January 25, 2015
SOVEREIGN
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
LOCATION
Rocky Hill Firehouse,
2nd Floor
150 Washington Street
Rocky Hill, New
Jersey, 08553
Clay Curtis, pastor
Telephone:
615-513-4464
Schedule
of Services
Sunday 10: 15 AM
Bible Class
Sunday 11:00 AM Morning
Service
Thursday 7: 30 PM
Midweek Service
Sermons on Video @ www.youtube.com
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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.
Check the announcements.
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All articles in the bulletin are by the
pastor unless otherwise noted.
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Speak what Scriptures say; do not twist them. They who twist the Scriptures do so “to their
own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16). If
what you believe is contrary to the Scriptures, twist your beliefs to the
destruction of your error. Daniel Parks, pastor
of First Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, Frederiksted, US Virgin Islands, and
missionary of Caribbean Mission.
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God’s will, God’s ways, and God’s
works are always right, righteous, just, and good. In all things, it is ours to
bow to him, not to question him, but to trust his wisdom, goodness, and grace. Don Fortner, pastor of Grace Baptist Church
of Danville, KY
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“I Do Not
Frustrate the Grace of God”
When people turn to the law for righteousness they frustrate the grace
of God and deny Christ and all that Christ accomplished. — “If righteousness
come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” (Galatians 2:21). Not only is
that so, but those who seek righteousness by the law violate the very law they
claim to keep. “Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear
the law?” (Galatians 4.21)
The law says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” — Yet,
if you seek justification by law then you make law your god.
The law says, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.” —
But, when you seek justification by law then you make law your idol.
The law says, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” — When you
seek justification by law, calling yourself a Christian, you take Christ’s name
in vain.
The
law says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” — But you who
seek justification by law break the Sabbath, rejecting Christ who is the
believer’s Sabbath, refusing to rest in Him.
The
law says, “Honour thy father and thy mother.” — But when you seek
justification by law, you willfully disobey your heavenly Father, refusing him
the honor and glory due unto his holy name.
The
law says, “Thou shalt not kill.” — But all who seek justification by law
cry out against Christ, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”
The
law says, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” — But he who goes to the law
for righteousness plays the harlot and goes whoring after another god.
The
law says, “Thou shalt not steal.” — Yet, all who go to the law for
justification would rob God of His glory.
The
law says, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” —
But when you boast of your obedience to the law you call God a liar. He
declares, “There is none righteous. No, not one. There is none that doeth
good.”
The
law says, “Thou shalt not covet thou thy neighbors house, thou shalt not
covet thy neighbors wife…nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.” — But when
you go to the law for righteousness you seek for yourself the honor that
belongs to God alone. When you teach others to do so, you seek to steal God’s
bride (His church), and would have her be married to another.
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THE CRY OF THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART
The cry of the heart God has made
broken and contrite:
1) Acknowledges God’s holiness—2 Chr 20: 6: And said, O LORD God of our
fathers, art not thou God in heaven? (Lu 11:2)
2) Praises God’s sovereign power to
do as he pleases—2 Chr 20: 6:…and rulest thou over all the kingdoms of
the heathen? and in thine hand power and might, so that none is able to withstand
thee? (Ps 135:6)
3) Pleads God’s everlasting covenant
grace—2 Chr 20: 7: Art not thou
our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy
people Israel and gavest it to the
seed of Abraham thy friend, for
ever? (Gal 3: 16, 29; Is 53:12; Jer 31:3
4) Cries for God to take up our cause—2 Chro 20: 11 Behold, I say, how
they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given
us to inherit.
5) Confesses our total inability and hope
in God’s faithfulness—2 Chr 20: 12: O
our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great
company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are
upon thee.
The sinner in whom the Spirit of God
has created such a heart, to come to God in Christ, shall be saved—2 Chr 20: 15:…Thus saith the LORD unto you,
Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is
not yours, but God’s…17: Ye shall
not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still,
and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not,
nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with
you…30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round
about.