May 20, 2012
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
LOCATION
Rocky Hill Firehouse,
2nd Floor
150 Washington Street
Rocky Hill, New
Jersey 08553
Telephone:
615-513-4464
Schedule of Services
Sunday 10:15 AM Bible
Class
Sunday 11 AM Morning
Service
Thursday 7:30 PM
Midweek Service
I do unfeignedly believe that Christ will in no wise cast
out anyone who comes to him, and I dare say that to every man and woman of the
human race; but I also believe just as firmly that no one cometh unto Christ
save those whom the Father draws to him, and that all whom the Father hath
given to Christ shall surely come to him. Both of these statements are true;
therefore, both of them are to be believed, and we may rest assured that they
both agree with one another.
Charles Spurgeon
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The Glory Of His
Free Grace
By John Newton
The miserable and guilty, who find themselves without either plea or hope,
but what the Gospel proclaims by Christ, are bidden without exception, and
received without condition. Though they have been the vilest offenders, they
are freely accepted in the beloved, and none of their iniquities shall be
remembered any more. The whole tenor of our Savior’s ministry was suited to
depreciate the most specious attainments of those who trusted in themselves
that they were righteous, and to encourage all who felt and confessed
themselves to be miserable sinners.
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EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES
2 Peter 1:4
The defects of a false promise are removed
by certainty. Here is the certainty of
God’s promises: they are of the grace of God; they are by God who cannot lie;
they are of God who changes not; they are promises accomplished by God the Son,
Christ Jesus; and they are promises effectually wrought in the heart of his
elect by God the Holy Spirit. There
would only be a defect in those promises if God entrusted you and I with any
part to fulfill. But the triune God
himself fulfills all his promises; therefore, the promises of God are not yes
and no, only yes and amen. They are as
exceedingly great and precious as God is exceedingly great and precious. With that in mind consider a few of the
promises God has made to the believer.
1. There is no more offering for
sin (Heb 10:15-17)
2. Christ has reconciled us to God by the body of his flesh through death (Col
1:21-22; Eph 2:19)
3. In Christ we have the promise of eternal life (Jn 6:54)
4. Because he has given us the Spirit of adoption, we are children and have the
promise of inheritance, called heirs of promise. (Rom 8:17-18; 1 Jn 3:2)
5. We have the promise of resurrection (1 Corinthians
15:52-57)
6. Our Savior has given us the
promise of reigning with Christ (Rev 3:21)
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Deliverance from Pressing Temptations
By JC Philpot
"The Lord knoweth how to deliver
the godly out of temptations." 2 Peter 2:9
Few will sincerely and spiritually go to
the Lord and cry from their hearts to be delivered from the power of a
temptation, until it presses so weightily upon their conscience, and lies so heavy
a burden upon their soul, that none but God can remove it. But when we really
feel the burden of a temptation; when, though our flesh may love it, our spirit
hates it; when, though there may be in our carnal mind a cleaving to it, our
conscience bleeds under it, and we are brought spiritually to loathe it and to
loathe ourselves for it; when we are enabled to go to the Lord in real
sincerity of soul and honesty of heart, beseeching him to deliver us from it, I
believe, that the Lord will, sooner or later, either remove that temptation
entirely in his providence or by his grace, or so weaken its power that it
shall cease to be what it was before, drawing our feet into paths of darkness
and evil. As long, however, as we are in that state of which the prophet
speaks, "Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty"
(Hosea 10:2); as long as we are in that carnal, wavering mind, which James
describes, "a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways;" as long
as we are hankering after the temptation, casting longing, lingering side
glances after it, rolling it as a sweet morsel under our tongue, and though
conscience may testify against it, yet not willing to have it taken away, there
is no hearty cry, nor sigh, nor spiritual breathing of our soul, that God would
remove it from us. But when we are brought, as in the presence of a
heart-searching God, to hate the evil to which we are tempted, and cry to him
that he would, for his honor and for our soul's good, take the temptation away,
or dull and deaden its power; sooner or later the Lord will hear the cry of
those who groan to be delivered from those temptations, which are so powerfully
pressing them down to the dust.