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 November 30, 2014 Newsletter Number 493 Brother Randy Johnson, Pastor Brother Ronnie Henderson, Song Director Pastor E-Mail: pastor@sgmbaptist.com Web Site: www.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, Johnnie Stephens, Alecia Stephens, and children, Frankie Baldridge and daughter, Buckie Thompson, Frank & Sonya Trusty, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Larry & Martha Mollette and Her Family, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Poole, Danny & Nita Mollette, The Muncy Family, 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, 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, James and Lynn Tomlin, Pat Abercrombie, Donna Jones, Dale Trahan, Ricky and Margaret McCoy, Brother David O’Neal, James, Diane & Brooke Thomas, Gina Peel, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, Melissa Elliott, Megan Whitaker, Manual Seymour, Sr., Brother Jerry and Sister Jean Dodson, Mr. Hedges, Danny Hammond, 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 Though From Your Pastor: Jesus has not changed! Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” We all know that Jesus Christ is God; unless we delete the entire bible we must believe that the man Christ Jesus is God. However, with that being said we must also remember that Jesus Christ was and is a man; His status did not change after His death, burial, and resurrection. Mark 14:62 “And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.” The word “Power” should be capitalized because it refers to God. That is where the Son of man sits today still in His glorified body. But He is still God even though He is still a man in a glorified human body. Remember the angels told the men of Galilee in Acts 1:11 “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Meaning everything about Him would be the same even though it has been more than two-thousand since His death and resurrection. Jesus Christ has not changed in any way. “this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven” the very same one. Some people (whether Christians or not) want to believe that since sentiment among the people on earth, and/or some religion groups, and/or even some Christians wants Jesus to have changed over time that somehow things He and others in the bible taught are no longer valid but they are most definitely wrong. Nothing has changed with God. People have changed, churches have changed, the world has changed, but Jesus Christ and His word have not changed and never will. Whatever was wrong or right two-thousand years ago is still wrong or right today. The United States government has the right to change our laws but no authority to change Gods. Even if the world was to agree on change it would not change Gods thinking or ways. God does not seek mans counsel or advise on how to run the world. So next time people say that what you say or think is old school just thank them because the thinking and ways of God are old school. Do you really think that church services today are anything like what they had in the first churches? The people standing up waving their arms, singing rock and roll? I don’t hardly think so. There were not gay churches, cowboy churches, motorcycle churches, or etc, etc, etc,. The church assembled, prayed, sang bible songs, and taught the truth, none of this stuff you see in churches today. They did not seek to please man but rather God. No, Christ Jesus has not changed, He is the same and so is His thinking and ways. The only change has been man who has changed the truth of God into a lie to satisfy the lost among them. Jesus warned the churches in Revelation 2:5 “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” Folks, be careful in trying new things when it comes to Jesus Christ and the churches because not everyone who claims to be of His are. False prophets are everywhere starting places of worship calling them churches that are not even close to being what a church is. The word and the truth of the word have not changed because it is Gods word. God is not concerned with the world and what it takes to get them to church, He builds the churches and if He wanted them in church He would put them in church.

A Thought For The Week: Perfect Peace "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee" Isa. 26:3 What is signified by a mind "stayed on" the Lord? At least three things. First, to make the Lord the Portion of my soul. All around us are those vainly seeking contentment in things: such as money, and what it can buy, social prestige, fame, pleasures, etc.—all of which are broken cisterns which hold no water. Only the One who made us can satisfy the heart; only as our affection is set upon "things above" do we drink of the Fountain of living waters. Just in proportion as "Delight thyself also in the LORD" (Psa. 37:4) will "perfect peace" be mine now. Second, to receive from God's hand whatsoever enters my life. I need to cultivate the habit of looking beyond all secondary causes, all intermediary agents and human instruments, recognising that "of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are ALL things" (Rom. 11:36). "Cease ye from man" (Isa. 2:22); conclude no more it is Satan who is seeking to disturb your rest; but say, "The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it!" (John 18:11). Just in proportion as we are enabled to say from the heart "It is the LORD: let Him do what seemeth Him good" (1 Sam. 3:18) will "perfect peace" be ours in this world of sin and turmoil. Third, to leave the future entirely with God. And why not? Are not my "times" in His hand (Psa. 31:15)? Has He not graciously cared for me and faithfully supplied my every need hitherto? Then why be fearful of what lies ahead? Has He not promised never to leave nor forsake me! Just in proportion as I live a day at a time, and "Take therefore no anxious thought for the morrow" (Matt. 6:34) will "perfect peace" be mine even now. But each of these three things is dependent upon the exercise of FAITH; as the text says "because he trusteth in Thee." O to know more of this experimentally. By A. W. Pink

Quote For The Week: “If I see aright, the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the bosom of a self-assured and carnal Christianity. The old cross slew men, the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.” “Let God be true but every man a liar is the language of true faith.” By A. W. Tozer