July 26, 2015
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
LOCATION
Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd Floor
150 Washington Street
Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553
Clay Curtis, pastor
Telephone: 615-513-4464
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. Check the announcements.
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All articles in the bulletin are by the pastor unless otherwise noted.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Our annual summer meeting is scheduled to begin this week, Thursday, July 30 through Sat, August 1. Our speaker is Don Fortner, pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Danville, KY. Thursday and Friday services begin at 7:30pm with Saturday morning service at 10:15am. We will have ice cream after service Friday night and a meal after service Saturday. We will have our regular services the Sunday. If the ladies have food left over from Saturday we will hang around for a meal together Sunday. Save the date and invite someone to come hear Christ preached.
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Those that are trained up to do nothing are likely to be good for nothing. Matthew Henry
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BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED
2 Corinthians 6: 14: Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
What is the danger of a believer being unequally yoked with an idolator? There is a muddy river back where I grew up called the Ouachita River. A mile south of a boat launch called Alabama Landing there is a clear creek which runs into the Ouachita River from Lake D’arbonne. The river is muddy but the creek is clear. For fifty yards, they flow side-by-side, so that you can easily distinguish the clear stream from the muddy water. But eventually, the clean stream becomes one with muddy river so that you cannot tell them apart. This is the danger of a believer being unequally yoked with an unbeliever. “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” (Ps 133: 1)
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A FAITHFUL SPOUSE
Ephesians 5: 24: Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
If you want a marriage made in heaven then seek one who knew God before they knew you. Seek one whom God has loved from everlasting, one for whom Christ became Surety from before the foundation of the world, one whom he has chosen and caused to approach unto him, one who delights in the true and living God, Christ and him crucified. Do you want a husband who gives himself for his bride as Christ gave himself for us? Do you want a bride who is in subjection to her husband as the church is in subjection to Christ? You will not find such a spouse in the world. If that is the kind of mate you seek then you will find them gathered with God’s people at the feet of Christ.
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I WILL RECEIVE YOU
2 Corinthians 6: 17: Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
“Coming out from among them” usually involves loss. But we are never the loser for obeying God. If we imagine we have lost anything, remember the great gain God promises, “I will receive you.” Understand, God is not our Father because we separate ourselves from worldly alliances. He is our Father by grace, by adoption, by his own will in Christ. If we separate ourselves it will be because God has worked his will in us and made us willing to do so. But if we do, he will receive us. Christ said, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” (Jn 6: 37)
Furthermore, God will care for us, “And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” Lose the creature, gain the Creator. (Mt 6: 33) God our Father provides all. When the Lord saved me by his grace, the gospel cost me one I thought I could not live without. But God gave me a true love. One who loves Christ and puts him first, even over me; one who loves Christ and therefore is a faithful bride, a faithful mother, and a faithful pastor’s wife—faithful to each of you! Now, I see that what I thought was loss was no loss at all. It is true in past religious works as well as all relationships. “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.” (Php 3: 8-9)
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BIND UP THE BROKEN-HEARTED
Jesus came “to bind up the broken-hearted.” There is many a wounded heart that is not broken. The broken-hearted are those who have lost all hope of saving themselves by their own righteousness. As long as a person has hope, the heart remains whole and unbroken. As long as a sailor’s wife has hope that her husband’s vessel may outride the storm, her heart is calm within her; but when the fatal news comes—when an eye-witness tells that he saw the lifeless body sinking in the waves—the thread of hope is cut asunder, her heart dies within her, she droops, she sits down broken-hearted. As long as an awakened sinner has hope of saving himself—as long as he thinks that self-reformation, weeping over past sins, and resolving against future ones, will clear him before God—so long his heart is calm; but when the fatal news comes, that all he does is done out of a sinful heart, that even “his righteousnesses are as filthy rags,” that “by the deeds of the law no flesh can be justified,” then does the heart of the sinner die within him; he says, “It is done now, it is all done now, I never can do anything to justify myself.” Is this the state of your soul? This is a case for Christ. He justifieth the ungodly; He imputes righteousnees without works; his blood and righteousness are ready for poor broken-hearted sinners. They are the very souls that answer Him; He is the very Saviour that answers them. Once a broken-hearted woman, who had spent her all upon physicians, and was nothing better, but rather worse, came behind Jesus, and touched the hem of his garment. Did He show himself the Saviour of the broken-hearted? Yes; He said, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.” Unknown
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Romans 8: 1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.