Sovereign Grace Missionary BaptistChurch 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 November 10, 2013 Newsletter Number 440 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: I Am The Sovereign God!"And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." Revelation 21:6 Here we see our Lord Jesus Christ describe Himself as the only Sovereign God. Alpha means first and by this He means there is none before Him. No parents to teach Him to walk, no siblings to teach Him the way of life and how to deal with life, no teachers or counselors to teach and educate Him, no none before Him because He is the sovereign God. He needs no one or anything to make Him increase in any area because He is already and has eternally been the Omni God. The word “omni” truly only belongs to God because He truly is the only “omni” anything. Omni come from Latin and means “all” and besides Him there is no other “all” anything. Let’s read Revelation 1:8 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." He (Jesus Christ) is “…the beginning and the end…” and “…the first and the last…” He is the sovereign God. Man and their religion has seek to just about eliminate Jesus Christ from having power over salvation and power over the churches, and that is an awesomely sad mistake. Without Jesus Christ there is no salvation or churches. So when one attempts to eliminate Him from saving sinners and from building churches then there is no salvation and no churches, and that is just what those people have is nothing. Jesus said do I not have the power over the vessel to do as I please? Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” is not He the creator of all things and has the right to as He is pleased with His own creation. Wasn’t it He that gave man dominion over the earth? Wasn’t it He that gave Satan the power to tempt Eve and bring sin into the world? Wasn’t it He that chose to send His beloved Son into the world to save a remnant of them? Wasn’t it Him that created hell and the torture of it to punish the lost. People come up with these false doctrine about mans will and the freeness of it, but God says He is the Saviour of mankind. God has the right to do as He pleases and man says there is so much He cannot do. The truth is God does as He pleases with whom He please. If God elects to save one sinner (a vessel fit for honor) doesn’t He also have the right to have non-elect (vessels fit to dishonor)? Romans 9:22 “What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:” Salvation is no more mans decision than their birth was. You can no more control your rebirth than you did your natural birth. Jesus Christ is the First and the Last and all things will be what He makes them and there is no choice on mans part to be made. Some say “God can’t change mans will” but man somehow can, well that is totally wrong because only God can change a mans will. Man is a liar, that love sin more than God, and he will never on his own ever turn to Christ for salvation nor seek to please the True Sovereign God. How about the truth, God gives you the will to seek Christ. Philippians 2:13 "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." We choose nothing, God chooses for us and this is why Paul said "But by the grace of God I am what I am..." 1 Corinthians 15:10 Paul knew about the Sovereign Grace of God because it was Jesus Christ who changed his wicked heart and it is Jesus Christ who has changed your wicked heart. Jesus Christ is the First and the Last and while the religious world seeks to demonize His blessed truths and sovereignty He will be the one standing in the end restoring truth and judging the lies and liars to eternal damnation. Revelation 21:8 "But the fearful, and unbelieving...all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Jesus Christ was the first and He will most certainly be the last to stand along with His truth.

For Our Weekly Meditation: We journey onward through a waste howling wilderness As God's children, we receive in this present time all that our Heavenly Father knows to be good for us. His eye of love always watches over us. His hand of power always guides and protects us. We journey onward through a waste howling wilderness—amid snares and temptations on the right hand and on the left—but we are never left—we are never forsaken. "Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name—you are Mine. When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up—the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior." Isaiah 43:1-3 By Henry Law, "Family Devotion" 1884

Church News: Business Meeting The church will hold our monthly business tonight at 4:00pm Happy Birthday to Brother Frank Reigel Wednesday November 13th Pastors absents: Pastor Johnson will be speaking at a revival meeting at the Grace Bible Baptist Church in Denham Springs, Louisiana on December 6, 7, and 8. Church services will continue here on Sunday December 8 and some of the men will conduct the services. We will post what services that are altered that day in our upcoming newsletter.

Quote For The Week: “When He took on Him the form of a servant in our nature, He became what He had never been before, but He did not cease to be what He always had been in His divine nature. He who is God cannot ever cease to be God.” By John Owen