Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
September 08, 2013          
 Newsletter Number 432

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, 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, 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:

Love Not This World Or The Things In It!

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:15 – 16

If our love is for God then it cannot be for this world. There are certain things in life that that will harm our relationship with God and loving this world or the things of it is at enmity with God. Let us not forget that this world and the system of it is controlled by Satan the great liar and deceiver. He took it in the garden of Eden with the assistance of Adam and Eve. The Lord has declared over and over that it will only wax worse and worse. Until the Battle of Armageddon when the Lord Jesus Christ shall defeat and take control back will it only then get better. Then He shall rule it with the rod of iron and force the evil people of this world to do good. For one thousand years people of this earth will be forced (against their will) to do good. People that are not saved hate God and are at enmity with Him, they will never surrender to His blessed will unless made too. Everything in this world is evil, and anti God. Even the religions of this world who claim to love and serve God are against Him. The only people who love and serve God are His blessed churches of truth and Christians. People we all need to understand that we either serve God or we serve this world and if we serve this world we can never serve God because one will cause you to hate the other. We (as Christians) are weak to this old fleshly nature and it is a fight not to be attracted to the things of this world but we must work at it. Temptations on every corner, on the job, at the store, everywhere we go in this world are temptations. We must all fight back the lust of the old man and live with the new nature. Paul warns us in  Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” The word “conformed” means -  to fashion alike – Christians are different and to surrender to the things of this world is to conform to it. The styles of the world, all the tattoos, low rider pants, and etc. Just because a religious institution allows it does not mean God allows it. Our Christian children need the most prayer of all. Our schools are infested with ungodliness, educators are by vas majority liberal and lost and very worldly. They are haters of God and the things pertaining to God and consider Christian children as brain washed zombies of their hate monger parents. We need to pray for them because it is hard to be different and  to be made fun of all the time by children taught by influence and by nature to be God haters. Children, you as Christians are to refrain from the love of the things of this world and are required to follow the Lord at all cost. I know it is hard being different but your difference is both a witness about God and a glory to God. Let us all remember as Christians we are closest to God when we are walking with Him. Don’t love the thing of this world because they are anti God and I know as Christians whether children or adults we never want to be anti God. Please pray for one another that we all stand and walk with God and not with this world.    

For Our Weekly  Meditation:

The Grace of Giving
It is written: “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.” (Mal. 3:8) 

I am not one who harps on the subject of “giving your money.”  I certainly do not believe in begging folks to fulfill their responsibility and duty of returning to God tithes and offering, which belong to Him.  God is not a beggar, and He certainly is not held hostage to the fickle-ness of man.  God graciously grants each believer the blessed privi-lege of sharing in His kingdom work through tithes and offerings.  When believers become stingy in their giving, God becomes stingy in His blessings.  God blesses the cheerful givers.

II Cor. 8 speaks of the grace of giving every true believer should be experiencing in his Christian walk.  The Apostle Paul uses such phrases as the following: “the grace of God bestowed,” “the abun-dance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality,” “beyond their power they were willing of them-selves,” “but first gave their own selves to the Lord,” “therefore as ye abound in every thing...see that ye abound in this grace also,” “to prove the sincerity of your love.  For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.”  If one has been pur-chased with the sacrificial blood of Jesus, he is rich unto salvation and eternal life.  The King of kings and Lord of lords died for him!

What are you willing to do for the King of Glory and His king-dom?  Does the same grace of giving abound in you that prompted God to give His only begotten Son?  Stingy giving is evidence of a carnal, spiritually immature, and sinful heart.  “He which soweth spar-ingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.  Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER.” (II Cor. 9:6-7)  As the old saying goes, tithing is for young believers who have not yet discovered the blessed joys of giving. 

Tithes and offerings are just a couple of the doors to a blessed walk with the Father.  Does the grace of giving ab-ound in you?  “PROVE THE TRUE SINCERITY OF YOUR LOVE” - GIVE CHEERFULLY BY GRACE!!!

By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

Happy Birthday:

Nathan Fails Wednesday September 11 

Quote For The Week:

“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.”