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Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist
Church
1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501
July 25, 2010
Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor
Bro. Ronnie Henderson, Song Director
Pastor E-Mail:
sgmbcpastor@baptistsonline.org
Web Site: www.baptistsonline.org/sgmbc
"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, Derrick &
Alecia and sons Coty & Carson Clements, Bryndon Thomas,
Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Helen Maggard,
Renee Jackson, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II &
Family, Kirby Mollette, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler,
Danny & Nita Mollette, Verna Mae Allen, Wendell
Henderson, Judy Dunn, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd, Kevin
Henderson, Ronnie Henderson Jr., Vickie Sims, Debbie
Farmer, Morgan Murchison, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs.
Hammond, Don & Neil Hammond, Charles Hammond, Eric
Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Bro. &
Sister Bob Keller, Wanda Fowler, Kathy Rosinbaum, Brenda
Galusha and Jewel, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay
Johnson, 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,
Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson and Kelley Lee, Billy and
Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout and her
Niece, Roger Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr,
Betty, Janie Capps, Scott and Gina Sillivan, Katie
Norton, Sadie a child, Imajo Tracy, Sister Jean Dodson
and Family, Helen Rowe, Linda Hughes, Michael Helm, Roy
Lemmon, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in
Russia.
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| A Thought From Pastor
Johnson: Our God Is Sovereign!
"T.U.L.I.P." (Introduction)
Our study on the Sovereign Grace of God now brings us
to the most hated five letter of the alphabet to ever be
studied and it is called by most "The Five Points of
Sovereign Grace" some call it "Calvinism" after the
pastor that systemized these five point. John Calvin
lived 1509 – 1564 and is credited with two great
accomplishments (1.) systemizing T.U.L.I.P. and (2.)
starting the Presbyterian Church. Calvin was (to my
understanding) was never a Baptist but did teach many
Baptist doctrine. We do know that Calvin was part of the
reformation from Catholicism which did not include the
Baptist, however many but not all that exited
Catholicism in the years of reformation did believe in
the Sovereign Grace of God at one time, in fact if one
would go back just one hundred years ago you will find
many denominations believing and teaching it in their
churches. The Wesley Brother believed it, Charles
Spurgeon believed it, John Gill believed it, and Albert
Barns believed it, as did most of the old time
commentators. If you are a member of a church that does
not believe and teach this doctrine chances are your
Pastor studies all of these men that did believe and
teach it. T.U.L.I.P. is not a new doctrine that the
Baptist pulled out of the air as most biblical teaching
in churches today are teaching, but rather it has been
around since Jesus taught all five point in John 6:32 –
71 and His teaching was rejected then also. John 6:61
"When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured
at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?" Because
Jesus has just told them "No man can come to me, except
the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise
him up at the last day." John 6:44
The five letter that make up T.U.L.I.P. are defined
as follows "T" is Total Depravity – "U" is Unconditional
Election - "L" is Limited Atonement – "I" is
Irresistible Grace – and the "P" is Perseverance of the
Saints. These are not new teachings but rather are as
old as Jesus is. I know there are a lot of men that will
claim these teachings are old and untrue but they are
scriptural, which is more than we can say about the
teachings being taught in most churches today. Each of
the letters has a great lesson to be learned and teaches
us so much about the Sovereign Grace of God. So as we
look at each letter please take note of all of the
scripture references that I give and learn about so much
that you very well may not know about today. I
understand that the two most rejected and most despised
are the "L" Limited Atonement and the "I" Irresistible
Grace because they cancel out the Arminian teachings of
today of "salvation is all up to you", "you control your
own destiny", "it is your choice", which all of these
are non-scriptural based making them mans doctrine and
not Gods. God never promise to save all mankind and God
never promised to love all people, but He did promise to
save some and to forever love them that He chose to save
before the foundation of the world. Next week we will
began our study with "T" - Total Depravity - Everyone is
born in a state of corruption as a result of original
sin. And - Humankind's entire nature, including its
reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the fall and
that people are therefore completely dependent on God
for regeneration. – Mankind will never on their own seek
to choose God over sin; neither will they on their own
ever seek to decide to be saved. Romans 3:11 - 12 "There
is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God. (12.) They are all gone out of the way, they
are together become unprofitable; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one."
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| A Thought From
Octavius Winslow, 1858: "And the Lord direct your
hearts into the love of God." 2 Thessalonians 3:5
Love to God is the governing motive of the spiritual
mind. All desire of human admiration and applause pales
before this high and holy principle of the soul. Its
religion, its devotion, its zeal, its toils, its
sacrifices spring from love. Love prompts, love
strengthens, love sweetens, love sanctifies all. This it
is that expels from the heart the rival and false
claimant of its affections, and welcomes and enthrones
the true. It may, at times, like the pulse of the
natural life, beat languidly; yet, unlike that pulse, it
never ceases entirely to beat. The love of God in the
soul never expires. Fed from the source from where it
emanates, the holy fire, dim and dying as it may appear
at times, never goes out.
Have you this evidence of the spiritual mind, my
reader? Does the love of Christ constrain you? It is the
first and the chief grace of the Spirit—do you possess
it? "Now abides faith, hope, and love; but the greatest
of these is love." It is the main-spring, the motive
power, of the spiritual mechanism of the soul; all its
wheels revolve, and all its movements are governed, by
it. Is this the pure motive that actuates you in what
you do for God? Or, do there enter into your service and
your sacrifice anything of self-seeking, of thirst for
human approbation, of desire to make a fair show in the
flesh, of aiming to make religion subserve your temporal
interests? Oh, search your hearts, and see; sift your
motives, and ascertain! Love to God—pure, unmixed,
simple love—is the attribute of the spiritual mind; and,
in proportion to the intensity of the power of love as a
motive, will be the elevated tone of your spirituality.
Nor need there be any lack of this motive power. "God is
love," and He is prepared to supply it to the mind's
utmost capacity. We are straitened in ourselves, not in
Him. The ocean on whose margin we doubtingly, timidly
stand is infinite, boundless, fathomless. The Lord is
willing to direct our hearts into its depths, but we
hesitate and draw back, awed by its infinite vastness,
or stumbling at its perfect freedom. But to a high
standard of heavenly-mindedness, we must have more of
the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Spirit, which He has given unto us. We must love Christ
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| Bible
Conference Update: Please do not forget our Bible
Conference will began on Friday night September 17th
with 3 speakers and conclude on Saturday September 18th
with 6 speakers. There will be a meal served on Friday
night after the services and at noon Saturday. We still
do not know the exact status of Brother Curtis Pugh
although room is planned for him if he is able to
attend. All invited speakers have committed or declined
as to date therefore letters about details and speaking
schedules will be sent out in the next couple of weeks
and all details with that schedule will be posted on our
web site about that time.
We do invite all to attend and hear some most
wonderful speakers. If you would like to know anymore
information please email or call us at any time.
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