March 3, 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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SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE WEBSITE: The videos are now listed as individual
sermons, as well as full services—click here.
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Next Sunday, March 10, brothers Scott Keller and Kevin
Thacker will bring the messages. The
conference at Todd’s Road Grace Church is scheduled Friday-Sunday, March
8-10. The speakers are pastors Donnie
Bell, David Eddmenson, Chris Cunningham, John Chapman, Don Fortner, Clay
Curtis, and Joe Terrell.
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Proverbs 12: 27: The slothful man
roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man
is precious.
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DO YOU
TRUST CHRIST?
2
Corinthians 3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward
The
Apostle Paul was so confident in Christ that he preached Jesus Christ and him
crucified (1 Cor 1:23). He determined not to preach anything but “Jesus
Christ, and him crucified” (1 Cor 2:2). A faithful servant of Christ will
commit the salvation of his hearers to Jesus Christ alone. His trust in Christ
is witnessed by his continued and faithful preaching of Jesus Christ only. A
man who turns to the Law of Moses for the sinner’s sanctification has lost
confidence in Christ. A man who turns himself or his hearers to something more
than Christ to present him perfect to Holy God does not have trust in Christ.
He does not think Christ alone is sufficient to save. Believers who trust
Christ are an epistle of Christ’s work. “Forasmuch as ye are manifestly
declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink,
but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy
tables of the heart” (2 Cor 3:3). Because our hearers reflect what we teach
many think we must preach law to keep the flesh in check. But if we are led by
the Spirit of Christ then we will trust Christ to instruct his children and
save them to the uttermost through his gospel. Do you trust Christ to make you
perfect to stand before Holy God? Pastor Eric Lutter
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The only evidence of grace is faith in
Christ. The only basis of assurance is faith in Christ. Pastor
Don Fortner
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When
we find ourselves rebuked by the preaching of the gospel of Christ we must
remember we are hearing God’s word to us personally. His word is “sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:12) “Is not my word like as a fire?
saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” (Jer 23:
29)
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WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO NOTHING!
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are
the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
- Without Christ we
would not exist. Col.1:16
- Without Christ we
would not know God. Matthew 11:27
- Without Christ we
would have no wisdom,
righteousness,
sanctification and redemption. 1Cor. 1:30
- Without Christ we
would have no Mediator. 1Tim.2:5
- Without Christ we
would have no acceptance. Eph. 1:6
- Without Christ we
would have no hope. 1Timothy 1:1
- Without Christ we
would bring forth no fruit. John 15:5
- Without Christ we
would be lost.
Thank God for Jesus Christ. Pastor John Chapman
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STRIVE
TO ENTER IN
The
Lord said in Matthew 11:12, “The kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence,
and the violent take it by force.” While it is true that
salvation is a work of God in which we are passive, men dead in sins do not
actively seek the Living God. It is equally true that when God does
give a dead sinner life, that one who was dead in sins becomes very
active. He “strives to enter in at the straight gate” (Matt.
7:13). He earnestly “seeks God with all his
heart.” He is “importunate”((insistence) in
prayer (Luke 11:8). He seeks to “crucify the
flesh” and “through the Spirit to mortify the deeds of the
body” (Rom. 8:12-13). He is willing to “endure all
things for the elect’s sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is
in Christ Jesus” (II Tim. 2:10). The rest that the believer
enters is not one of laziness, apathy, or indifference. If our belief in
sovereign grace has led us to excuse our sin, justify our disobedience, dampen
our enthusiasm, become indifferent to our responsibility, or make our love and
zeal grow cold…. we have not understood sovereign grace. While all of our
former religious activity does need to be killed, may God deliver us from using
His grace to have a passive attitude that
is not taught in Scripture! Pastor Todd Nibert
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FREE
TO COMMIT MURDER
We
believe the word of God which declares that Christ established the law for his
people so that every believer called to faith in Christ is not under law but
under grace. Therefore, we are accused
of being antinomians. One of the common arguments
involves picking out one of the ten commandments and saying something absurd like,
“So are you free to commit murder?” It
is telling that they always speak of breaking the law outwardly but never
inwardly. The Pharisees of old thought that
way. But our Master said that whosoever is
angry with his brother without a cause has broken the law (Mt 5: 21-22; Mr 7: 20-21). Men who think outward
morality is holiness are men that the Lord likened to whited sepulchers which
are beautiful outwardly but within full of dead mens’ bones, and all uncleaness
(Mt 23:27).
No child of God in whom Christ dwells desires
to abuse our liberty by breaking any commandment of God outwardly. In fact, my brethren in Christ encourage me by
their honorable conduct. But though the
Spirit of God has made us “put off concerning
the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful
lusts”, and has made us “put on on the
new man, which after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness”,
still, we know that in our “flesh dwelleth
no good thing.” (Eph 5: 22-24; Rom
7: 18) The thing we mourn continually is “O
wretched man that I AM.” By continually crying unto God to deliver us
through Christ Jesus our Lord, God keeps us from the mirage of progressive sanctification
with its progressive sinlessness (Rom 7: 24).
Of course we are not free to commit murder!
But make no mistake, we are free! If we were to commit murder we would be
forgiven as was David. It is because our
old man is crucified with Christ, our body of sin is destroyed and we are no longer
the servants of sin “for he that is dead
is freed [justified] from sin” (Rom 6: 6-7). We have “become dead to the law by the body of Christ” so that we are free from the law of Sinai. Now we are “married to another, even to Christ who is raised from the dead, that we
should bring forth fruit unto God” (Rom 7: 3-4). By the faithfulness of Christ living in us, we
have “become servants unto God” that
we might freely live unto our Father (Rom 6: 22) When our Redeemer returns for his purchased
possession and raises our bodies in incorruption, we shall be free from “the body of this death” (Eph 1:14; 1
Cor 15: 42). Until then—as our accusers live
in the deception that legal fear and torment is freedom—we will live under our
Savior’s light and easy yoke of “faith
which worketh by love.” We give God
all the glory that “the law of the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus hath made [us] free from the law of sin and death” (Rom
8: 2; Jn 8: 32; Gal 5:6).
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“For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God.” Job
19:25-26
The Holy Spirit revealed through a man
named Job that God’s saints, those who experience the natural process of
physical death and decay, those who are buried in a natural body and raised in
a spiritual body, those who are sown in weakness and raised in power, will be
raised to actually see their glorious Redeemer…the One who has eternally stood
for them as their Surety and Savior standing on the earth in the latter day.
And according to that revelation, though we see through a glass darkly now…in
that day we who know Him shall also see Him with perfect sight…never to be
without that sight again! O the glorious and inexpressible consideration of
that sight. Pastor Marvin Stalnaker