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 September 13, 2015 Newsletter Number 533 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, Trace Wilson, Ted O'Bonion, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Poole, Danny & Nita Mollette, The Muncy Family, Beverly Lillo, Wendell Henderson, 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, Brandy Sullivan, 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 From Our Pastor: Because You Believe Not!John 10:26 "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you." It is widely wondered by many Christians why there are so many who reject God, Christ, and God's word, and there is a logical reason for it, they are not of God. Those who have not had their hearts pricked by the Holy Spirit and have not trusted Christ as their Saviour cannot understand and will always reject Christ and his words. Remember when Jesus came into the world by birth and many seek to kill him? Remember when he was born a Jew and the Jewish nation rejected him? John 1:11 "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." Jesus said "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep..." that is they know not Christ Jesus as Saviour. People just assume they can believe and understand but that is not true. Man by nature is blinded by Satan and the fall of Adam and therefore by nature are separated from God. They will not on their own seek him nor will they hear him. God said in Romans 3:11 "There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God." That means that on their own man is most happy separated from God. They truly have no use for Him and if one hears what God says or does what He says then He and His followers are demonized as crazies, demons, or mad men. Just as Christ Jesus was many times.

A Thought From A Former Pastor: How To Be A Soul Winner. (Part 3 of 3)The Soul Winner Needs Divine Authority For His Witnessing John the Baptist was vested with soul winning authority from God, “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe” (John 1:6-7). Christ’s mission to this earth had Heaven’s official stamp on it, for He says no less than thirty times in John’s Gospel that He was sent by the Father. Prior to His crucifixion, Christ organized His church, and after His resurrection He came to His church, and said, “… All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. A-men” (Matthew 28:18-20). John the Baptist was the last individual with direct authority from heaven to win souls. That responsibility and authority now rests with the church. It was to the church Christ said, “… Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). It was to the church Christ said, “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit …” (John 15:16). Christ spoke from the mount of ascension and said to the church, “But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8). It was to the church that Christ said, “I am the vine, yeare the branches …” (John 15:5). The vine brings forth the branches, and the branches bring forth the fruit. “Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall” (Genesis 49:22). Joseph was a fruitful bough whose branches ran over the wall, yea, they ran all the way to Canaan, and unto the 20th century. Israel is with us today, and will be with us in eternity. Jesus, the Anti-type of Joseph, is a fruitful bough, or vine, whose branches (churches) have gone over the walls of Judaism, and have turned millions to righteousness in all parts of the earth. Israel was God’s executive body in the world for 1500 years, and when Naaman, the Syrian’s time of salvation came around on God’s calendar of decrees, a little Israelitish maiden initiated the witness, a mere household servant whom God’s kind providence had placed in the great estate of Naaman (II Kings 5). When the time came around for God to save an impoverished Sidonian widow who was also a Gentile, He sent the great prophet Elijah to witness to her (I Kings 17). God used Israel as His official witness for 1500 years, and since Israel’s blindness, the church has been God’s “pillar and ground of the truth.” When the Ethiopian Eunich’s day of grace came around, God sent Philip, a Deacon, from the First Baptist Church of Jerusalem to preach Jesus to him. Peter was a charter member in the church at Jerusalem, and when Cornelius needed spiritual help God told him to send for Peter (Acts 10:5). When God gets ready to save the suicide bent Phillipian jailer, he sends two missionaries from the First Baptist Church of Antioch to witness to him (Acts 13:1-4, 16:27-32). And when God’s time comes to open the heart of a Lydia, a Priscilla, a Lois, or an Eunice, the witness of the church will be brought to bear. In the Divine economy there has never been room for free lance witnessing, and there shall never be. All authority for every Christian enterprise is vested in the Lord’s church. It is my firm conviction that every saved person of this age will, in glory, be able to trace their salvation to a direct or indirect work of one of the Lord’s churches. Before the reader starts leading my name with epithets for making that last statement, I want him to first consider, that every writer of the New Testament was a member of one of the Lord’s churches, that God uses His word in calling out the elect, and that “Unto God be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen” (Ephesians 3:21). By Elder O. B. Mink from his article " How To Be A Soul Winner." the full article can be read online at: http://pbcofdecaturalabama.org/OBMink/soulwinr.htm

Church News: Please remember our 12th Annual Bible Conference is next weekend September 18 - 19 Friday night from 6:00 - 8:00 with Jakes BBQ after and Saturday from 9:00 - 4:00 with lunch at Golden Coral.