November
11, 2018
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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SUNDAY’S READING IN PROVERBS
Proverbs 12: 11: He that tilleth his
land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void
of understanding.
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I OUGHT
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren,
and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought
to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. (1 Thess. 4:1)
I ought to love my God and Savior with all
my heart, soul and strength. I ought to love my neighbor as much as I love
myself. I ought to prefer my brothers and sisters so much over myself, that I
would die for them. I ought to pray more. I ought to study the scriptures more.
I ought to love my wife, children and grandchildren more. I ought to think on
my Savior more and share His Gospel with others more. I ought to complain less
and praise more. I ought to bow to all things providential. I ought to forgive
more. I ought to walk and to please God so I could abound more and more as a
child of the Living God. I ought to do all these things out of love, adoration
and for the glory of God in the Lord Jesus Christ who loved me and gave Himself
for me. Lord, cause me to do as I ought! Pastor
David Eddmenson
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Four
things comfort the child of God in trials and afflictions:
1. We can trust the God who appoints
them. (1 Thessalonians 3:3)
2. We can trust that He knows our frame. (Psalm 103:14)
3. We can trust that good will always be waiting at the end of the
trial. (Romans 8:28)
4. We can trust that one day soon He will “…stablish your hearts
unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ with all his saints.” (1 Thessalonians 3:13) Pastor
Gabe Stalnaker
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FOR CHILDREN OF BELIEVERS
Proverbs 6: 20: My son, keep thy
father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21: Bind them
continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22: When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when
thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk
with thee. 23: For the commandment is
a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the
way of life: 24: To keep thee from the
evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Children of believing parents have great advantage. You have parents saved by God’s free grace who
have used the means God has provided them to provide the gospel of Christ for
you. There are millions of children born
into this world who do not have believing parents. Their parents want nothing to do with God and want
their children to have nothing to do with God. But God has given you the advantage of having parents
who pray for you that God might be pleased to make you to obey his commandment, the gospel of salvation through
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. “My son,
keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.”
Like all sinners born of Adam,
every believing parent was born dead in sin.
A believing father and mother knows what it is to be in unbelief. When your father and mother bear witness to you
that God is rich in mercy and quickens dead sinners, you have the advantage of
hearing the truth from someone you love, from someone you know will tell you
the truth, who knows the grace and power of God by experience. “My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and
forsake not the law of thy mother.”
Believing fathers and mothers once
denied our sins and thought we could save ourselves by our works. When your father and mother tell you how
Christ fulfilled the law for them, made peace for them with God and reconciled them
to God they are telling you, from personal experience, of the great things God
has done for them. What great advantage to
have parents who can relate to you where you are and speak the truth to you in
love by the experience of God’s saving grace! “My son,
keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.”
As children of believers when
you behold your parents persevere in faith through the trials they endure, you get
to see first-hand how God preserves his children by his grace for the sake of
Christ their Righteousness. You have
the advantage of seeing first-hand how God uses trials to work in his people greater
dependence upon God. When your believing
father and mother tell you that all God’s promises are in Christ yes and in him
amen they are speaking the truth to you that they know from painful and joyful
experience. “My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy
mother.”
Here is something you may have never considered. As believing fathers and mothers we have this
commandment of God our Father given
to us through the preaching of the gospel by God’s use of the church, typified
here as “the law of thy mother.” This commandment
of our heavenly Father, this law delivered
to us through preaching, is to believe on God’s Son and to love one another as
Christ gave us commandment. When a
believing father and mother find ourselves burdened over our children and we tell
you the one thing needful is to heed this command,
this law, to believe on Christ, never
think we are telling you something that we do not deem as the one thing needful
for ourselves. As we speak this word to you, we hear our heavenly Father speak
to us, “My son, keep thy Father’s
commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother.”
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UPON THINE HEART AND ABOUT THY NECK
Proverbs 6: 20: My son, keep thy
father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21: Bind them
continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22: When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when
thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk
with thee. 23: For the commandment is
a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the
way of life: 24: To keep thee from the
evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
When God binds his commandment, his law—the gospel of Christ—upon the heart
of his child, Christ’s yoke of faith and love becomes light and easy upon our
neck. When in our heart, God make us
know that Christ has put away our sins and that our Beloved is our only Righteousness
then believing on Christ becomes a delight in our inward man. After the Spirit reveals in our hearts how our
heavenly Father loved us and chose us freely without a cause in us and sent his
only begotten Son who justified us freely by his grace then by God’s gift our
once stiff neck slips willingly into Christ’s light and easy yoke, believing on
him by the constraint of his love.
For the unbelieving child, the
reason the command of father and mother is a burden is because sinners despise
God’s authority and the authority God sets over us: religious, parental and
civil. In our natural state we are rebels
against authority because our hearts are enmity against God the Authority. Therefore, the life of rebellion is hard. When Christ brought Paul down, Christ said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is
hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” (Acts 26: 14) But after God
binds his word in the heart he has made new, the gospel becomes an ornament
about our neck. Children, submit to your
father’s command next time and see if you do not find rest. So it is with Christ!
When Christ fills our heart
and his light yoke of faith and love is about our neck, “When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep
thee; and when thou awakest, it
shall talk with thee.” (Pr 6:22) When we go, Christ our Shepherd leads his
dear children along. When we lay our
heads down to sleep, the best lock on the door, the greatest peace in the dark
night, is knowing we have forgiveness with God through the precious blood of
Christ, saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. When we awake, the burdens of life are lightened
having communion with Christ in our hearts.
For you who having believing parents, know this. Faith in the Lord Jesus and peace with God is
what your parents desire more than anything for you. Obey them. Attend the preaching of the gospel eager to
hear God’s word. Listen, not looking to
doubt, but to believe the Lord Jesus. The gospel is a lamp and a light, reproving
and instructing us in Christ who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. The
gospel keeps us from the evil, strange, harlot of Babylon, with her false
religion and lies.