July 26, 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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Proverbs 15: 4: A wholesome tongue is
a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
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Henry Law said,
“Forgiveness gloriously shines in the splendor of completeness.”
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LOSING A SENSE OF NEED
The
lukewarm state of the church of Laodicea nauseated Christ. And what is
this state of lukewarmness? They lost their sense of need! “Thou sayest I
am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not
that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (Rev.
3:17).
A sense of need is essential in walking
with Christ. “He healed them that had need of healing.” “The whole
need not a physician, but they that are sick.” Ten times, David, the man
after God’s own heart, described himself as “poor and needy.” The only
way I can hear the Gospel is as poor and needy. When that leaves, I start to
analyze, see if I agree, and critique. The doctrine of the Gospel loses
its sweetness. It is one thing to know the meaning of election. It
is another thing to need it! It is one thing to understand
justification. It is another to need to be justified. May the Lord
keep us poor and needy! Pastor Todd Nibert
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THE HAPPY TRUTH OF HUMILITY
In Christ there is no great and small, no important and unimportant, but
only sinners saved by the grace of God. We are all brethren! The servant is not
greater than his Lord; and if the Lord humbled himself to become a servant,
shall we not do likewise? Happy are those who know this gracious truth by
experience and perform the doing of it.
Pastor Henry Mahan
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JESUS CHRIST SHALL NOT FAIL
Isaiah 42:4
In Isaiah 42:4 we read of a most glorious truth
about our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, "He shall not fail nor
be discouraged." As God's Servant and Christ He came into this world
to do the will of God. He said, "My meat is to do the will of him that
sent me, and to finish his work" (Jn. 4:24). Of this we can be
certain, that everything the Father sent the Son to accomplish, He fulfilled it
to the exact will, purpose and delight of God Almighty. It is recorded in verse
21 of this same chapter, "The Lord is well pleased for his
righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it
honorable.." The Lord Jesus was the delight of the Father in eternity (Prov.
8: 22-30). And when He was manifested in the flesh in time, Jesus Christ
pleased the Father, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased" (Matt. 3:17).
The exact opposite is true of man, from the beginning
he has been a failure. Adam, even in his perfect environment that God had
placed him in failed. All of Adam's race has inherited from the first man, a
fallen and depraved nature that cannot produce anything before God but failure
and sin (Rom. 5:12). God has said of us, "Verily every man at
his best state is altogether vanity" (Psa. 3 9:5); "For there
is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good, and sinneth not" (Eccl.
7:20).
This should give every sinner great incentive and
inspiration to look to the Christ of God that cannot fail and trust Him for all
things in salvation. The sinner needs righteousness, Jesus Christ did not fail
to produce righteousness for us (Rom. 10:4). We need redemption from all
our sin, Jesus Christ with His own blood redeemed us from the curse of the law
(Gal. 3:13; Heb. 9:12). We need salvation, He saved His people with an
everlasting salvation (Isa. 45:17). We need to be justified, Jesus
Christ justified us through His blood (Rom. 5:9). In every aspect of our
salvation, Jesus Christ as our Mediator and Substitute did not fail to honor
God's holy justice in securing our salvation.
Therefore, we can rightly conclude, that
those for whom Jesus Christ lived and died as Representative and Advocate
cannot perish (John 6:37-40). Because He lives we live (John 14:19).
Because He did not fail as our Substitute to please and satisfy God (Psa.
85: 10), we did not fail being in Him (Gal. 2:20). This causes the
believer to bow in humble adoration and say, Lord, how great Thou art. We give
thanks unto God that did not leave us to our own miserable failures, but
revealed unto us, the Lord Jesus Christ who did not and will never fail. He
performed all things in salvation for us (Psa. 57:2).
Pastor Donnie Bell
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THE CAUSE
“And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in
breaking of bread, and in prayers.” -
Acts 2:42
If we have true fellowship with one another, it is because we worship
the true and living God together (1 John 1:3). If we truly break bread
together, it is because we are made of the same bread and body (1 Cor
10:17). If we truly pray together, it is
because Christ has made us of one accord (Acts 1:14).
It is a great privilege for
brethren to worship together, talk to one another about our Master, observe the
Lords Table together, eat together, and pray together. May we always be
reminded of the cause of all our “spiritual blessings in heavenly places, IN
CHRIST”.
Pastor Kevin Thacker
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FAITHFUL AND LOVING CORRECTION
1
Corinthians 4: 14: I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved
sons I warn you. 15: For though ye
have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ
Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Paul
wrote this to warn believers who God had begotten again through his preaching.
He had far too much reverence for Christ and too much love for them to be
anything but merciful. Christ has borne our
judgment. So to build again that middle
wall of partition (using the whip of the law) was not Paul’s way, “For If I
build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor” (Gal 2:
18). Paul remembered what a sinner
he still was and how that Christ receiveth sinners and never forsakes us. Therefore, when these brethren were in a
fault, he considered himself so as not to be overtaken in the worse fault of
self-righteousness. As a father he
lovingly warned them but did not separate from them; he restored them to Christ
to build them up in faith, not tear them down by exposing their sins. In other words, Paul loved them.
If
we have tasted the Lord’s grace and know ourselves to be the chief of sinners, let
us faithfully love and correct one another, rejoicing in mercy, the same as we
would want to be treated.