"Where The Truths Of God’s
Word Have Been Taught For More Than Fifty-Six Years”
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas
75501
May 27, 2018
Newsletter Number 671
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:
The Beautiful Grace Of God.
“Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his
divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and
godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and
virtue:” 2 Peter 1:2 – 3
I am simply amazed every time I
see Gods grace in my life. Paul said “But by the grace of God I am what I am”
1Cor. 15:10 if I am what God wants me to be then how can I ever complain? God
has made me His child, I understand the trials of life, the persecutions of
life, even the heart aches of life, but I am a child of the Living God, what
else could I want. This is how I see it, even with all the sufferings of life,
God chose for me to send His Beloved Son Jesus to this evil world and to suffer
death on my part to give to me eternal life. Look at what God said through
Peter, “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the
suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God
should taste death for every man...For it became him, for whom are all things,
and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the
captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” Hebrews 2:9 – 10 Now
give this a little thought, Jesus who created all things, whom is the image of
God, who is God, gave His life for me. He came to this world, lived here for
about 33 years, and allowed His own creation to crucify Him, to give to me
eternal life. God said through Peter that Jesus is “…the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings.” Jesus is the Captain of our salvation
because of His living and dying for our righteousness. By Captain it means He
is also our leader in life, death, and resurrection. We as Christians ought to
live our life for the Father, because Jesus did. We need to live in the steps
of Jesus, even if life leads us through much tribulations and eventually to
death. If God did it, then should we also do it. Listen to Jesus because as a
Christian’s this should be our pattern in life, “I can of mine own self do
nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine
own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” John 5:30 Jesus came
to this world to do the will of His Father, NOT TO DO HIS OWN WILL. Sometimes
as Christians, we seek our own will over our Fathers will, this is a no, no.
God saved us, Jesus died for us, therefore we belong to God, our personal will
in life, our personal desires in life do not matter, only God’s will matter.
Jesus was not selfish, He gave His life in a very horrible way because His
Father sent Him here to die for our sins. We look at our life and we say that
God has brought me to it, and My Father will make sure to walk me through it.
God does not ever leave us, and we should never leave the Lord for personal
reasons or any other reason. Even if it leads us through the fires of life,
Jesus is our Captain, He leads the way, we just need to follow Him, even to
death. God’s grace is powerful, and we need to lean on His grace in every
trial, tribulation, sickness and even death. Grace, oh how wonderful is Gods
grace to us. If it were not for God’s wonderful grace I would still be lost,
and hell bound. If it were not for God’s grace I would be naked and without.
God’s grace is everything to me, so if God leads me through the fire I will
walk through it by His beautiful, marvelous grace. Folks never forget what God
told us through Peter, “his divine power hath given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and godliness,”. What happens to me is happening because God
brought it to me, He chose it for me, and I will suffer it for my Father. I
pray that my Father will not ever allow me to put self’s will and desires
before His will and desires for me, no matter what. Let us remember the words
of John Newton “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like
me....I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now, I see. T'was Grace
that taught...my heart to fear. And Grace, my fears relieved How precious did
that Grace appear...the hour I first believed…” Jesus our Captain leads the way
lets just follow the captain through life, even if it leads to death, and
eventually will.
Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, Judas
By: Curtis Pugh
"Godly sorrow brings
repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow
brings death." 2 Cor. 7:10
These two kinds of repentance are
to be carefully distinguished from each other; though they are often sadly
confounded. Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, Judas, all repented. But their repentance
was the remorse of natural conscience, not the godly sorrow of a broken heart
and a contrite spirit. They trembled before God as an angry Judge, but were not
melted into contrition before Him as a forgiving Father.
They neither hated their sins nor
forsook them.
They neither loved holiness nor
sought it.
Cain went out from the presence
of the Lord.
Esau plotted Jacob's death.
Saul consulted the witch of
Endor.
Ahab put honest Micaiah into
prison.
Judas hanged himself.
How different from this forced
and false repentance of a reprobate, is the repentance of a child of God; that
true repentance for sin, that godly sorrow, that
holy mourning which flows from
the Spirit's gracious operations! ?
Godly sorrow does not spring from
a sense of the wrath of God in a broken law, but from His mercy in a blessed
gospel; from a view by faith of the sufferings of Christ in the garden and on
the cross; from a manifestation of pardoning love; and is always, attended with
self-loathing and self-abhorrence; with deep and unreserved confession of sin
and forsaking it; with most hearty, sincere and earnest petitions to be kept
from all evil; and a holy longing to live to the praise and glory of God.
The world's trinity?
By Thomas Reade
Everything to which we give the
heart, becomes our idol.
Pleasure, wealth, and power, form
the world's trinity! Before these idols they bow down in adoration.
All their thoughts, time, and
talents are employed in their service. No sacrifice is deemed too great to
obtain possession of these vanities.
Alas! thousands, who call
themselves Christians, who have been baptized in the name of Christ, and who
make a nominal profession of Christianity, worship these idols which Satan has
set up.
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