SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH Of Princeton, New Jersey
Isaiah 2: 1: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2: 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. 3: 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. 4: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5: O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
LOCATION Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd floor 150 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, NJ, 08553
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Sunday 10 AM Bible Class 11 AM Morning Worship Thursday 7:00 PM Mid-week Service (The first Sunday of each month we meet at 10 AM for morning worship then observe the Lord's Table. After services we have lunch together.)
114 Laning Avenue Pennington, New Jersey, 08534 Clay Curtis, pastor Phone: 609-818-1887 Email: clay@sovereign-grace.us
Another Gospel Joe Terrell For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted... " (2 Corinthians 11:4) From time to time there arises a debate on what constitutes "another gospel". We all know that there are differences among true and honest believers over various doctrines. When do these differences cross the line from mere differences to heresy? When must we cry, "That is another gospel!"? The answer is so simple that there should never again be a debate on the issue. It is "another gospel" when the message is of "another Jesus!"
This is the only issue worth dividing over, and on this issue we must divide with all who disagree. Who is the true Jesus? Of all the adjectives I could use to describe our Lord in the gospel, the one that seems most fitting to me is "the successful Jesus." The true Jesus is the one who "by Himself (actually did) purge our sins" (Heb. 1:3), the one in whose hand the will of Jehovah prospered (Is. 53:10), the one who is the Word from God that does not return to God empty but actually accomplishes what God sent Him to do (Is.55:11), the one who has already successfully "obtained eternal redemption for us, (Heb. 9;12) That Jesus, and only that Jesus is the Jesus of the gospel!
Other Jesus's may be very nice and kind; they may fill your heart with warmth and your eyes with tears, but they cannot save your soul! Only the Jesus of definite, successful, and therefore, particular redemption can deliver your soul to God without spot and blemish.
Trust Him, and tolerate no other! Fix your soul fast to Him and your soul shall live! Trust any other Jesus and you shall perish.
Full of Good Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, NJ Acts 9: Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. Tabitha made coats and garments. She gave them to the poor in the church. The works she did glorified the work Christ did for her.
When Christ obeyed God's law in honesty, when he faithfully answered to the law's justice, he made God just in justifying Tabitha. When the Spirit of the Lord filled Tabitha, the new Tabitha was born to behold that Christ had made a coat of perfect righteousness and freely clothed her in his tapestry of fine linen made particularly for her. Being made a partaker of Christ's divine nature, being created in him in righteousness and true holiness, recreated after the image of God, the Holy Spirit filled Tabitha full of good. Had the triune God only performed a work of grace for her, and not in her, nothing about Tabitha could have ever been called good. But read what the God of all Truth says of her, "This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did" (v39.) What a work of our Lord in taking worthless lumps of clay and filling them so that he righteously describes them as good.
Just as her Lord Jesus had made a garment and clothed her, so Tabitha made coats and garments and clothed the poor widows at Joppa. It may seem like an insignificant act to some, but this simple foreordained work of providing a coat for a saint (too poor to provide for herself) is one of the very reasons God created Tabitha in Christ Jesus. God never ordained a work for his saints to perform in order to glorify his saints but to glorify Christ who Sanctifieth.
Our Lord Jesus Christ graciously robes his saints in perfect righteousness because of what he performed for us and he also provides our every need in this world by what he does in us. Tabitha could have entered into a cold, heartless, mental assent of the legal condition which Christ worked for his people, but without Christ filling her full of his good she would have never known faith in God and love for her brethren. Without the Lord filling her with a spirit of grace, her treatment of her brethren would have been as systematically cold as her doctrine.
May God fill our vessels with his Spirit that our most unnoticed, insignificant acts might glorify our Lord Jesus Christ and that he might use us to provide for the brethren whom he has given us a heart to truly love.
"AND NOW WHY TARRIEST THOU? ARISE AND BE BAPTIZED!" Henry Mahan There are people in our assemblies who have heard the gospel of Christ with the heart. They believe Him, they love Him, and they truly rest in Him as Lord and Redeemer; but they have not confessed Christ in believer's baptism. The question is asked, "Why tarriest thou?" I believe I can answer for them. 1. They are troubled by the presence and strength of indwelling sin-"In my flesh dwelleth no good thing." 2. They are shocked, by the weakness of their faith. 3. They fear that they will fail and dishonor the Lord and embarrass the church. 4. They are waiting for greater assurance and more grace. 5. They are by nature very timid and shun public demonstrations. But no such reasons are valid; for in baptism we are not confessing our holiness, but His; not our strength, but His; not our life, but His! "We are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3).
Jude 1: 24: Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25: To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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As always, we welcome our friends who are so consistently listening, reading and commenting from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. For those who might like to visit us without missing their regular services, our mid-week worship service is on Thursday night at 7:00 pm. We welcome you to join us in worship of the Lord our Righteousness.
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