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Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” | John 14: 1

The Master had just finished telling His disciples that some very troubling things were soon coming to pass.

  • He told them that one of them would betray Him.
  • He told them that He was going away and they could not come with Him.
  • He told Peter that he would deny the Lord three times that very night.
  • I would imagine the disciples were shocked and dismayed.
  • They probably felt defeated just like we often do.

Then the Lord gave us these comforting words. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.”

O what comfort faith in Christ gives to the hearts of His elect.

When you are shocked at the pain and suffering you endure, let not your heart be troubled or uncertain, because you believe in Christ who has sacrificed Himself for your soul.

Your body will suffer but your soul will never suffer if Christ died for you.

When you are disappointed in your failure, let not your heart be troubled, because you believe in Christ the Savior.

Thankfully, your salvation and acceptance with God depends on who Christ is and what Christ has accomplished, not who you are or what you have done or what you have failed to do.

When you don’t understand what is happening, let not your heart be troubled or uncertain.

Our God rules every event so that every event works together to bring to pass the salvation of His people.

Our God is working even this together to accomplish His eternal will.

Those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ never have reason for real despair because everything that God is doing is best for me, best for His people and best for His Kingdom.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “Knowing God”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 7 February, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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The Lord Jesus Christ Is The Issue

“The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.” | Psalm 34: 15

A child of God should never feel forgotten because the eyes of the Lord are always upon the righteous.

Our circumstances have not escaped His notice.

He knows our circumstance because He has ordained it according to His eternal purpose and will.

A child of God should also be comforted to remember that the ears of our heavenly Father are always open to the cries of His children.

Not only does our Father hear the cries of His children but He tells us that we “ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18: 1)

What comfort to know that the Lord sees His people and will always hear their prayer.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “A Prayer for Deliverance”

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It Pleased The Lord To Bruise Him

“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.” | Isaiah 53: 10

The death of Christ pleased every attribute of the Father.

The death of Christ pleased God’s wisdom.

The death of Christ enables God to be both just and justifier.

The death of Christ pleased God’s justice.

Christ suffered for the sin of His people until the debt was paid in full.

The death of Christ pleased God’s mercy and grace.

The death of Christ enables God to be merciful to His people in justice because their sin has been put away.

Since Christ died God can justify the ungodly, God can forgive sin, and God can accept His people into His presence because He is pleased with them in Christ.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “A Message From the Empty Tomb”

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Look To Christ

“And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.” | John 1: 32-34

The cry of every gospel preacher is look to Christ.

John the Baptist cried, “Behold the Lamb of God” (John 1: 36)

My friend, my cry to you is look to Christ for everything.

Don’t look for salvation in your obedience to the law.

Look to Christ who kept the law for His people.

Don’t look for salvation in your religious ceremonies.

Look to Christ who is “the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Romans 10: 4)

Look for atonement in Christ our Passover.

Look for rest from all of your works in Christ our Sabbath.

Don’t look for salvation in your doctrine.

Believer, look to Christ for your comfort, peace, and assurance.

LOOK AND LIVE and never take your focus and attention off of Christ who is our all and in all.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “Stand Fast“

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Out Of The Mouth Of Babes

”From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment” | Isaiah 1: 6

One of our small children told me recently, “We are sin. That is the bad news. The good news is Christ.”

I thought how simple the gospel really is.

We are sin. How sinful are we?

Completely.

It’s not just that we commit sin but we ARE sin.

Sin is what we do and sin is what we love because sin is what we ARE.

How then is Christ the good news? Christ alone is everything a sinner needs. Christ saves sinners.

How completely does Christ save?

Christ saves the chief of sinners; “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” (1 Timothy 1: 15)

Christ saves to the uttermost; “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)

Christ saves those who do not deserve it by His grace; “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” (Ephesians 2: 8)

Christ sovereignly saves whom He will and no one can stop His will. “For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” (Romans 9: 15-16)

Christ saves fully, eternally, and completely.

What good news for sinners!

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “The Gospel of Substitution”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 8 December, 2019 | Previous post date: n/a

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What Do I Do Now?

”And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” | Genesis 17: 1

What do I do when I am under severe trial, enduring pain of body and mind, and am full of fear?

What do I do when dying seems to be easier than living with the circumstances the Lord has given me?

