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 April 19, 2015 Newsletter Number 512 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, Doris Hammock, 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 Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jerry Hughes, 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, Rick and Margaret McCoy, Gene Rosinbaum, James, Diane & Brooke Thomas, Gina Peel, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, Megan Whitaker, Tammy Hairston and family, 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 Thought From Our Pastor:: The Fruits Of The Spirit.“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (23.) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Galatians 5:22– 23 I love these scriptures, I love them so much I have used them almost certainly hundreds of times in my sermons over the last eleven years I have been pastor of this church. These are the fruits of the Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit of God. When we think of fruit we think of a tree or a vine that produces fruit and we pluck the fruits and eat them. An apple tree produces apples and almost all of us love apples. A grapevine will produce grapes and there are so many wonderful things we can do with good grapes. We will not find either one of these (the apple tree or the grapevine) producing oranges or strawberries because that would be against their nature. God had just listed several things (evil things) that the lost person produces, idolatry, hatred, variance, envyings, murders, drunkenness, etc. etc. and etc. God said in verse 19 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest…” this is the lost persons works because it is all they know. It would be as rare for them to do different and produce good works as it would be for an apple tree to produce oranges. The lost person has no good in them, because the Lord said of them "...There is none righteous, no, not one:” Romans 3:10 this is why God will not accept any of their works no matter what. However, with this being said the saved person is different and they can produce good fruits acceptable to God. Now what is the difference between the lost person and the saved person? It is the Holy Spirit; one is not saved until that person has the Holy Spirit in their heart. No matter what a person does they are not saved until the Holy Spirit has brought a change to them. What changes, first He quickens the spirit of the person who is lost. Ephesians 2:1 Second, He delivers faith, not just any faith but saving faith enabling the person to believe on Christ, third He opens the spiritual ears and eyes of the person so that for the first time they can see and hear the gospel, and fourth He leads them to salvation in Christ Jesus. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." Romans 8:14 The fleshly man, the natural man, the man that the Holy Spirit has not led and caused to hear and see will never turn from their natural lost state, no matter what. Here is a very blessed fact, as many as He (the Holy Spirit) leads, He looses none, and all are saved. While the Holy Spirit is making all these changes in the person being saved, He is also producing more fruits in that person like love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance and etc. etc. etc. These are not fruits the person produced before salvation because they are fruits of God. That’s right God has a seed in you (the Holy Spirit) that produces good and acceptable fruits because He cannot produce bad fruits no more than a grapevine can produce strawberries. After a person is saved then any bad fruits produced are done so by the old natural man, which we still have. This is why the lost person cannot have good fruit and the saved person will never produce bad fruits if they lean on their godly side. Let us all work hard to lean on the fruits of the Spirit and not our own natural fruits. If you are saved then you have them, their there, just search for them. Remember Paul told young preacher Timothy "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. (12.) Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." 1 Timothy 6:11 - 12

A Though For Your Bible Study: The Need and Blessing of Church Attendance “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32 Look around you, first in your own family, then among your friends and neighbors, and see whether there is not someone you can show kindness to — someone . . . whose little burden you can lighten, whose little cares you may lessen, whose little pleasures you can promote, whose little wants and wishes you can gratify. Cheerfully giving up our own pleasures to minister to others, is one of the little kindnesses and self-denials of Christian living. Doing little things that nobody likes to do, but which must be done by someone, is another. It may seem to many, that if they avoid little unkindnesses, they must necessarily be doing all that is required. But it is not enough to abstain from sharp words, sneering tones, petty contradictions, or daily little irritations. We must be active and earnest in kindness — not merely passive and inoffensive. "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." Colossians 3:12, 14 By Henrietta Wilson, "Little things" 1852

Church News: Happy Birthday Sister Martha Mollette Sunday April 19th Brother Dan and Sister Sunny Sullivan Missionary to Thailand will be here on Wednesday April 29 at 6:00pm. Please plan to be here and meet the Sullivan’s. Brother Dan will be speaking for the service. Don’t forget we are planning a work day for the church building please get with Sister Dawana Reigel for details and suggestions. Our Twelfth Annul Bible Conference will be held on Friday September 18 and Saturday September 19. The church will start planning it very soon please have it on your mind.

Ephesians 4:12 – 13 "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: (13.) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:"