October 25, 2020
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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October Cleaning: Ben M. Family Yard/Mulch Week
of 25th Adam K
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Proverbs 15:
17: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith.
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“The
very hairs of your head are all numbered.”(Matthew 10:39)
There
seems to be much anxiousness among the people of God at this time with the
Covid-19 virus and the upcoming election.
It would be good at this time as always to remind ourselves of God’s
absolute sovereignty in all things. This
truth does not breed irresponsibility on our part or at least it shouldn’t; yet
at the same time it should relieve us of anxiety.
God’s
children are spoken of as “the apple of
his eye”. No one is going to stick
his finger in God’s eye, so nothing is going to touch us that He has not
ordained for His glory and our good.
Surely some of us have lived long enough in this world to recognize that
we are poor judges of what we think is good for us and what is not.
Let
us mediate more upon His purpose, His
glory, and less on what we perceive may happen. David Pledger
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“Nothing
that we profess to know, believe, or hope for, deserves the name of a privilege
farther than we are influenced by it to die unto sin, and to live unto
righteousness. Whosoever is possessed of true faith will not confine his
enquiries to the single point of his acceptance with God or be satisfied with
the distant hope of heaven hereafter. He will be, likewise, solicitous how he
may glorify God in the world and enjoy such foretastes of heaven as are
attainable while he is yet upon earth.” John Newton
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Christ By Whom We
Worship
God's dear people have
a true and strong desire to worship Him as He has appointed. When Moses was
given directions for how Israel was to approach God, he was told; "See
that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the
mount" (Heb. 8: 5). God has
a prescribed way for all to approach him. He himself established three things
absolutely necessary to drawing nigh unto him.
1. There was the
Tabernacle; the only place appointed where he would be, and where he would
reveal His glory.
2. He required that a
sacrifice be offered on the altar in the tabernacle before he could be
approached and any man be accepted. There had to be a blood shedding. The
innocent for the guilty. "Without the shedding of blood there is no
remission" (Heb. 9:22).
3. There had to be a
Priest, one appointed by God and he alone could come into the tabernacle, he
alone could offer the sacrifice. He had to be anointed; he had to be without
any blemish.
Oh beloved, we have
all of these requirements in Our Blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ. He was God's
tabernacle, God was in Christ, Christ was God come to dwell among us, and the
Glory of God is seen in Him and Him alone. "The Word was made flesh,
and dwelt (tabernacled) among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth" (Jn. 1: 14).
He was God's Lamb, the
ONLY SACRIFICE that ever put away sin. His blood cleanses from all sin. "Neither
by the blood of bulls and goats, but by His OWN BLOOD he entered in ONCE into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us" (Heb. 9: 12).
He is our Great High
Priest. Christ, "Called of God an high priest after the order of
Melchisedec" (Heb.5: 10).
The priests under the law offered the same sacrifices which could never
take away sins, "But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for
sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God, For by one offering he hath
perfected FOR EVER them that are sanctified" (Heb. 10:11-14).
Since Christ is all
these things unto us, let us draw near in full assurance of faith, for we see
God's glory in Him, we have His shed blood that put away ALL our sin, and we
are accepted in the BELOVED. Donnie
Bell
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He Careth For You!”
1 Peter 5:7
For
that child of God who is laboring under some present distress, there are no
words sweeter than these — “He careth for you!” He cares for your soul.
He cares so much that he gave his only begotten Son to redeem you from sin and
supply you with every spiritual need. Surely, if Jesus Christ died to redeem
your soul from death, you must know his great care. Not only is that so, the
Lord God tenderly cares for the bodies and the concerns of the lives of his
people. Do you believe that He cares? Then cast your care upon the Lord!
Are you troubled about your sin? Cast it
upon the Lord. Are you troubled about some personal trial? Cast it upon the
Lord. He was tempted in all points like as we are. He is touched with the feeling
of our infirmities. He is able to help them that believe. Go, therefore, with
your heavy burden to the throne of your merciful High Priest, cast your burden
there and find grace and mercy to help in your time of need. Don Fortner
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COMMANDING THE
STORM
Psalm 107: 25: For
he commandeth, and
raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26: They mount up
to the heaven, they go down again to the depths.
Storms on the
ocean are a wonder of God. God also commands
the spiritual wind. Christ said, “The
wind bloweth [where it will] and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not
tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of
the Spirit” (Joh 3:6-8). We have no
power to resist the Spirit of God. The
Holy Spirit determines the outcome. He
quickens us and makes our sins exceeding sinful in light of Christ crucified. This Psalm says the waves bring sailors to
their “wits end.” The margin reads
“all their wisdom is swallowed up.”
So it is when the Spirit of God makes Christ Wisdom unto us, “Then they cry unto the LORD in their
trouble,…” (v28). We cast all
our care into Christ’s hand when we can do nothing else. When God has made us
see we cannot save ourselves then God makes us willing to cast all our care upon
our Lord Jesus in faith. Then by
bringing us into saving communion with our Lord Jesus Christ “…he bringeth them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they
glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven” (vv28-30).