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All The Saints In Christ Jesus

”Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.” | Psalm 57: 5

Who are these saints and how did they get to be saints?

“Saint” is short for sanctified one.

Those who are saints became saints as the result of Gods intervention.

In Jude, verse one, they are described as, “sanctified by God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ and called.”

To be a saint is to be the eternal object of God’s love, mercy, and grace.

”By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (Hebrews 10: 10)

It is to be sanctified by God the Father in divine election, “sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all”, “And called with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began”.

”Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,” (2 Timothy 1: 9)

To be a saint is to be “made meet (able) to be a partaker of the inheritance of enlightened saints”.

”Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:” (Colossians 1: 12)

Sainthood is neither won nor lost but is the gift of God.

It is a divine work and therefore cannot fail.

~ Pastor Darvin Pruitt

Click here to listen to the message “My Refuge” (32:34 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 22 March, 2026 | Previous post date: n/a

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Great Promises

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” | 2 Peter 1: 4

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises…”

God, Who cannot lie, has promised eternal life to all who believe on His Son.

Scripture says, in 2 Corinthians 1: 20: “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”.

Yea means yes . . . it’s true.

Amen means ‘that’s the truth, that’s the way it is . . . it is certain . . . so be it.’

Great and precious promises are given to all who trust God’s Son.

Promise after promise, exceeding great and many promises.

God has promised His kingdom to all who are poor in spirit, who have nothing, are nothing, can do nothing but look to Him.

He has promised comfort to those who mourn over their sin and look to the Lamb.

He has promised righteousness to all who hunger and thirst for it (Christ); salvation, forgiveness of sin (all sin), full pardon, acceptance, peace, joy unspeakable, full of glory . . . a place in Glory with all of God’s people.

He has promised all provisions for this life, all we need and more than we can ask or think.

He has promised to be with us, never leave us, always love us, take care of us and all about us.

He has promised to really and truly save all who just look to Him, call upon Him, trust Him, worship Him and believe and rejoice in His Son.

He has promised all these things and more . . . exceeding great promises.

You may take all of them for your own.

The other day I was sitting in the church court-yard, eating a piece of bread, enjoying the sunshine, when I looked down and saw a little ant carrying a bread crumb that I had dropped. It was 10 times his size yet he laid hold of that huge loaf of bread and was carrying it home.

So I dropped some even bigger pieces and told him (yes, I talked to an ant), “come back and get it all, all you need, all you can carry . . . and tell others, tell your friends and family there is bread falling out of the sky, bread coming down from above.”

Brothers and sisters, God has given us exceeding big, great big promises and you may lay hold of them all and take them for your own.

“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8: 32)

The Lord doesn’t give mere crumbs of grace to His people but the whole loaf; He gave His blessed Son, the Bread of life, to us.

Why not believe God?

Why not trust Him and be filled with peace and joy?

It’s yours.

He is yours.

“Take, eat; this is my body . . . this is my blood . . . drink ye all of it.”

Take all you want, all you need; take all the promises to heart, for He has promised and He is faithful that promised.

~ Pastor Paul Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “The Kindness And Love Of God” (31:45 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 26 June, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a

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Reasons To Hope In His Mercy

”Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.” | Psalm 33: 18-22

If the possession of heaven could be obtained with only a single act of goodness – never to all eternity should I find it.

”Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.” (Romans 7: 20-21)

Oh! Then for grace to know Thee, to love Thee, to follow Thee, as my only good; my hope, my righteousness, my portion forever!

~ Robert Hawker

Click here to listen to the message “Reasons To Hope In His Mercy” (28:25 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 22 March, 2026 | Previous post date: n/a

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Perfect Understanding

”And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” | Colossians 1: 20

Our message is not to propose terms of peace, nor to beg sinners to make peace, but rather to proclaim that peace has been made between God and His people.

~ Pastor Tom Harding

Click here to listen to the message “Perfect Understanding” (32:56 minutes)

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 22 March, 2026 | Previous post date: n/a

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Christ Forgave You

“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.” | Colossians 3: 13

The truth of Peter’s denial of the Lord is recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

But in Luke’s account, there’s something concerning the Lord’s reaction toward Peter, and Peter’s immediate response, after his denial, that especially grips my heart.

“And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.” (Luke 22: 61-62)

The word declares, ”And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter; And Peter remembered the word of the Lord.”

Here we’re taught that the Lord beholds and knows us, His people… ”He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.”

But how painful it is when we’re allowed to behold that truth within ourselves.

One look from the Lord he denied three times broke Peter’s heart for that look was not a look of condemnation, which surely would be deserved, but rather was a look of mercy and compassion from Him who came into this world to save His people from their sins …and with that look, “Peter went out, and wept bitterly.”

~ Pastor Marvin Stalnaker

Click here to listen to the message “Christ Forgave you” (27:12 minutes)

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Lord, Make Us To See Our Need

”For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” | Ephesians 2: 8

Unless the Lord is pleased to teach us and reveal to us what we are by nature, we will never see our need for Christ and the gospel of His free grace.

