November 21, 2010
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Weekly Schedule of Services
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Sunday: |
10:00 AM |
Bible Class |
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11:00 AM |
Morning Service |
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Thursday: |
7:00 PM |
Mid-week Service |
ANNOUCEMENT
Lord willing, we will have our mid-week service Tuesday, November 23.
Brethren, if God did not allow Satan to load his bow and fire his arrows we would never experience how helpless we are to do one thing to deliver ourselves and yet how faithful God is to do it all (2 Tim 4: 18).
Faith is the Substance
If we believe by faith that we are as Christ is in glory though we do not now see with our natural eye the possession of it in our flesh then we have every reason to believe by faith that our temporal need stands ready for our use by Christ though we may not now see with our natural eye the possession of it in our hands. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb 11: 1).
RECEIVING
When the anchor on the evening TV channel reports to us the news, our receiving does not make the news which has already taken place to be so. We merely receive the news of that which has already been done. So it is when the Spirit of God reveals in our hearts the good news of all that Christ has done. What good news--IT IS FINISHED!
THE HAPPY ENDING
Ruth 1:6: Then [Naomi] arose for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
The things Naomi suffered and lost going down to Moab were hard to bear at the time. Yet, it was the way in which the LORD made Moab bitter so that she returned to rest with his people in the place where he had given them bread. It was the way in which the LORD made her to behold how he had freely given her more than she ever could have imagined! "And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age…" (Ruth 4: 14, 15).
My dear, suffering brethren, may the LORD make you to behold that he has not left you this day without Christ your Kinsmen. May he cause you to behold he has worked all that now appears bitter so that his name may be famous in you. What grace! Christ Jesus shall be unto thee the Restorer of Life and the Nourisher unto you the rest of your days!
Happy Thanksgiving
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge God’s sovereign dominion over all the affairs of providence (Romans 8:28; 11:36). We acknowledge that “all things are of God.” We give thanks to him for bountiful harvests, because he sends the sunshine and the rain. We thank him for peace and prosperity, because he makes peace and creates evil. We thank him for life and health, because they are his gifts. We also thank him when the barns are empty, the nation is at war, the economy is ruined, and death is at hand, because he who is our God is too wise to err, too strong to fail, and too good to do wrong. His will is best. So we give thanks to him “in everything.”
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge and give thanks to our God for his bountiful, saving grace in Christ. When you gather with your families Thursday, do not fail to give thanks to God for “his unspeakable gift,” the Lord Jesus Christ and his great salvation. Make mention of his electing love, redeeming blood, regenerating power, justifying grace, forgiving mercy, and covenant faithfulness. Let us acknowledge to him and to all who will hear us that we are what we are by the grace of God. If we are saved, he saved us. If we are righteous, he made us righteous. If we are sanctified, he sanctified us. If we persevere in faith, we are kept by his power. Don Fortner
SERMONS
After clicking on the following sermon links you will go to sermon notes where you will find an option at the top of the page to access the audio.
The Treasure & the Pearl
The Three Applications of the Blood
Jesus is the Son of God (Kept from the Evil)
ARTICLES
What Do You Need?
The Scapegoat--Imputation
The Scapegoat--Gone
The Burnt Offering on the Day of Atonement
The Burning without the Camp
ARTICLES FROM OTHERS
Believers Must Have Christ
Ministering to an Angry Brother
A Busybody in Other Men’s Matters
Jacob’s Altar
Only Scriptural Preaching is Good Preaching
Two Troubled Souls
FREE E-SERMON
Crook in the Lot—Thomas Boston
PRINTABLE TRACTS
A Good Place to Rest and Raise our Young
Saved in Childbearing
A Letter to a Preacher
The Church Were Everybody is a Nobody
O Ye of Little Faith