Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
September 22, 2013          
 Newsletter Number 434

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 and Sarah Henderson, 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, Charles Lemmon, 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, Megan Whitaker, Manual Seymour, Sr.  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.

From Our Pastor:

What are men?
2 Timothy 3:2, 4 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves...lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;"

God said they are servers on their own self’s, that is what they  want instead of God and what He wants. While no man can defile the sovereign determinate council of God they can defile God when they are without Gods protective hands. We as believers in Christ are what we are by Gods grace and without Gods grace we are what natural man are; servers of our own lust rather than servers of God. To those who serve God it is a true blessing to do so, but those who are without Gods grace consider it a waste of time to serve God. Their love is not for God it is for them self’s and what is best for them. They  lust after worldly things, things that are useless to God and those that serve God. Paul said they were enemies of Christ and His death, whose end is destruction and whose glory is their own shame. Philippians 3:18 - 19 "(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: (19.) Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)" there is nothing good in them nor will there be any good for them when they die. Those who serve God and his Christ will be greatly rewarded while the lost (no matter their deeds or their service in this life) will only be destruction. This includes many religions who call themselves Christians buy are rather lost and going to hell. They say their works will save them but in reality they are just serving their own bellies.  Ephesians 2:9  “Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Because works is self serving if it is for salvation. Works cancels God’s glory and serves only the person. God cannot be more clearer when He said Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us..." and yes baptism is an act of righteousness, Matthew 3:15 - 16 "And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him...And Jesus, when he was baptized..." These religions are designed to serve mans own bellies and not the glory of God. Serving God is when God is in control and totally glorified in every aspect and baptism and work’s eliminates Gods glory this is why He said “Not by works of righteousness which we have done…” you can not serve two maters God and your own belly.

For Our Weekly  Meditation:

Sowing for a Harvest

It is written in the Scriptures: “They that sow in tears SHALL reap in joy.  He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, SHALL doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” (Ps. 126:5,6)

Is God faithful and true to His Word?  If He is, this passage is as true as our salvation in the blood of Jesus Christ.  If He is not, can we believe Him when in other passages He promises to save us through the blood of the Lamb?  If God is faithful and true, He is faithful and true in all His words.  I believe He is.  Don’t You?

The lack of harvest is not the fault of the Creator but the sowers.  If there is no sowing and watering on the believer’s part, there can be no growing and harvesting for him either.  Fence off a plot of land, and then sit in the shade on the seat of “do nothing.”  Do not sow any seed, do not water, or do anything else.  How many big beautiful vegetable plants will spring up of themselves and produce a bountiful harvest?  It would be nice if they did, but in reality there will be abso-lutely no vegetables to feast upon.  One’s harvesting depends upon his labor to bring forth a crop to harvest.

The eternal plan of God is for His saints, the believers, to go forth into the world bearing and sowing the precious seed of the glorious Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.  They are not to go forth in coldness of heart, rather in broken and tearful hearts of agonizing love for the lost.  The believer goes and sows, weeping in his bosom for souls be-cause of his consciousness of God, eternity and the coming judgment.

Christ’s knowledge of those given to Him before the foundation of the world did not eradicate His sorrow for those who would perish in unbelief.  Every believer should have no less agony, if indeed the heart of this blessed Saviour dwells within his bosom.  Have we be-come so cold-hearted that we cannot feel the warmth of the Saviour’s love?  Can we not see and feel the drops of tears of the Lord’s com-passion that He shed over Jerusalem?   Have we no tears for the lost?

The God who is faithful and who cannot lie has revealed that many shall perish in unbelief, even some folks you personally know and love.  Do you have any sorrows and tears in your heart for them?  Must millions perish in sin with no one to weep over their souls?

By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

The hell of hell

"Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!" Mt. 25:41

And as there are a diversity of torments in hell, so the torments of hell are everlasting.

The sentence which shall be passed upon them, is eternal. God Himself, who damns them, is eternal.

 - The prison and chains which hold them, are eternal.

 - The worm which gnaws them, is eternal.

 - The fire which torments them, is eternal.

Grievous is the torment of the damned—for the bitterness of the punishments. It is more grievous—for the diversity of the punishments. But it is most grievous—for the eternity of the punishments!

- By Thomas Brooks, 1675