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 June 21, 2015 Newsletter Number 521 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, Mark 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, James, Diane & Brooke Thomas, Trent and Tiffanie Thomas, Gina Peel, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, Megan Whitaker, Tammy Hairston and family, Manual Seymour, Sr., Brother Jerry and Sister Jean Dodson, James Hedges, Jude Birch, 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.

Church News: Happy Fathers Day to our Dads today!! Happy Birthday to Brother Larry Mollette Tuesday June 23rd Happy Birthday to our Pastor Brother Randy Johnson Saturday June 27th

A Thought From Our Pastor: Evil; Fears Not The Lord. Psalms 33:8 "Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him." God demands that all the earth fear Him, but right now there is little fear of God in the earth. President Ronald Reagan once said "Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure." As time has shown our former President was so correct. We wonder why there is so much evil in America; it is because there is no fear of God. America has cast God out and now our nation is degenerating each and everyday. Our nation cannot figure it out, they think it’s because we don’t have enough Government but the real reason is we don’t have enough God. America does not fear God; in fact Americans don’t fear much of anything. We just had a 21 year old thug to shoot-up a harmless church and now some are attempting to figure out why, but the only answers they come up with is ignorance. People need to be re-educated in the bible and learn once again about God. The reason our children and young adults are killing like wild animals is because they are raised that way. President Reagan said without God our nation will fall to ruin, and it has. Schools have failed, parents have failed, society has failed, and yes places of worship called churches have failed. All have failed because there is no teaching about fearing God, about following the scriptures, about the chastening of God. If children are raised without discipline they will become animals and not civilized human beings. Our teachers teach indoctrination instead of education and curse God instead of teaching that we ought to be in awe of Him. Look at our Nation; we murder the unborn, we are going to allow gay marriage, we are going to criminalize ministers who refuse to marry gays, our children have no clue of reality and all sorts of information and the broadcasters of it are brainwashing instead of reporting. We are more concerned in fiction like climate change than we are about the radical religions taking over the world. America fears Allah more than they do Jehovah God who created everything in existence. Here some 25 years later we find the words of our former President to be absolutely true, without God our nation will fall. Fearing God is to stand in awe of Him, what He has created, but also what kind of judgment He can and will deliver to a lost, and ignorant world. If people really understood God they would repent and follow His statutes. But they do not, now look and see what we have in America, nothing but evil and ruin. Parents are not blameless; in fact they are the most to blame. They refuse to take their children to church; they refuse to teach them about God and His laws. I find it most shameful when children grow-up watching their parents fighting at pee-wee ballgames as though they were the World Series or Super Bowl. Churches are to blame because they refuse to teach about a Sovereign God who actually does chastise and punish. Pastors are afraid to teach about the punishment of God. Their failure to teach the reality of the scriptures is plentiful because they are afraid of people leaving, more than they fear God. This is why our children have no respect and are killing. One day we will all learn just who Jehovah God truly is; "For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29 Please pray for those church members killed in South Carolina. Pray for America we all most certainly need it.

A Though For Your Bible Study: "Ye Cannot Serve The Lord, For..."Joshua 24:19 "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins." The nature of God is such that it is utterly impossible for him to be served by fallen, depraved men. This is exactly what Joshua declares: "Ye cannot serve the Lord, for...". Then he gives us three reasons why men cannot serve the Lord. l. “He is an holy God." A holy God demands perfectly holy obedience. He cannot and will not accept anything less than absolute perfection. The men of Bethshemesh found out that sincerity, fear, costly-sacrifice and earnestness could never be accepted of "an holy God", after 50,000 were slain for their attempted service to him (I Sam. 6:19-21). Only perfectly holy men can serve the perfectly holy God (Psa. 24:3-4). 2. "He is a jealous God." God is jealous of his honor, his glory and his worship. That simply means, God will not tolerate any rival to himself. All graven images (visible and imaginary), like Dagon, will be broken to pieces before him. He will not tolerate any idol to be worshipped in his place or along with him. And he will not tolerate the idol of man's righteousness, service and works to be set up in place of or alongside the righteousness, service and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who would serve God must denounce both the false gods of their fathers (Josh. 24:23) and their own righteousness (Rom. 10:1-4). 3. "He will not forgive your transgressions, nor your sins." The just and holy God cannot be served by sinful creatures such as we are. The only thing God can do with sin is punish it. And punish it he will. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die!" The only way a fallen sinner can serve God is if he can both suffer the full penalty of the law and fulfill all the demands of the law. And, blessed be God, he has made it possible, by the substitutionary obedience and sacrifice of Christ in the place of sinners (Rom. 3:24-26). In his life of obedience, Christ perfectly served God as a man, establishing perfect righteousness, and in his death he removed the sins of all his people, satisfying the justice of God by his atoning sacrifice. Trust Christ, and by faith in him, you will be forever pleasing in the sight of God and accepted as his servant and his son (Heb. 11:6; Eph. 1:6). By Don Fortner

Don’t Forget Our Bible Conference will be held Friday night and Saturday September 18 – 19. We have five confirmed speakers this year. Pastor Ronnie Miller, Pastor David O'Neal, Pastor Larry Wilson, Pastor Jerry Dodson, and Pastor Jimmy Nelson. All are welcome to come and share this blessed day with us.