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 August 09, 2015 Newsletter Number 528 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, Beverly Lillo, 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, Dewayne Sewell, 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 For A Blessing: Peculiar People Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a PECULIAR PEOPLE, zealous of good works. Titus 2:14 The Holy Spirit declares that God’s elect, once they are called and converted by his sovereign grace, are made to be a 'peculiar people'. The word “peculiar” (v. 14) means “distinctively excellent, valuable, and honorable.” We are Christ’s portion, the lot of his inheritance, the jewels of his crown, his fullness (Eph. 1:23), his peculiar people. Grace has distinguished God’s elect from all others- They are a people loved by God with a peculiar love (Jer. 31:3), with a love which he does not have for the rest of Adam’s race. Let men talk all they wish about “universal benevolence,” “universal grace,” and “universal love,” -the Word of God declares plainly that God’s love for his own people is a peculiar, distinct love (Isa. 43:3-4; Rom. 9:13). It is the distinctiveness of God’s love for us, who deserve his wrath as fully as Satan himself, which forms the great motive for our consecration to our God and his glory (Rom. 12:1-2). We are the objects of God’s peculiar delight-The Lord God has made us “accepted in the Beloved.” Being accepted in Christ, because of Christ, and for Christ’s sake, washed in his blood and robed in his righteousness, we are a people with whom God is well pleased, even delighted (Zeph. 3:17). Being the objects of his love, chosen to eternal salvation and accepted in Christ, every believer has been blessed with all the peculiar blessings of God’s free, covenant grace from eternity (Eph. 1:3-4), and supplied with all the provisions of the Father’s house day by day and forever. Every believer has been SEPARATED from the world by peculiar grace-Electing grace (2 Thess. 2:13-14), redeeming grace (1 Cor. 6:19-20), regenerating grace (Isa. 43:1-5), preserving grace (1 Pet. 1:5), and providential grace (Rom. 8:28-30), are the things which make us to differ from the rest of the world. The distinction is not the work of our will or of our obedience. It is the work of God’s grace alone. "Zealous of Good Works" Yet, Christ’s peculiar people are made by the grace of God to be zealous of good works. God the Father ordained that we should walk in good works (Eph. 2:10). God the Son redeemed us that we should walk in good works. And God the Holy Spirit effectually teaches every chosen, ransomed sinner to be zealous of good works. By: Don Fortner

A Thought For Your Week: : The Never-Failing Friend Experience of the love, tenderness, and faithfulness of our Lord Jesus Christ will weld our hearts to him. The very THOUGHT of the love of Jesus towards us is enough to inflame our holy passions, but the EXPERIENCING of his love heats the furnace seven times hotter. He has been with us in our TRIALS, cheering and consoling us, sympathizing with every groan, and regarding every tear with affectionate compassion. Do we not love him for this? He has befriended us in every TIME OF NEED, so bounteously supplying all our neediness out of the riches of his fullness, that he has not allowed us to lack any good thing. Shall we be unmindful of such unwearying care? He has helped us in every DIFFICULTY, furnishing us with strength equal to our day; he has leveled the mountains before us, and filled up the valleys; he has made rough places plain, and crooked things straight. Do we not love him for this also? In all our DOUBTS he has directed us in the path of wisdom, and led us in the way of knowledge. He has not allowed us to wander; he has led us by a right way through the pathless wilderness. Shall we not praise him for his. He has repelled our ENEMIES, covered our heads in the day of battle, broken the teeth of the oppressor, and made us more than conquerors. Can We Forget Such Mighty Grace? Are we not constrained to call upon all that is within us to bless his holy name? Not one promise of his has been broken, but all have come to pass. In no single instance has he failed us; he has never been unkind, unmindful, or unwise. The harshest strokes of his providence have been as full of love as the softest embraces of his condescending fellowship. We cannot, we dare not find fault with him. He has done all things well. His love toward his people is perfect, and the consideration of his love is sweet to contemplation; the very remembrance of it is like ointment poured forth, and the present enjoyment of it, the experience of it at the present moment, is beyond all things delightful! At home or abroad, on the land or the sea, in health or sickness, in poverty or wealth, JESUS, THE NEVER-FAILING FRIEND, affords us tokens of his grace, and binds our hearts to him in the bonds of constraining gratitude. If we were we not dull scholars, we would, in the experience of a single day, discover a thousand reasons for loving our Redeemer. By Charles Spurgeon's from his sermon, "Love's Logic"

John 1:2,3 "The same was in the beginning with God...All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."