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HE WHO COUNTS THE STARS!

“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.” | Psalm 147: 3-5

He who counts the stars and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting His own children! He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature He ever made, or the only saint He ever loved!

It is most important for us to learn, that the smallest trifles are as much arranged by the God of Providence, as the most startling events.

He who counts the stars — has also numbered the hairs of our heads.

Our lives and deaths are predestined — but so, also, are our sitting down and our rising up!

“Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” (Matthew 10: 29-30)

~ Charles Spurgeon

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

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Give Me Such Grace

“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: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” | Ephesians 1: 3-6

No one has ever done anything to or against me that can even begin to compare with what I have done to and against my God, both before He saved me and since. If God in heaven has forgiven me, it should be easy for me to forgive you of anything. Spirit of God, give me such grace!

~ Pastor Don Fortner

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Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 7 May, 2017 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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ABOUNDING GRACE

“But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:” | Romans 5: 20

Grace taught my soul to pray – And made my eyes o’erflow; His grace has kept me to this day – And will not let me go.

Grace Alone – I hear many folks talk about their part in salvation. I can’t relate to that. My experience of grace was God doing everything and me doing nothing. Sin abounded in me and I could not free myself from its deadly grip. The only explanation as to why this sinner is saved is because God’s grace in Christ Jesus abounded to me. Grace did much more than offer to save me, grace abounded in saving me. I was dead – Christ gave me life. I was lost – Christ found me. I was blind – Christ gave me eyes of faith to behold him.

Grace Always – I know that only the same abounding, reigning grace will bring me to glory. Of all the many unimaginable joys of heaven, to love Christ with an unsinning heart must surely be a choice one. Then I shall have an abounding heart of gratitude to thank Jesus Christ for his abounding grace to me.

I’m looking forward to that!

~ Pastor Larry Criss

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

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God Rules Everywhere

“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: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. | Ephesians 1: 3-6

Where God rules there are no accidents, preventable diseases, untimely deaths, stray bullets, or arrows that miss their mark; and God rules everywhere.

~ Pastor Don Fortner

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 18 February, 2018 | Previous post date: 30 December, 2020

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KNOWING YOUR ELECTION OF GOD

“Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.” | 1 Thessalonians 1: 4

It seems that there are an increasing number of people who hear the doctrine of election and become deeply concerned with whether or not they are one of God’s elect.

That is not the issue.

The issue is, are you trusting in Christ alone for the forgiveness of sin and the imputation of perfect righteousness?

Do you think that the woman with the issue of blood who crawled to the Lord Jesus, hoping to touch but the hem of His garment, was wondering whether or not she was one of God’s elect? No! She touched Christ and was made whole. That proved that she was chosen of God before the foundation of the world.

Do you think that the dying thief on Calvary’s cross was concerned with whether or not he was chosen and elected of God before time ever was? No! He simply said, “Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom,” and that was the result of his election.

What hungry man would hesitate and say, “I wonder if it is the will and purpose of God that I should eat?” If he is hungry, he will eat.

What weary man would say, “I wonder if it is the predestinated purpose of God for me to sleep?” There are none that I know of, for a man that is tired and weary will simply fall to sleep. Sleeping and eating come as natural to us as believing God ought to.

Yet, being spiritually dead, we must first be given life in order to partake of the Bread of Life and the Water of Life, which is Jesus Christ. It is then that the sinner realizes that God chose them unto salvation before the world was ever made!

Will folks ever learn that election shuts no one out of heaven’s glory?

Actually, it is what shuts them in!

~ Pastor David Eddmenson

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 26 January, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a

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The Issue of Predestination

“Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” | Acts 4: 10-12

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