow church membership, or even your Pastor, is there anything they need? Romans 15:1 - 3 “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. (2.) Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. (3.) For even Christ pleased not himself…” As Christians and church members Jesus Christ should be our greatest example, and when churches and church members fail to help their own and others around them then we have failed to follow Christ as our example.

Godly Stability? “And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord” Jer. 15:20 Stability in the fear and faith of God will make a man like a wall of brass, which no one can batter down or break. Only the Lord can make such; but we need such men in the church, and in the world, but specially in the pulpit. Against uncompromising men of truth this age of shams will fight tooth and nail. Nothing seems to offend Satan and his seed like decision. They attack holy firmness even as the Assyrians besieged fenced cities. The joy is that they cannot prevail against those whom God has made strong in His strength. Carried about with every wind of doctrine, others only need to be blown upon, and away they go; but those who love the doctrines of grace, because they possess the grace of the doctrines, stand like rocks in the midst of raging seas. Whence this stability? "I am with thee, saith the Lord": that is the true answer. Jehovah will save and deliver faithful souls from all the assaults of the adversary. Hosts are against us, but the Lord of hosts is with us. We dare not budge an inch; for the Lord Himself holds us in our place, and there we will abide for ever. By C. H. Spurgeon from his “Faith’s Checkbook” collection.

Please Take Notice: Sunday November 2 is election day, please remember to vote. Sunday November 7 is the National time change, set your clocks back 1 hour before you go to bed. Thursday November 11 is Veterans Day; Thank our veterans for their service and also those who now serve in our armed forces.

1 Corinthians 12:22 - 25 “Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: (23.) And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. (24.) For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: (25.) That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.”