November 8, 2020
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Meeting Location and Mailing Address
251 Green Lane
Ewing, NJ, 08638
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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Nov Cleaning: J Keller
Family Yard/Mulch Week of 1st: Ravi D
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Proverbs
15: 19: The way of the slothful man is
as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
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“Sanctification
is nothing less than for a man to be brought to an entire resignation of his
will to the will of God, and to live in the offering up of his soul continually
in the flames of love, as a whole burnt offering to Christ.” James Usher (1581-1656)
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My grace and safety
lie in this,
My Creditor my Surety
is.
The judgment-day I
dread the less;
My Judge is made my Righteousness.
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“I will cry unto God most high; unto
God that performeth all things for me” (Ps 57:2)
“God is able to make all grace abound
toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may
abound to every good work:..Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness,
which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.” (2 Cor 9:8-11)
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How sweet it is to awake
every day knowing that God my Savior is on his throne, that he has purposed all
that the day shall bring forth, and that he has purposed it for me, for my everlasting
good. Don Fortner
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FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity,
these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1 Cor. 13:13).
What great blessings the Lord has freely and eternally
given unto His church (Rom. 8:32).
Indeed, Christ has blessed us with all spiritual blessings (Eph.
1:3). The apostle Paul makes mention of
these three great and spiritual blessings that abide in every believer; faith, hope and love. But the greatest
of these is love. Why would Paul say that? Because it is true!
Every believer lives by faith (Rom. 1:17), walks by
faith (2 Cor. 5:7) and will die in faith (Heb. 13:5), always looking and
trusting Christ (Heb. 12:2). But one day faith will end in perfect and complete
sight, when we behold the Lord Jesus Christ face to face (1 John 3:2).
Likewise, every believer lives with a fervent hope, a
living hope and a blessed hope (Titus 2:13); because it is a good hope through
grace (2 Thes. 2:16). Hope springs from faith in Christ (Heb. 11:1), for He is
our hope (Col. 1:27; 1 Tim. 1:1). But the good hope we have in Christ, that too
will one day come to an end in the certain expectation of the reality of that
hope being predestinated to be just like the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:29-30).
But the greatest of these gifts is love; the love of
God that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5) will never
end. Nothing can separate us from the
love of God in Christ (Rom. 8:38). Our
love for the Lord Jesus Christ had a beginning but it will never have an end.
We only love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19). When did the Lord
start loving His own? From eternity in the covenant of grace (Jer. 31:3)! The Lord’s love for His church is a sacrificial
love (Eph. 5:25; 1 John 4:10). He laid down His life for His church (John
13:1). Oh how precious is that love for us.
May God grant us to be always thankful for this gift of His love unto us
and may He cause it to grow in such a way as to glorify Him now and
forever. One day soon every believer
will sing forever; “Unto him that loved
us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen (Rev. 1:5-6) Tom Harding
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BELIEVERS
WILL CONTINUE
“When he would
have inherited the blessing, HE WAS REJECTED; for he found no place of
repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears" (Heb 12:17).
The birthright was a SPIRITUAL POSITION; God's man in
the family. It carried divine favor, spiritual blessing, and fellowship with
God. Esau counted it with contempt in order to satisfy his fleshly appetite
and desire. Shall we be so foolish as to consider that anything the world has
to offer is worth the fellowship of our Lord? Those who are so foolish as to
allow anything in this life to cause them to deny the faith or to renounce
their responsibilities to God and His people or to allow this flesh to draw
them away from His fellowship will, like Esau, someday weep with bitter tears,
when it is beyond their power to recover what is lost! We are warned to guard
against fleshly appetite, apostasy, covetousness, and the neglect of SPIRITUAL
PRIVILEGES. We have entered a race; the prize goes to THOSE WHO FINISH (Heb.
10:35-39). There will be hard times, heavy trials, and along the way there will
be tempting pastures of pleasure which appeal to the lust of the eye, the
pride of life, and the love of fame and fortune. But we must turn away and go
on. We may proceed slowly or rapidly; we may stumble and fall; but looking to
Christ, we will continue in Him. Neither the frowns of the world nor its smiles
will cause us to surrender our inheritance.
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WHY CHRIST
PATIENTLY WAITED
Psalm
40: 1: I waited patiently for the LORD….6: Sacrifice and offering thou didst
not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast
thou not required. 7: Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is
written of me, 8: I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
heart.
Due to our sin we never wait without sinful discontent
over God’s timing. But “patiently waiting” upon God his Father was
the very character of our Lord Jesus. On
the cross Christ “patiently waited” in
faith, hope, and confidence that the Father would deliver him once Christ had declared
God just and Justifier of his people. How
amazing that the all-powerful Son of heaven loved his Father and his brethren
so much that he willingly put himself in that place, "by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all.” (Heb 10:10).
Brethren let us ask for more grace to “patiently wait” upon the LORD, believing and confessing from a
pure heart, “My times are in thy hand:
deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.”
His time is the right time.