Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 November 14, 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, 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, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Marshall Risinger, Jeremiah Kelleher, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

The Pastors Corner: Why Do You Try To Hide; The Lord God Sees you! “Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?” Isaiah 29:15 Some people are simply hypocrites; they move their lips one way but think and do another. I have always said, say and do what is in your heart because it is your true feelings. One thing people must understand is while they may be hypocrites in their words and actions, and fooling man, they are not fooling God, He knows every thought of the heart and every action. Job told us in Job 34:22 “There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.” They cannot hide from God neither can they hide their thoughts. God knows everything and nothing escapes His eyes and ears. People think they hide from God because they are so soon to forget that God is Omnipresent or every place at the very same time. God has promised that not one single word will escape judgment “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” Matthew 12:36. With that being said never think that one thought, one deed, nor one action will go unnoticed by the great Judge. Let us remember Adam and Eve, after eating the forbidden fruit and the Lord came walking in the garden they hid themselves from the Lord and then lied about what they had done, but God knew, He did not have to ask questions because He already knew the answers. While men may fool each other they will never fool God. The reason these folks sought to hid their true feelings is because they were hypocrites, notice in Isaiah 29:13 “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:” God said while their mouths praise Me their hearts have moved far from me. This is exactly the way that most of today’s religionist are, they seek with their sermons to praise God but in their hearts they are the ones that has all the power, and not God. When man attempts to rob God of His sovereign power and authority then that act belittle God below man by proclaiming that things are accomplished by the authority of man rather than the authority of God. They sing “Amazing Grace” while failing to recognize that salvation is of grace. The Lord went on to conclude in Isaiah 29:16 “Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?” This is like building a house, the builders build it, and then the owner claim that he built it. Man wants so much to be equal with God that they simply cannot accept that God, the sovereign God of all creation saves sinners. They, with their mouths claim that He does but in their hearts deny God the credit. So please do not be a hypocrite, either God saves sinners or man works out his own salvation. God saved me and I need no credit because I had nothing to do with it. God took this piece of clay and molded it just as He wanted it, and I praise God that He did. Every detail of my life is at the will of God. If I had a choice in the matter I would have never chosen God nor would I have ever chosen Christ as my Saviour. I thank God that He saved my worthless soul and made me what I am today. Therefore I can proudly sing “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me....I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now, I see.”

The Unfailing Watch "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep" Ps. 121:4 Jehovah is "the Keeper of Israel." No form of unconsciousness ever steals over Him, neither the deeper slumber nor the slighter sleep. He never fails to watch the house and the heart of His people. This is a sufficient reason for our resting in perfect peace. Alexander said that he slept because his friend Parmenio watched; much more may we sleep because our God is our guard. "Behold" is here set up to call our attention to the cheering truth. Israel, when he had a stone for his pillow, fell asleep; but his God was awake, and came in vision to His servant. When we lie defenseless, Jehovah Himself will cover our head. The Lord keeps His people as a rich man keeps his treasure, as a captain keeps a city with a garrison, as a sentry keeps watch over his sovereign. None can harm those who are in such keeping. Let me put my soul into His dear hands. He never forgets us, never ceases actively to care for us, never finds Himself unable to preserve us. O my Lord, keep me, lest I wander and fall and perish. Keep me, that I may keep thy commandments. By thine unslumbering care prevent my sleeping like the sluggard, and perishing like those who sleep the sleep of death. By C. H. Spurgeon from his “Faith’s Checkbook” collection.

Happy Birthday and Anniversary: Frank Reigel November 13th (Happy Birthday) Ronnie & Sarah Henderson November 19th (Happy Anniversary)

Ecclesiastes 5:5 “Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.” Deuteronomy 23:21, 23 “When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. (23.) That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.”