The answer for the believer is simple: do the same things you do when the Lord blesses you: worship publicly, pray, and read God’s Word. What do I do when I don’t understand what God is doing or how He could possibly bring good out of my painful situation? Go to the house of the Lord in the public worship service just like you do when the Lord blesses you. “When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.” (Psalm 73: 16-17)

What do I do when I am so full of fear?

Trust the Lord just like you do when the Lord blesses you. “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.” (Psalm 56: 3)

What do I do when I feel hopeless and helpless?

Look to Christ just like you do when the Lord blesses you. “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” (Psalm 121: 1)

What do I do when I don’t think I have the strength to endure for one more minute?

Trust the Lord to be your strength. “I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick.” (Ezekiel 34: 16)

No matter what our circumstances may be at the moment, let us say with David, “I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” (Psalm 34: 1)

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “Walking Before God”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 14 November, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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He Saved Us

”Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” | Titus 3: 5

This is a three word summary of the gospel we preach: He saved us.

He: God. God did all of the saving. God the Father elected a people unto salvation. God the Son redeemed those people by the blood of His sacrifice for them. God the Holy Spirit calls those people to Christ and gives them life and faith to come. God keeps and preserves those people and brings them to glory by the power of His grace and love for them.

Saved. God saved His elect from all of their sin. He redeemed His people by paying their sin debt with His precious blood. Christ saved His people from the curse of the law by being made a curse for them and dying the death that they deserve. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:” (Galatians 3: 13)

Us. Christ didn’t come to try to save as many people as might would decide to accept Him.

Christ came to save a specific people: the people the Father gave Him to save “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” (John 17: 9)

Christ came to save those people who belong to Him because the Father gave them to Him “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1: 21)

Christ came to save His sheep and only His sheep “As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.” (John 10: 15)

All of the “us” who are chosen, called, and believe on Christ are fully and eternally saved because He saved us.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “The Story Saved By Grace”

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A Plan Or A Purpose?

“Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.” | Romans 1: 13

I hear many people talk about God having a plan for our lives.

I hear others speak of God having a plan of salvation.

The nature of the word “plan” subtly destroys the sovereignty of God and the helplessness of man.

God does not “plan” anything.

The sovereign God purposes everything.

A plan (like a blueprint) is something that someone else can carry out and put into being.

Salvation is not God’s plan that man must make effectual by his obedience.

Salvation is what God purposed to do for His people by the obedience and sacrifice of His Son and what Christ the Savior has fully accomplished for His people.

“The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” (Isaiah 14: 24)

A plan also may or may not come to pass. I have planned to do many things that I did not do.

Salvation is not God’s plan.

“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” (Ephesians 1: 11)

Salvation is the purpose of God for His people.

“For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?” (Isaiah 14: 27)

A purpose which God SHALL bring to pass.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “Why Should I Come to Christ?”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 17 May, 2020 | Previous post date: 18 April, 2021

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Assurance Of Salvation

”And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” | Isaiah 25: 9

Every believer enjoys assurance of salvation.

Every believer also desires more assurance of salvation.

When you desire assurance remember this: assurance of salvation can only be found by looking to and resting in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Assurance is not found by looking at how many good works you have done.

Assurance is found by resting in Christ who has finished all of the work of salvation for His people.

Assurance is not found trying to see if you sin less than you used to, or less than someone else.

Assurance is found by trusting Christ who has put away all of the sin of all of His people by His one sacrifice for sin.

Assurance is not found by believing that you are saved.

Assurance is found by trusting Christ who is all of our salvation.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “The Believer’s Rule of Life”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 23 January, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a

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God Does Not See Iniquity In His People

”He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel” | Numbers 23: 21

Every son of Adam is nothing but sin.

If we are honest, all we see in ourselves is sin.

Then why does God, who sees everything exactly as it is, say that He doesn’t see iniquity in His people? Because He took the sin of His people away in Christ.

Christ was made sin for His people in such reality that there is no sin left in them – Christ took it all away.

The sacrifice of Christ for the sin of His people put their sin away so completely, in such current reality, that there is no iniquity left in them.

The Father does not behold iniquity in His people because there is no sin to see – Christ has taken it all away and removed it by the blood of His sacrifice.

~ Pastor Frank Tate

Click here to listen to the message “The Message For God’s People”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 23 February, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a