Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
Celebrating 50 years as a Church of Jesus Christ
October 29, 1961 – October 29, 2011
June 11, 2011
Newsletter Number 321

Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor Brother 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, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd,, Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Son Kevin Henderson, Vickie Simms, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don & Neil Hammond, Charles 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, Justin Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Gina Sullivan, Katie Norton, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Marshall Risinger, Lee Mollette’s friend, Dale Barnes, Keith Johnson, Tammy Hairston, Jack Johnson, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

The Pastor’s Corner:

The Truth Of The LORD Endureth Forever
“O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. (2.) For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.” Psalms 117:1 - 2

Psalms 117:1 - 2 “O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. (2.) For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.”

Truth means - stability; trustworthiness, faithful, right, and sure – and all of these are God, yes I said they are God that is His very nature, just as He is holy, Omnipresent, Omniscience, and etc. He is truth. Jesus described Himself as truth in John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." He did not say He told the truth He said He is Truth meaning just as much as He is the Messiah He is Truth. Where there is Truth there is no lie "...that no lie is of the truth." 1 John 2:21 With God there is no such thing as “a little white lie” or “stretching the truth” there is only Truth because God cannot be something that He is not.

Our text goes on to say “…the truth of the LORD endureth for ever.” Since God is truth and cannot lie then He will always, for all eternity be truth. This includes His declarations; His promises; and His assurances of mercy and love. They will never change, ever. James said "...from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17 which means God cannot change, ever. God said in Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Two truths here we want to look at; God will never lie nor will He ever change His mind, ever. “God is not a man…” this very fact is most important because man simply cannot be trusted not to lie, as much as we mostly hate to lie it is our nature to do so "...let God be true, but every man a liar..." Romans 3:4. If one puts too much faith in man you will see him fall but God is different He is Truth and there is no lie in Him. Lying comes from Satan, it started in the garden with Eve and continued with Adams lie to God and has continued with mankind ever since. “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:44 The phrase “…there is no truth in him...” means God who is Truth is not in him at all.

It is because that God is Truth He is to be greatly praised, applauded, and lifted up, because He can be trusted in every letter of every word which He has promised. All of the promises He ever promised the Israelites have been fulfilled, and just because they have failed to see these fulfillments is there own faults. Whatever God has said will come to fulfillment and we need never doubt, because God cannot lie. God’s next promise is that Jesus will return for the rapture, the Lord’s warning is to be ready, however many today are not ready because deep in their minds they do not believe it is going to happen but it is and when most Christians least expect it He will come. This is why He warned us to be like the five wise virgins and to have our lamps trimmed with oil and ready. Beloved trust God in what He says and never, ever doubt because doubting God is sin. We show our praise to God by trusting Him, not by doubting and every Christian that is not ready for the Lords return doubts God.

"I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name." Psalms 138:2

No Cause To Blush:

"Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed" Isa. 54:4

We shall not be ashamed of our faith. Carping critics may assail the Scriptures upon which we ground our belief, but every year the Lord will make it more and more clear that in His Book there is no error, no excess, and no omission. It is no discredit to be a simple believer; the faith which looks alone to Jesus is a crown of honor on any man's head, and better than a star on his breast.

We shall not be ashamed of our hope. It shall be even as the Lord has said. We shall be fed, led, blest and rested. Our Lord will come, and then the days of our mourning shall be ended. How we shall glory in the Lord who first gave us lively hope, and then gave us that which we hoped for!

We shall not be ashamed of our love. Jesus is to us the altogether lovely, and never, never, shall we have to blush because we have yielded our hearts to Him. The sight of our glorious Well-beloved will justify the most enthusiastic attachment to Him. None will blame the martyrs for dying for Him. When the enemies of Christ are clothed with everlasting contempt, the lovers of Jesus shall find themselves honored by all holy beings, because they chose the reproach of Christ rather than the treasures of Egypt.

By Charles Spurgeon from his "Faith's Checkbook" series

Happy Birthday:

Sister Nita Mollette - June 17^th

Bible Conference Update:

Pastor Larry Wilson from the Northside Baptist Church Oakdale, Louisiana has informed us that he plans to attend and speak for us again this year. Therefore we thank him and the other 4 and we just lack one commitment. Please continue to pray for this event.