March 29, 2020
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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YOUTUBE WEBSITE: The videos are now listed
as individual sermons, as well as full services—click here.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Our
Friday night class for our young people for March 27 is canceled due to the
virus. Next class tba. Online services begin tomorrow, Sunday, March 25 at 9am.
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Proverbs 14:24: The crown
of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is
folly.
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O clap your hands, all ye people; shout
unto God with the voice of triumph. Ps.
47:1
The problem we, as believers, have is that
by nature we’re prone to look at the problem and despair rather than look at
the solution to the problem and find comfort, rest and hope. When the children
of Israel were being bitten by the fiery serpents, they weren’t told to look at
the snakes, but were instructed of God, through Moses, to look to the serpent
of brass that was raised up…a beautiful picture and type of our Lord Jesus who
was made sin for us, the Substitute and Savior of His people, and live. Pastor
Marvin Stalnaker
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We can look at the waves of
the trial until we are no longer looking down or across but up at them. We should take our eyes off the waves and
look to Christ. Yet, it is so hard to do
when the waves are raging. But as a dear
pastor friend, who is in a great trial himself, recently told me, “Our souls
sometimes sink within us but we can sink no lower than those everlasting arms of
love that are always underneath us.”
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THE BOOK OF LIFE
I have a notebook that I keep on my desk
in which I write just about everything in. But if you look through my book, you
will find most of the pages filled with what I call doodling (which means to
scribble absentmindedly). But not every page is that way. Sometimes, when I
think and consider the ones in my life that I so dearly love, I write down
their name. Recently my grandson was looking in my book and he saw his name,
and he excitedly said, “That’s my name, Papaw.” “Why did you write down my
name?” I told him that I wrote his name in my book because I loved him, and
always thought of him, and that I always had his best interest at heart. Now,
every time he comes to our house, and into my study, he wants to see his name
written in my book. He likes it when he sees his two sisters’ names. He likes
it when he sees his mother’s name. He even likes it when he sees my name. But the
name he loves to see and wants to see the most is his name.
I love to think about my name being
written in heaven, in God’s eternal Book, that Book of Life of the Lamb slain
before the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8) What great joy it would
bring me to see the names of all whom I love written in God’s Book. Lost
sinner, I would love to see your name written there. But like my grandson,
there is one name that I desire to see above all the others, and that is mine!
The thought of my name being written there makes me feel and act like I am five
years old again. For like my grandson, I know that God loves me. I know that
Christ died for me, and I know that I am constantly and forever on His mind.
God, my Father, has my eternal interest and welfare at heart. Is your name
written there? May God be pleased to make
it so! Pastor David Eddmenson
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IT
IS A VERY SMALL THING
When
unjustly judged, rather than defend himself or fire back a barrage of
accusations, the Holy Spirit moved the apostle Paul to write, “with me it is a
very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I
judge not mine own self…but he that judgeth me is the Lord.”
Here then
is the Holy Spirit’s instruction to us when we are judged unjustly and/or are
tempted to hastily make our judgment, “Therefore judge nothing before the time,
until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall
every man have praise of God.”
It takes
God’s grace to make us do so—especially when we are unjustly judged—but
remember Paul’s words when unjustly judged of men, “It is a very small
thing!” Wait on the Lord to make all
things clear!
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Assembling with
our brethren under the preaching of the gospel is more vital than anything else
in the life of a believer. It is through
preaching that God has chosen to save his people from the first hour of
conversion until we take our last breath.
Therefore, nothing is worth making us cease gathering together with God’s
saints. It is a sad but true fact which
is declared in scripture and verified by experience that when those in a local
assembly cease assembling with their brethren they have taken the first step to
apostacy. When God’s wisdom in saving by
this means becomes insignificant to a professing believer they are dangerously
entering the broad way that leads to destruction. May God make us hear and heed his word to “consider one another
to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so
much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after that
we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice
for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation,
which shall devour the adversaries” (Heb 10:24-27).
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