Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor "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. |
| The Incomparable Christ:
He came from the bosom of the Father to the bosom of man. He put on humanity that we might put on divinity. He became the Son of Man that we might become sons of God. He came from Heaven, where the rivers never freeze, winds never blow, frosts never chill the air, flowers never fade, and no one is ever sick. No undertakers and no graveyards are there, for no one ever dies -- no one is ever buried.
He was born contrary to natural laws, lived in poverty, was reared in obscurity. Only once did He cross the boundary of the land-in childhood. He had no wealth or influence, and no college education, yet the profoundest wisdom of men has never equaled His last discourses in John 13 to 17 and the Sermon on the Mount. "Never man spake like this Man."
His relatives were inconspicuous and un-influential. In infancy He startled a king. In boyhood He puzzled the doctors, even at twelve years of age, proving He was far in advance of the theologians, for He was taught of God. In manhood He ruled the elements so that He quieted the raging sea and defied the laws of gravitation by walking on the water. He healed the multitudes without medicine and made no charge for His services. He never wrote a book, yet not all the libraries of the country could hold the books that have been written about Him. He never wrote a song, yet He has furnished the theme of more songs than all songwriters combined. He never founded a college, yet all the schools together cannot boast of as many students as He has. He never practiced medicine, and yet He healed more broken hearts than the doctors did broken bodies yet no leader ever made more volunteers, who have under His order made rebels stack arms or surrender without a shot being fired. He is the Star of Astronomy, the Rock of Geology, the Lion and the Lamb of Zoology, the harmonizer of all discords, and the Healer of all diseases. Great men have come and gone, yet He lives on. Herod could not hill Him, Satan could not seduce Him, Death could not destroy Him, the grave could not hold Him, and even demons obeyed Him. He fed the hungry multitudes with a boys little lunch, broke up funerals, and gave back to life those that were dead.
He laid aside His purple robe for a peasant's gown. He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor. As to how poor, ask Mary, ask the Wise Men. He slept in another's manger; He cruised the lake in another's boat. He rode on a borrowed beast; He was buried in a rich man's tomb.
All failed, but He never. He conquered death, rose on the third day as He said He would, ascended into Heaven, is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God, and will one day come in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory for His born-again, blood-bought ones, who will be forever with Him according to promise. After, He will judge the world in righteousness, when every knee shall bow to Him and every tongue shall confess Him as Lord--His friends gladly, but His enemies in great fear, seeking for a place to hide from His face (Rev. 6:15). The ever perfect One-He is the
Chief among ten thousand, the only One Who can satisfy the soul and give everlasting life to those who have it not.
He is altogether lovely, and He is my Saviour.
--Author unknown
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| A Thought For The Week: Purity Of Heart And Life Purity, even purity of heart, is the main thing to be aimed at. We need to be made clean within through the Spirit and the Word, and then we shall be clean without by consecration and obedience. There is a close connection between the affections and the understanding: if we love evil, we cannot understand that which is good. If the heart is foul, the eye will be dim. How can those men see a holy God who love unholy things? What a privilege it is to see God here! A glimpse of Him is Heaven below! In Christ Jesus the pure in heart behold the Father. We see Him, His truth, His love, His purpose, His sovereignty, His covenant character, yea, we see Himself in Christ. But this is Only apprehended as sin is kept out of the heart. Only those who aim at godliness can cry, "Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord." The desire of Moses, "I beseech thee, show me thy glory," can only be fulfilled in us as we purify ourselves from all iniquity. We shall "see him as he is"; and "every one that hath this hope in him purifieth himself." The enjoyment of present fellowship and the hope of the beatific vision are urgent motives for purity of heart and life. Lord, make us pure in heart, that we may see Thee! By Charles Spurgeon, from his “Faiths Checkbook”. |
| God's severe judgments against the wicked:
Isaiah 66:15-16 “For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. (16.) For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. “ |
Sunday, 9 January 2011
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