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 October 02, 2011 Newsletter Number 336 Brother 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, Sister Alice Hoskins, Frank & Sonya Trusty, Bryndon Thomas, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Poole, Danny & Nita Mollette, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd,, Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Son Kevin Henderson, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don & Neil Hammond, Charles Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Kathy Rosinbaum, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, Luann Reynolds, Brother Curtis Pugh, Timothy and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jim & Linda Meier, Brother Manuel Seymour, 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 & wife, Lee Mollette’s Daughter & Granddaughter Kristal, Dale Barnes, Keith Johnson, Tammy Hairston, Lorene & David Rodden, Leon Wyckoff, Billy Smith, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

The Pastors Corner: Blessed Are The Pure In Heart. Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." Our sixth blessing of salvation or our sixth Beatitude is “pure in heart”. A pure heart would be a clean heart which means a heart that has been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ. This is the test of Christianity that most miss; and that is God deals with the heart or as Paul called it the “inward man” in 2 Corinthians 4:16 “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” The “inward man” is renewed day by day because it is the spirit of man; that is the same spirit that was killed by the sin of Adam and made alive by the second Adam, Jesus Christ. The heart of a Christian is pure because it cannot ever be dirty again by sin because the blood of Jesus Christ continually cleanses it or as Paul said “renewed day by day” with this being said we can see that all the children of God are the pure in heart and all will see God. People today as a lot of people of old have a gross misunderstanding of what it takes to satisfy God; they seem to think that we satisfy God with the outward man and outward acts of kindness but this is their biggest mistake, we worship God in spirit and in truth and whatever is in the spirit should be our outward show of work. John 4:24 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." This is the reason we can worship God and one day will see God because our spirits are renewed day by day. Now on the other side of things; those that are still lost will never see God except for their judgment day because their sprits are still dead and unclean. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:14 “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” There is no communication between God and the lost man; He does not see them, He does not hear them, He does not help them, and when it is all done and over with they will not see Him in His glory. The Christian is so blessed that it will only be when we are all with Jesus Christ in our new glorified state that we will fully be able to understand what this means. I think Paul may have summed it up best in Titus 1:15 "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." Unto all that are saved all things are pure therefore there are no un-pure thing with the Christian and on the flip side to the un-pure or the lost nothing is pure but rather all is un-pure. Let us not forget from whom our cleansing came from and we can understand why it can never be called unclean again. Acts 10:15 “And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” This is why when one shows their righteousness outwardly and not from the heart then you can be assured that they are not saved. Beloved it is not what you do outwardly but what comes from the renewed heart that counts and what is done from the renewed heart will show on the outside but in a very much different way. Matthew 5:16 "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

A Covenant He Remembers: "He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant" Ps. 111:5 Those who fear God need not fear want. Through all these long years the Lord has always found meat for His own children, whether they have been in the wilderness, or by the brook Cherith, or in captivity, or in the midst of famine. Hitherto the Lord has given us day by day our daily bread, and we doubt not that He will continue to feed us till we want no more. As to the higher and greater blessings of the covenant of grace, He will never cease to supply them as our case demands. He is mindful that He made the covenant, and never acts as if He regretted it. He is mindful of it when we provoke Him to destroy us. He is mindful to love us, keep us, and comfort us, even as He engaged to do. He is mindful of every jot and tittle of His engagements, never suffering one of His words to fall to the ground. We are sadly unmindful of our God, but He is graciously mindful of us. He cannot forget His Son who is the Surety of the Covenant, nor His Holy Spirit who actively carries out the covenant, nor His own honor, which is bound up with the covenant. Hence the foundation of God standeth sure, and no believer shall lose his divine inheritance, which is his by a covenant of salt. By Charles Spergeon from his "Faith's Checkbook" series

Church News: The church will hold our monthly business meeting today at 4:00 please plan to attend and be a part of our churches business. Pastor Johnson will be speaking at the Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Silsbee, Texas on October 14 – 16, at the churches Annual Bible Conference, please plan to attend if possible. We are pleased to announce that Brother Raul Enyedi from Romania will be visiting our church and speaking during the Sunday School and Morning Worship service 10:00am – 12:00 on October 23, 2011. We were very please to receive this news. Brother Curtis Pugh also informed us that he plans to attend the services if possible; however he will not be speaking. We are please to announce that Brother Doyle Thomas has accepted the invitation to come and speak both services on our 50th anniversary October 30th. Brother Thomas is a former Pastor of this church from November 1979 – January 1983 Please plan to attend and invite all the visitors that you can.