August 9, 2020
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Meeting Location and Mailing Address
251 Green Lane
Ewing, NJ, 08368
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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Proverbs 15: 6: In the house of the
righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is
trouble.
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If we were
asked to picture the most hideous, nasty, foul, repulsive and detestable thing
we could conjure up in our minds, I am sure we could come up with some real
offensive, horrendous, vile, obnoxious and nauseating things. However, I am
certain that none of us would have thought of ourselves. Pastor David Eddmenson
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DOES YOUR LIFE MATTER TO YOU?
I do not ask if your life matters to others. You of course know that
your life, like the life of everyone else, matters to some but not to all.
Rather, I ask if your life matters to you?
This question is implied in the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew
16:24-26: “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will
lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit
is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what
will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
If your life matters to you, you will lose it in order to find it. You will
lose it by surrendering it to Jesus Christ and living for Him as you follow
Him. He will in the end give to you everlasting life in glory.
If your life does not matter to you, you will save it in order to lose it. You
will save it by gratifying yourself and accumulating earthly possessions. But
even if you gain all the world’s pleasures and wealth, it will be for naught.
For in the end you will lose it all and your life also. You will spend the rest
of your existence in agony and woe, regretting that you sold your soul for
nothing.
Does your life matter to you? Pastor Daniel Parks
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OPTIONS
Have you ever made a phone call and a voice comes on and says push 1 or 2 or 4,
then when you push that number it starts all over again. How frustrating. In every part of life there are too many
things to choose from, in going to a restaurant in choosing a car, what kind of
computer should I get, on and on it goes.
But there is one thing in which there are
no options SALVATION from sin and condemnation. God in His holy word has made
it plain and straightforward; “This is my beloved Son hear Him”. God says there is ONE WAY to come unto Him,
One who has the power to give eternal life, One who has the power to make God
the Father known, One in whom a sinner can be accepted.
The Holy Scriptures tells us there is One
Righteousness; One Savior of sinners, One Mediator between God and men “the
man Christ Jesus”. One who has the power to give life and quicken whom He
will. God says there is One whom He appointed heir, One by whom He will be
addressed by, One by whom He will address sinners by, One, JUST ONE.
God will give no man any wiggle room here,
freewill won’t do, works won’t do, merit has no place, and law keeping won’t be
accepted. The Lord God said it this way; “He that believes on the Son of God
hath life he that believes not on the Son the wrath of God abideth on
him.”(John 3:36)
I am so thankful that God the Father
brought me to the place where there was no way out from under the guilt and
condemnation of my sin and revealed the ONE WAY in which He would accept and
make me righteous. That Way is through and by the Lord Jesus Christ. Pastor Donnie Bell
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If somehow sinners could keep the whole law of God by
our works it would not make us righteous because we were in Adam so that when Adam
broke the law we were made sinners. Oh
the good news! If God’s elect broke the
whole law of God (and that’s all we do!) it does not make us guilty because we
were in Christ our Head so that when Christ kept the law we were made righteous. What the Head did the body did!
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WHEN WE SEE THE LORD
A sight of Christ by faith brings peace to
the conscience. There is ever a war within, between the flesh and the Spirit,
grace and nature, the old man and the new: the motions of sin in our members
are ever waring against the law of holiness in our minds: wicked nature is like
the troubled sea, which cannot rest; it is continually casting up mire and
dirt: but the winds and seas of corrupt nature obey Christ. He says, Peace, be
still, and there is a great calm in the soul; for Christ is our Peace, he hath
made our peace with God by his blood; he makes and keeps peace in our souls by
his presence; our stubborn lusts will fight and reign if Christ be absent from
our hearts; therefore, we cannot but be glad when we see the Lord. Pastor David Pledger
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It is when my brother has treated me like an enemy
that I am to be gracious, merciful and forgiving. By definition grace, mercy and forgiveness
can only be given to the underserving.
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Wait On the Lord
Ps. 27:14
Waiting on
the Lord is an attitude that is completely foreign to the natural man. That’s
why the new man struggles while he truly desires to wait on the One who loves
him and gave Himself for him. He knows that the Lord is working all things
after the counsel of His own will and that whatsoever comes to pass has been
eternally purposed by the Lord for His glory and the eternal good of His elect
and shall not fail to be brought about. But though these truths are known and
loved by the people of God…still they experience the battle within to take
matters into their own hands. O may the Lord help us to wait upon Him. Pastor
Marvin Stalnaker
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Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.
Every believer needs mercy from each other because we
are sinners who offend each other. If unity
is to continue then mercy must continue.
The moment mercy ceases judgment reigns and unity ends. Our constraint to continue being merciful to
each other is God’s constant mercy toward us for Christ’s sake.