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 July 27, 2014 Newsletter Number 475 Brother Randy Johnson, Pastor Brother Ronnie Henderson, Song Director Pastor E-Mail: pastor@sgmbaptist.com Web Site: ww.sgmbaptist.com

Our Prayer Request: 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, 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, 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 Pastor Johnson: One Day Every Knee Shall Bow To Jesus Christ. "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;" Philippians 2:10 One glorious day every single knee shall bow to Jesus Christ as Lord. The Lord God is not going to ask them to but command it and it shall be. People will one day learn that Jehovah is God and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. It is to Jesus Christ the Son of man that God has given all authority to judge everyone. "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:" John 5:22 and it is He whom all knees shall bow. They will not be bowing to Him as Saviour, but rather to Him as Lord, Master, and God. "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." Acts 2:36 we who are saved bowed as we were saved however the lost has never bowed to Him but one day will. They may hate Him; they may hate us because we are His, but one day their knee shall bow and confess Him to be Lord and Christ. This will do them no spiritual good, in fact it will do them no good at all, but it will bring much glory to Jesus Christ. People will deserve everything Christ does to them because in their hearts they refused to recognize Him as Christ and Lord. God calls these people FOOLS. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." Psalms 14:1 I believe these folks really say “we will not have this God rule over us”. They laugh at Him and His authority, they mock His churches and children, they refuse Him on every end, but in their end they will all bow before Jesus Christ. I believe it will be the worst thing they have ever had to do, I believe it will be the last thing they do before being cast into everlasting hell fire. In this world all of them hated God and anything connected to God. They hated Jesus so much they allowed a murder to go free and slew a Holy man. They have killed Christians themselves in order that they might call themselves holy, some even call themselves Christians. They hate the Lord, the churches, the bible, and even a symbol which has nothing to do with Christians in the cross. The cross is NOT a Christian symbol because Christianity has NO SYMBOLS at all. It is not about symbols it is about Jesus Christ. It is about the salvation He offers to us who are and was without. Crosses are a symbol of Catholicism and it drives the liberals and lost nuts. It is a symbol for those who know nothing about Christ and His salvation to lean on, but to us who are saved it is useless and a false image. They hate Israel because of their connection with God, and wish them death. But the truth is most of Israel has no idea who Jesus Christ is. The world hates Jesus Christ so much they think they have Him defeated but one day they will all find out just before they are all cast into their final place of torment they will have to bow to Him as Lord and King. Oh, I believe it will be a great punishment to them and they will overflow with hatred. "And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!" Matthew 27:29 this time the bowing will be real and the crown will be made of Gold. They will not be any mocking, spiting on Him, or killing Him. This time will be different. It is in Christ Jesus that we as believers have victory, not in this world but OVER the world. This why we daily bow our knees before our Saviour Jesus Christ. “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Ephesians 3:14

A Thought From Oscar Mink, Our Former Pastor: Now Is The Accepted Time Serving God is not for spare time, when there is nothing else to do. With God there is no “Spare time”, and the faithful know God has not given them one minute to consume upon the flesh. They know that their King’s business is urgent, and that His program allows for no delays. Man’s economic philosophy is, “Time is money. But let us remember man’s philosophy and God’s determinations are often contrary the one to the other. The King of time and the Lord of life has not said “Time is money”, neither has He said, “I will wait for your service until you become affluent.” But the omniscient economist has said, “Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:13, 14). God has not said, I will wait until you establish a career, or reach middle life, or retire, and then you may serve Me. But He has said, “Remember the Lord Thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days (age and sickness) come not ...” (Ecclesiastes 12:l). And He has said, “Look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest” (John 4:35). There is no time like the present, and “now” is all the time we can be sure of. Thus, the urgency is constant, for the time of our departure from this fleeting life is always at hand (John 7:6). God demands and deserves the preeminence in all things, and except He have it in our dispensing of time, then He has it in nothing else in our life. The sum of what a person is when they face God is the result of the way in which they spent their time in this life. Seeing then that our sojourn here is so very brief, let us not waste a minute of it, but utilize it in such a manner so as when our days reach their end we can say with Paul, that tireless and busy apostle, “I am now ready to be offered” (II Timothy 4:6). Christ said to His church, “Ye shall by My witnesses” (Acts 1:8). He did not say, I expect you to be My witnesses, nor did He say, I hope you will be My witnesses. He said, “Ye shall be My witnesses.” Once a person is saved he mounts the witness stand where his life’s testimony is judged by the world. He may be a good witness or a bad witness, but he is a .witness all the time. When he squanders time, he steals from God, from others to whom he owes a better witness, and he robs himself of precious time and opportunities he can never redeem. How is it with your life’s time card? When God asks you about this day, and He surely will, where will it appear, on the credit or debit side of the eternal page? May God grant us the strength to “Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time” (Colossians 4:5), for “It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful” (I Corinthians 4:2). God’s all sufficient grace has supplied the believer with every means necessary to enhance his life, and all these means come to us in the vehicle called time. Let us pray for Divine enablement so as to guide our particular vehicle in being about our heavenly Father’s business.

A Quote To Think About By Thomas Watson: A godly man dare not travel for riches, along the devil's highway. Those are sad gains, which make a man lose heaven at last! "What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?" Mat. 16:26