April 12, 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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videos are now listed as individual sermons, as well as full services—click
here.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
·
Until further
notice our online live broadcast begins each Sunday at 9am
·
No Friday night
bible classes until further notice.
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Proverbs
14:26: In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children
shall have a place of refuge.
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We rejoice today that we have the blessed privilege to
assemble, in heart, around the Gospel. I know that these times are different
from the norm, but the Lord’s providence has dictated these times and we bow to
His will and purpose. The authorities, for the health and safety of our
citizens, have placed restrictions upon our meeting together, and we’re
commanded, in accordance to our obedience to Christ, to “be subject unto
the higher power. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are
ordained of God” Rom. 13:1. Bro. Henry Mahan made this comment, “The
person who resists, rebels against, or sets himself against proper authority in
any of these places is resisting the order and ordinance of God.”
We may not, in
accordance with the Lord’s providence, be able to collectively meet as usual, but
that doesn’t stop us from worshipping…It doesn’t stop us from preaching and
hearing the Gospel. Pray for those men that the Lord has raised up and
commanded to comfort His people. Pray that His word might go forth in power and
thank Him for the privilege to hear the word that He has sent forth through His
servants to the salvation and comfort of those He has everlastingly loved in
Christ.
Pastor Marvin Stalnaker
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BY FAITH ABRAHAM
Genesis 22:5, Hebrews 11:17-19
One of the greatest statements of faith
recorded in all the Bible is found in Genesis chapter 22, verse 5. Speaking to
the young men that accompanied him and Isaac that day to Mount Moriah, Abraham
said, “I and the lad (Isaac) will go yonder and worship, and come again to
you.” If Abraham was to be obedient to God’s command and sacrifice his son
Isaac, how then could Isaac return with him? Hebrews chapter 11, verses 17-19
explains and reveals very well how he could say such a thing. “By faith
Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the
promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac
shall thy seed be called: accounting (or concluding) that God was able
(powerful, capable) to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he
received him in a figure.”
Isn’t that what faith is? It is
concluding, (having the matter resolved in our minds and hearts), that God is
capable and has the power, to perform anything and everything that He has
promised. Beloved, “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without
wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)” Hebrews 10:23 Pastor David Eddmenson
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GROWING IN
GRACE
As God's people grow in grace and the knowledge of
Christ, our prayers change! There is more praise and less petition; more
gratitude and less “give me;” more thanksgiving and fewer requests. I believe
this is a sign of spiritual maturity. Psalm
103 is an example of this. Most agree that David wrote the psalm in his later
years; for there is a clear sense of the FRAILTY OF THIS LIFE, there is a KEENER
AWARENESS OF SIN, and there is a HIGH PRIORITY PLACED ON MERCY AND
FORGIVENESS! As far as I can tell, NOT ONE PETITION NOR REQUEST occurs
throughout the entire psalm. The psalmist, David, kneels in adoration and
praises the Lord Himself. Let us learn from this. It is possible to be taken up
with blessings, gifts, and benefits and fail to praise, thank, and rejoice in
THE LORD HIMSELF!
Pastor Henry Mahan
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WE MUST BE FILLED
Romans
15: 13: Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that
ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
In chapters 14 and 15 the apostle Paul
exhorted us as God’s saints to receive our weak brethren and not doubt or
dispute with them. He admonished us to
follow after things which make for peace for the good of our brethren; to follow
after things wherewith we may edify one another; to bear the infirmities and
shortcomings of our weak brethren; to please our brethren for their edification
rather than please ourselves. Then by
this prayer Paul shows us the only way a sinner like you and me can do those
things is when God fill us with all joy and peace in believing, that we might
abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Doubting and disputing is due to unbelief
that Christ can make our brother stand without our help. Unbelief is not full
of joy and peace but bitterness and unrest which results in biting and
devouring. But when God fills us with all
joy and peace in believing on Christ then we are able to trust our weak
brethren to Christ. Then we abound in
hope that our Master is able, and shall, make our weak brother stand. When we ourselves have experienced God’s power
in filling us then we will wait on Christ to do the same in our weak brethren. We are never more certain that everything we have is through the power
of the Holy Ghost than when the Spirit blesses us in spite of us. After God shows us that we are too weak to even
seek a word from God for our brother, then the Holy Ghost fills us with God’s
word in spite of us, it makes us know that everything we have is through the
power of the Holy Ghost.
So brethren we cannot find fault with a
weak brother without finding fault with God who filled him—he is what he is by
the grace of God (Rom 14: 4). What will
make us suffer long and be kind, believe all things, hope all things, endure all
things for a weak brother? What will
make us trust him to Christ, abounding in hope that Christ is able to make him
stand? When “the God of hope fills us
with all joy and peace in believing, that we may abound in hope, through the power
of the Holy Ghost.”