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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: Someday, every knee shall bow and
confess Jesus Christ is Lord! As we enter the Christmas season I would like to call your attention
once again to the hatred toward Jesus Christ that worldly people have. Now
please understand not every Christian is full of Christmas cheer but for a
different reason than the haters in this world of Jesus Christ. Some
Christians simply do not want to celebrate a Pagan holiday created on a false
concept by the Catholic Church that focuses on lies and phoniness at best.
Whether or not Christmas was created to celebrate the birth of Christ Jesus
is to most Christians irrelevant, because we have seen what it has became and
that is full of lies and at the least maybe a year long heartaches for so
many who go into debt just to celebrate a Pagan holiday. Christmas is a time
of lies and untruths in that it has been shown not to be a Church or
Christian involved holiday. Now I do not want to be a party pooper, if you
celebrate Christmas then that is your choice, because we all do to a point
enjoy benefits of the holiday whether we like it or not. If you work you get
a paid holiday, or maybe a Christmas bonus, or maybe something that is
related to Christmas and I have not known anyone who wants to give those
things up, however for the most part there are a lot of Christians that will
not celebrate the season and that is their right after all it is not a
biblical holiday, the birth of Christ Jesus is but not Christ-Mass. Is
Christmas truly about the birth of Jesus Christ or is it about Santa Claus,
is it truly about miracles as the movies proclaim, is it about the gift
giving that put so many in debt, or is it about tree decorations that
according to the book of Jeremiah this also is unscriptural Jeremiah 10:2 - 4
"Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the
heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
dismayed at them. (3.) For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands
of the workman, with the axe. (4.) They deck it with silver and with gold;
they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it
move not." I believe to call
Christmas a Christian holiday is very sad and this is why, so many Christians
refuse to celebrate it. As for those who choose to celebrate it we still love
you because we are all one in Christ Jesus. Now with that being said let us get back to those who hate Christmas
because they hate Jesus Christ. We are now seeing more and more schools and
Governments bowing down to groups like the ACLU and other God hating groups
that have refused Christmas displays and Christmas programs because they
simply hate Jesus Christ. Our Schools and Government bow down to these groups
because they fear them and their God hating lawyer and have been filled with
a leadership that grew up in the downfall of America of the Sixties and
Seventies, a time of war protest, the expanding of drugs, woman instead of
being a help-mate wanting to control, and a time we all saw America forever
change and churches empty for religions that do not fear God but rather
attempt to control God. Beloved you add all of those ingredients and you have
today’s America. But let us look to the future and these same God hating
people will one day bow and confess Jesus Christ to be Lord and this glorious
event will happen at the judgment of this lost world before the Great White
Throne of Jesus Christ. Heed the warning because you will confess His name
sooner or later. Romans 14:11 "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every
tongue shall confess to God." Philippians 2:10 “That at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth;” |
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“Called To Preach The Gospel” By
Dr.
M. J. Seymour, Sr. It is written:
“And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured
to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to
preach the gospel unto them.” (Acts 16:10)
WE MUST come to the same conclusion that the Apostles did - “assuredly
gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto
them.” The priority and focus of every
church of the Lord Jesus Christ is to deliver in full power the witness of
Jesus, pure and undefiled by worldly allurements. It is imperative to understand completely
that true salvation is all of God, and it needs no bait to lure sinners to
its wells of living water. Heaven’s
salvation is totally dependent upon the sovereign will and power of God. It is the business of churches and
preachers to preach the witness of Jesus Christ under the power and influence
of the Holy Spirit. It is God that
gives the necessary increases to His churches as they faithfully preach and
teach of Jesus and him crucified. When one entices a crowd to gather it, he
must continue the enticements to keep it.
Salvation wrought by the Holy Spirit of God is not motivated by
worldly inventions. It is satisfied
and empowered by the preaching of the Holy Word of God. We have been called to preach the Gospel,
not to entertain the masses. The power
to save is not in one’s salesmanship abilities; it is in the power of the
Holy Spirit provoked by the sovereign grace of God. |
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Isaiah 49:13-17: "Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and
break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his
people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. (14.) But Zion said, The LORD
hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. (15.) Can a woman forget her
sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. (16.)
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me. (17.) Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers
and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. |