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 December 21, 2014 Newsletter Number 496 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, Claire’s friend, 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: The Future Religion Of The Earth. It is sufficient to say that Christianity is dying in American and the world. Islam is making leaps and a bounds jump as Christianity is being destroyed and dying right before our eyes. If Islam ever takes a good hold in America then the world will also fall. It seems to me that Islam is the devils religion of the future. People in America are fighting Christianity like they want it defected. Some of the liberal side of politics and some of our educators are following suite. If you listen to the news it seems that Islam is being accepted as the accepted religion. Some of our children are being brainwashed in schools and mostly in our higher education institutions. A Lot of the professors in the universities and collages are vastly liberal and haters of anything or anyone unlike them. They have no tolerance for other opinions outside of their own. I believe America is heading for an Islam take over in future years and without bloodshed. Our southern boarders are wide open and everyone is welcome to come as you please. Islam is about rule and it will be easer for the False Prophet to rule the world if he can control America. I have said before I believe Islam will be the world religion of the anti-christ because it is a take control religion. Americans who support Islam have no idea what they are supporting; women are treated as second hand trash and are worthless in the big scheme of things. You have no right to support anything outside of their religion. There is one rule with Islam agree with us or die! Christians and our Baptist brethren have been through this in what is called the “dark ages” from about the mid 500’s to the mid 1700’s where about 50 million Baptist and other believers were murdered and most of them in most brutal fashion by people like unto Islam. These people like to behead those that disagree with them; when back in the dark ages they used to roll them in lard and throw them alive to the wild animals. Folks the days of the Christian in this world are numbered and Jesus is going to return and it absolutely cannot be far off. I know it will be a blessed day for some Liberals and world religions when Christians are gone, however it will be a more blessed time for us when we are gone. This world is becoming intolerable for Christians and churches. The Lord said Satan controls this world system and one day his people and his religion will also control it. I don’t know how far the Lord will allow us Christians to suffer before He returns, but He has allowed many believers to die before for His glory and He may allow it again before He returns. I ask all believers everywhere to join me in prayer that Jesus will return soon before it gets too bad for Christians. Please remember this promise from our Lord, “For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.” Psalms 37:28

A Thought For The Week: The Lord’s Preacher The Lord’s preachers are human (believe it or not) just as much as any of us. They come from all areas and levels of society, but mostly from homes poor in material wealth. They come in all sizes - tall, short, fat, skinny, and in between. But they are all of the male sex. Most people do not care whether they exist or not; that is, until they get in trouble. Then they ask, “Where is that preacher, what’s his name?” Then the first question they ask the preacher is, “Why in the world did God let this happen to me?” But, in fact, God’s preachers are not hard to find, for they are constantly being told by a great many people, “You get in my hair, preacher”, or, “You get under my skin”, and that is about as close as you can get to a person. The Lord’s preachers are required to have the wisdom of Solomon; the disposition of a lamb; the swiftness of an eagle. But when he makes a mistake, he is called an ignoramus. If he unapologetically preaches the truth of God’s word, he is accused of being hard-hearted, or inconsiderate. And if he is not promptly at the scene of every church related emergency, some of the members will say, “He is lazy”. In the eyes of a great many people, the Lord’s preacher is a bogey-man who spends most of his time talking about the place “down there”. While the great majority of secular employees get paid vacations, holidays, and a host of other job benefits, and rightly so, the Lord’s preacher is on call twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, and his job benefits, other than the meager salary, are few or none. He has no pastor, nor labor union to take his grievance to. Each church member knows, or should know that God’s preacher has but one mission in life, and that is to reprove sin, first in himself, and then in whomsoever it is seen. He is considered a dedicated man, but, he should keep quiet about the “little sins”, “immodest dress”, or “colored jesting”, and, oh yes, why does he criticize other churches? If God’s preacher drives a big car, he is materially minded. If he drives a little car, he is not concerned in bringing people to church. He is expected to be the first and the last person at the church building, no matter what kind of car he drives. He must be at all times ready to meet the public, and represent the church. If his old faithful suit begins to show wear from the many drops of pulpit sweat, he is undignified. Yet, some members keep telling him, “Don’t you forget, we are giving you your living”. No matter how sour the grapes, he must ever be an extrovert, which is sometimes most difficult. But, faith in God has made an unceasing optimist of him and he knows the rain which comes into his life falls from the cloud of God’s merciful and beneficent providence which abides upon him. Soldiers get medals for bravery. Industry gives promotions and certificates of merit for jobs well done. Lodges bestow accolades upon their worthies. The entertainment world has their outstanding artists whom they award with trophies. But none can compare with the reward that the Lord’s preacher will receive when he faces his God and hears Him say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”. The Lord’s preacher knows that in order to become President of the United States, he would have to take a big demotion. The Lord’s preacher may, in old age retire from the pastorate, but he will never cease to preach, for there is no discharge from that high and lofty calling. “This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.” (I Timothy 3:1) No matter the heartaches connected with a God given ministry, there is no better, or a more soul edifying work. By Elder Oscar B. Mink, now with the Lord and this churches former Pastor

Quotes for Your Week: “This would be the first step in apostasy; men first forget the true, and then adore the false.” –C. Spurgeon