December 29, 2019
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
MEETING LOCATION
251 Green Lane
Ewing, NJ, 08368
Clay Curtis, pastor
Telephone: 615-513-4464
Clay@FreeGraceMedia.com
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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Proverbs
14: 12: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are
the ways of death.
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HAPPY NEW
YEAR!
Psalm 31: 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me
from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16: Make thy
face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
As
we near the beginning of a new year let us thank God that our times are in his
hand. In this past year, by his hand he delivered
some of our brethren into glory where they now behold Christ face-to-face with
no sin. His hand delivered others out of
darkness into his marvelous light giving them faith in Christ. Through the sorrows and joys of the past year
it was God’s hand that kept us looking to Christ. His hand kept his messengers preaching the
good news of our victorious Redeemer and kept his redeemed assembled to hear. It is God’s hand that set the race before us
and made us take each step the whole year through. We thank and praise our God who never makes a
mistake.
As we enter a new year, let us ask God to keep his hand upon us
according to his everlasting covenant for the sake of Christ. We ask him to keep his hand upon this
congregation, as well as all our brethren in other places, using us all to
spread the gospel of Christ. May he be pleased to bless the word to the hearts
of his people everywhere. We ask God to
unite our hearts together with one another so that there be no division but only
love between his saints. Whether the days ahead bring forth are happy
or sad let us remember that everything is of God’s hand for his glory and the
good of his saints. I thank God that he has
given me the privilege to serve you. May he make our thirteenth year together the
best so far.
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What will this year…bring our
way? Everything the Lord has wisely decreed in His eternal purpose for us to experience (Rom. 11:36; Eph. 1:11).
The
Lord gave David these words in Psalm 37:23; “The steps of a good man are
ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.” Our Lord Jesus Christ told
His disciples in their day; “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer;
I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
The
apostle Paul declares that every believer has won the victory of salvation in
the Lord Jesus Christ forever; “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 15:57). We can be assured by the word of our blessed
God and Saviour; that every promise of God will be fulfilled (Joshua 23:14; 2
Peter 1:3-4); that our gracious Lord will provide for our every need (Phil. 4:19);
that He will never leave us or forsake us (Heb. 13:5-6). As the old writers used to express it; “The
Lord will give us all grace now and glory forever. We don’t know what the
future holds but we know who holds the future.” (Psalm 31:15). Pastor Tom Harding
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LOVE THAT OVERCOMES
I Corinthians 13:13 “Now abideth faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of
these is love”
Nothing
will avail to bring us together to overcome our natural envy, jealousy, and
misunderstanding if love is missing. “Love believeth all things, beareth all
things, hopeth all things, and endureth all things. Love never fails.”
Brethren, let us love one another, for love is of God.
Pastor Henry Mahan
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A MEMORY THAT FORGETS
One of the best things we can learn
to cultivate is a memory that forgets. A memory that forgets all wrongs, all
ill words, all ingratitude. If our Lord never remembers our sins against Him,
let’s not remember any against us. Let’s remember to forget as well as forgive.
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more.” Hebrews 8:12 Pastor John Chapman
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FORGIVENESS
Many people
suffer the “tormentors” (Matthew 18:34) of an unforgiving heart. When the
suffering becomes unbearable, they search the dark dungeons of their already
enslaved heart for the ability and virtue to forgive. They may temporarily
escape their prison cell only to be captured and returned. The problem is that
the power to forgive cannot be found in a sinner’s heart. The ability to
forgive is very simply the result of being forgiven. Look not on the offense,
or offender you are trying to forgive. Rather, look at the offense of your own
sin towards God, and His grace to forgive YOU through the suffering of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Forgiving will be easy in light of your own forgiveness.
Pastor Greg Elmquist
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The Lord Jesus said you and
I who God has forgiven for Christ’s sake, “Take heed to yourselves: If thy
brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And
if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn
again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.” (Lu 17:3-4)
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There
is a chorus that we love to sing which says: “Did you hear what the Lord Jesus
said to me? They’re all taken away, away! Thy sins are pardoned, and you are
free. They’re all taken away!” With that good news declaration being proclaimed
to sinners in the word of God, the apostle Paul said: “Forgetting those things
which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I
press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus.” (Phil. 3:13,14).
As we leave one year and enter into
a new year, may this thought bring great joy to our hearts: In the Lord Jesus
Christ our old, dark past has been dealt with and put away. It is over! And the
only thing that awaits us ahead is the new light of a sinless eternity with
Christ! He is our “mark” let’s press toward Him! Pastor Gabe Stalnaker