Sovereign Grace Missionary BaptistChurch
1217 Dillon  Texarkana, Texas  75501
  August 26, 2012          
   Newsletter Number 381

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:

“A  Pardon For Your Sins.”
Acts 3:19  “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted  out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the  Lord;”


Folks when we all began to think of things to be  thankful for never forget your sins have been blotted out. The words  “blotted out” means - to smear out, that is, to obliterate  – and the word forgiven means to bestow a favor unconditionally as a  verb; and a dismissal, release as a noun; either way it is a true blessing  from God. God said "Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are  forgiven, and whose sins are covered." Romans 4:7 that is covered by the  glorious blood of Jesus Christ. Oh how sometimes we so soon forget what God  has done for us, if you are saved it is because God has saved your soul. From  start to finish He guided you through the blessing of His glorious grace. The  Lord reminds us in Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his workmanship..."  because He is our Saviour. “Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved  my soul;” what wonderful words.

Folks your sins are covered; enjoy being a child of  the living God! Never in eternity will you ever have to pay account for your  sins because Jesus has already paid that price. They are covered; pardoned;  and forgiven what a blessing. We as believers only have to worry about  serving our God; our Saviour; and none else. Is that hard for you to find  time for church; the Lord; prayer; bible study? If it is then maybe you need  a revival in your heart. Sometimes things get old if you do them to much, for  example offering thanks for food can get old if you repeat the same prayer  over and over, sometime the same songs get old if sung over and over, and  sometimes going to church and serving the Lord can get old if we do the very  same service every time. We all need to keep ourselves revived in spirit and  that revival starts with remembering what God has done for you by pardoning  your sins. We must be reminded so that serving God never gets old. I was told  as a young preacher that observing the Lords Supper looses it’s  significant’s if observed to much and so does anything else if we  don’t have a revival within and that starts by remembering what God has  spiritually done for us. Folks your sins are forgiving, you need nothing else  and remembering that begins the revival within.

The Lord concluded in our text scripture  “…when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of  the Lord;” have you ever on a hot day drank a cool glass of water and  when you were finished chugging it down go ahhhhhhhhhh, well that is the case  here; if nothing else refreshes your spirit into a revival this remembrance  of your pardon should. Folks I pray you attend church often and are as active  as you can be, I hope your life is in service for the Lord; and I hope you  often remember Gods pardon for your sins because that forgiveness has the  power to revive you.

If you do not know the Lord then “Repent ye  therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out…”  after you are saved you may be hated of this world, you may be condemned by  many but God has forgiven you sins and has made you His child forever. Psalms  51:1 “...Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:  according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my  transgressions."



For Our Weekly  Meditation:


Devils  Smarter Than Most Men

“And the  Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against  him, how they might destroy him. … And unclean spirits, when they saw  him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.”  (Mark 3:6, 11)

It is simply amazing to me how all the great  religions of the world in all their mystical ritualisms with self-righteous  pageantries and ceremonial spiritualities have up till now not one single  clue who Jesus really is. Yet, all the devils of hell with whom they dwell  know exactly beyond any doubt that Jesus is “the Son of God”. The  realm of eternal condemnation is their habitation, but they are blind to the  truths revealed out of the great abyss and their ears deaf to the cries  bellowing out of the gates of hell. The eternal deceiver and his demons dance  in grand merriment over their ignorance of Jesus. The religionists seek to  destroy with all their horrid doctrines the knowledge of the only hope of  eternal life and forgiveness of sin.

The devils know their destiny: “And, behold,  they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?  art thou come hither to torment us before the time?”(Matt. 8:29) The  devils know what lost men do not know or dare to gaze into. They are  compelled by their hate to seek to destroy Jesus and to bar other from  entering into His salvation. They have no hope in the Son of God and strive  to lead men’s hearts away from the Son of Hope.

Religionists readily admit there is a God, but that  is no holiest of wonders. Is it not written: “Thou believest that there  is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”  (James 2:19) The demons of hell are far smarter than lost men, for the demons  not only believe there is only one God but they firmly know that Jesus Christ  is the Son of God. Lost men in their blindness are still groping amidst the  dark veil of the valley of dead men souls.

Flee to the cross of Jesus and know of His saving power.  Encounter the Jesus of Calvary and drink from the well of salvation!



By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.




Notice:


Don’t forget the Bible Conference is set for  September14 and 15 Friday night will be 6:00 – 8:00 and Saturday from  9:00 – 3:30 


The churches next business meeting will be September  02 at 4:00

 Psalms 51:9 - 12 "Hide thy face from my sins,  and blot out all mine iniquities. (10.) Create in me a clean heart, O God;  and renew a right spirit within me. (11.) Cast me not away from thy presence;  and take not thy holy spirit from me. (12.) Restore unto me the joy of thy  salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit."