May 31, 2020
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Meeting Location and Mailing Address
251 Green Lane
Ewing, NJ, 08368
Clay Curtis, pastor
Telephone: 615-513-4464
Clay@FreeGraceMedia.com
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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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Until
further notice our online live broadcast begins each Sunday at 9am. No
Friday night bible classes until further notice.
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Proverbs 14: 32: The wicked is driven away in his
wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
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WHAT
WILL A BELIEVER NOT DO?
We should never be too quick or dogmatic in asserting what a
believer will not do or what doctrinal error he cannot embrace. David committed
adultery and murder to cover it. Solomon worshipped idols to pacify his wives.
Peter denied the Lord Jesus and forsook him. The disciples on the Emmaus Road
thought the Redeemer had failed. Paul took a legal Jewish vow. He and Barnabas
had a dispute over John Mark that was never mended while they lived on earth.
God’s saints today are no greater or stronger than those remarkable men, — not
even you or me.
Pastor Don Fortner
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HE
LOVES ME
Some of our dear friends have been through
some severe trials, and others are now suffering in heart and body. All of us
wish to witness a good confession and maintain an attitude and conversation
which will help and inspire others and glorify our Lord. But pain is pain. The
loss of a dear child or mate is overwhelming, and we are still in this body of
flesh. Therefore, let it be known to all that we believe and are sure that our
Lord is the first cause of all things, and we bless His name and trust His word
whatever the circumstances. The following words by CHARLES SPURGEON sum up our
confession!
"The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich
today and poor tomorrow; he may be sickly today and well tomorrow; he may be in
happiness today and tomorrow be in distress; but THERE IS NO CHANGE WITH REGARD
TO HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me today. I am
neither better nor worse in God than I ever was. Let prospects be blighted, let
hopes be blasted, let joy be withered, let mildews destroy everything; I HAVE
LOST NOTHING OF WHAT I HAVE IN GOD! Pastor
Henry Mahan
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GLORIOUS POSSESSION
I Corinthians 3: 23: And ye are Christ’s;
and Christ is God’s.
Brethren, get this amazing truth, “Ye are
Christ’s!” Every chosen child of God our Father was the gift of God to Christ
in eternity. Ye are Christ’s bride. Ye
are Christ’s children. Ye are Christ’s sheep. Ye are Christ’s jewels. Ye are
Christ’s by electing grace, by God’s decree, by God’s predestination, by God’s
adoption. Ye are Christ’s purchased
possession (1 Cor 6: 19) by the price of his precious blood and accomplished
redemption. Ye are Christ’s glory (Is 43: 7; 46: 13). Ye are
Christ’s inheritance (Deut 32: 9). Now,
brethren, get this truth, “And Christ is God’s!” Christ is God’s salvation for his people. Christ is God’s mercy and
grace for his people. Christ is God’s everlasting covenant to
his people. Christ is God’s express
image and glory revealed. Christ is God’s delight!
Therefore, everything about you and about your brothers and sisters in
Christ belongs to God (1 Cor 6:19). Here
is our security and the end of all strife—the end of glorying in men--
“ye are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.”
(1 Jn 4: 17) As Christ is God’s
beloved let us remember that brother overtaken in a fault is God’s beloved son
in Christ. Is Christ the righteousness
of God? Let us remember that offensive sister is the righteousness of God in
Christ. Is Christ raised to newness of
life accepted and eternally secure? Let us remember that offensive brother is
just as new, accepted and eternally secure in Christ. Christ declared that
whatever we do to his brethren we do unto him because all our brethren are one
with Christ (Mt 25:40) And Christ declared if we dishonor Christ then we
dishonor the Father (Jn 5: 25) Our text
shows us the reason “Ye are Christ’s and Christ’s is God’s.”
As Paul declares “Therefore let no man glory in men.” Let us not
glory after the appearance, condemn after the appearance, judge after the
hearing of the ear but let us use spiritual discernment. Let us glory in things
as they really are, “For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come;
all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s” (1 Cor 3:21-23).
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CHRIST OUR CREATOR
Psalm 24: 1: The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness
thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2: For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon
the floods.
The earth is not mine or yours.
We buy, sell, and claim property but in truth God is the sovereign owner of the
universe and all things in it (Deut 10:14).
Imagine how foolish to offer God something out of this earth in attempt
to make God accept us. Everything is his
in the first place. He said, “If I were
hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof”
(Ps 50:12).
When we read that God created all things,
remember, this God our Creator is Christ the Son of God—“all things were
created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things
consist” (Col 1: 15-17). When our
Redeemer pointed to seed to illustrate how he came into the earth, was broken
and from him came life in abundance, it was Christ who created that seed to illustrate
his finished work of redemption.
Likewise, our Redeemer created water.
After thousands of years he has never made any new water. The rivers constantly flow to the ocean, evaporate
into the atmosphere, and fall as rain or snow.
How is there still unpolluted water?
Christ our Creator upholds all things by the word of his power (Heb 1:3;
Rev 4:11) to show us a picture of sovereign salvation by the word, “For as
the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but
watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to
the sower, and bread to the eater: So
shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the
thing whereto I sent it.” (Isa 55:10-11)
Still, God our Savior did not create this
heaven and earth to last forever! This creation was founded upon Christ’s
covenant promise to use this earth to declare God’s glory in putting away the sins
of God’s elect people. This creation was founded to manifest the Power and
Wisdom of God in creating his people anew in spirit and in truth by the blood
of Christ and the Spirit of God. This creation was founded upon the ordination
that Christ would create a new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness (2 Pet 3:13; Rev 21: 1-8).
Imagine living in the new heavens and new earth where everyone is
righteous and there is no sin! That is
the world in which every departed saint now dwells and where every sanctified
child of God shall one day dwell by the grace of God and the blood of Christ.