November 29,
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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Nov Cleaning: J Keller Family
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Proverbs 15: 22: Without counsel
purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are
established.
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When a man
begins to give up truth, a lie will soon fall in his way; he that gives up his
principles, will soon give up his practice also; they both abide or go
together. "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will
keep thee from the hour of temptation," (Rev. 3:. 10). Let a man give
up the truth as it is in Christ, and the father of lies shall soon find him out
and shew the world both his nakedness and his shame, (Rev. 3: 18). All the
legal bounds that have been set by God or man will be broken through by a child
of Satan if grace prevents not.
But the child of God is of another
spirit; his Father's frowns, rods, and rebukes, together with the loss of joy,
peace, and comfort is a hell to him; and will have more weight with him than
all the laws in the world. The mysterious path, cross providences, the inward
struggles between grace and corruption, it being our strength to stand still in
the midst of dangers, Isa 30: 7, to rejoice in our infirmities that the power
of Christ might rest upon us, 2 Cor. 12: 9, counting it all joy when we fall
into divers temptations, telling the weak to call themselves strong, Joel 3:
10, and that the lame shall take the prey, Is 33: 23, believing in Christ for
justification, is the only way…of divine
favor; [to the contrary,] working under the law is contracting an infinite and
eternal debt, Rom. 4: 4: and they are things that [lack] the will of God as a
rule [to live by],…they will [leave us spiritually ignorant of what it is to
walk in newness of spirit; the letter leaves us spiritually ignorant of how it forbids
an act such as] Rahab selling and betraying her country [when God declares she
did it] by faith in Christ [and was] justified in the very act while she
received the spies with peace.
William Huntington S.S
(1745-1813)
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The gospel of
Christ our Substitute, by whose blood and for whose sake God forgives all our
sins, is the message God used to give us a fear of God, mortify our flesh, and
strengthen our inner man to cast all our care on Christ. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that the same
message is what I ought to speak to restore my brother in every time of
need? Mortification is not accomplished
by the flesh—not by the believer’s own fleshly strength nor by the tongue set
on fire of hell. Mortification is by the
Spirit of Christ who works through the one gospel of Christ crucified, not
bringing us again into bondage to fear, but reminding us of free forgiveness
for Christ’s sake which makes us cry out to our heavenly Father who provides everything
needed (Rom 8:12-16). On one occasion a
group of believers by their own strength desired to physically pull down an
idol set up by the papacy. Martin Luther
told them, “Leave it alone. If we can
preach Christ into their hearts they will pull it down themselves.” The gospel of Christ is our only weapon. It is mighty through God to pull down all our
strongholds and bring our every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ, which makes us take revenge on our sinful flesh (2 Cor 10: 3-5).
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“There
is a Friend that Sticketh Closer Than a Brother”
Proverbs
18:24
Where can we find the complete fulfillment
of these words, except in Him who became our Brother that he might cleave to us
“closer than a brother” in tenderness and help? “For both he that sanctifieth
and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed
to call them brethren (Hebrews 2:11). We bear witness that Jesus Christ is the
greatest, best, most loving, and faithful of friends. Truly, he “loveth at all times.”
Christ is a Friend to those who have no other friends. He is a Friend who
abides when all others are gone. Christ is a Friend always present. In
temptation, he is a way of escape. In affliction, he is the divine Comforter.
In death, he is our Sustainer. In eternity, he is our Reward. What brother
sticketh so close as Christ, our divine Friend?
Don
Fortner
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The law of
Sinai answers sin with judgment and condemnation; the law of love answers with
grace and forgiveness.
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Light
Afflictions
“For our light affliction, which is but for a
moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2
Cor. 4:17).
How can the believer when under heavy burdens
and afflictions consider our trials and burdens to be light? They can only be
light for the believer resting in the Lord’s good and sovereign providence;
knowing they work for us not against us (Rom. 8:28). Burdens and heartaches for
the unbeliever outside of Christ are unbearable and devastating. Paul describes
our present state of heartache, trouble and sorrow as light when compared to
our future state of exceeding and eternal glory (John 16:33).
Now how can we say that our afflictions are
light?
They are light compared to what we deserve. We
deserve nothing but judgment and the wrath of God for our sins against Him. But
the Lord delights to show mercy to sinners (Rom. 6:23; Psalm 103:10).
They are light compared to what many other
believers have suffered for the gospel. Many have been severely tortured and
gave their lives for the gospel sake (Heb. 11:35; Heb. 12:4).
They are light compared to what the Lord Jesus
Christ suffered for our sins. No man suffered like He did (Isa. 53:4-6; Lam.
1:12). No man endured the wrath of God without any mixture of mercy and died
for the sins of others like our blessed Lord did to bring in everlasting
salvation (1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18).
They are light when compared with the blessings
we enjoy in Christ right now by His sovereign grace (Rom. 8:32-35; Eph. 1:3).
We enjoy the fullness, blessedness and completeness of salvation in Christ
right now (1 Cor. 1:30; Eph. 1:7; Col. 2:91-10).
They are light afflictions compared to our
future and eternal glory. “For I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us. (Rom. 8:17; Rev.
21:1-5).
Tom Harding