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 November 26, 2017            Newsletter Number 647 Brother Randy Johnson, Pastor                   Brother James Thomas, 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 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, Gina, Brother Kelley and Sister Hinson, The Harris Family, Teresa Bookout, Little Titan Thomas (Trent and Tiffane Thomas child), James – Diane and Brooke Thomas, Jace Fails, Steve Sparks, Sister Ann McSwain, Elaine Sparks, James daughter’s mother-in-law, 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: God, Will Send Then Strong Delusions. “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: (12.) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thess. 2:11-12 It appears to me that many people have issues with this verse of scriptures. I have read this explained away in so many different ways, it makes you wonder if they have any idea. People just cannot accept the fact about God’s Sovereignty no matter how the scriptures explains it. I get tired of people who simply reject God and who He truly is. Let me be crystal clear here, God does as He pleases, saves who He pleases, and does with people as He pleases. Serving God is not a choice on our parts but rather a choice of God. If God chooses not to save, but only a small remnant then that is God’s choice and that choice is without fault or guilt. God is not obligated to save sinners, any of them, but does so by grace and mercy on a remnant of unworthy sinners. God was not obligated to save Jacob, He chose to and also chose to let Esau go to hell. God did not have to choose Israel, but He did and did so over the other nations of the world. It was not Pharaoh who hardened his own heart, but God. God has the absolute right to do as He pleases as long as the work is not sinful. It is not sinful or unjust for God to refuse to save certain sinners, because He does not have to save a single one. It is not sinful if God creates one sinner an adopted child and creates another person to betray Jesus Christ i.e. Judas Iscariot. God is the creator of everything, and it is His pleasure to do as He pleases with that creation. The question was asked in Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” and the answer is found in verse 23 “And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,” God has the right to make any vessel as He chooses, God owes no one anything. Therefore, it is no wrong thing if God sends people “strong delusion” that they do not believe the truth. People will naturally believe the lie of Satan; therefore, God is simply keeping them in their natural lost self, allowing them to be led by the nose by Satan. See, God does not have to cause a person to sin, it is natural, nor does He have to cause people to believe the lies of Satan, they naturally do it. When the scriptures say, “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:” Romans 1:24 it does not mean that God changed them, He just never saved them. Sin comes naturally to people, so does following Satan and his lies, therefore God just never redeems them. The thinking that God has to accept all who believe is simply false. God saves sinners as He has chosen them to be His adoptive children before the creation of the world. However, the saddest part of everything is when people fail to see the Sovereignty of God, and make false suggestions that God wants everyone to be saved. Here we see the opposite, we see God sending these folks “strong delusion” so that they will never believe on Jesus Christ. “That they all might be damned who believed not the truth” They do not believe because God never made them to repent. People fail to give God the glory He has earned in saving a remnant of the world, making it so that they will never believe. Look at this example, God could actually come to this earth in the form of a man, do exceedingly strong miracles and wonders, and they still would not believe. If that will not change people, then what makes one believe that they will ever believe. Only a Sovereign God can cause a sinner to leave the vomit called sin and worship Him. God has given them up, three time in Romans 1 verse 24, 26, 26 God gave them up to sin. Even some of them worshiped God, but in a lie. Verse 23 "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." They worshiped God in a false way, believing lies over truth.
The Greatest Of These Is Love:By Kathryn Parrish When the church Jesus started was very young,  He endued it with supernatural signs,  Such as prophesying and speaking in tongues,  To prove that His church was surely divine.  But when the Bible was completed,  Prophecy then was fully revealed;  Speaking in tongues no longer was needed,  For the need of signs had been fulfilled.  Yes, prophesying and tongues have ceased,  But still there remains three gifts from above -  Faith, hope and love - just these three,  And the greatest of these is love!  Now faith looks up in adoration,  As in this dark world we sojurn;  Hope looks up with bright expectation,  Watching and waiting for our Lord's return.  Faith and hope will give way to sight,  When our blessed Lord we see;  Oh, what a future so glor'ously bright,  Is awaiting you and me!  Faith and hope will be needed no longer,  When we reach that heavenly shore;  But love will grow sweeter and stronger,  And will be needed forever more.
God’s Holy Word: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (24) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:” Romans 3:23-24