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What Is Your Heart Set On?

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” | Philippians 1: 6

Here is great comfort for the child of God, especially under trials. God will not forsake the work of his grace. He will perform the work begun till we stand in His presence complete, without spot or blemish.

~ Pastor John Chapman

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

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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. A profession that does not produce is a false profession. “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)

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 31 May, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a

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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. (Philippians 3: 7-9)

2). Believers glory only in the righteousness of Christ and count their own to be filthy rags. (Isaiah 64: 6)

3). Believers rejoice in the cross of substitution, glorying in nothing else. (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. (Luke 14: 26-27)

5). Believers will continue in the faith, for true believers never quit. (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. (2 Corinthians 5: 14-15)

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 2 May, 2021 | Previous post date: 1987 | Pikeville, Kentucky

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TRUE WORSHIP

“Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” | Mark 9: 23

The apostle Paul said in Philippians 3: 3, “For we are the circumcision.”

That means: we are God’s chosen people; we are the true followers of Christ. “Which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.”

That is truly what we are here to do today. We are here to (in, soul, body and spirit) worship our God. And how do we do that? By rejoicing in Christ Jesus for everything that he has accomplished for us through the death of his cross. And by having absolutely no confidence in our flesh.

We are here to worship HIM and not ourselves. The work of salvation was Christ’s alone! We did not, and could not, lift one finger to help Him in any way, shape, or form. All glory and praise be unto Him, and no glory or praise be unto us. If that is the spirit of why we are gathered before our God, then we have gathered before Him for true worship.

~ Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 25 April, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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And The Word Was Made Flesh

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” | John 1: 14

My friends, if you will carefully consider it, this is the most extraordinary fact ever declared in human language.

God became a man and “took upon him the likeness of sinful flesh.”

The Ancient of Days became an infant of days.

The Son of the Most-High God became a man of sorrows.

He made the world; but as a man, “he had no place to lay his head.”

He who made the rivers asked a woman to give him a drink of water.

He who cast out devils was tempted of the devil, and the author of life died and lay in a tomb.

“The sun that hid from Him its face by His own hand was hung in space;
The sky which darkened o’er His head by Him above the world was spread;
The spear that shed His precious blood was tempered in the fires of God;
The grave in which His form was laid was hewn in rocks His hand had made.”

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article | Previous post date: 12/25/2020

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Redeemed And Ransomed

“Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.” | Isaiah 34: 16

Christ was delivered to die by the priests for envy; by Judas for gain; by the people in blind zeal; by Pilate for political advantage; but by God to accomplish the redemption of his elect.

~ Thomas Manton

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 18 February, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a

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Answers For Critical Questions

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. | John 14: 1-3

Nothing, surely, is so likely to prepare us for that heaven where Christ’s personal presence will be all, and that glory where we shall meet Christ face to face, as to realize communion with Christ as an actual living Person here on earth.

There is all the difference in the world between an idea and a person.

~ J.C. Ryle

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 25 April, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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JUST PREACH CHRIST TO ME

“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

The apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 1:23, “We preach Christ crucified”. The same man told Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:2, “Preach the Word”!

We cannot preach Christ apart from The Word. We cannot know who a man is, what he believes or what he desires, apart from his word. We cannot know what a man thinks, how he feels or what he has purposed in his heart to do, apart from his word. Therefore, we cannot know who Christ is, what He has done, who He has done it for or why He has done it, apart from His Word!

To preach Christ, is to preach His Word. And to truly preach His Word, is to preach Christ in every word of it!

~ Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 2 February, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a

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The Humiliation and Sufferings of Christ

“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” | Isaiah 53: 1-3

I saw where someone wrote recently, “there’s a lot more in the word of God, than Christ.” That is a sad and horrible statement.

If I tell you that I grew up in Deer Park TX, my first car was a Plymouth Duster and I worked at Houston Independent School District, this is not a treatise on cities, cars or companies. It is all about me.

The scriptures have some things to say about Heaven, Hell, Bethlehem and even heresy, but we need to understand that the word of God concerns His Son Jesus Christ, all Him, only Him, always Him. Every other person, place, thing and subject are included, only as they relate to, reveal and glorify Him.

When it comes right down to it, He is all there is. Anyone who does not, by God’s grace, know this, has no business saying or writing anything about God or His word.

If God will ever reveal anything to you, it will begin right there; Christ is all.

If God is ever going to use you for His glory, in His ministry, in any capacity, He will cause you to determine to know nothing, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

~ Pastor Chris Cunningham

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article | Previous post date: 22 December, 2020

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A BELIEVER IS A MYSTERY

The believer is a mystery to others and to himself also.

He is sanctified yet feels himself to be the chief of sinners.

He loves God’s law and will, yet he wrestles with an inward desire to have his own way.

He has great sorrow and heaviness of heart for many reasons, yet he rejoices in the Lord always.

His spirit longs to depart and be with Christ, yet his flesh clings to this earth.

He knows that he is secure in Christ, yet he examines his faith continually.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 11 April, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a