Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 February 23, 2014 Newsletter Number 453 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, Johnnie Stephens, Alecia Stephens, and children, 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, Pat Abercrombie, Donna Jones, Dale Trahan, Ricky and Margaret McCoy, Brother David O’Neal, Diane Thomas, Gina Peel, James and Lynn Tomlin, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, Robert, Megan Whitaker, Manual Seymour, Sr., Brother Jerry and Sister Jean Dodson, 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 The Word "Longsuffering" Means. "The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." Numbers 14:18 We would like to take a look at the word "longsuffering" and how it fits in our relationship to God. Here Moses speaks of the Lord's longsuffering and links it to words like mercy, and the forgiveness of sin. God must have deep and great longsuffering or patience because He deals with me. How wonderful is our blessed God, because as sinful we are in this flesh He continually forgives our sins, even if we sin the same sin millions of times over, God will continually forgive our sins and not destroy us because of His mercy on us. God has promised to forgive all our sins through the blood of Jesus Christ no matter what He will not execute justice on us for our sins. We are so different than our Lord because we (as Christians) can be short on longsuffering and when someone messes up we get to the point where we must as "how many times can one person mess that up" but not our Lord. He knows our frame, He knows what we are made of, and knows that we are sinners saved by grace. I am grateful to my Heavenly Father that elected to forgive all my sins through the blood of Jesus. There are some Christians that have a hard time forgiving other Christians but not God. My Lord know true forgiveness and true longsuffering and He has plenty for me even though I am a continual sinner. "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. (19) He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." Micah 7:18 - 19 I must continually ask God to give me the patience He has because mine is so flawed. However, as we know God gives to us so many fruits of the Holy Spirit that his is one of them. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (23) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Galatians 5:22 - 23 Beloved, the next time someone continually does something that make you angry just remember the grace and mercy the Lord has for you and try to extend the same mercy toward others. Be longsuffering always remembering that God has it for you. God has not forgiven all mankind their sins but us who knows Jesus Christ as our Saviour H has and because of this we are most blessed of God.

For Our Weekly Meditation: Words in Season (Concluded)"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day!" 2 Corinthians 4:16 "We must, of necessity," says a celebrated writer, "become better or worse as we advance in years. Unless we endeavor to spiritualize ourselves, and supplicate in this endeavor for that grace which is never withheld when it is sincerely and earnestly sought, age infirms us more and more, and the older we grow, the more are we imbruted and debased — so manifestly is the text verified which warns us that, 'Unto every one who has, shall be given; and from him that has not, even that he has shall be taken away." In some, the soul seems gradually to be absorbed and extinguished in its crust of clay; in others, as if it purified and sublimed the vehicle to which it was united. Nothing therefore is more beautiful than a wise and pious old age; nothing so pitiable as the latter stages of mortal existence, when the world, and the flesh, and that false philosophy which is of the devil, have secured the victory for the grave." Aged Christian, thank God for the strengthening and invigorating grace which he imparts to you. Your earthly frame is weak and enfeebled; it has lost its vigor and elasticity; it is harassed with pain and infirmity; it must soon die. But while your body decays — your soul thrives. If the one is preparing for the grave — the other is ripening for glory. Your faith grows firmer, your hope stronger, your love deeper, your views clearer. "For our light and momentary afflictions are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all!" 2 Corinthians 4:17 "In visiting," writes a clergyman, "a poor man who has been bed-ridden for twenty-five years, I was preparing to pity him — but he called on me to rejoice. "Are you not wearied out with the length of your afflictions?" "Wearied, sir!" said he; "no, nature will soon faint — but God sustains me. I could lie here for another twenty-five years, if it pleased God. I have found this sick-bed to be the very gate of Heaven. Length of my affliction, sir! Oh, let me not call it long — it is short, very short, and will soon be over. These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Is not God all love? He cannot then be unkind. Is he not all wise? He cannot then do wrong. Are not his promises yes and amen in Christ Jesus? He cannot then break his Word. None who have trusted him have repented of it. Oh, sir, I dare not complain. My affliction is a mercy!" Troubled and afflicted Christian, remember, the troubles of earth will enhance the joys of Heaven. And, compared with that weight of glory which is prepared for you above — are not your sorrows light? Measured by the eternity of the happiness you anticipate — is not their duration that of a moment? Murmur not at the present; think of the future. How striking the contrast! how glorious the change! By: Anonymous

Church News: There will be a business meeting next Sunday March 02 at 4:00pm. Please plan to be here.