Sovereign Grace Missionary BaptistChurch 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 October 27, 2013 Newsletter Number 438 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 Joy Of Finding Others Walking In Truth.3 John 1:4 “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” After returning for the bible conference in Silsbee, Texas, I remember three new brethren I enjoyed meeting for the first time. After hearing these three brethren preach I rejoiced in the truth of God’s word that they all preached. It is always good to enjoy the fellowship of others who preach and/or walk in the truths of Gods precious word of truth. You can find those who will believe or walk in false doctrine one every corner, those that seek to please man rather than God. John here said “I have no greater joy…” than those who I find walking in the truth of God’s holy script. Sometimes we as sovereign grace Baptist feel as though we are alone in our doctrine and walk but please be assured that we are not. However, though it seem that we are alone in a very liberal religious world. This is why it brings so much joy when we meet other believers in Christ that actually walk and preach the truth of God’s word. However John went as far to say “I have no greater joy…” as though nothing in life would bring greater joy to our hearts and I agree. I just pray that these three men can have the same joy in their hearts as I do in meeting and hearing me speak. One of these days even those believers who do not know and walk in the truth will know and believe the truths of God’s word, their will be no error in heaven!

For Our Weekly Meditation: Very Precious"Yes, He is very precious to you who believe!" 1 Peter 2:7 Jesus is precious to believers—as the bread of God coming down from heaven, and giving everlasting life to their souls. By Him they are really, constantly, and daily supported, fed and sustained. As bread is sweet and precious to a hungry man—so is Christ sweet and precious to those who live by Him. The entertainment that He gives to them—is a divine, a spiritual feast! Jesus is precious to believers—as the Sun of Righteousness. The beams of His grace are healing, enlightening, cheering, and full of consolation. If natural light is sweet, if it is a pleasant thing to behold the sun—how much more pleasant to experience the irradiating influences of the Light of life! Jesus is precious to believers—as the fountain where they bathe their weary souls, and in which they are cleansed from all sin and impurity. He is the tree of life, under the shadow of which, they sit with great delight, and His fruit is sweet to their taste. He is a rock, a strong tower, a hiding-place, where they find protection from every storm, and security from every foe. He was precious to the Psalmist under all these views—"I will love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." It is therefore the delight of their lives—to know Him, to love and honor Him with their whole hearts, and to aspire after conformity to His blessed image, and His holy will. "O blessed Redeemer, I find in you all that my poor helpless soul stands in need of. Though I have the greatest reason for shame and humiliation, on account of what I am in myself—yet in You I behold everything to elevate my hopes, and to afford me relief and encouragement! May my soul magnify the Lord, and my spirit rejoice in God my Savior! The characters and relations in which You have revealed Yourself to me in Your Word—exhibit a balm for every wound, and a cordial for every fear. - If I am naked—You are the Lord my righteousness. - If I am soul-sick—You are my physician. - If I am weak and helpless—You are my strength. - If I am neglected and despised—You are my compassionate and faithful friend. - If I am ignorant—You are made unto me wisdom. - If I am polluted and enslaved—You are made unto me sanctification and redemption. - If I am nothing but emptiness and vanity—You are full of grace and truth." "Yes, He is very precious to you who believe!" 1 Peter 2:7 By John Fawcett

Church News: Please remember to set your clocks back one hour next Sunday November 03

The School Of Thoughtlessness And Vanity: Christian parents and Christian families would do well to consider, that the tendencies of fashionable amusements are unfavorable to the cultivation of piety. Our children and youth are naturally far enough from God. It is both wise and kind—not to multiply and increase the temptations and dangers which everywhere lurk around their path, and beguile them to eternal ruin! The world is vain and alluring enough already. The way of death is sufficiently enticing, and abundantly strewed with flowers. Nothing is more evident—than that a passion for fashionable amusements banishes all serious regard for true piety, silences the voice of conscience, and neutralizes the means of grace and salvation. They may not always prove to be "the school of vice and profligacy," but they are always "the school of thoughtlessness and vanity," where everything else is fortified, rather than serious thoughts of God and the coming judgment. "What is a man profited, if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" Gardiner Spring, New York, March 1, 1831