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The Fellowship Of Believers

”And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” | Acts 2: 40-47

I know that most of you are faithful to the Sunday worship services, and you tarry after services to visit and talk with one another.

But what about the other six days of the week?

Do you have much fellowship with those whose conversation is seasoned with grace and who are a good influence on you and your children?

The people of the world (religious world and social world) are not an influence for good or spiritual growth. “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.” (1 Corinthians 15: 33)

But our brethren comfort us, encourage us, instruct us, and regular fellowship with them and their families will be a great blessing to you and your children.

Do not spend your social and family time with these who do not know God (86% of the week) and expect to correct the effect with a couple of hours on Sunday.

As much time as you can devote to good fellowship in Christ with other believers will reap great blessings to you and your family.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “The Fellowship of Believers”

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Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 11 May, 2014 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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From Death To Life Eternal

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

My Lord Jesus is the giver of life.

He is the sum and substance of life.

He is my hope of life eternal.

My hope is to see Him, to be like Him, and to be with Him forever.

Therefore, for me “TO DIE IS GAIN.”

I will be released from age and pain and gain a perfect body; I will be free from this sinful flesh and gain sinless perfection; I will be free from every trial, every heartache, and live in perfect rest and joy; I will enjoy perfect knowledge, immortality, and everlasting peace.

GAIN is a weak word to describe such glory!

What is it then that makes us so fearful of death and so reluctant to part with this world?

We may give a lot of reasons and feel that we are sincere and our reasons valid; but, to be perfectly honest, our problem is THE WEAKNESS OF OUR FAITH in Him and His Word.

Our Lord said, “O ye of little faith, wherein do you doubt?”

Wherein do we doubt?

His love for sinners?

He gave Himself for us!

The efficacy of His blood?

It cleanseth us from all sin!

The reality of heaven?

“If it were not so, I would have told you!”

The awesome miracle of being changed from the image of the earthy to the image of the heavenly?

Is anything too hard for God?

Here is where Abraham found righteousness.

“He believed God and was persuaded that what God had promised, He was ABLE ALSO TO PERFORM!”

Life eternal in Christ for those who believe is what He has promised, and He will perform!

“Sirs, I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.”

Welcome death, for with death comes LIFE ETERNAL!

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Who Did Christ Die For?”

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 3 April, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

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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

Besides the royal command, we have the cure for heart trouble.

It is faith!

”Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.”

There is no want He cannot supply.

There is no sickness He cannot heal.

There is no danger He cannot prevent.

There is no misery He cannot remove.

There is no sin He cannot forgive.

There is no enemy He cannot defeat.

“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.” (Psalms 42: 5)

Christ is God in our nature — so near at hand and so accessible to our faith.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Fear Not — I Am With Thee”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 20 May, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a

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Let Your Love Be Sincere

”Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;” | Romans 12: 9-10

Believers will love all people.

There is no room in a regenerate heart for hate, grudges, and bigotry.

There is a special love for those who are called brethren. ”As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” (Galatians 6: 10)

In making others happy, we find happiness; in giving, we receive; in promoting another’s welfare and honor we are honored!

A man’s character is not always revealed in what others say about Him, but in what he privately says about others.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “A Confession of Sin & a Promise of Mercy”

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Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 18 May, 2014 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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Come To Christ, Not An Altar

”So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” | Luke 14: 33

The “invitation” or “altar call” at the end of a service has become such an accepted tradition in today’s religion that those who do not sing an “invitation hymn” and invite people to the front of the church to “get saved” are branded with all sorts of names and charges.

It never seems to trouble religious people that this “altar call” is nowhere to be found in God’s Word.

It never seems to trouble religious people that the great majority of those who “come forward” usually “go back” into indifference and worldliness.

It never seems to trouble religious people that coming to Christ is not a physical move at all but a heart commitment to the Redeemer.

It never seems to trouble religious people that the Scripture presents BAPTISM as our public confession of Christ, not “shaking the preacher’s hand”.

It never seems to trouble religious people that the gospel is a COMMAND to repent, believe, and follow the Lord in baptism, not a mere invitation.

The King of kings does not invite His subjects to obey and believe Him; He commands them!

I preach to you the Word of the living God!

In the preaching of His Word the holiness, justice, and righteousness of God are declared.

The truth of our fall, sinfulness, and inability is clearly set forth, as is the grace and mercy of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Are you a sinner?

