Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church
Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor "Where The Truths Of God’s Word Are Still Taught"
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| You Were Asked To 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, Sister Alice Hoskins, Frank & Sonya Trusty, Bryndon Thomas, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Poole, Danny & Nita Mollette, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd,, Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Son Kevin Henderson, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don & Neil Hammond, Charles Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Kathy Rosinbaum, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, Luann Reynolds, Brother Curtis Pugh, Timothy and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jim & Linda Meier, Brother David & Sister Anne Shortt, Brother Manuel Seymour, Letha Langford, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson and Kelley Lee, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout, Justin Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Gina Sullivan, Katie Norton, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Marshall Risinger, Lee Mollette’s Daughter & Granddaughter Kristal, Dale Barnes, Keith Johnson, Tammy Hairston, Lorene & David Rodden, Leon Wyckoff, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.
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| The Pastors Corner:
Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
My apologies to all because I promised a couple of weeks back to write about the Beatitudes but I had gotten sidetracked on couple of other issues. The Beatitudes was the first sermon preached in a church after Jesus Christ had called her out and assembled her together for the first church meeting. Here He begins to preach a sermon that is universally accepted as “The Beatitudes”. The first one is “Blessed are the poor in spirit…” not blessed are the poor but rather poor in spirit which is everyone who has just been saved; since their recent conversion they have not learned much and that makes them poor in spirit or weak in spirit. Some folks want to believe that being monetarily poor that God has a special blessing for them and they will live eternally wealthy because they suffered enough on this earth, but that could not be farther from the truth. God hath concluded that He has no respect of persons Romans 2:11 which means; God does not love you nor hate you because you are a particular race, creed, nationality, or group of people. In John 3:16 we see that “God so loved the world” not that God loves everyone in the world but that He loves people from all different nationalities of the world. God is never going to bless people here on this earth just because that are poor; if God wanted you to be rich, He would have made you rich! Paul said “I am what I am by the grace of God” 1st Corinthians 15:10. Those that are “poor in spirit” are those who have believe that Jesus Christ is their Saviour; those whom are weak in faith. We must understand that the lost are not weak in spirit they are spiritually dead, therefore it is simple to understand that the Lord is speaking to those Christians who had just been “called out” and saved. However weak in faith they may be they are certainly blessed of all other people on this earth because God has saved their souls from eternal hell fire. Luke mentions these poor in spirit in Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,” This is actually a quote from Isaiah 61:1 where the word “poor” is rendered “meek” or the poor in spirit. Now looking at the scripture in Luke we see that God had sent him to preach the gospel to the poor in spirit, God had also “anointed” him or elected him to preach the gospel to the meek or poor in spirit, God had also “sent” him, and God had also given him the message to be delivered, and now beloved we understand why we are blessed. This is no “Mickey Mouse” preaching you hear in your average churches pulpit today; this is truly a man who knows our Sovereign God and how He works. If you are saved today it is because God has in totality saved your soul; from the particular soul, to the sermon to be preached, to the one who was to preach it, to the working of your faith in Christ, nothing left for you to do or anything to doubt; this is why the poor in spirit are indeed blessed beyond our imagination. This is why Paul wrote; "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (20.) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, (21.) Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." Ephesians 3:19 - 21
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| A Little Book, Which Contains Only Three Pages:
I have read of a godly man who was once very dissolute. When converted, his former companions sought to bring him back to his former wicked courses. But he told them, "I am deeply engaged in meditating on a little book, which contains only three pages; so at present I have no time for other business."
Sometime after, being asked if he had finished his book, he replied, "No; for though it contains only three pages, yet there is so much comprised in them, that I have devoted myself to read therein, all the days of my life.
The first page is red. Here I mediate on the sufferings of my Lord and Savior, His shedding His precious blood, as an atonement for my sins, and a ransom for my soul, without which I must have been a damned sinner in hell, to all eternity!
The second page is white. This cheers my heart with the wonderful consideration of the unspeakable joys of heaven obtained for me by Christ—and of being forever with Him!
The third page is black. Here I think of the horrible state of the damned—and the perpetual torments they are suffering in hell. O this excites thankfulness to my Savior, for His wonderful love and rich grace, in snatching me as a brand out of hell-fire, and saving me from eternal destructions!"
Here is a good man, a good book, and a good example for you and I. "Let us go and do likewise." Constantly meditate upon Christ; upon the wrath He has saved us from—and the glory He has saved us to!
By William Mason, from his "The One Thing Needful to Make Poor Sinners Rich—and Miserable Sinners Happy")
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| Happy Birthday:
Brother Harace Hammond - Sunday August 21st
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| Church News:
The church will hold her monthly business meeting on September 4th at 4pm please plan to attend and be a part of the churches business.
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Sunday 21 August 2011
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