May 20, 2018
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
MEETING LOCATION
251 Green Lane
Ewing, NJ, 08368
Clay Curtis, pastor
Telephone: 615-513-4464
MAILING ADDRESS:
7 Birch Street
Pennington, NJ, 08538
Schedule of Services
Sunday 10: 15 AM Bible Class
Sunday 11:00 AM Morning Service
Thursday 7: 30 PM Midweek Service
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NURSERY
We have a nursery equipped with a
digital flat screen television broadcasting all services live, for children
four and under.
All
articles by the pastor unless otherwise noted.
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SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE WEBSITE: The videos are now listed as individual
sermons, as well as full services—click here.
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Eric Lutter will be bringing both
messages this morning. I am in Arkansas where I preached the wedding of John
Keller and Kelsie Sanders. This morning I am scheduled to preach for Grace
Baptist Church in Lewisville where Brother Darvin Pruitt is pastor.
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SUNDAY’S READING IN PROVERBS
Proverbs 11: 16: A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
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HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES
Ephesians 5: 25: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved
the church, and gave himself for it.
When husbands are taught how to be head of our wives, even as Christ is
Head of the church, it is not as a tyrant ruling with harsh demands, but by
love as Christ loved the church.
The love of God is in Christ Jesus alone. (Rom 8: 39) Christ’s
church—every elect child in particular—is Christ’s own body, “the fullness of him”, “members of his body of
his flesh and of his bones.” (Eph 1: 22; 5: 30-32; Ro 12: 4-5) When God
made the first wife for the first man, God patterned their union after Christ
and his church. (Is 54: 5) God gave us a spiritual lesson in that creation. He
made every beast, even the first man, out of the ground. (Gen 2: 19) By our
first birth we are of Adam, the cursed ground. But showing that Christ’s bride
is made of Christ and is one with Christ, God made woman out of the man. (Gen
2: 21-24) The Holy Spirit declares the reason a husband shall leave father and
mother and be joined unto his wife is patterned after the inseparable oneness
between Christ and his church. (Eph 5: 30-33) Christ and his church are one flesh.
Therefore, Christ loves each member, nourishing and cherishing his church, as
an extension of himself, his own body, his own flesh and his own bones.
Thus a husband is taught how to be head of his wife—by loving her as his
own body—“Nevertheless let every one of
you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she
reverence her husband.”
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SATAN’S MASTER PLAN
“But I fear; lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtlety so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ”(2 Cor.
11:3).
Satan is the most subtle creature in the world; he has had 6000 years of
experience in deceiving, beguiling, and destroying men’s souls. Only God knows
more about man than Satan, and no man can stand toe to toe with the devil and
win. Satan’s master plan is to make men religious without knowing and being
united to Christ by faith. If he does not succeed in getting a man religious
without Christ, he will try to draw him away from the simplicity, which is in
Christ, and Him crucified. He has also succeeded if he can get our minds off
Christ and on faults and failures of those in the church, and causes these
things to hinder us in such a way that we leave off Christ and turn from Him
and his church because all we can see is the blemishes of those we worship
with. How happy Satan is when lie turns one from the simplicity, which is in
Christ. Pastor Don Bell
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Regeneration is not a change of the
old nature, but the introduction of a new nature. It is the implanting of the
nature or life of the second Adam by the operation of the Holy Ghost, founded
upon the accomplished redemption of the Lord Jesus and in full keeping with the
sovereign will of God. Pastor Scott Richardson
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BE PATIENT
This world thinks us foolish
because our confidence is in the Lord (Psalm 14:1). We are not confident in
ourselves, our skills and certainly not our own righteousness. We are taught of
God and his Spirit directs our spirit to look to him for all our righteousness
and to provide all our need. “Look unto
me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none
else” (Isaiah 45:22). This righteousness is found in Christ Jesus alone
(Romans 3:19-26).
We look to Christ because the Father looks to Christ for the
righteousness of his people. “And again,
when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the
angels of God worship him” (Hebrews 1:6). For this cause we preach Jesus
Christ and him crucified (1 Cor 1:23, 2:2).
The world doesn’t understand the things we believe concerning Christ and
the righteousness of God. It brings out their enmity and they speak against the
truth “Ye have shamed the counsel of the
poor, because the Lord is his refuge” (Psalm 14:6) They can’t
understand these things because they hate God and are natural born enemies of
God and God’s people (Romans 8:7-8). And such were we until God had mercy and
delivered us from this natural death by Christ. The child of God ceases to be
ashamed and prays by the same spirit given to Paul “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not
ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to
keep that which I have committed unto him against that day” (2 Timothy
1:12). Be patient brethren! Pastor Eric Lutter
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FOR BY GRACE ARE YE
SAVED
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of
God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Many quote this blessed verse without really giving it
thorough consideration. Here are at least six things that should always cause
us to rejoice in God’s free and sovereign grace in Christ.
- GRACE
has been defined as “unmerited favor.” If grace is unmerited then, none
can claim it as a right.
- If
GRACE is “unearned and undeserved,” then, none are entitled to it.
- If
GRACE is a “gift” then, none can demand it.
- If
GRACE is a “free gift” then, God has the right to bestow it upon whom He
will. (Don’t you give gifts to who you want to?)
- If
salvation is by GRACE then, the very chief of sinners, the worst of the
worst, is not beyond the reach of Divine mercy.
- Because
salvation is by GRACE, boasting is excluded and God gets all the glory.
“To the praise of the
glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:6 Pastor
David Eddmenson
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“It Is Finished”, (John
19:30)
Years ago, someone asked me how long it took me to finish a painting. My
answer was this, “You never finish a
painting…you just come to a stopping point.” Concerning all efforts on
man’s part, nothing can truly be said to be finished. There is always something
found, even with our most careful efforts that can be done to improve our
labor.
But concerning the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary…His death to satisfy the justice of God
for an everlastingly loved people…His death to put away the guilt of His bride
by the shedding of His blood for her…HE said…“It is finished.” By His declaration, we know that the debt and
guilt of our sins has truly been paid and put away in His precious blood.
According to His word, the sins of God’s chosen people shall never be brought
up before God or punished again…This we know because the Father accepted His
sacrifice on behalf of His sheep and proved His acceptance by raising Him from
the dead. Pastor Marvin Stalnaker