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 June 01, 2014 Newsletter Number 467 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, The Muncy Family, 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, 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: Don't worry Christian; God is not worried, he is still Sovereign.Psalms 2:4 "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision." I know that for the Christian in today's society we must all be concerned. The world we live in here in the twenty-first century is a horrible one. Christians have fought to get people elected to change the laws of America in an attempt to make the world a better place to live, only to loose to the evil of the world. It seems that the battle cannot be won no matter what we as believers do. We are forced to live with the evils of abortion and gay marriage as well as so many other evils. It seems that the entire world is against the churches and Christians in general. It seems the hate for us is getting to be more than we can bear. It seems as though we are reaching the point of defeat and surrender to Satan and the world government. Well dear Christian let me assure you that God is still sovereign and still sitting on His blessed throne. God is not defeated and will never be. Please be assured that God is still in control of this world and its governments. We may not always understand what God is doing, but please be assured He does know. The world and its commander (Satan) thinks they are defeating God and all He stands far, but there is no defeat and never will be. Have you ever heard of the old saying, "give them a little rope and they will hang themselves"; well that is exactly what God is doing. Folks, our great God is sovereign over all the world and even over all His creation, and believe me He is going to win the battle. The Psalmist wrote in verse 4 " He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh..." at the ignorance of man in thinking they will ever defeat Him. They can pass all the bills they want, kill all the unborn their hearts desire, and allow all the gays to marry, but be assured, they have won nothing. They did not win when they crucified Christ and they will not win by killing the unborn. Those that crucified Christ will pay account to God and those who support the evil of today will also pay account to our Sovereign Master. While they think they are winning God is laughing at them. He said in verse 2 " The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD..." that is while He is laughing at them. Believer lat us remember when they sought to crucify our Lord Jesus Christ; "When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death;" Matthew 27:1 The world has always been against the Lord and those who stood with Him. Believes have died for the Lord and His churches. We need to understand that the Lord did not set this world up for us and our victory, all that was lost in the fall, however one blessed day Christ will for the last time take this world away from Satan and evil. God in all His sovereign being has promised that judgment day is coming. Psalms 2:5 "Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure." The tribulation period and hells design is to punish all the evil of this world with Gods wrath. Do not worry dear believer, God still reigns from His throne and laughs at them. We ought to cry for them and pray for them because the wrath waiting for them is more than they can bear. We may suffer the pains of the world but our blessed day is soon coming. A little suffering today is an eternity of glory with the Lord. No believer, we will not win this world back and we will continue to loose more and more, but let us all understand God is taking care of us. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

A Thought For The Week: The Deceitfullness Of Pride“Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18) Pride in a man’s heart is a seed bed which produces many a foul fruit. I will mention a few: “Arrogance,” (Proverbs 8:13), “Contention,” (Proverbs13:10), self-deception, “The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee” (Obadiah 1:3). These are but a few of the un-tasty fruits which grow on the ugly vine of pride. From personal experience many preachers know something of the deceptive power of pride. Looking forward to Sunday, the pastor asks God in prayer for a message and for divine enablement in delivery of the message. God, in grace, grants his petition, and after the sermon someone is kind enough to speak complimentary of the message (there is nothing wrong with paying the preacher a compliment, if it comes from the heart, and you realize the preacher is but an instrument of God), due to the deceptive power of pride, the compliment is often taken wrongly and the preacher takes to himself the credit which belongs to God. No saint has ever risen so high in his cultivation of humility that all of his pride was left behind or even suppressed to the point of absolute dormancy for a single minute. Neither has the skid row bum sunk so low that he cannot look down his nose at someone else and find a basis to be proud of himself. As soon as a man be born in this world he embarks on an ego trip, “They go astray speaking lies,” (Psalm 58:3) and the most of his lies are spent in bragging about himself. Most of the auto-biographies which I have read amount to nothing more than brag books. The reason is; “Every way of man is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 21:2). Did you ever hear a person pray, saying, “Lord keep me humble?” There is an element of pride in such a prayer. The meekest saint needs to pray, “Lord make me humble.” I heard a person say one time, “I am proud that I am humble.” 0’ the deceitfulness of pride. Jesus used one statement on three different occasions in three different sermons. He was not afraid someone might say, “He repeats himself.” Each time Jesus used the statement it fit perfectly with the lesson He was teaching, and the principle set forth in the statement pervaded all of His teaching. The thrice stated words of the Master, “And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted,” (Matthew 23:12; Luke 18:14). On every occasion it was used to counter human pride, and it points up the fact that the seats of honor in glory are reserved for those who humble themselves and practice self-effacement. By Elder Oscar B. Mink now in glory; A former Pastor of our church. (there is more to this article and can be read in its entirety at http://www.pbcofdecaturalabama.org/OBMink/pride.htm)

Church News: Our next business meeting will be Sunday June 08 at 4:00