Confess that fact before God, not before me!

Do you believe the Lord Jesus Christ is the only Redeemer and righteousness and sin-offering for one such as you?

Then settle that issue before the throne of grace, not at the front of the church!

Has God spoken peace to your heart in Christ?

Do you now rest in Him alone as your Lord and Saviour, your High Priest, and Mediator?

Is the old man crucified with Christ, buried, and you are risen in Him a new creature?

Then ask the pastor to assist you in believer’s baptism that you may declare publicly what God has done for you personally!

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Christ’s Terms of Surrender”

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 18 April, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

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The Love Of Christ

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins,” | 1 John 4: 10

The Love Of Christ is the bond which holds the different stones together in the temple of God.

The Love of Christ is the fence which keeps away from us the wolves of division and discord.

The Love of Christ is the musical score which enables all of the different voices and instruments to play and sing in harmony for His glory.

The Love of Christ is the cloak which covers a multitude of infirmities, faults, and failures and enables us to, “forgive one another even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven us.”

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Man That Is Born Of Woman”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 6 February, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a

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Faithful Gospel Preachers

”I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.” | Psalm 116: 1-5

After listening to messages preached by faithful men, I have noticed that in the early years of their ministry, there is a lot more vinegar mingled with grace.

But in the latter years of their ministry, there is far more love and grace and much less vinegar.

Isaiah spent the early part of his letter writing “woe to you, woe to you” and the latter half saying, “woe is me.”

Let me be far more eager to judge myself and far less eager to condemn others.

Grace and forgiveness make God’s people want to live more honorably but law and condemnation never does.

God will keep and teach His people.

I am only to proclaim His word and receive them as brethren, praying for them as I wait on Christ to work in their heart.

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

Click here to listen to the message “Simple Preaching”

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 18 April, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

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First Corinthians Two

”But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.” | 2 Corinthians 2: 1-5

There is nothing more comforting to believers than God’s sovereignty over all things.

Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, we believe that God has ordained our afflictions, that God overrules them, and that God will sanctify them for our good and His glory.

There is nothing for which we ought to contend more earnestly than the truth of God’s rule and reign over all things, all creatures, and all their actions.

The throne of God, His right to sit on that throne and to do with His own as He will, is what we believe and what we preach.

Let us be accused of over-emphasizing the majesty and power of the living God, but never let it be said that we underestimate His glory.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “1 Corinthians 2”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 6 May, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a

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A Broken Heart

”Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.” | Psalm 57: 1

Is that which is broken good for anything?

One cannot see in a broken mirror; one cannot drink from a broken glass; one cannot work with a broken arm; one cannot walk with a broken leg.

ONLY THE HEART IS AT ITS BEST STATE WHEN IT IS BROKEN!

“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart” (Psalm 34: 18)

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “The Believer’s Way”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 27 February, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a

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Effects Of Belief In Election

”And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” | Luke 10: 17-20

When we truly realize that the Lord of heaven and earth CHOSE US in Christ to salvation, REDEEMED US by His blood, and CALLED US by His gospel, it will have a seven-fold effect on us.

It will cause us to REJOICE! “O blessed is the man whom Thou choosest and causeth to approach unto Thee.” Praise Him from whom all blessings flow.

It will promote HUMILITY! “Who maketh thee to differ?” Grace and pride are incompatible, impossible to exist together. We rejoice in Christ and have no confidence in this flesh.

It will COMFORT us in hard trials! “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.” Even these work together for our good and His glory. When we trust Him, we don’t have to understand.

It will SUPPRESS self and sin! “We are not our own”; we are bought with so great a price. Therefore, we desire to glorify our Lord in our souls and in our bodies.

It gives us ASSURANCE! If God foreknew us, predestinated us to be like Christ, justified us, called us by His Spirit, if Christ redeemed us, interceded for us and is for us, who can be against us?

It makes DYING easier! The eternal covenant of grace in Christ was David’s pillow of rest and peace when he lay dying. He sought no other source of comfort and hope than the sovereign love of God in Christ. (2 Samuel 23: 1-5) http://blb.sc/00FOYf

It will assure us that our PREACHING IS NEVER IN VAIN! “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Isaiah 55: 11)

This cannot be applied to all preaching, ONLY TO THE PREACHING OF HIS WORD!

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “My Name Is Written In Heaven”

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