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 July 12, 2015 Newsletter Number 524 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, Sister Corene Thomas, 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 Former Pastor: What Is True Freedom! "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 2 Corinthians 3:17 “... As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). Ungodly men make a mockery of the Biblical account of our first parents’ sin. They sneer, and ask, “How could it be, that God would condemn man for the mere eating of an apple?” Adam’s sin was a capital crime, not a mere misdemeanor. God says to vain man, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways ...” (Isaiah 55:8). With God a person does not have to steal a thousand dollars in order to be a thief, the unlawful taking of anything, regardless of its value makes one a thief in God’s sight. With God it is not, “The soul that commits adultery, murder, theft, etc. shall die”, but “the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Let us note something of the magnitude of Adam’s sin, and we may better understand why God said to him, “... In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:17). 1. Adam’s sin was disobedience to His Creator, and rebellion against His authority. 2. Adam’s sin constituted a breach of the whole moral law, the law of works under which our first parents were placed (James 2:10). 3. There was unbelief on Eve’s part, which amounts to calling God a liar. Eve’s confidence was transferred from God to a malignant spirit, which is the ultimate insult to God. While Adam was not deceived in the transgression (I Timothy 2:14), Eve was the object of his supreme affection, and that constitutes idolatry. 4. There was discontentment with God, and ingratitude for His unspeakable blessings. There was pride and a desire for elevation by unlawful means. There was self-will, which is insubordination to God. There was alienation of heart, brought on by listening to the slandering of God by the serpent. 5. Their sin was intensively compounded by the smallness of the temptation, thus it was stamped with the darkest hue. 6. Their sin was greatly aggravated due to the sinless nature which they possessed. There was no dark and impenetrable shroud upon their understanding, and they had the powers to master the appetite. Moreover, they were surrounded with all the help necessary to defeat the devil himself, but Adam chose fellowship with a sinful woman rather than God. It is humanly impossible to paint the Adamic sin too black, nay, man cannot with his verbal brush paint it as black as it is, much less too black. Adam, through his sin fell into the hands of the living and sin avenging God, the holy wrath of God was kindled against him, and spiritual death immediately ensued and at that point Adam began his sorrowful journey back to the dust from whence he had come. All the sons of Adam, without a single exception, are born in sin (Romans 3:23), and are, the very moment of their arrival in time, the objects of God’s holy just and active wrath. This wrath is not as a waterless cloud which the gentle winds soon removes from their heads, but is “abiding” wrath, perpetual, and becoming more intense with their every sin. They unconsciously treasurest up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath. (John 3:3 &6; Romans 2:5). Our God is a consuming fire and His burning wrath against sin has not over the long centuries of time from Eden’s blight until now cooled down one single degree, to which ascertation the doubly burned and burning Sodomites would hurriedly and will one day attest to. Elder Oscar Mink

A Thought From Another Former Pastor: Jesus Only In Second Coming Promises of the second coming of Christ abound throughout the Scriptures. Reference to this great event are about 2,000 in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, there are 318 such references, which averages once in 25 verses. The books of Galatians and Philippians are the only exceptions to these references. Every chapter of I Thessalonians ends with this promise. The Revelation of Jesus Christ is a prophecy concerning this next, great and stupendous event. Man has many problems in the world, and politics and government provide no final answer. Society provides no answer. Education provides no answer. Philosophy provides no answer. Atheism provides no answer. Modernism provides no answer. Humanism provides no answer. Do-goodism provides no answer. Man's religion provides no answer. Man's vain imaginations have led him to build again a "Tower of Babel". A world church is desired by depraved men to counter world atheism. This may be a noble motive, but all it is, is religion without Christ. It is union without unity. Clouds of despair hover with deepening darkness over man. Men's hearts fail them for fear and uncertainty. Because of sin, man gropes in the gloom and dread of the unknown, trying desperately to set himself upon the right course, to no success. One failure passes on to the next failure, and there is no answer to be found among men. In Jesus only, the believer finds the Blessed Hope and assurance of that day when the second coming, with all its attendant circumstances, both blessing and judgments will be brought to fruition. "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28). "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed." (Luke 17:28-30). "But ye brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." (I Thessalonians 5:4-6). But when He is come, world government will be in His Omnipotent and Omniscient hand. Peace will rule universally over all the earth, over all men. Harmony of all things will exist and discord will not be a factor, nor will it be allowed. Unity among all the King's subjects will be evident; and Righteousness will reign, with justice prevailing in all things. And after these things, there shall be no more death. There shall be no more tears. There shall be no more distresses. There shall be no more wars. There shall be no more sin. The only sight we'll behold is Jesus only, God, and the express image of God. Dear one, always rejoice, for Jesus only saves sinners. Jesus only will never fail us. And Jesus only will welcome us home, to the Father's house, there to eternally eat at the King's table, as the King's sons. By Elder Doyal Thomas, written for The Baptist Herald - April, 1991