October 4,
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: 14: The heart
of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools
feedeth on foolishness.
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Exodus 33: 15: And he said unto him, If thy presence
go not with me, carry us not up hence. Moses
was rather for dying where he stood than to go one step without
his God. Oh, my brother, if he will but go along
with us, what need we be afraid of ten thousands that shall set themselves against us? (Ps 3:5-8; 27:1-3). But,
without him, the proud helpers fall under the
slain (Is 10:4). John
Bunyan
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THE EASY AND LIGHT YOKE
“For
this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments
are not grievous.” (1 Jn 5:3)
God
commands “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light” (Mt 11:28-30). God
says, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have
loved you, that ye also love one another” (Jn 13:34). The apostle Peter said the law of Sinai was a
“yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear” (Acts 15: 22). He spoke
by experience as one who had been under both the old and new covenants. Peter knew that the commandment of faith and
love is easy and light because Christ our Righteousness to be rest from the
impossible burden of the law and Christ’s love a far superior motive. (Rom 3:
31-4: 3).
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“At the end of two full years” (Genesis 41:1)
God had promised Joseph that he would exalt him. That his own family would come
and bow down before him. But this promise was slow in being fulfilled. Joseph
was betrayed by his brethren, sold as a slave, falsely accused, and put in
prison where his feet were hurt in the stocks.
Joseph had interpreted the dream for Pharaoh's butler, but the butler had
forgotten to speak on Joseph's behalf. For two full years Joseph languished in
prison. What an opportunity to grow weary and doubtful and unbelieving, and
even bitter. How Satan must have tempted Joseph to curse the butler and accuse
God - "Two full years"!
But the verse says, " At
the end of two full years." The promises of God are sure to those
in Christ, but the wheels that bring those promises can turn very slow
sometimes, but the promises will arrive. There is an end that God has in mind.
Now is the time to be tried - and sometimes tried sore too. Trials that are not
only deep as Joseph's dungeon but trials that last for years as his did. But
the promise will come. Wait patiently for it, (Heb.6:11-15).
Dear brother Fortner used to say, "Don't judge God
by his providence, but judge his providence by him.' Joseph lived in the faith
that God was good and was working all these trials for a good end (Gen.50:20).
This kept him from being swallowed up in weariness and from growing bitter at
God or man. Bruce Crabtree
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In Our
Latter Years – By Henry Mahan (10/06)
In our
latter years . . . there
is a keener sense of sin! Older
believers are more aware of the NATURE of sin than the acts and deeds of
sin. Attitude and spirit occupy the mind
more than the acts and deeds.
In our
latter years . . . our
prayers begin to change. There is less asking and more thanksgiving . . . less petition
and more praise. We do, however, ask things for our children,
but our needs are different than theirs.
In our
latter years . . . there
is a clearer understanding of the FRAILTY OF LIFE. It is more difficult to think of death when
we are young, but when this flesh begins to crumble and the keepers of the house tremble, the strong men
bow themselves, we begin to think more and more of our house not made with hands.
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SOVEREIGN PURPOSE
Exodus 1: 1:
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into
Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2: Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
and Judah, 3: Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4: Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and
Asher. 5: And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy
souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6: And Joseph died, and all his
brethren, and all that generation. 7: And the children of Israel were fruitful,
and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the
land was filled with them.
These are the twelve tribes of the
children of Israel; the twelfth was Ephraim, Joseph’s son. God knows his spiritual Israel expressly by
name. God works everything in the world only for his elect as seen by how God
worked everything for these twelve tribes.
Long
before this, at the tower of Babel, God confounded languages and divided the
nations. At that time when God divided Canaan—"he set the
bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel” (Deut
32: 8). Way back before these twelve
patriarchs were born, before God delivered them out of Egyptian bondage, God measured
out land to twelve heathen nations sufficient to hold the twelve tribes of
Israel. God made cursed tribes maintain the land until the time God took it
from them and gave it to the twelve tribes of Israel as promised.
In eternity, before we were born God determined the eternal inheritance
of his spiritual Israel when he entered covenant with Christ, typified by God
entering covenant with Abraham. God secured heavenly Canaan in the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. This was typified in the sacrifice when
God made covenant with Abraham (Gen 15: 7-15). God
reserved heavenly Canaan according to the exact number of his elect for whom
Christ died (Jn 14:2-3).
“Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;…And ye are
Christ’s; and Christ is God’s” (1 Cor 3:21-23).
“And we know that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose” (Ro 8:28).