Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
August 18, 2013          
 Newsletter Number 429

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, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Rosie Tomlin, Lee Mollette’s Daughter & Granddaughter Kristal, Pat Abercrombie, Barbara Brewer, Donna Jones, Dale and Linda Trahan, Ricky and Margaret McCoy, Brother David O’Neal, Tommy Walker and family, Diane Thomas, Gina Peel, James and Lynn Tomlin, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, Robert, 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:

Following The Word!
“But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” Luke 11:28

When we hear the word of God do we actually follow it? One of the most blessed things one can do in life is to follow God’s word, not in only hearing it but also reacting to it. Sometime it seems we all fail to follow God’s Holy Script. He wrote the scriptures for a reason and that reason was that we follow what He said. Even Jesus Christ His own beloved Son in the likeness of sinful flesh was perfect in every way because He followed Gods word. John 6:38 “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.” But somehow we in the flesh seem to want to follow our old sinful hearts over God’s word. When we follow God’s word it is called showing our faith by our works. James 2:18 “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.” Every believer should have the greatest desire to follow God Holy Word but we are bad about letting this old man get in the way. Ephesians 4:22 “That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;” and that includes tradition; tradition is the worst thing one can obey, it will always cloud you thinking on God’s word. We need to put away thinking of old and continually renew our learning in God’s Holy Script. God wrote the scriptures to the saved and not to the lost. 2 Peter 2:12 “But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;” However we as believers in Christ have a glorious opportunity to understand and the ability to walk in the ways of God and we all fail in so many ways. We all hate to admit it but we truly do. Jesus prayed in the garden just before He was arrested and crucified that God the Father would make us holy; through His word. John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” The word “sanctify” means – to be made holy - the writer to the Hebrews wrote in Hebrews 13:12 very clearly that we are eternally sanctified by the blood of Jesus “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.” However sanctifying our lives here on this earth is a continuing thing. It is wonderful that we are saved and cleaned eternally by His blood, but what about the life we live today, are we living holy, are we living by God’s Holy Word? Are we continually searching the scripture to make sure what we believe and do coincide with God’s word. 2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Everyday of our life and every thought or deed or teaching we may have. The Lord reminds us to examine ourselves to make sure we are in sink with Gods word. 2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” and then we ought to ask the Lord to examine us to see if any correction is needed. Psalms 26:2 “Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.” Folks the only true blessings are those from God and we are blessed so much more if we follow God’s Holy Word in every area of our life. What blessings have we if we gain the whole world and lose eternal rewards? Let us all examine ourselves and see if any correction is needed and if it is, then correct it and God will bless you for your labor.     

For Our Weekly  Meditation:

Starting New Again
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.  …  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.” (Col. 3:3, 10)

Real pure belief in the Gospel – “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that was buried, and that he (bodily) rose again the third day according to the scriptures. - I Cor.15:3-4) – is evidence of regeneration wrought out of the power of the Holy Spirit of God.  Only a faith in the sacrificial blood of the Lamb of God as payment in full for the judgment and penalty of our sins will stand guiltless before the throne of God. Such a wondrous salvation provokes unbridled Hallelujahs shouting Grace, Grace, All by His Amazing Grace!!!  We are saved to the uttermost by the Lamb’s blood.  Anything less is empty of any hope of eternal life.

The carnal sinful man is dead because there is a new man created within the believer, and this new man is hid away secretly with Christ in the bosom of the Everlasting Father.  He is held securely by the strength of the Father’s hand where His enemies have not even the slightest opportunity to snatch them away.  May He be praised!

In verse 10 – the “new man” references that which is recently born.  The word “renewed” means re-new, that is, new again.  Remember, Jesus said: “Ye must be born again.” (Jn. 3:7)  Paul uses “new man, new creature, newness of life,” and other similar words.  It must be understood that in authentic salvation there is the birth of a new man within the believing one which is secured in the most secret places of the Eternal God’s bosom.  Trust in thy God! 

Having been born new again reveals one’s precise and correct knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus.  Incorrect knowledge will result in a “still birth,” in a dead faith, and the absence of the new life of a spiritual man – dead fleshly and dead spiritually.  The evidences of having been born new again are unveiled “after the image of him that created him.”  Righteousness begets righteousness; it is written.

By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

Countdown; 33 day till the Bible Conference please keep it in your prayers!!

September 20 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm and September 21 from 9:00am -  3:30pm

Pastor Larry Wilson from The Northside Baptist Church Oakdale, Louisiana
Pastor David O'Neal from The Grace Missionary Baptist Church Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pastor Kelley Hinson from The Landmark Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Fort Worth, Texas
Pastor Ronnie Miller from The Divide Baptist Church Divide, Texas
Pastor Jimmy Nelson from The Landmark Baptist Church in Ft. Worth Texas
Missionary Steve McCool Missionary to Fort Smith Northwest Territories Canada from Sulphur Springs, Texas