Sovereign Grace Missionary BaptistChurch 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 February 17, 2013 Newsletter Number 404 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, Junior Baldridge, Frankie Baldridge and daughter, Buckie Thompson, Frank & Sonya Trusty, 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. & Children, Ricky Henderson and Family, Jacie Henderson, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Charles, Don Hammond and Families, Archie & Barbara Griffin, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, James and Luann Reynolds, Timothy and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout, Teresa Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Rosie Tomlin, Lee Mollette’s Daughter & Granddaughter Kristal, Kathy Johnson and their mother, Pat Abercrombie, Barbara Brewer, Donna Jones, Dale and Linda Trahan, Ricky and Margaret McCoy, Brother David O’Neal, Gina, Ryan, and Mallary Peel, Tommy Walker and family, Brother Steve McCool and the work in Canada, Brother Curtis Pugh, Brother Dan Sullivan and the work in Thailand, Brother Raul and the work in Romania, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

A Thought From Our Pastor: Evil Hates The LightJohn 3:20 "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." People need to understand that God is not pleased with sinfulness whether by His own or those that are not His. God continually warned the Israelite not to sin, not to serve this world and it’s evil, and the Israelites continually ignored God and His words of warning. God has boldly warned us that we cannot serve to masters (God and mammon) Matt. 6:24 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." And the reason is that one opposes the other. This world system is controlled by Satan and therefore it opposes God in every way. If a believer in Christ gets much involved with the world or the things of it, they will oppose God and His Holiness. Evil hates light and if one walks in the darkness of this world they also will oppose God and His Holiness whether they believe they do or not. The greatest examples are the religious institutions call churches, they (as sad as it is to say) oppose God. They serve themselves instead of God and this is the reason they do not properly worship God and His Holiness. This is the reason they accept any wind of doctrine instead of truth. Most of them will even admit that they do not teach or serve doctrine, well the definition of doctrine is instruction in scripture, therefore they openly admit that they do not teach or believe instruction from Gods word. How can a believer understand God and His will if they are not taught instruction in the scriptures. Even Jesus Christ admitted in John 7:16 "Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." He taught doctrine and it was Gods doctrine. Now we can clearly see why these worldly religious institutions called “churches” are full of scripturally clueless people. This is why Paul said in Ephesians 4:14 “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;” that people will believe anything taught by man as truth even though God had declared that they would change the truth into a lie. Romans 1:25 "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." This horrible change of truth into a lie caused man to serve the creature instead of God which is exactly what you get in these “churches” (so to speak). One cannot hide behind their membership in one of these religious institutions because it is sinful and God said "...ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out." Numbers 32:23 God, in our text scripture told us "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light…” or they hate the truth and even despise it because they have changed Gods truth into a lie and love the lie more than the truth. God also said in our text scripture “…neither cometh to the light…” they will become satisfied believing the lie of Satan and will not return to the truth and the reason is they have come to hate the truth. God finished our text scripture with these words “…lest his deeds should be reproved." The word “reproved” means – to discover a lie – and this is the reason; they have been lead into lies and untruths therefore repentance is unlikely. They will hate those who attempt to warn them and despise them for trying to tell them. This is why they sit in these religious places of untruth, deniers of Gods truths as though it is truth, all the time singing their Contemporary music, waving their hands, believing any wind of “truth” as long as it is not the truth of God, shouting “we will not believe nor teach doctrine.” Believing that some how they are pleasing God. If you are a believer of Christ and are in one of these places of religious worship; come on back to where the truth is taught and a Sovereign God is truly worshiped. before it is to late.

For Our Weekly Meditation: Never Cast OutHim that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37) Is there any instance of our Lord's casting out a coming one? If there be so, we would like to know of it; but there has been none, and there never will be. Among the lost souls in hell there is not one that can say, "I went to Jesus, and He refused me." It is not possible that you or I should be the first to whom Jesus shall break His word. Let us not entertain so dark a suspicion. Suppose we go to Jesus now about the evils of today. Oh, this we may be sure—He will not refuse us audience or cast us out. Those of us who have often been and those who have never gone before—let us go together, and we shall see that He will not shut the door of His grace in the face of any one of us. "This man receiveth sinners," but He repulses none. We come to Him in weakness and sin, with trembling faith, and small knowledge, and slender hope; but He does not cast us out. We come by prayer, and that prayer broken; with confession, and that confession faulty; with praise, and that praise far short of His merits; but yet He receives us. We come diseased, polluted, worn out, and worthless; but He doth in no wise cast us out. Let us come again today to Him who never casts By Charles Spurgeon from his “Faith's Checkbook” series

The book of life shall be opened in the great day, because then it shall be shown . . . who were elect—and who were reprobates; who truly believed in Christ—and who did not; who worshiped God in spirit and in truth—and who did not; who walked with God as Noah did—and who did not; who truly reverenced God—and who did not; who followed the Lamb wherever He went—and who did not; who were sincere—and who were not; who are sheep—and who are goats; who are sons of God—and who are slaves of Satan; who have mourned for their sins—and who have made a sport of sin; who preferred Christ above ten thousand worlds—and who did not; who preferred their farms, and their oxen, and their swine, yes, their very lusts—before a Savior, a Redeemer! By Thomas Brooks