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 November 13, 2011 Newsletter Number 342 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 Have Been Taught For More Than Fifty Years”

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, Joyce Gomez , 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, Tommy Lee Walker, Leon Wyckoff, Billy Smith, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

The Pastors Corner: The Salt Of The Earth. Matthew 5:13 “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” The word “savour” means - to become insipid (in·sip·id) – the word “insipid” means – to become dull or flavorless – the word “savour” comes from the Greek word (Moros) which means – dull or stupid – now with all of this defined to its fullest it gives us a more point blank definition which means if the salt has lost it savour it becomes flavorless or dull or stupid. For the salt to loose its savour is like a Christian losing their standing in the Lord as a good Christian or a useable Christian. This Christian becomes dull or flavorless which means they have become stupid. Only a stupid Christian would loose their value to the Lord in putting themselves in an unusable position. God saved people to use them, He calls preachers, missionaries, and other workers to use them, but if a Christian allows Satan and the world to draw them away and back into sin then they become useless to the Lord, the ministry, or the church, they are likened to salt without flavor. It is a Ministers job to be an example and to lead others by word and deed but if a minister cannot lead then he will loose all of his gifts that God has given to him and become useless to God and the ministry. This can also be done by not having doctrine that is very sound and good; if our doctrine is not sound and good then it will be rendered as unsavoury and vain. A Christian can do this by living worthless and sinful lives. How useful is a Christian that lives the same as the ones you witness too? God said in 2 Peter 2:20 - 21 "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. (21.) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." This is the reason the definition “dull or stupid” makes so much sense to me; because a minister or a Christians that has lost their savour is “stupid”. Now I have been told for years from a young minister into my Pastor years not to use the word “stupid” because it is bad grammar but here it is in one of our definitions so here I am allowed to use this bad grammar word in a good way. God said in 2 Peter 2:21 “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness…” because God is going to deal with them in a very harsh way. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 26:24 "The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born." Isn’t it a betraying God to leave His doctrinal truth and His church? Wouldn’t it be a betrayal for the salt to loose their savour? Indeed it would be. Beloved a Christian must watch their walk in every step and not allow the rudiments of this evil world cause them to loose their savour. Ministers and Pastors must also walk cautiously and not loose our savour. Beloved we all walk by the grace of God and therefore it is to Him we must continually pray that we be kept from falling into the evil hands of Satan. If you are a Christian or Minister that has lost its savour it is time to repent and come back home. The doors are open and we are waiting because God never shuts the door to His own Children.

The devil is a hater of God: Who hates God most? Surely he who most contravenes His will. Of the devil's antecedent rebellion, nothing should be said, for nothing can be proved. But here a patent fact evidences his enmity. He aims directly to upset God's plans. He arms himself in the panoply of bold opposition. He sees the divine arrangement, and he sets himself to disarrange it. He views creation bright in every beauty, and he plots to soil it. He marks the birth of an eternity of pure delights, and he arises to infuse the element of misery. God had made man in His own likeness. Satan comes forward to destroy the holy image, and to transform the heavenly work into fuel for his hell. He seems to reason– 'Man is formed to show forth God's praise, and to be His delight. But this benevolence shall fail. Man shall be robbed of innocence; he shall be debased into a rebel, fallen as I am--an object fit only for abhorrence. Thus he schemes--thus he uplifts his arm boldly to fight against God. See, then, how he hates God. Reader! you profess to love God. Where is your evidence? Do you abhor the fiend, who from the beginning has strained his every power to subvert God's kingdom? Do the warm feelings of your heart respond, 'l hate him who hates my God--God's foes are my foes--His friends my friends--I avow myself to be His soldier and His servant--I march beneath the banner of the God of heaven against the legions of the god of this world?' By Henry Law from his article "The Serpent"

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

Church News: November 13th will be the churches next business meeting at 4:00. November 27th the church will observe the Lords Supper after the morning service.

I am God's child! By James Smith 1867 "We are the children of God!" Romans 8:16 Never let us forget or lose sight of this — but let us live, walk, and act under the impression that, "I am God's child!" He knows me — and knows all about me. He loves me — and loves me with the same love with which He loves His only-begotten Son. He cares for me — and so cares for me that I ought not to be anxious about anything. He is with me — and will never for one moment trust me out of His sight, or out of the reach of His hand. He appoints my daily lot — and will overrule everything for my eternal welfare!