Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
January 02, 2011

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, Frank Trusty, 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, Terry 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, Jack Johnson, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

God’s Bottle Of Tears:

“Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?” (Psalm 56:8) “I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.” (Ps. 6:6)

Tears are prompted by many things. One could cut an onion and bring forth tears. One could be full of laughter to the point of bringing forth tears. There are many situations that can bring forth tears and some folks can shed tears at a moment’s notice. Thus, when we study the Scriptures there must be discernment as to just what sort of tears are collected in God’s bottle, not just any tear that falls is caught in the hand of the Father and gently placed in His precious collection. The Father chooses certain and particular tears that are shed because of that Wicked one’s afflictions upon His dear children in the course of their service and obedience to Him.

Job, no doubt, poured forth a multitude of tears throughout the torments of Satan’s onslaught. His suffering as a righteous and faithful man brought forth precious tears for the Father’s bottle. Yet, in another course of holy service we notice: “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” (Ps. 126:6) This weeping is not because of one’s own afflictions, but through the love of Christ he is tormented over the lost state of others’ eternal souls. Nonetheless, in both cases the foundational cause of the tears is the spiritual relationship of the individual with the Father.

In our text of Ps. 56:8 the word “tellest” means to inscribe in a book or to record. The word “wanderings” is in reference to an aimless drifting of one in exile or as a fugitive. From this the children of God, who are in the world but not of the world and are on a pilgrimage to a heavenly Jerusalem, understand that the Father inscribes in His book a complete record of every moment of their lives, which will be opened as they stand before Him in the End of Days to come. God has also bottled up every tear relative to the believers’ relationship to Him, both in the negative and in the positive. By this we know the Father places a high value upon holy tears shed by His beloved ones. Not one spirit-filled tear is ever spilled upon the ground; God snatches it up in a treasure bottle.

By: Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

A Thought For The Week:

The Bible’s First Promise
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Gen. 3:15

This is the first promise to fallen man. It contains the whole gospel, and the essence of the covenant of grace. It has been in great measure fulfilled. The seed of the woman, even our Lord Jesus, was bruised in His heel, and a terrible bruising it was. How terrible will be the final bruising of the serpent's head! This was virtually done when Jesus took away sin, vanquished death, and broke the power of Satan; but it awaits a still fuller accomplishment at our Lord's Second Advent, and in the day of Judgment. To us the promise stands as a prophecy that we shall be afflicted by the powers of evil in our lower nature, and thus bruised in our heel: but we shall triumph in Christ, who sets His foot on the old serpent's head. Throughout this year we may have to learn the first part of this promise by experience, through the temptations of the devil, and the unkindness of the ungodly who are his seed. They may so bruise us that we may limp with our sore heel; but let us grasp the second part of the text, and we shall not be dismayed. By faith let us rejoice that we shall still reign in Christ Jesus, the woman's seed.

By Charles Spurgeon, from his “Faiths Checkbook”.

Happy Birthday:

Sister Donna Johnson - January 2^nd

Sister Sarah Henderson - January 3^rd

Brother Ronnie Henderson - January 4^th

Sister Juanita Bookout – January 7^th

Pastors Corner:

I am sorry for such a short article this week; however I have been sick with a stomach virus.

As we all began a new year please remember to pray in earnest that Jesus returns this year. And as we began this new year pray for our government and nation, I know how horrible the last two years have been, but we will have a new house in Washington when the Republicans take over power. This is what you call “check and balance” and we needed this terribly. The Lord told us as Christians to pray for our nations and as we began a new year this is a good time to be in prayer that God will turn the evils of this world around for His glory. We that understand God as a Sovereign God know that the world will wax worse and worse but good strong Christians praying for them can do nothing but good.

Let us also pray for all the Lord’s churches, because this could be a very bad year for us all. We simply do not know all the laws on the book that have been passed in the dark of the night the last two years, but we may find out the hard way.