August 2, 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: 5: A fool
despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
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“He must increase, but I must decrease.”
John 3:30
John the Baptist, the man who was sent to
prepare the way of the Lord; the man who our Lord Jesus Christ said was the
greatest prophet born of a woman, said: “The Lord
Jesus Christ must increase, but I must decrease.” To that, all of God’s people will cry: Amen! The higher that the Lord Jesus
Christ is raised up, and the more exalted God’s people see Him to be… The
happier they are! When Christ is exalted, their joy is exalted, their hope is
exalted, and their faith is exalted as it LOOKS UP to Him, HIGH in the heavens.
The higher they see His throne to be, the more glorious the gospel of their
redemption is to them, and the more in awe they are of how far He came down to
save them. After seeing Christ in all of His exalted glory, God’s
people cannot and will not ever see Him any other way. They will cry to every soul
who will listen: “He must increase,
but I must decrease!” Pastor Gabe
Stalnaker
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Human rights in this country (USA) is a big
deal. We protect our rights, we fight and die for them. However, before God we
have no rights. Our rights were forfeited in Adam. We have forfeited them by
our own sinfulness. Any sinner who winds up in heaven does so on the rights of
another, and that one is Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
Pastor John Chapman
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CHRIST IS GOD
In the original Hebrew language the 68th
Psalm gives different names for God—v1: Let God [Elohim] arise—God our
Judge; v4:…extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH—Jehovah,
the existing one; v11: The Lord [Adonai] gave the word—sovereign,
controller, supreme ruler; v14:…the Almighty [Shaddai] scattered kings—almighty,
most powerful; v19…the God [El] of our salvation—strength of our
salvation. Who is this God? V18: Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast
led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the
rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. Ephesians 4:8 declares this is the Lord Jesus
Christ. Brethren, Christ Jesus is Elohim,
JAH, Adonai, El Shaddai, our risen, successful Redeemer!
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THE
DIMENSIONS OF CHRIST’S LOVE
Ephesians
3: 18: May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height; 19: And to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Psalm
103 gives the dimensions of Christ’s love
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The height—Ps 103: 11: For as the
heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that
fear him.
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The breadth—Ps 103: 12: As far as the
east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from
us.
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The depth—Ps 103: 13: Like as a father
pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. 14:
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
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The length—Ps 103: 17: But the mercy of
the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,…
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There
are two systems under which all men look the same – the law and grace. All who
are under the law look the same: guilty. So their end is the same: destruction.
All who are under grace look the same: righteous. So their end is the same:
blessing. Pastor Joe Terrell
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THE END OF TRIALS
A record producer, David Foster, was driving
home from the studio late one night when he ran over a man standing in the road. At the hospital, the man was bleeding from
his ears, mouth, and nose, had broken legs, arms, ribs, internal and spinal
injuries. During the exam, physicians discovered
he had a bleeding brain aneurism which caused him delirium which is why he was in
the highway flailing his arms. But if he
had not been hit by the car the aneurism would have killed him within hours. Turns out the man was the actor Ben Vereen. He recovered fully. He became friends with David Foster. He often said that David Foster saved his life
by running over him with his car.
Sometimes,
God’s trials are painful. We think they
will kill us. But they are the means God
uses to turn us to Christ and save his chosen from sure and certain death.
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YE HAVE DONE IT
UNTO ME
Matthew 25: 40: And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I
say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
This
declares every believer’s oneness with Christ.
We are “members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones” (Eph 5: 30).
He made us one with him and one another even as Christ and the Father are one
(Jn 17: 22-23). What a blessing! What a constraint! Whatever we do to the least of his brethren we
do unto HIM! This makes us want to do whatever
good thing we can for one another. It
makes us want to never do anything bad to our brethren. “Inasmuch
as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me.”