Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
October 13, 2013          
 Newsletter Number 437

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, 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. Sister Jean Dodson, 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:

The Earth And Heavens Shall Be Burned Up.
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” 2 Peter 3:10 

While the politicians in the world want to talk about global warming I would like to talk about the real reason the world will one day get so warm that it will burn up. It may be getting warmer but it is not because of global warming but it is getting closer to the coming of Jesus Christ and that great day of God’s judgment on this earth. God has promised that Jesus will return, there will then be seven years of tribulation, then there will be a thousand year reign by Jesus Christ as King over this earth and then God will destroy this earth and everything on it. It will be “melted” , that is dissolved,  or totally destroyed. Nothing will survive because everything on this earth is tainted by mans sin. Everything man has built in the last six thousand or so years will absolutely be melted with heat. 2 Peter 3:7 “But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” It is also concluded that this total destruction will include something more than the earth it will also include the “heavens” that is the heavens below heaven itself. Man has also polluted it with their sinful presence. Everything and everywhere man has been must be and will be totally destroyed with fire from heaven. Peter went on to say in verse 12  “Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” that we were “Looking for” it and that we are “hasting unto the coming of the day of God” that is believers are ready and in a hurry for it to happen. Why wouldn’t we be? All the elect of God will be saved “…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” Verse 9 therefore why would we believers desire a delay? God told us not to attach ourselves to this world or the things of it. This is why it will be destroyed. This is why we cannot take it with us, it is sinful and must be destroyed. 1 John 2:15 “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.” Those that do not love this world or the things of it are “hasting unto the coming of the day of God” because we will all rejoice to see God destroy it all. We as believers in Christ Jesus and children of God will love this day. We will not be weeping for the lost not even our loved ones because God will wipe away all tears and cause us all to rejoice in His glorious judgment on sin. Amen! And I shout and pray always “…Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” Revelation 22:20

For Our Weekly  Meditation:

No Darkness At All
It is written:  The Apostle John wrote, “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with an-other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (I Jn. 1:5-7)

It blesses the heart to know that we serve the God of the light and not the god of the darkness. There is something about being in the light that gives warmth and peace to the innermost heart.  Knowing the blood of Jesus has cleansed even all the hidden dark crevasses of guilt and shame and replaced the darkness with the light of His presence gives an indescribable release of freedom and peace.  It makes one want to dance barefoot upon the green pastures of His love and in the shining light of His grace.  It makes one want to pause life and smell the sweetness of the tulips! 

Please understand, a true believer having the birth of the new creature within is not just a figure of speech.  There is a new creation born out of the sacrificial blood of the Lamb and is awakened in the light of the Eternal, a new life made partaker of God’s divine nature.  One who is born of God lives in the light and by the light.  It is not a choice or a decision. It is a natural existence for the new spirit creature.  He lives, breathes, and exists in the Light because of Who he is, a child of God.   The new creature is not comfortable with the darkness; he is like a fish out of the water.  He is alive in the light of His righteousness and abhors the sins of the god of the darkness.

If one says he has fellowship with God, “saved, redeemed, born again, etc.,” and walks in the darkness of sin, the Word of God clearly states he is a liar and does not the truth.  There are many pretenders in the world who have a false hope of salvation and eternal life.  They have no fellowship with the God of the light.  They love darkness because their hearts and deeds are evil.  There is no light in them, and the blood of Jesus Christ has not cleansed them, and they abide in the darkness.  They love the darkness because they are of the darkness; if they were of the Light they would live of the Light

By Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

Church News:

- Happy Birthday to Brother Justin Bookout Wednesday Saturday October 16^th
- Happy Anniversary to Frank & Dawana Reigel  Friday October 18^th
- The churches next business meeting will be today at 4:00, please plan to attend.
- Brother Justin Bookout will hold the services next Sunday October 19 while the Pastor is at a Bible Conference in Silsbee, Texas. Brother Bookout plans to have one service from 11 – 12.

Quote For The Week!

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

By A.W. Pink