Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church

"Where The Truths Of God’s Word Have Been Taught For More Than Fifty-Six Years”

1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501

April 22, 2018          

 Newsletter Number 666

Brother Randy Johnson, Pastor                   Brother James Thomas, Song Leader

Pastor E-Mail: pastor@sgmbaptist.com                   Pastors Blog: sgmbcpastor.blogspot.com  

Churches 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, 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, Sister Ann McSwain, Elaine Sparks, James daughter’s mother-in-law, Danny Hammond, Jim and Linda Meier, Ronnie Elam, Bonnie From Ohio, Brother Dan Sullivan the work in Thailand, Brother Raul and the work in Romania, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

From Our Pastor:

In Christ We Are More Than Conquerors!

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8:37

This passage of scripture is very exciting for every believer in Jesus Christ. What a blessed Saviour we indeed have, and in our Father, it makes us speechless. The question asked is found in verse 35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” if you study the verses from 35 thru 39 you will learn nothing “shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” What a true blessing, nothing in existence can separate us from the love of Christ, not even ourselves. See this is not our love for God, it is not our love for Christ Jesus, oh no, this is God’s love for us which is Christ Jesus. The truth is, we have no love for God the Father or Jesus Christ if they do not have it for us. We are not the ones who has the faith or the love, oh no, it is God who loved us first and that love was extended to us through the love of Jesus Christ. “We love him, because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 God’s love is eternal, yes, it is eternal, and God cannot change therefore there will never be a time that God will not love us, nor a time when we will not love God and His Son Jesus Christ. God loved us and chose us before the foundation of the world and therefore He can never not love us. It is because of this love from Him that we are “…more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Folks, we are not conquerors but more than conquerors. This word “conquerors” means - to vanquish beyond, that is, to gain a decisive victory – now let’s have some thought on these other words. The word “vanquish” means – to defeat thoroughly – the word “decisive” means - producing a definite result – wow, what a blessed conquering we indeed have as believers in Jesus Christ and in Gods love. It doesn’t seem like the Christian has anything to concern themselves with. Because if being conquerors means we are guaranteed victory then defeat is impossible. But let’s remember God said we are MORE than conquerors meaning we extend beyond the guaranteed victory. Not in everything in life but in Christ we will never lose His eternal love extended to us. We have victory over life, pain, tribulations, sadness, sin, Satan, etc. etc. etc. we cannot lose! Even if we lose our life here on this earth we have victory, we cannot be defeated. When Jesus Christ rose from the grave we rose with Him, we were with Him through the entire crucifixion, death, burial, and soon the resurrection. God has already spoken of our salvation as complete, “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” Romans 8:30. Now our glorification will not happen until Jesus returns. This word “glorified” means - full of glory – which will not happen until we are resurrected and have our new GLORIFIED bodies, which will not happen until Jesus returns for the rapture. Folks, we are more that conquerors because God has chosen us to be His before the foundation of the world, He chose us, called us, saved us, and will glorify us in time. This is why conquering means a guaranteed defeating and more, we are more than that, we are guaranteed victory because God cannot be defeated, therefore we can’t either. Praise God!!! This is why we sing the glorious hymn “Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wrench like me” Victory is ours through Jesus Christ our Saviour. 1 Chronicles 29:11 - 13 “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all…Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all…Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.”    

The Deceitfullness Of Pride

By: Elder Oscar. B. Mink (our former Pastor, now in glory)

“Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18)

Pride in a man’s heart is a seed bed which produces many a foul fruit. I will mention a few: “Arrogance,” (Proverbs 8:13), “Contention,” (Proverbs13:10), self-deception, “The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee” (Obadiah 1:3). These are but a few of the un-tasty fruits which grow on the ugly vine of pride.

From personal experience many preachers know something of the deceptive power of pride. Looking forward to Sunday, the pastor asks God in prayer for a message and for divine enablement in delivery of the message. God, in grace, grants his petition, and after the sermon someone is kind enough to speak complimentary of the message (there is nothing wrong with paying the preacher a compliment, if it comes from the heart, and you realize the preacher is but an instrument of God), due to the deceptive power of pride, the compliment is often taken wrongly and the preacher takes to himself the credit which belongs to God.

No saint has ever risen so high in his cultivation of humility that all of his pride was left behind or even suppressed to the point of absolute dormancy for a single minute. Neither has the skid row bum sunk so low that he cannot look down his nose at someone else and find a basis to be proud of himself.

As soon as a man be born in this world he embarks on an ego trip, “They go astray speaking lies,” (Psalm 58:3) and the most of his lies are spent in bragging about himself. Most of the auto-biographies which I have read amount to nothing more than brag books. The reason is; “Every way of man is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 21:2).

Did you ever hear a person pray, saying, “Lord keep me humble?” There is an element of pride in such a prayer. The meekest saint needs to pray, “Lord make me humble.” I heard a person say one time, “I am proud that I am humble.” 0’ the deceitfulness of pride.

Jesus used one statement on three different occasions in three different sermons. He was not afraid someone might say, “He repeats himself.” Each time Jesus used the statement it fit perfectly with the lesson He was teaching, and the principle set forth in the statement pervaded all of His teaching. The thrice stated words of the Master, “And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted,” (Matthew 23:12; Luke 18:14). On every occasion it was used to counter human pride, and it points up the fact that the seats of honor in glory are reserved for those who humble themselves and practice self-effacement.

1 Chronicles 29:20

And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.