”And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” (Ephesians 2: 1-3)

”Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:” (Romans 3: 24)

We will never understand our need of Jesus Christ and His great salvation, unless the Holy Spirit is pleased to move upon our heart.

”No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.” (John 6: 44-45)

”The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.” (Isaiah 40: 6-7)

Only when He reveals unto us our sinful condition, will we seek His salvation in Christ Jesus the Lord.

”And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;” (1 Timothy 1: 12)

Only when He speaks to us about our righteousness as being filthy rags, will we seek His righteousness that is performed and provided freely by His grace.

”But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:” (1 Corinthians 1: 30)

Only when God reveals to us our total ruin, will we seek redemption through the spotless blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ.

”In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;” (Ephesians 1: 7)

”Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.” (Revelation 5: 12)

Only when God is pleased to show us how unworthy we are, will we seek Him who is Worthy.

”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: 9)

”But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4: 19)

Lord, make us to know and see what our need is, so by thy Spirit and grace we can seek thy mercy where it can be found.

~ Pastor Tom Harding

Click here to listen to the message “Things Most Surely Believed” (27:51 minutes)

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Blessed By God’s Choice

“Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.” | Ephesians 1: 1

We preach election because there is not a single blessing that comes to us from the hand of our Redeemer that is not stamped with the hand of God’s electing love.

In Ephesians 1: 3-4 the Scriptures say, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:”

Again, “He hath chosen us that we should be holy”

Again, in Acts 22: 14 the Scriptures say, “And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.”

It is not in ourselves that these blessings are contained.

We have them because of our union with Christ, and we are united with Christ because of the Father’s divine and sovereign choice.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “The Character of God’s Elect” (32:37 minutes)

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Willfull Sin

”For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.” | Hebrews 10: 26-27

First, this text does not support the lie that God’s saves sinners and then they can be lost.

To say such a thing is an attempt to belittle the Lords’ strength to deliver.

The apostle John was clear about whom a verse such as this is speaking when he said in 1 John 2: 19: ”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.”

Secondly, the willful sin mentioned here is the same sin that the morality-preachers who crept into the Galatians’ assembly devoted their time to by preaching the necessity of a sinner’s law-obedience

”Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.” (Galatians 5: 2-5)

It is the sin the Hebrew brethren would commit if they gave in to the pressure of those around them who compromised.

”Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” (Romans 3: 31)

Such sin is the willful rejection of the truth that Christ the Lord fully completely accomplished salvation on behalf of his people

”Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” (Colossians 2: 8)

This willful sin is a forsaking of the truth that the Lord Jesus Christ alone upholds the law of God as the representative of those trusting him.

”But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:” (Romans 3: 21-22)

It is the willful denial of the truth that Christ by himself purged the sins of a particular, exact number of sinners chosen by God before the foundation of the world

”According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” (Ephesians 1: 4-5)

It is the sin of deliberately compromising with those who claim Christ’s blood is only effectual by the sinners will, by the sinner’s faith in his faith, by the sinner’s pretense of devotion

”Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.” (Galatians 1: 6-9)

”O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” (Galatians 3: 1-3)

It is the willful, deliberate sin of choosing to side with father or mother who trust in their religious acts and creeds and vain traditions instead of Christ Jesus the Way, the Truth and the Life

”He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” (Matthew 10: 37)

”Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” (1 Peter 1: 23)

This truth is always too strong for the prostituting, intellectual, compromising Pharisees and Sadducees of the day but God promises that his eternal vengeance will be far stronger!

”For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10: 30-31)

By all means, seek a place where Christ is preached unapologetically every time you attend the service – HE IS THE ONE THING NEEDFUL!

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

Click here to listen to the message “The Parable of the Mustard Seed” (32:21 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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In Everything Give Thanks

”In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” | 1 Thessalonians 5: 18

Salvation is in the Person of Christ Jesus alone.

”But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11: 3)

Any thought or work, apart from Him alone, is to depart from the hope of salvation by the grace of God and is to miss the simplicity of Christ.

~ Pastor Marvin Stalnaker

Click here to listen to the message “In Everything Give Thanks” (25:44 minutes)

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

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What Is The Bible Concerning?

“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.” |

Some say the Bible concerns the love of God.

Others have suggested that the Word of God concerns how to live right in this world.

Many believe the Scriptures contain and concern the formula for success and prosperity.

Some say that they love the Bible because it concerns how we should treat one another.

But what does the Holy Spirit tell us in the Bible?

What did the Lord Jesus say that His Word concerns?

“And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke 24: 27)

God’s love, how we live, all spiritual success and prosperity, along with how we treat others, is all relative to what we believe concerning Jesus Christ.

“And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.” (Luke 24: 44)

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible, God’s Holy Word, concerns Jesus Christ who loved His people and gave Himself for them.

“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.” (Ephesians 5:2)

So, what do you think of Christ?

He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

He is the only way that God loves us.

He is the only way that we live righteously before God.

We prosper and succeed only with Him as our Savior and Substitute.

If a sinner loves Christ, they will love and treat others as they do themselves.

The Bible concerns one thing, and that is Jesus Christ.

~ Pastor David Eddmenson

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