Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church "Where The Truths Of God’s Word Have Been Taught For More Than Fifty-Five Years” 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 June 11, 2017            Newsletter Number 623 Brother Randy Johnson, Pastor                   Brother Ronnie Henderson Sr., Song Leader Pastor E-Mail: pastor@sgmbaptist.com                                          Web Site: www.sgmbaptist.com “A Church Seeking To Please God In Prayer, Song, Preaching, And Worship.”

Please Join Us As We Pray For: 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, Tyrell Loyd, Bonnie, Ted O'Bonion, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Adcock, Kim Poole, Danny & Nita Mollette, The Muncy Family, Lee & Mary Mollette, 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, Vickie Adkins, Archie & Barbara Griffin, Donna Johnson, James and Luann Reynolds, Timothy Fails, Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jerry Hughes, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Linda Hughes, Donna Jones, Brandy Sullivan, Gina, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, Manual Seymour, Sr, The Harris Family, The Morris Family, Teresa Bookout, Little Titan Thomas (Trent and Tiffane Thomas child), James – Diane and Brooke Thomas, Jace Fails, Steve Sparks, Sister Ann McSwain, Brother Archie and Barbra Griffin, Brandy’s Mother, Elaine Sparks, James daughter’s mother-in-law, Rick McCloskey’s brother, David Leman, Danny Hammond,  Brother Curtis Pugh, Brother Dan Sullivan the work in Thailand, Brother Raul and the work in Romania, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

A Thought From our Pastor: It Is A Lie To Deny Jesus Christ His Dew Glory!“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22 When I hear so many people in this nation deny the Lord Jesus Christ and His due glory it makes me sick. God before the foundation of the world had chosen His Dear Beloved Son to come to this world to give His life as an atonement for the sins of many. God did not send His Beloved Son to die a miserable death as a partial substitute. Because the Son came to this world to redeem a remnant of the lost sinners. I must sit and scratch my head when I hear some people speak of Jesus Christ as a “partial substitute”, so does He get only partial glory for salvation? Let me tell you an absolute truth from God’s word, “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 that does not seem to be a partial Saviour that can only deliver a half-way salvation. If Jesus Christ is going to “redeem us from all iniquity” then what is left to be redeemed. What is it that educated people cannot understand about the word “all”. People must understand to deny Jesus Christ His due glory is to deny Him altogether. God said of Jesus Christ, “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:” Philippians 2:9 God is not talking about the name of Jesus, other people had that same name, He is talking about His name as “Redeemer, Saviour, and The Christ. Only the Son of God can have these names and many more like them. These are the name that God The Father has given Jesus Christ and that is because He earned every one of them. Therefore, this man named Jesus The Christ who is the Son of the Living God sits on the right hand of Jehovah where a Son who did what He did should sit. All glory and blessings are to His glorious name. But, every day you hear millions upon millions shout that His blessed blood is not enough, that His death was not enough, that His resurrection was not enough, that the fact He sits on Gods right hand is not enough. What! But God said “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ…” That’s right all those people are liars, liars for trying to steal the glory due Jesus Christ. God went on to say “…He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.” Why, because you called God a liar. “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.” 1 John 5:10 What record did God give us of His Son, “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son...He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 1 John 5:11-12 People can debate this all they want too. But be sure to let God be true and all men liars. "...let God be true, but every man a liar..." Romans 3:4 God chose to save a remnant of the sinner population for His Own Glory and none other, and that glory comes only through His Beloved Son Jesus the Christ. It does not come through us or any part of us. We are sinners, we will die sinners, but thanks be to Jesus Christ we will be glorified SAINTS if we believe in Him. “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,” Jude 1:14 Saint means - physically pure, morally blameless – there is only one way to be pure, or blameless and that is to be washed in the purifying blood of Jesus Christ. God said, "Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin...Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus," Hebrews 10:18-19 now you can believe man and go to the eternal hell fires or believe God and be redeemed, cleansed, and soon glorified. God said, And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved… Acts 16:31 Do you believe God or man, that is an eternal question.

Unfaithful Friends:By Elder Curtis Pugh      There can be few things more disappointing than to be betrayed or abandoned by a person whom you thought was a genuine friend. Both the experience and the remembrance of it are painful for years to come. The Bible says,  “Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint,” (Proverbs 25:19). As always, the Bible is right on! And what appropriate pictures this verse presents to us: “a broken tooth” and “a foot out of joint.” Both are painful!    Not only are broken teeth and dislocated feet painful, the pain of them sometimes goes away for a time causing a person to forget about them and to think they can be depended on – then – all of a sudden in sometimes the most unexpected situations pain shoots through the body! And it seems that tooth-pain and foot-pain can be among the worst.    So it is with undependable (unfaithful) friends! Just when you think you can depend on them they fail to be the friend you thought that they were. The experience is painfully sad! Like an arrow piercing the heart or a weight crushing the body is the feeling when supposed friends turn away.    Both King David and the Lord Jesus Christ experienced such pain. David wrote:  “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me,” (Psalm 41:9). When a trusted friend steps on you – walks on you - it is indeed a time of discouragement and pain. The Lord experienced one of His disciples turning traitor on Him: Judas Iscariot by name. Sold out for thirty pieces of silver: the price of a slave! Knowing all along what Judas was going to do, the Lord treated Judas fairly and with compassion: always. But the Lord's kindness toward Judas did not deter him from his evil betrayal of his Divine Friend.    Surely the Bible speaks of the Lord Jesus when it says, “...there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother,”  (Proverbs 18:24). Constant and caring in every situation: ready always to stick with you – who is a better friend than the Lord Jesus Christ? At Paul's first trial in Rome all his supposed friends there deserted him. Paul wrote about that sad experience saying: “At my first answer [trial] no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me...” (2 Timothy 4:16-17). Ah! There was for Paul a Friend who not only stood with him, but whose presence strengthened him!    With a friend – the Friend – standing with you there can be no defeat! As the song says, “How can I be lonely when I've Jesus only, To be my companion and unfailing guide? Why should I be weary, or my path seem dreary, When He's walking by my side?” I hope He is your friend!

Church News: Happy Birthday Sister Nita Mollette Saturday June 17th                                 Please pray with us as our Annual Bible Conference draws closer. September 15 – 16. We have three Speakers as of today. But the others have until August 01 to confirm. See our web site for more details.