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

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With God All Things Are Possible

”It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.” | Mark 10: 25-27

Nothing more clearly reveals to us that salvation, sanctification, and redemption are the work of our God than to observe the efforts and failure of those who try to accomplish this work for themselves!

The disciples asked, “Lord, who then can be saved?”

He said unto them, “with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Thou Shalt Call His Name John” (29:59 minutes)

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

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Brethren, Pray For Us

“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” | Matthew 6:9-13

When we elders stand behind this pulpit and open the Word to preach the gospel of Christ, I can think of nothing as important as these four words – “BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.”

“Brethren, pray for us.” (1 Thessalonians 5: 25)

When we teachers stand before our classes and endeavor to teach the Word of God, you can render no greater service or help than – “BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.”

When our missionaries depart from these shores to face the dangers and perils of foreign lands and to preach the Gospel in a hostile environment, I’m sure that there is one common request
they all would leave with us – “BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.”

Our young couples are starting their lives together, and the responsibility of raising children is upon them – “BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.”

Some of us are growing older; the sands of time are almost out of the upper glass. We have a faith to keep, a witness to give, our God to glorify, and a death to die – “BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.”

What did Samuel say? “Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:” (1 Samuel 12: 23)

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Put Them In Mind” (24:23 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 5 October, 2025 | Previous post date: n/a

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What Is Your Comfort?

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” | Psalm 23: 4

Are you happy?

Yes!

But I am not without times of sorrow and depression.

Like any human, I weep over loved ones, friends, sickness, death, and disappointment.

But I sorrow not as those who have no hope.

CHRIST IS MY HOPE!

He loved me, gave Himself for me, and will make ALL THESE THINGS work together for my eternal good.

Are you at rest in your soul?

Yes! but I am not free from concern and conviction over my sins and my infirmities.

I love Christ but not as I should or as I desire.

I am satisfied with Him, His mercy, His grace, and His love; but I will never be totally satisfied until I wake with His likeness.

Do you have peace?

Yes! but that peace with God, peace of conscience, and peace in any situation or condition is not based on my merit, feelings, nor religious duties.

CHRIST IS MY PEACE!

He said, “In ME ye have peace. In the world ye shall have trouble.”

Any man or woman who claims continual, uninterrupted joy, rest, and peace in this world is either not telling the truth or has no connection with reality!

True joy, rest, and peace are things we enjoy in Christ IN THE MIDST of troubles, afflictions, and infirmities.

Paul’s exhortation was “rejoice in the Lord.”

When I am conscious of my weakness, failures, and sins, I rejoice in Christ, my righteousness.

When I am concerned about food, clothing, and shelter, I rejoice in Christ, my provider.

When I am sick, Christ is my healer.

When I am grieved, Christ is my comfort.

When I am faced with death, Christ is my life!

So it is not necessary to put on a false face and deceive others.

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on Thee.” (Isaiah 26: 3)

We are still human; but our peace, rest, and joy is Christ.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “The Believer’s Comfort” (27:27 minutes)

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Lord, What Will You Have Me To Do?

“Lord, what will you have me to do?” | Acts 9: 6

This is Paul’s question on the road where he met the sovereign Christ.

It was not, ‘what do I think is best for me?’

Or ‘what will afford me the most pleasure and comfort?’

Or even ‘what do other people do?’

But “Lord, what will YOU have me to do?”

In every case enable me, by Thy grace, to do what is pleasing in Thy sight and that which will bring glory to Thy name.

“In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths” (Proverbs 3: 6)

Where we get in trouble is putting our wills and ways before His!

It is not I but Christ, His gospel, His church, His kingdom, His glory, which must be considered.

When this is settled “I” will fall in the right place and though the way may not be easy; in the end it will be pleasant.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “God Created Man” (36:16 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: Special | Previous post date: 30 June, 2021

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True Faith

“And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.” | 2 Samuel 11: 26-27

True faith throbs in a man’s pulse, it looks out of his eyes, it lights up his countenance, it softens his touch, it mellows his voice, it bows his head, it bends his knee, it opens his hand, it soft-pedals his tongue, it breaks his heart, it orders his steps, and it gives him a hearing ear.

He lives for Christ; and, if necessary, he would die for Him.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “The Lord Has Put Away Your Sin” (57:52 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: Special | Previous post date: 14 June, 2021

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True Profession

“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” | 1 John 3: 18

The thing that troubles me most about the validity of our profession of Christ is that we talk, preach, and sing of love, mercy, and forgiveness.

But then, when the opportunity comes for us to love the unlovely, forgive the offender, and bind up the wounded heart, we join the circle of Pharisees, clutching our stones, ready to wound and maim.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” (Galatians 5: 22-23)

A profession that does not produce is a false profession.

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “I Never Knew You” (44:28 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: Special | Previous post date: 10 June, 2021

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Six Things Believers Will Do

“O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.” | Psalm 79: 8-9

1). Believers so trust Christ as to renounce every other ground of confidence. “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” (Philippians 3: 7-9)

2). Believers glory only in the righteousness of Christ and count their own to be filthy rags. “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” (Isaiah 64: 6)

3). Believers rejoice in the cross of substitution, glorying in nothing else. “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” (Galatians 6: 14)

4).Believers love the Lord Jesus supremely and will so order their lives as to avoid commitments and associations which hinder fellowship with Him. “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14: 26-27)

5). Believers will continue in the faith, for true believers never quit. “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” (1 John 2: 19)

6). Believers obey the Lord’s commandments, not in order to gain His favor but because they love Him and dwell in His favor. “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.” (2 Corinthians 5: 14-15)

Believers trust Christ, glory only in Christ’s righteousness, rejoice in the cross, love the Lord Jesus, continue in the faith and obey the Lord’s commandments.

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Who Is God?” (40:37 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: Special | Previous post date: 7 June, 2021

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A Believer’s Peace

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. | Psalm 78: 3-5

Where does a believer find real and genuine peace?

On what foundation can we rest and say in truth, “It is well with my soul”?

I’ll tell you; it lies in this – that we are justified by faith and not by works.

Christ Jesus stood in my stead before God.

I was guilty with nothing to pay, doomed to hell; and Christ took my place!

He died for me!

How can I perish?

How can I be punished for sins which have already been laid on Christ and for which He has suffered?

God demands of me that I keep His holy law perfectly.

I cannot do it.

But Christ has kept it for me.

He kept it, magnified it, made it honorable in my flesh.

What more can God demand of me?

I am washed in the blood of Christ Jesus; I am risen and seated at His right hand in Christ Jesus.

You may ask, “How is all this yours?”

I reply, “By the grace of God, through the merits of Christ, revealed by the Spirit of God THROUGH FAITH!”

God said, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.”

I do believe, I sincerely believe in Christ; therefore, I have eternal life.

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Every Need Met In Christ Jesus The Lord” (30:09 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: Special | Previous post date: 10 May, 2021

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Jesus Christ Himself

“For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” | Colossians 2: 9,10

My friends, how vain and futile are any efforts on our part either to add unto or to improve upon the glorious righteousness of our blessed Lord Jesus.

Then what must I do to be saved?

‘BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!’

Ours is to ‘BELIEVE.’

His is to ‘DO.’

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Jesus Christ Himself”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: Special | Previous post date: 2 May, 2021