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The Word Of His Grace

”Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.” | Acts 14: 3

If the triune God is pleased to visit us with the power and presence of his Spirit, revealing the Lord Jesus Christ, his dear Son, to our hearts in all the fulness of his redemptive glory through the preaching of the gospel, we will worship him in Spirit and in truth.

Our worship depends upon God’s revelation of himself.

~ Pastor Don Fortner

Click here to listen to the message “The Word Of His Grace” (57:42 minutes)

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Hurricane Road Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 9 October, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a | Cattletsburg, Kentucky

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Has Christ Been Revealed To Me?

”At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” | Matthew 11: 25-27

There is a hymm where we sing: “I need Thee, oh, I need Thee; Every hour I need Thee; Oh, bless me now, my Savior! I come to Thee.”

God purposed the salvation of each one of His elect (chosen people) that will be redeemed by Jesus Christ, through His own blood and death as our substitute for satisfaction to God’s justice.

If you become a believing Christian, it will be that God brought it about in you by His working and not your free-will.

In Ephesians 1: 5-6 we read: ”Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”

In Phillipians 2: 13, we read: ”For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

There is no way flesh and good works can bring about one’s salvation.

Salvation is of the LORD, it must be brought by God’s grace toward the sinner.

~ Pastor Willy Mapote

Click here to listen to the message “Has Christ Been Revealed To Me?” (32:40 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 5 April, 2026 | Previous post date: n/a

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Precious Faith

”That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:” | 1 Peter 1: 7

FAITH is that belief and trust which the saints have in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Through faith they are both humbled and exalted, brought down and lifted up.

Through faith they see the exceeding sinfulness of sin and the pure righteousness of Jesus the Christ.

Through faith they are condemned yet justified, guilty yet innocent, naked yet clothed, sorrowful yet “rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”

No wonder the Bible speaks of faith as “precious faith.”

~ Pastor Maurice Montgomery

Click here to listen to the message “Jacob’s Name Changed To Israel” (33:10 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 29 March, 2026 | Previous post date: n/a

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Blessed Assurance

“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” | Philippians 1: 21

Assurance of salvation and a saving interest in our Lord Jesus is NOT A FEELING cultivated by thinking good thoughts and doing good deeds.

Paul calls it “full assurance of faith.” It has to do with faith, with BELIEVING GOD!

“Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” (Hebrews 4: 11)

Assurance is born of CONFIDENCE IN THE FATHER as our covenant God; “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.”

Assurance is born of CONFIDENCE IN THE SON as our just God and Saviour; “By His stripes we are healed.”

Assurance is born of CONFIDENCE IN HIS PROMISES; “Abraham was fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.”

So your assurance of redemption is not enhanced by the MORE YOU WORK, but by the MORE YOU TRUST AND REST IN HIM.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Four Words that Demand Your Attention” (44:42 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 11 February, 2018 | Previous post date: 10 June, 2022

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The God Of Peace Shall Be With You

”And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.” | Acts 16: 14

All the glory in salvation belongs to Christ Jesus the Lord.

Even the believers willingness and obedience is by Christ the Power and Wisdom of God.

”For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” (2 Peter 1: 16)

We all know that the power is exercised in these last days through preaching.

”And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.” (1 John 5: 20)

Throughout the generations the LORD God has proven that you and I can never know God by our own wisdom.

”For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” (1 Corinthians 1: 21)

Therefore the preaching of the gospel is God’s ordained means of saving his people in these last days.

”For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1: 16)

But the power in the gospel is the person of Christ who reveals himself in the sinner

”Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.” (Psalm 110: 3)

The Power which makes the gospel the power of God unto salvation is not the power of a preacher, or of a discourse, or of persuasion – Christ worked all things to bring the sinner and the gospel together, Christ sent the truth, Christ opened the heart and revealed himself, and the revelation is Christ himself, the Power of God.

The revelation of the mystery is Christ.

”That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:” (Ephesians 1: 17)

This is the true God, and eternal life.

”But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 1: 23, 24)

The hope of glory is Christ in you, the Power and Wisdom that Christ IS when he makes himself known in the heart which makes a sinner willing.

”That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:” (Ephesians 1: 17)

Only when you see Christ — the beauties of holiness in him – will you be persuaded that he is All.

”And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.” (1 John 5: 20)

All your complete acceptance with God with nothing needed by you.

As we endeavor to bear witness of Christ in this place let’s remember when we are forbidden to go forward as we plan that the Lord always opens the door in his time and not ours.

Let us actively wait on the Lord.

We will know as assuredly as Paul knew when it is time.

Seeing the great detail with which our Lord governs the hearts of those he uses and those whom he calls out, let it not cause us to use his sovereignty as an excuse for laziness.

But may it give us assurance that we can give ourselves to this work: Immediately, Making a straight course, Today and the next day and the next day, Assuredly gathering that the Lord has called us to promote the gospel of Christ in this place.

And finally, may we do so giving all glory to Christ Jesus the Lord in whom dwells all fullness.

”Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” (Philippians 4: 8)

When Paul wrote to the Philippian church later he comforted them by reminding them to always think on “things” – those things are the blessings of the person and work of Christ which you have learned and received (been given.)

The God of peace shall be with you.

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

Click here to listen to the message “Christ Teaches Lydia the Gospel” (42:14 minutes)

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 26 March, 2009 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

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My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord

”That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” | Romans 10: 9-10

When it says, “They were all baptized of him in the river Jordan confessing their sins,” that does not mean prior to baptism they made a public confession of the sins they had committed.

