August 23, 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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sermons, as well as full services—click here.
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Lord willing next Sunday, August 30, Iyana
McCoy will confess Christ in believer’s baptism. We thank God for giving her faith in Christ
and pray God keeps her looking only to HIM!
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Proverbs 15: 8: The sacrifice of the
wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his
delight.
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The religionist who worships not according to God's
will worships his own.
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When we hear the phrase “the lust of
the eyes” we are prone to think only of our eyes looking upon other
things. But someone made this statement
which illustrates another aspect of “the lust of the eyes”—"The eyes of
other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind I should
want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.”
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DIVINE PARADOXES
The wiser we get, the greater fools we become (I Cor.
3:18). The stronger we grow, the weaker
we are (II Cor. 12:9-10). The more we
possess, the less we have (II Cor, 6:10)
The more completely bankrupt, the more freely forgiven (Lk. 7:42). The more utterly lost, the more perfectly
saved (Matt. 18:4). And the more like a
child, the greater in the kingdom of heaven.
- Copied
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THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS
Zechariah 4:10
God delivered a
nation from 400 years of bondage with a shepherd’s
staff. He slew a giant and saved that nation with a sling and a stone. He
turned the world upside down with eleven simple, plain men – and the
illustrations that “Little is great when
God is in it” are numberless, but we must not just apply this truth to the
instrument God uses, but should apply it also to the task. It is true that God
uses humble men to perform great works for His glory – but God also uses His
servants to teach the little children, to pastor the small assembly, to witness
to one Ethiopian, to offer a prayer, to provide an unrecognized and often an
unknown service! Most of us are willing to be “humble
men” doing great works, but how many of us “great men”
are willing to do humble work?
It is most doubtful that our Lord will
trust us with any great responsibility until it has been proven that we are
faithful in few things! It has been my understanding from the Scriptures that
those whom God trusted with great responsibility were content with where they
were and with what they were doing. Examples: Moses, David and Joseph. It would
be refreshing, instead of hearing what one used to do or what one plans to do
and be, to see one dedicated to being what he is and doing with joy and zeal
what is at hand! Christ may come today and I could die today, but I’m not sure that He would accept my explanation that I
was preparing myself for great things and would have been a teacher if there
had been an opening, or a pastor if there had been a church available, or a
martyr if men had still been dying, a deacon, an elder, or a church leader
after I had aged a bit. Would He? Or would He ask, “What
servant chooses his own task? His own place of labor? His own time of service?”
Does not the faithful servant ask, “Lord, what
would you have me to do?” Everybody wants to take the floor, few care to sweep
it. The returning prodigal did not labor as a hired servant, but he was
willing. Pastor
Henry Mahan
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Nothing, surely, is
so likely to prepare us for that heaven where Christ's personal presence will
be all, and that glory where we shall meet Christ face to face, as to realize
communion with Christ as an actual living Person here on earth. There is all
the difference in the world between an idea and a person. J.C. Ryle
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WHERE IS YOUR
TREASURE?
Matthew 6: 19:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21: For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also.
I recall a story
about a man who died. His family found
in his attic bags of coins that had been there so long they were rusted and
molded. Yet, that man’s rusty treasure was taken from him. Only Christ and his kingdom are eternal. He
is the believer’s only lasting treasure.
He gives us this warning “For where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.” If our treasure is upon earth then our hearts—our preeminent
thoughts and motives—will be for earthly things. But if our treasure is Christ in heaven then
the preeminent motive ruling our hearts will be Christ’s glory and the good of
his people. Looking to Christ alone is
to “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”
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TAKE NO
THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW
Matthew 6: 34: Take therefore no
thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Brethren, most of
what we worry about never comes to pass. Your heavenly Father knows what you
need and will provide for you tomorrow in the face of every evil as he is doing
today. I pray God will make us trust that he will do the same tomorrow. If someone
is anxious may God give grace and settle our hearts, minds and whole selves
entirely on Christ. May our heavenly
Father make us sing,
Be still, my soul, thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as he has the past
Thy hope, thy confidence, let nothing shake
All now mysterious shall be bright at last
Be still, my soul, the wind and waves still know
His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below