Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church "Where The Truths Of God’s Word Have Been Taught For More Than Fifty-Three Years” 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 March 30, 2014 Newsletter Number 458 Brother Randy Johnson, Pastor Brother Ronnie Henderson, Song Director Pastor E-Mail: pastor@sgmbaptist.com Web Site: www.sgmbaptist.com

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, Helen Maggard, 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 Fails, Nathan & Claire Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jerry Hughes, 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, James & 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.

A Thought From Our Pastor : The Potter and The Clay"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" Romans 9:21 It is evident if you look around our Nation and the World, folks have no idea who God truly is. People have weakened God to someone who we control, one who cannot do His pleasure, or His blessed will. We just had a movie produced called Noah and God is not even mentioned in the entire movie. People have demonized God and the truth of God so that the truth it turned into lies, lies that make anyone who believes the truth, not only a liar but also a mad man and a hater of people. Their thinking is; not only is God unable to save the lost as He chooses, but He is too small and weak to change man's will. People will one-day wakeup in amazement when they truly see God. This is the truth; God is able to do anything He chooses. Ephesians 3:20 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us," The question today is "can God do anything He chooses; and does He?" The answer is simple and it is yes to both questions. A man does not need a PHD to understand biblical truth; he just needs the teaching of the Holy Spirit. God has chosen to take the weak of this world and make them the brightest. It is because God does not need the brightest and neither does He need man's wisdom and He does not need man's trickery, and man's pushiness. Because God is the Potter and the potter can do as He please with the clay. He can make one vessel unto honor i.e. Abraham, and another unto dishonor i.e. Judas Iscariot. The fact is God can elect a remnant and allow the rest of the world burn in eternity. That is called the Potter doing as He pleases with the clay. God's blessed will, will always be done and accomplished just as He foreordained. However we do have to consider another undeniable fact and that is God has all knowledge and therefore He knows the heart and mind of every single person and knows exactly what they will do if He allows them to do it. God knew Adam and Eve would sin before they were ever created, He also knew they would crucify Christ Jesus if He gave then the chance. God made every vessel, both those unto honor and those unto dishonor as He elected. We are not going to change Gods blessed will. God has predetermined the end of time and therefore He has elected every person to bring it into reality. God does not need us (Christians) to stop abortion, nor does He need us to stop Gay marriage. He can stop them both if He chooses, but He has not chosen too. One day He will stop all sin and all sinners outside of Christ will burn in eternal hell fire. Folks the truth is God is the Potter and what He chose to make a person is His business and we have no right to "what doest thou." Job 9:12 "Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?"

A Thought For The Week: The Littles "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows!" Matthew 10:29-31 I would, with special earnestness, beg you to believe that God is in little things. It is the little troubles of life that annoy us the most. A man can put up with the loss of a dear friend sometimes, better than he can with the burning of his fingers with a coal, or some little accident that may occur to him. The little stones in the sandal make the traveler limp; while great stones do him little hurt, for he soon leaps over them. Believe that God arranges the littles. Take the little troubles as they come and bring them to your God, because they come from God. Believe that nothing is little to God, which concerns His people. To Him, indeed, your greatest concerns may be said to be little; and your little anxieties are not too small for His notice. The very hairs of your head are all numbered; you may, therefore, pray to him about your smallest griefs. If not a sparrow hops upon the ground without your Father — you have reason to see that the smallest events in your career are arranged by Him, and it should be your joy to accept them as they come, and not make them causes of irritation, either to others or to yourselves. This is a truth on which you may rely implicitly, and exercise yourselves continually, until you . . . lull the sharpest pains, calm the most feverish excitements, and obtain the sweetest repose that a Christian can indulge in. Everything in the future is appointed by God. All is in the hand of the great King. The Lord is King; let his people rejoice! By Charles Spurgeon, From his "A Safe Prospective," 1869

Church News: The churches next business meeting will be April 13. Happy Anniversary to Danny and Sister Nita Mollette Saturday April 05

Nine Evils Which Death Will Put An End Too; 1. Death will put an end to a believer's SINS. 2. Death will put an end to a believer's TEMPTATIONS. 3. Death will put an end to a believer's FEARS. 4. Death will dry up a believer's TEARS. 5. Death will put an end to a believer's TROUBLES. 6. Death puts an end to a believer's CARES. 7. Death will put an end to all our NATURAL imperfections. 8. Death will put an end to the imperfections of GRACE. 9. Death will put an end to a weary PILGRIMAGE. Everything in the future is appointed by God. All is in the hand of the great King. The Lord is King; let his people rejoice! Thomas Watson, From His "The Saint's Desire to be with Christ"