It means they confessed they were so sinful they could only be saved by what baptism depicts!

My hope of salvation is that I was in Christ when He lived, died, and was raised from the dead.

I am so sinful I could not be saved any other way.

When men preach and believe that Christ lived for all men without exception, and died and was raised for all men without exception, yet some of those people will be in hell because they did not do their part, they deny the meaning of baptism, make salvation dependent upon human works, and deny the message of the Gospel.

While they are immersed in water, they have no idea of the meaning of baptism: union with Christ.

~ Pastor Todd Nibert

Click here to listen to the message “My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord” (31:32 minutes)

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Justified In Christ

“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” | Luke 18: 13-14

When the Lord pronounced the sinner as going “down to his house justified” that means he went down to his house having never committed a sin.

But by his own admission he was a sinner: “God be merciful to me a sinner.”

How can that be?

Because by the death of Christ, his sins were blotted out and he was given the righteousness and merits of Christ.

If Christ never sinned, neither did he!

Christ gives us a new history!

All of this is true in justification.

On Judgment day, every believer will be justified, as one having never sinned!

As one who kept God’s Holy law perfectly!

As one who loved God will all his heart and his neighbor as himself.

What a glorious Gospel!

~ Pastor Todd Nibert

Click here to listen to the message “Maintain Good Works – Part 1” (34:08 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 2 November, 2025 | Previous post date: n/a

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The Prayer Of Faith

“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” | James 5: 15-16

James assures us that the prayer of faith, the prayer that is born of and caused by faith in Christ, shall save the sick.

Of course the word “save” means “deliver.”

The prayer of faith shall, most assuredly, deliver the sick from his sickness.

What is “the prayer of faith”?

The next verse tell us: “The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

“THE PRAYER OF FAITH IS “EFFECTUAL”.

The word used by James means “in wrought”.

It is a prayer wrought in, or produced in the heart of a believer by the Spirit of God.

“For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.” (2 Samuel 7: 27)

It is a prayer that is found in the heart, produced by the work of God and based upon the Word of God.

Without question, the prayer of faith willingly submits to the will of God.

But there is more to it than that.

“And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Romans 8: 27)

The prayer of faith discerns what the will of God is by the illumination of the Holy Spirit in his heart.

“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:” (1 John 5: 14)

And the prayer of faith is according to the will of God.

THE PRAYER OF FAITH IS “FERVENT”.

Faith is importunate.

“I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Luke 11: 8-10)

It will not give up its plea until it obtains the mercy it seeks.

“Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.” (Matthew 15: 28)

Like the Syrophenician woman, faith cannot be turned away.

“Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” (Hebrews 7: 25)

THE PRAYER OF FAITH IS THE PRAYER OF “A RIGHTEOUS MAN”, one who has been made righteous by the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to him and by the cleansing of his blood.

“If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14: 15)

It is the prayer of one who draws near to, calls upon, and is accepted of God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH “AVAILETH MUCH”.

“The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.” (Proverbs 15: 8)

The prayer of the righteous is God’s delight; therefore “he heareth the prayer of the righteous.”

“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” (1 John 5: 1)

We have what we desire, because what we desire is what our heavenly Father desires – his will and his glory.

“The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.” (Proverbs 15: 29)

We gladly subject all our desires to these two things.

“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” (James 4: 3)

The prayer of faith is free of selfish desire and personal want.

The prayer of faith wants what God has purposed.

Therefore, it is always effectual.

If my will is subject to and in harmony with my Father’s will, I may, and most assuredly shall have what I will.

~ Pastor Don Fortner

Click here to listen to the message “The Baptist, The Bride, & The Bridegroom” (45:01 minutes)

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 11 August 2008 | Previous post date: 8 March, 2022 | Ewing, New Jersey

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Saving Knowledge

“No man knoweth the Father, save the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal Him” | Matthew 11: 27

Men may believe in God, but there is no way that they can know the living God except in Christ.

“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4: 6)

They may know of His existence, but His essence and glory are only revealed in Christ.

They may know of His works, but His will and wisdom are only seen in Christ.

They may know of His power, but His purpose and decrees are only revealed in Christ.

They may be acquainted with His miracles, but His mercy and grace are only received in Christ.

They may behold His judgments, but His justice satisfied and honored is only revealed in Christ.

“For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” (2 Timothy 1: 12)

If we miss a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus, we may talk of God all our lives and never really know Him.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “A Meeting And A Kiss” (18:05 minutes)

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The Spirit Of Grace And Supplications

”He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.” | Isaiah 53: 11

I am not satisfied with anything that has my fingerprints on it.

I can only find satisfaction in that which God finds satisfaction in.

“He shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied.”

God is completely satisfied with the work of His Son.

He is perfectly satisfied with all for whom Christ died!

Christ is satisfied with what He did in their behalf.

That is why He sat down at the right hand of God.

He left nothing undone!

”Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” (Hebrews 10: 15-17)

The Spirit is satisfied with the work of the Son.

“By one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, whereof also the Holy Ghost is a witness to us.”

If the Father, Son, and Spirit are completely satisfied with what Christ did, I am too!

~ Pastor Todd Nibert

Click here to listen to the message “The Spirit of Grace and Supplications” (34:30 minutes)

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Hurricane Road Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 9 October, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a | Cattletsburg, Kentucky