Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
June 09, 2013          
 Newsletter Number 419

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 & Martha Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Poole, Danny & Nita Mollette, Robert Riggs, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Children, Ricky Henderson and Family, Jacie Henderson, Velma 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, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Rosie Tomlin, Lee Mollette’s Daughter & Granddaughter Kristal, Pat Abercrombie, Donna Jones, Dale and Linda Trahan, Ricky and Margaret McCoy, Brother David O’Neal, Dina Thomas, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, 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:

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
"For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing." 1 Peter 3:17

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     We see in today’s preaching so much deception, preachers preaching about only good and never any bad or suffering. How many times do preachers refuse to preach about trials in our lives, or if they do then we must have done something bad to bring them about. They preach that God wants nothing bad in your life, He wants no harm to come to you, He wants only for you to be healthy, wealthy, and wise. “That only if God had His way all would be paradise in this old world in fact it would be heaven on earth.” “If only God could…” Folks this is all hog wash! The scriptures promises us "...being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" Ephesians 1:11 even the predestination of saving sinners. God’s will is always accomplished all the way down to Jesus Christ dying for our sins. Folk any time a preacher says that God can’t accomplish His will; they are most certainly misguided. We need to always remember whether good or bad and even in the worst of times the will of God is always accomplished. There is nothing beyond God and there never will be an event that happens that God could not have stopped or changed. I know in these horrible times of school shootings, hurricanes, tornados, and etc. etc. etc. most would like to think that God is absent or there was simply nothing He could do, but folks it is just the reverse of that, God is never absent from anywhere, and He controls every event. Just because horrible events happen to good people, children, or even Christians does not mean that God was absent or unable to stop it. God promised "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." Matthew 5:45 whenever bad comes it comes to both and by the will of God. God does not move His children out before the storm but sends them through it. God’s will for you may be bad or even very bad but it is Gods righteous will for you to suffer.

     Let us always remember “For it is better, if the will of God be so…” no matter what! It was better that Jesus Christ suffer beyond our imagination and then give His life that for Him to have called ten thousand angels to rescue Him from the cross. It may be better for God for you to be poor, unwise, or even unhealthy. We do not know the will of God nor do we know the mind of God, but this we do know every single thing that happens in your life is the will of God. Peter also told us "But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;" 1 Peter 3:14   in other words when suffering comes be happy because God has chose to use you this way, you will be blessed in it. I would rather suffer everyday of this life for Gods glory than to be healthy, wealthy, and wise, and loose my soul to eternal damnation. This life is but a short time, but eternity will never end and neither will the blessed rewards God rewards us with in glory. God’s people have always suffered and always will. Many millions suffer horrible deaths for Gods glory; were these sufferings and death in vain? No! Every single one was by Gods blessed will for them and to His glory. Folks our life is not about us and our glory; it is about Gods praise and glory. What we want is irrelevant to Gods wants; we are tool for Him to get glory from. He is the potter and we are simply the clay, He molds and makes us what he wants us to be, and that is not always glory on our part although in heaven it will be glory. So next time it rains or even pours on you, next time disaster comes your way remember what God said; "Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. (14.) And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done." Acts 21:13 – 14 Let us all remember to pray “Lord thy will be done, even if it’s disaster for me and may all glory be yours”. AMEN!

For Our Weekly  Meditation: By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

Creation Anxious for the Unveiling
“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly,  …  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” (Rom. 8:19-20a, 22)

    The words “creature” and “creation” are of the same Greek word and having the same meaning.  We are made to understand that “the whole creation” is in such utter pain that it collectively groans in agony and suffers as a woman in birth pangs.  This horrific torment is not of its own doing, but it was thrust into the penalty of Adam’s sin, but “not willingly”.  Creation has been tormented from Adam until now.  It is eager to be rescued from the scourge of sinful men.

    The time and hope of creation’s expectation is when the sons of God will be manifested; that is, unveiled before all men and creation at the coming of the King of kings and Lord of lords with all of His redeemed.  Of that day and hour of liberty it is written: “Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.  Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.  Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.” (I Chron. 16:31-33)  O what ecstasy shall clamor through the ends of the universes of the whole of His redemption!  Even the hallelujahs of tiny sparrows’ rejoicing will echo to the uttermost boundaries of the realms of God. 

    Rejoice!  Rejoice!  The sons of God have been revealed and made triumphant at the coming of the Judge of the whole creation!  Who are they that would hush the endless raptures of so great a redemption?  Will not their voices be muted by the roaring of the fires and screams of hell?  Their tongues and lips find no jubilations. 

    Praise be unto our God!  Our redemption draweth nigh!  The heavens, the earth, the fish, the fowl, the beasts, and all the redeemed in harmony cry aloud, “Even so, Come Lord Jesus!”

Notice:

We will hold our June business meeting today at 4:00.

Happy Birthday

Dina Thomas Sunday June 9^th