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Sovereign
Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor Bro.
Ronnie Henderson, Song Director "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,
Virgil & Alice Hoskins, Grandchildren, and his daughters Liz Janis and
Debbie Gray, Alecia Clements, Bryndon
Thomas, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston,
Helen Maggard, Renee Jackson, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II
& Family, Linda Mollette, Kirby Mollette, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Verna Mae Allen, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn,
Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Ronnie Henderson Jr,
Donnie Henderson, Kevin Henderson, Ricky Henderson, Rosalie Graves, Terry
Hanson, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don
Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Larry Platt, Bro.
& Sister Bob Keller, Wanda Fowler, Kathy Rosinbaum,
Brenda Galusha and Jewel, Mary Ramsey, Donna
Johnson, Fay Johnson, Bobby Walker, Luann Reynolds, Bro. & Sis. Curtis
Pugh, Timothy and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jim & Linda Meier, Brother
David & Sister Anne Shortt, Brother Manuel
Seymour & Family, Doris Hammock, Letha Langford, Leacho
Tittle, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson, Brother
& Sister Frank James, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout and her Niece, Pastor G. L. Burr, Alicia Lightsey, Melody Carr, Betty, Gina, Janie Capps, Kathy
Johnson, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches
in Russia. |
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A Though From Pastor Johnson: We are His workmanship. This is a very wonderful verse that is most often overshadowed by the
two verses preceding it, and that is a shame. There are three wonderful
points made in this one verse, (1.) For we are his workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus, (2.) created in Christ Jesus unto good works, (3.) which God hath
before ordained that we should walk in them. All three of these points have a
very glorious sovereign grace message to them that certainly should not be
over looked but rather studied very deeply. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus” The two main
words here are “workmanship” – which means thing that is made, and “created”
– which means the idea of the proprietorship of the manufacturer. With this
being said we could read this part of verse 10 this way “for we are His
creation and we were manufactured by God through the redemption of Jesus
Christ His beloved Son. The reason so many today choose to over look or
improperly define this verse is because it gives God all credit in mans
salvation, and that is where it belongs. God is the very one who caused us to
come to know Jesus Christ as our Saviour and therefore as believers we are
His creation and not a creation of our own. We did not choose or cause our
salvation to come about because the scripture is clear that we are
manufactured Christians by the power of God in His dear Son. Also we need to
recognize that the old creature was not recycled but rather we were made new
in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature: old things are passed away; behold,
all things are become new.” God could not use the old nature because it was
totally depraved therefore He blessed us with a new one created by Him just
for us. “Created in Christ Jesus unto good works,” God not only made us anew in
Christ Jesus but also manufactured us unto good works or for a purpose. God
saved us all for a purpose to be used at His pleasure. Please remember by
being the manufacture we are His to do as He pleases. It reminds us of a
fabricator who takes a sheet of metal and makes something wonderful that he
may use for his own pleasure or sell it and make more, God certainly does not
want to sell His creation but rather chooses to use them as He wills. I think
this is a good example; God saved a sinner and calls him into the ministry
and then chooses to call him to pastor a church, God has just manufactured a
Christian and a pastor at His own pleasure. He man use another sinner that
has been manufactured as a song leader, prayer warrior, or maybe a Deacon,
but whatever he is he is a creation of God for His own will. Isaiah 43:21
“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew
forth my praise.” “Which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” The word
“ordained” means to fit up in advance or to prepare afore. The word afore
allows us to understand this was all done before, but before what? John 15:16
“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” We
were created before the foundation of the world to be whatever God had chosen
us to be. Only in due time was God’s will brought about and also by Him and
not by our choosing. |
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A Thought From C. H. Surgeon: From Every Sin Lord, save me from my sins. By thy name of Jesus I am encouraged thus
to pray. Save me from my past sins, that the habit of them may not hold me
captive. Save me from my constitutional sins, that I may not be the slave of
my own weaknesses. Save me from the sins which are continually under my eye
that I may not lose my horror of them. Save me from secret sins; sins
unperceived by me from my want of light. Save me from sudden and surprising
sins: let me not be carried off my feet by a rush of temptation. Save me,
Lord, from every sin. Let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Thou alone canst do this. I cannot snap my own chains or slay my own
enemies. Thou knowest temptation, for thou wast tempted. Thou knowest sin,
for thou didst bear the weight of it. Thou knowest
how to succor me in my hour of conflict; thou canst save me from sinning, and
save me when I have sinned. It is promised in thy very name that thou wilt do
this, and I pray thee let me this day verify the prophecy. Let me not give
way to temper, or pride, or despondency, or any form of evil; but do thou
save me unto holiness of life, that thy name of Jesus may be glorified in me abundantly.By Elder Oscar B. Mink, former Pastor
of our church, now with our Lord. |
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Self dies! Self is the first citadel of the soul against which Grace directs its
battery. From
Winslow's "The Nature and Source of Spiritual Life" |
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The time change is next Sunday November 1. Please remember you’re
clocks will fall back one hour. |