Sovereign Grace Missionary BaptistChurch
1217 Dillon  Texarkana, Texas  75501
  August 12, 2012          
   Newsletter Number 379

Brother Randy Johnson, Pastor                     Brother Ronnie Henderson, Song Director
  Pastor E-Mail: pastor@sgmbaptist.com          Web Site: www.sgmbaptist.com

"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, Frank & Sonya Trusty,  Frank &  Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II &  Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Poole, Danny & Nita Mollette,O. W. and Deloris Davis, Wendell  Henderson, Judy Dunn, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Dina McCray,  Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Children, Ricky Henderson and Family, Jacie  Henderson,  Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Charles Hammond, Archie & Barbara  Griffin, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay  Johnson, James and Luann Reynolds, Timothy and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey,  Jim & Linda Meier, Letha Langford, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson and  Kelley Lee, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout,  Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody  Carr, Janie Capps, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Lee  Mollette’s Daughter & Granddaughter Kristal, Dale Barnes –  Kathy Johnson and their mother, Tammy Hairston, Tommy Lee Walker, Pat and  Waymon Abercrombie, Barbara Brewer, Donna Jones,  Frank Roberts, Dale and  Linda Trahan, Linda Mollette, Ricky and Margaret McCoy,  Brother Curtis Pugh,  Brother Sullivan and the work in Thailand, Brother Raul and the work in Romania,  and  Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.






The Pastors  Corner:



“The  Doctrine of Sin” Part 2



In part two of our study on sin we discover why  mankind seems to be so destructive and disobedient to our Master and Creator;  and it is because of our total depravity. Why is it that man loves sin more  than God; it is because of total depravity. While most preachers deny that  man is totally depraved it is a fact according to the scriptures. By total  depravity we mean that there nothing good in man outside of Jesus Christ, and  I mean nothing. Man will think of himself as good but our opinions and Gods  knowledge of us are completely different. While the natural man may look  morally good in our eyes God sees them in a whole different way. God sees  mankind as a lawbreaker and a sinner. Man left to himself would totally  destruct because of our love for sin, the natural man loves sin more than  God. As there will be some if not all religionist that will disagree with me  let us look at what God says about mans depravity. "As it is written,  There is none righteous, no, not one: (11.) There is none that understandeth,  there is none that seeketh after God." Romans 3:10 – 11



God declares that all mankind is depraved when born.  - Psalms 51:5 "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my  mother conceive me." The word "shapen" means - properly,  “to turn around, to twist, to whirl;" That is the meaning here.  The idea is simply that he was “born” in iniquity; or that he was  a sinner when he was born; or that his sin could be traced back to his very  birth - as one might say that he was born with a love of music, or with a  love of nature, David is saying he was born with the love of sin.



God has also declared that man is depraved from head  to foot. - Isaiah 1:5 - 6 "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will  revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (6.)  From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but  wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither  bound up, neither mollified with ointment."



God has also declared that no remnant of good  remains in Man since the fall of Adam and Eve by nature. Romans 7:17 - 19  "Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. (18.)  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to  will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.  (19.) For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not,  that I do."



Therefore man by nature cannot subject himself to  the Law of God or please God. - Romans 8:7 - 8 "Because the carnal mind  is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither  indeed can be. (8.) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please  God." Since we are born sinners or lawbreakers of God then the laws of  God means nothing to man. The natural man hate the true God and all His laws;  but since the natural man is condemned already then why would he subject  himself to God or His laws.



Since the natural man is in his sinful state he  cannot until quickened by the Spirit of God, turn from sin to God in Godly  remorse and faith. - Jeremiah 13:23 "Can the Ethiopian change his skin,  or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do  evil." If (because of sin) the natural man is spiritually dead (corpse  dead) then how can he cause himself to repent or to resurrect from a dead  state. The religionist preachers will tell you it is your choice but if the  natural man will not subject himself to the Law of God or to please God  then  why would he desire to change. Romans 7:17 - 19 "Now then it is no more  I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. (18.) For I know that in me (that  is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but  how to perform that which is good I find not. (19.) For the good that I would  I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do."






For Our Weekly  Meditation:



Cold hearted, half devoted, earthly  minded? By Waterbury



The cold hearted, half devoted, earthly minded race  of professing Christians are among the most miserable beings on earth.



They make a compromise with the world, are foremost  in pleasure and in fashion, and are undistinguished form the noisy, vain, and  trifling crowd.



Over their worldly mindedness, their niggardly  charities, and hollow professions, thousands stumble into perdition!



They are . . . .

  a disgrace to the Christian church,

  a standing scandal upon religion,

  a grief to the pious,

  a laughing stock to the world.



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Follow the Lamb! By Thomas Brooks



Follow the Lamb, though others follow the beast and  the false prophets.

Follow the Lamb wherever He goes.

Take up the cross, and follow the Lamb over hedge  and ditch, through thick and thin.

Do not turn your backs on Christ.

Deny yourself; your natural self, your sinful self,  your religious self, to follow the Lamb.






Notice:



Don’t forget the Bible Conference is set for  September14 and 15