October 20, 2019
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
MEETING LOCATION
251 Green Lane
Ewing, NJ, 08368
Clay Curtis, pastor
Telephone: 615-513-4464
Clay@FreeGraceMedia.com
MAILING ADDRESS:
7 Birch Street
Pennington, NJ, 08538
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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Proverbs 14: 3: In the
mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall
preserve them.
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Christ Is All – Colossians 3:11
Truly
everything needed for the sinner to be accepted by God and qualified for heaven
is in Christ and Him alone. There is nothing we can add to His finished work of
redemption; in fact, anything that we might think we can add makes Christ’s
redeeming work of no effect for our salvation. This is exactly what Paul says
in Galatians 5:2 “I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised (or any
other thing we might do to earn God’s favour), Christ shall profit you
nothing”. So, if we carefully observe a legal Sabbath day (as many say that
Sunday now is in New Testament days) and we imagine that our observance is
making God think better of us or that He will reward us for it in heaven, hear
what Paul says – CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. Old Testament strict
observance of a Sabbath day (Saturday) was to picture the complete cessation
from our works when we look by faith to Christ who alone ‘works’ His people’s
salvation; only in Christ’s redeeming work is the justice of God satisfied and
sinners accepted. Pastor Allan Jellet
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“Follow
Me, and I will make you fishers of men” – Matthew 4:19
If we are not fishers of men we are not
following Christ. Those who follow Him, He makes fishers of men. You cannot
follow Christ and not have an earnest desire to see your fellow men saved. And
how do we fish for men? By praying to the Lord of the harvest for their
salvation. By seeking to live before them in such a way that they will ask us
of the reason for the hope that is in us. By doing all in our power to bring
them under the sound of the Gospel. This is done through personal witnessing,
giving them a C.D. of the Gospel being preached or a book where the Gospel is
preached, or inviting them to come with you to hear the Gospel. This is done by
supporting in every way you can the spread of the Gospel. Believer, this is our
purpose for being here. To be a fisher of men. May that be our heart in
whatever we do. “As you go, preach.” Pastor Todd
Nibert
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LIMITED
ATONEMENT
We believe, rejoice
in, and preach without apology the great and glorious gospel doctrine of
particular and effectual redemption accomplished by the precious, sin-atoning
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ — Limited Atonement.
I defy
anyone to find any place in the Book of God that even hints at the possibility
that Christ shed his blood for those who perish in hell as well as those who
are saved by it. Everywhere in Scripture, in every place, every chapter, every
verse, every prophecy, every picture, and every type which speaks of or in any
way explains the great and glorious redemptive work of Christ, it is always set
before us as the redemption of a specific people, and a redemption that was effectually
accomplished, a redemption by which specific people (God’s elect) are actually
redeemed. Pastor Don Fortner
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I have
finished the race. 2 Timothy 4:7
The life of faith is
compared to a race. However, it is not a sprint but a marathon. Many can run a sprint, but few can run a
marathon. As Paul neared the end of his
life, he did not brag that he ran faster than others, ran with proper form, or
that he never stumbled or fell during the race.
He mentions only that he finished.
Often we become so wrapped up in how well
we are running that we forget that the goal of this race is simply to
finish. And we know that the race is
much longer than our stamina can endure, so we do not look to ourselves for the
strength to run it. Rather, we look to
the only One who was able to run this race under His own power and do so
victoriously.
Child of God, do not give up though the
way seems much farther than you can run, and do not fear that you shall not
finish. You will. The same grace of God
that put you in that race will be sufficient for you to finish.
Pastor Joe Terrell
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FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLY
I have never known a
man, who for whatever reason, absented himself from the public worship of God,
who did not sooner or later bring sorrow upon himself and upon his family.
Blessed are the people who find their place within the temple of Thy grace. Pastor Scott Richardson
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Faith is not
understanding God or figuring Him out intellectually. Faith is simply believing
with our hearts and minds that everything God has recorded and promised in His
Word is true even if we don’t understand it.
Pastor David Eddmenson
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ETERNAL
EXCELLENCY AND JOY
Isaiah 60: 15: Whereas thou hast been forsaken
and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations.
Christ makes his people what we were not. We were “forsaken and hated, so that no
man went through thee.” But God says, “I will make thee an
eternal excellency.” This is Christ our Sovereign Savior by whose will we
are made the righteousness of God in him. We are saved by God’s will, not our own. Christ conquered every enemy of his people. Anyone in this earth that appears to be our
enemy is a puppet in the hand of our sovereign Redeemer to work good for us and
glory to him.
Christ also
promises to make his church “a joy of many generations.” It means he
will make us a joy from one generation to the next, generation after
generation. As we were born into this
world we were of no spiritual profit to anyone. But Christ makes us a joy of many
generations. For instance, Christ used faithful
men to reveal himself in me. Doing so, Christ made those men of that generation
a “joy” to a younger generation. Now
Christ has raised up this church and called out some of his young sheep. He has
made us a joy to another younger generation through making himself a joy to
them. So it goes, Christ working this work in his people making his church a
joy from generation to generation.
When you
are young, you have dreams to achieve great things! But there is no greater
honor on this earth than to be the church of the living God! There is no
greater honor than to be earthen vessels, filled with these unsearchable
riches, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us! Christ
promises, “I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.”