May 5, 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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Brother
Kevin Thacker is scheduled to bring the message in the mid-week service this
week. I am scheduled to preach in the
conference at Hurricane Road Grace Church in Ashland, KY where Frank Tate is
pastor. Lord willing, I will drive back
after Saturday morning services so I will be here Sunday morning.
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Proverbs 13: 7: There is that maketh himself
rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath
great riches.
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So
long as we try to make ourselves the exception to God’s word concerning how it
pleases God to save sinners then our lives will be filled with guilt and unrest. It is only when God brings us to repent from
our way and submit to God’s way of salvation that we find rest for our souls.
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“Jesus
Christ our Saviour” (Titus 3:6)
We
gather today in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior believing his promise that
he is in our midst. What a privilege and
blessing it is to gather with others who trust and love Jesus Christ our
Saviour. False religion teaches men to
trust in an experience or in certain doctrines and creeds. The Scriptures teach that salvation, eternal
life, the forgiveness of sins is not in a creed or doctrine. We acknowledge that good sound doctrine is
very important because it always points to Jesus Christ our Saviour. God’s
salvation for sinners is in a Person. “He
that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life”1 John
5:12.
He is the one and only mediator between
God and men. His blood is the only
remedy that puts away sin, His righteousness is the only righteousness that
justifies, and his death is the only means that reconciles to God. I’m thankful
for the privilege to join today with all of you who know the Lord Jesus Christ
and for us to worship Jesus Christ our Savior, who conquered death for us.
Pastor
David Pledger
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SIGNS
OF LIFE
Signs
of physical life are hunger and thirst. Even
so, when one has spiritual life in Jesus Christ there is hunger and
thirst. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6
Pastor John Chapman
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ACCORDING
TO THE FREE-WILL SCHEME, the Lord intends good, but He must wait like a lackey
on His own creature to know what his intention is; God willeth good, and would
do it, but He cannot because He has an unwilling man who will not have God’s
good thing carried into effect. What do ye, sirs, but drag the Eternal
from His throne and lift up into it that fallen creature, man; for man,
according to that theory, nods and his nod is destiny. You must have a
destiny somewhere; it must either be as God wills or as man wills. If it
be as God wills, then Jehovah sits sovereign upon His throne of glory, and all
hosts obey Him, and the world is safe; if not God, then you put man there to
say, “I will” or “I will not; if I will it, I will enter heaven; if I will it,
I will despise the grace of God; if I will it, I will conquer the Holy Spirit,
for I am stronger than God, stronger than omnipotence; if I will it, I will make
the blood of Christ of no effect, for I am mightier than the blood, mightier
than the blood of the Son of God himself; though God make His purpose, yet will
I laugh at His purpose; it shall be my purpose that shall make His purpose
stand or fall.” Why, sirs, if this is not atheism, it is idolatry; it is
putting man where God should be; and I shrink with solemn awe and horror from
that doctrine which makes the grandest of God’s works – the salvation of man –
to be dependent upon the will of His creature whether it shall be accomplished
or not. Glory I can and must in my text in its fullest sense. “IT
IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH, NOR OF HIM THAT RUNNETH, BUT OF GOD THAT SHOWETH
MERCY” (Romans 9:16).
C. H. Spurgeon
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Luke
writes concerning the Bereans “These were
more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all
readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were
so. Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were
Greeks, and of men, not a few. (Ac 17:11-12) They received the word with a
ready mind then searched the scriptures daily.
It says, “Therefore, many of them
believed.” So search the scriptures
daily to see if these things I preach are so.
It may be that God will give you faith to believe as he did the Bereans.
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“As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Romans 9:13
When I was first exposed to the doctrine of grace and the sovereignty of
God, the above verse became the sledge-hammer that I used to pulverize the
erroneous doctrines of “God loving everybody” and “Christ dying for everyone.”
It was almost as though I rejoiced in the fact that “God hated Esau.” I don’
feel or think that way any longer. The
more God shows me how much l am like Jacob, the wretched deceiver that he was,
the more my heart is astonished that God could love Jacob or me. I understand how He could hate me, but how He
could love me is beyond my understanding.
Pastor David Eddmenson
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NOT
FAR BUT NOT IN
Mark 12: 34: And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto
him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
The charge
Christ has given his pastors is “Comfort
ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and
cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned:
for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.” (Isa
40:1-2) But we are not to comfort anyone who does not yet believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. The worst thing in the
world would be to go to hell calling God our Father when we have not bowed the
knee to Christ! The person to whom
Christ spoke these words was very near. But
Christ told him the truth. He did not
say, “Thou art in the kingdom of God”
but “Thou art not far from the kingdom of
God.”
Perhaps, some here are not far from the
kingdom of God. But not far is not in. May
God comfort us in the assurance of faith when we truly believe on Christ. But if there be any who are not truly resting
in Christ, may God make them see their need of truly believing on Christ. It is not enough to meet Christ standing as
near as the threshold of faith. We must
enter Christ the Door through faith in him. We must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thereby enter the kingdom of God.