February 14,
2021
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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as individual sermons, as well as full services—click here.
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Our deepest sympathy to brother Kevin Thacker and family. But we rejoice for his mother, sister Sue Thacker
(Ps 17: 15).
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MY LOVE FOR
CHRIST
I have a painful complaint, a bitterness in my soul
that is well-nigh unbearable. My love
for Christ is so horribly little that I often fear I have no love for him at
all.
Yet, bless
God, honesty will not allow me to say, horrible thought, I do not love Him. Oh no!
When I hear my Savior say, ‘Lovest thou me?’ I hang my head with shame,
but confess, ‘Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.’ We love Him, because He first loved us.’
I take great comfort and delight in
this: soon, I will love my Savior perfectly!
As soon as these eyes are closed in death, as soon as I have gasped my
last breathe in this weak, mortal, sinful frame. I will love Him who is altogether lovely as
He ought to be loved. Don Fortner
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Oh, The Wonder Of It! Ephesians 1: 6-7—When I think
of the wonder, majesty, and glory of God, I can hardly believe that such a worm
as I am should be called to be an heir of His grace. Yet, it is just this vast difference that
manifests the glory of His grace. He who
is the highest, the holiest, and the greatest has set His affection on the
lowest, the most sinful, and weakest. It is "to
the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the
beloved, In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his
grace." Darvin Pruitt
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EFFECTS OF
BELIEF IN ELECTION
When we truly realize that the Lord of heaven and earth CHOSE US in Christ to
salvation, redeemed us by His blood, and called us by His gospel, it will have
a seven-fold effect on us.
1. It will cause us to REJOICE! "O blessed is the man whom Thou choosest and
causeth to approach unto Thee." Praise Him from whom all blessings
flow.
2. It will promote HUMILITY! "Who maketh thee to differ?" Grace
and pride are incompatible, impossible to exist together. We rejoice in Christ
and have no confidence in this flesh.
3. It will COMFORT us in hard trials! "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."
Even these work together for our good and His glory. When we trust Him, we
don't have to understand.
4. It will SUPPRESS self and sin! "We are not our own;" we are bought
with so great a price. Therefore we desire to glorify our Lord in our souls and
in our bodies.
5. It gives us ASSURANCE! If God foreknew us, predestinated us to be like Christ, justified
us, called us by His Spirit, if Christ redeemed us, intercedes for us and is
for us, who can be against us?
6. It makes DYING easier! The eternal covenant of
grace in Christ was David's pillow of rest and peace when he lay dying (II Sam.
23:1-5). He sought no other source of comfort and hope than the sovereign love
of God in Christ.
7. It will assure us that our PREACHING IS NEVER IN
VAIN! "So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent
it" (Isa.55:11). This cannot be applied to all preaching, ONLY TO THE
PREACHING OF HIS WORD! Henry Mahan
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CHRIST
DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES
“For I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3).
The gospel is not just that Christ died.
The gospel is how that He died for us according to God’s eternal and immutable
decree, “the scriptures” (Acts 2:23:
Revelation 13:8).
• The scriptures declare that His
death was appointed
(Genesis 3:15; 22:8; Psalm 22; Psalm 69; Matthew 16:21; Galatians
4:4).
• The scriptures declare that His
death was voluntary, He willingly laid down His life for
us (Isaiah 53:7; John 10:17-18).
• The scriptures declare that His
death was substitutionary
(Isaiah 53:4-6; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 3:18).
• The scriptures declare that His
death was to accomplish definite
atonement for His people (Isaiah 53:8; Matthew 1:21; John 10:15;
Hebrews 2:17).
• The scriptures declare that His
death satisfied all the
demands of God’s holy Law (Isaiah 42:21; 53:10-12; Daniel 9:24; Rom. 4:25).
• The scriptures declare that His
death was most effectual
to put away all the sin of the covenant people (Psalm 103:12; Isaiah 38;17;
Micah 7:18-20; Hebrews 9:26; 10:17; 1 John 1:7).
Every pledge of salvation has its
accomplishment in the Lord Jesus Christ: “For
all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God
by us” (2 Corinthians 1:21). All that God has promised concerning
salvation in Christ is certain and sure: “And
being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform”
(Romans 4:21). Tom Harding