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The Shepherd And A Stranger

“And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” | John 10: 4-5

I recently saw a video where a shepherd of a couple hundred sheep was giving a demonstration to a group of tourists.

This shepherd gave several in his audience the words he used to call his sheep & men and women alike tried to imitate the call of the shepherd, but it was to no avail.

The sheep kept feeding as if they didn’t hear a word.

But then the shepherd called and immediately the sheep raised their heads and came anxiously running.

It was an amazing sight to see even on video.

Seeing this visual image, I was reminded that it wasn’t the words that were used or how the words were used that effectually called the sheep, it was the voice of the shepherd that did.

Dear reader, even “true gospel preaching” is only effectual (effective) if the sovereign voice of our great Shepherd accompanies our message.

God’s sheep follow the Lord Jesus Christ, for they know His voice, “and a stranger will they not follow.”

May our gracious God be pleased to cause the voice of Christ to accompany our preaching.

Why?

Did our Lord not say, “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” (John 10: 16)

~ Pastor David Eddmenson

Click here to listen to the message “God Commands Us To Come and Believe”

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

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The King Who Keeps His Sheep

”But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” | 1 Samuel 16: 7

The more we look at Christ crucified, the more we will mourn for sin.

Look at the cross until all that is on the cross is in your heart.

He who was pierced is your God, your maker, your benefactor, and best friend.

~ Jack Shanks

Click here to listen to the message “The King Who Keeps His Sheep”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 1 December, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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Return To Thy Rest, O My Soul

“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” | Psalm 23: 2-3

Some believers are troubled because they cannot always and at all times feel the joy and comfort set forth in Psalm 23.

We should remember that, though David lived long and wrote much, he wrote only one 23rd Psalm. There are other psalms; psalms of conviction, praise, prayer, seeking, and mourning. In fact, even this Psalm closes with our walk through the valley of death.

This valley of death is our entire journey through life.

The fall of Adam put the stamp of death on everything and everyone. But we are walking through. It is not our home, and it is a valley of the SHADOW of death. Christ has removed the substance and sting of death for us. The shadow of a dog can’t hurt; the shadow of a gun can’t kill.

“I will fear no evil.”

He does not say there will be no evil; but, because He is with me, I don’t FEAR the evil.

~ Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Return To Thy Rest, O My Soul”

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

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From Heaven Through His Church

“The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.” | Isaiah 2: 1

In yesterday’s article, we saw that the Lord declared that in the last days of the Mosaic economy the Lord Jesus Christ would establish and exalt his church in a way that his people through the law could never do. Today, we see the second work the Lord Jesus performs in establishing and exalting his house.

The passage speaks of all nations flowing unto the Lord’s house. We read that many people, not just his elect from among the Jews, shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. Also, note that it is the Lord who shall do the teaching; that he shall teach, not of man’s ways, but of his ways. The prophet says that when he teaches his people they will walk, not in the path of the little obstinate-stiff-necked hills, but in the Lord’s paths. All this is because the law and the word of the Lord are going forth out of Zion from the top of the mountains and out of his Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 23: 1-8)

After our Lord established and exalted his church by his life, his sacrifice and his ascension, God the Father gave him all power in heaven and in earth to send forth the gospel from heaven through his church on earth that he might rule in the midst of his enemies. (Psalm 110: 1-4; Matthew 28: 18-20; Colossians 1: 21-23) From his throne in the mountain of glory, Christ Jesus the Lord is now establishing his church by drawing his redeemed people from the north, the south, the east and the west; an elect people out of all nations.

From heavens Zion our victorious King Prophet is teaching his people through the local assemblies and pastors which he has established and raised up.

His people rejoice to hear of his way of electing grace, of establishing them complete in God’s presence in righteous judgment by his own wisdom, righteousness and holiness. They delight in his way of regenerating his spiritually dead children when he comes in power and grace to each of them; his way of preserving them by the word of his power and of faithfully fulfilling his every promise.

As he draws them to his house one-by-one, it is not a grand spectacle or something even noticed by the world of religion who reject the gospel for another jesus. Yet, by the work that he alone is performing, his elect, hear his voice from heaven through his church on earth and they follow him.

Christ has made the path free of all thorns of sin and stones of ignorance; they know he is the Way and therefore they walk in his path.

This is the second manner in which the Lord establishes and exalts his house above the insignificant hills of falsehood. (Jeremiah 51: 25-26; Micah 3: 9-12; 4: 1; Zechariah 8: 1-3)

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

Click here to listen to the message “Questions Only You Can Answer”

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Hear The Word Of The LORD!

“Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.” | Ezekiel 37: 4

All error and eternal damnation comes from hearing and heeding the words of men.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is always destruction. God’s ways are not our ways, and God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. So if we search the words of men for answers to the questions of salvation and redemption we will only stay confused; we will never be settled on what the truth actually is; and we will never find peace, rest, and contentment.

A true, God called preacher will only repeat to you: “The word of the LORD.”

The only hope we have is to “Hear Him!”

The only word that will “Stand forever” is His word.

A saving faith in Christ comes “by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

So, “Let God be true, but every man a liar!”

~ Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

Click here to listen to the message “A Prayer That God Will Hear”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 26 August, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a

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Esau Have I Hated

“As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” | Romans 9: 13

When I was first exposed to the doctrines of grace and the sovereignty of God, the above verse became the sledge-hammer that I used to pulverize the erroneous doctrines of “Universal Redemption,” “God loving everybody” and “Christ dying for everyone.”

It was almost as though I rejoiced in the fact that “God hated Esau.”

I don’t feel or think that way any longer.

The more God shows me how much l am like Jacob, the wretched deceiver that he was, the more my heart is astonished that God could love Jacob or me. I understand how He could hate me, but how He could love me is beyond my understanding.

~ Pastor David Eddmenson

Click here to listen to the message “The Water and the Blood”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 9 May, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a