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 26, 2015 Newsletter Number 526 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 Pastor: Abortion Is Still Murder! "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Jeremiah 1:5 I was sickened this last week when a 2nd video was shown, showing the sickening thinking on abortion. I am still amazed at the amount of American people who still support this inhumane act of hate for the child in the womb. They refuse to call the child a child because then it becomes an inhumane act and God forbid people call it what it is which is murder. These same cruel people will defend a murder, and at the same time murder the unborn, doesn’t this so much remind us of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This is where we saw a murderer go free while an innocent man died at mans hands. The most horrible thing about abortion outside of the unborn children being torn apart or crushed to death is that our tax monies goes to pay for these inhumane acts of murder. And, the conclusion is because of a bunch of weak and sold out politicians our tax money goes to pay for this act of murder. The only comfort I get from it all is, I know Gods will is always done in the world. People, even unborn children have and will greatly suffer for Satan and those who serve his will of hate  and murder, which is what he is. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44 The lust of abortion are those lusting to do their fathers will. People who do abortions are sick people in their minds; they are people of hate who wear people of love clothing. But God knows their hearts and what He knows is that they are doomed for eternal hell. God will not in their own death spare them any grace or mercy. As for us Christians, we are not to avenge them. We are also not to hate them, nor are we to harm them in any way. As Christians we are to pray for them, because their life after this one will be avenged by God unless He saves their inhumane and murderous souls. "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." Romans 12:19 The Lord told us to “give place unto wrath”. The reason we give place to it is because God will avenge them, and trust me He will do it more hurtful than we can, because He can destroy their soul and spirit in eternal hell fire. As horrible as the folks involved in abortion are, as devilish like as it is, as bad of taste as it leaves in the Christians mouth is, we are not to avenge it. In fact we are ordered to live peaceably among them. "Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men...If it be possible, as much as lieth in you,  live peaceably with all men." Romans 12:17 – 18 I know as a Pastor that it is hard to do when we see the likeness of it explained, but we must. Pray for them that God will save them; as He did Saul of Tarsus who we know as the Apostle Paul and can these folks also. Believe me, them knowing you are praying for their salvation is as sickening to them as their acts of murder is to us. Please allow me this conclusion, any woman considering an abortion, please study about it first, and please understand it is an act of murder to kill an innocent life. Also, remember the abortionist are crushing or tearing apart your unborn child for profit on body parts. It may be a choice for you, however for your baby it is not, please defend the unborn. "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." Deuteronomy 30:19 - 20

A Thought For Your Week: : “They shall never perish.”“ And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” John 10:28 The fact that our standing before God is not based upon what we deserve is stated clearly in Holy Scripture. In Romans 5:8-10 we read, “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” Paul’s Argument Paul’s argument is this: Since God saved us and gave us spiritual life in Christ by his sovereign grace “when we were enemies,” he will surely keep us in salvation by that same sovereign grace. He who has done the greater will surely do the lesser. In Hebrews Paul assures us that it is impossible for one of God’s elect to be lost, because Christ is both “the Author and the Finisher of our faith.” The whole of our salvation is divinely purposed and divinely guided. Our salvation is not according to our merits in its commencement, in its continuance, or in its consummation. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” Divine Immutability The sovereign love and unmerited grace of God is the cause of our salvation. Since his love and grace is unchangeable, the effect of it must be unchangeable. That is to say, God constantly communicates his love and grace to every believer. Once his love is revealed and his grace bestowed upon the heart, he never takes it away: “for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” God was not moved to bestow his grace upon us by anything which he saw meritorious or attractive in us. And the absence of everything good in us will not cause God to withdraw the grace he has bestowed. When he first bestowed grace upon us, the Lord God knew that we were totally depraved and sinful. He knew that we were full of evil and void of good. And though, since our conversion, we have all been guilty of ingratitude, unfaithfulness, and sin of every kind, these things do not provoke the Lord our God to change his mind and withdraw his sustaining grace. He knew what we would be before he saved us. He chastens us because of our sin, like the loving Father he is; but he never withdraws his love. If he had not intended, from the beginning, to bear with our sin in longsuffering and patience and to forgive our sin for Christ’s sake, he would never have saved us and called us in the first place. The cause of our salvation is entirely in God. His electing love, redeeming grace and power were given to us by an act of his sovereign goodness, without any consideration of what we were or might become. There was nothing in us to attract his grace. And there is nothing in any true believer’s heart or conduct which can ever cause the Lord our God to alter his purpose of grace and withdraw his love from us. By Don Fortner