Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church "Where The Truths Of God’s Word Have Been Taught For More Than Fifty-Two Years” 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 April 27, 2014 Newsletter Number 462 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, James and Summer, 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: Who Are Saints? "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:" Philippians 1:1 The question today is; who are Saints? I saw where the two Popes were canonized, or made Saints by the Catholic Church. Now I must admit, with my busy life I do not have time to sit around and study Catholic doctrine so I show ignorance at exactly how all this is accomplished. Nevertheless, I find it amazing how man claims to be doing what God is doing. Saving sinners is Gods job; we are only to preach the gospel, as is making saints. We will find Saints existed long before 300ad when the Catholic Church was born. We find them as far back as the Old Testament. It is also evident in the scriptures that the church never canonized anyone. It is a fact that the word nor the definition of the word is not even found in the scriptures with relationship to the churches. With this being said, lets look at the word saint and see how one becomes a saint and who it is that makes them a saint. The word "Saint" means - One who is sacred that is physically pure, morally blameless, or one who is Holy. - The only way for one to be Holy or pure, or blameless is in Jesus Christ. One cannot simply be set aside as "Holy" by the church. I do not know what this ceremony was exactly, but they did not make these two men Holy or Saints. They can no more do this than the churches can save sinners. Man has over stepped their bounds with their thinking, there are certain things only God can do and making one a Saint is something only God can do. Therefore, the question asked, "Who are Saints" and the answer is simple; it is all the believers in Christ. If the word means - one who is pure - then this is only possible in Christ. "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," Revelation 1:5. We learn that all men are sinners; "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" Romans 5:12 therefore these Popes are also sinners and they must be cleansed or made holy by the blood of Jesus Christ and not the church. If the only way to be cleansed pure or to be made holy were in the blood of Jesus Christ, then wouldn't it be right to say that the entire saved are cleansed and made holy in the cleansing blood of Christ Jesus? Then wouldn't that make all the saved population were Saints? Maybe this is why Paul kept recognizing the entire church population as "Saints". Romans 1:7 "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints..." - Romans 15:25 "But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints." - 1 Corinthians 1:2 "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints..." - Ephesians 1:1 "...to the saints which are at Ephesus..." all of there refer to Christians or church membership and there are many more examples and all before the Catholic Church even existed. If you are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ then you are a Saint!

A Thought For The Week: Modern science and the Bible do not agree! What if science, as at present understood, and the Bible, do not agree? Shall we be troubled thereat? I think not. I rejoice to know that what is termed modern science and the Bible do not agree. I would be sorry if they did agree! Modern science is changeable — the Bible is unchangeable! The science of today is not the science of last year, and will not be the science of the next year. The Bible of today, is the Bible of all the Christian centuries; and will be a thousand years hence — just what it was nearly eighteen hundred years ago, when the canon of Scripture was closed! Mark the changes which have taken place along the whole line of sciences since the beginning of this nineteenth century. What a catastrophe then would it have been — had it been proved that the Bible and science as known at the beginning of this century, fully agreed; that all the assertions of the Bible could be squared with the facts of science as then understood! The great tidal waves of science which have rolled over the world since, would have left the Bible stranded and ruined! And just so now — could it be made clear today that every truth in the Bible accords with the received theories of science — what would become of the Bible fifty years hence, when science will have moved on with even more rapid strides, and left behind more wrecks of theories and more stranded speculations? In the meanwhile, the Bible stands still in the solitary grandeur of its own perfection. It waits, as the ages roll on, for confirmation and acceptance. It was said by one of old, "God is patient, because He is eternal;" and the Bible, as the book of the God of truth, has this attribute of its divine Author. Its strength is to sit still. It does not go out hastily to meet a half-formed science, and embrace it as an ally — lest it should turn into a foe. It calmly tarries in the consciousness of its own truth — as the advances of science come nearer and nearer; and every advance of true science does bring it nearer to the Bible. The opposition to that Bible, comes only from a class whose utterances, Paul has justly characterized as "the profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called." These differences between science and Scripture cannot be settled — because science is not settled. And science will never be settled, so long as there is an undiscovered fact in nature, or an inquiring mind in man! "Forever, O LORD, Your Word is settled in Heaven!" Psalm 119:89 "The grass withers and the flowers fade — but the Word of our God stands forever!" Isaiah 40:8 By William Bacon Stevens, 1815-1887