The Country Baptist Church Newsletter
1 Mile south of Interstate 30 on HWY 19
February 11, 2007      
Pastor: Harace Hammond                                                  Pastor E-Mail: cbcpastor@netscape.com
Web Site: www.countrybaptist.org

"The Voice Of The Country Church"
You Were Asked To Pray For:

Larry Platt, Joyce Fryer, Bro. Archie & Barbara Griffin, Waylon & Pat Abercrombie with their daughter and son, David Wake man, Randy & Donna Johnson, Rhonda Douglas, Son Love, Iona McCool, Mr. & Mrs. Lee French, Loyce Smith, Junior Potts, Shannon Bruce, David Bruce, Roberta Bruce, Faye Ralston, Edmond Hammond, Forrest Keener, Bill Hinson, Shannon Armstrong, Barbara Fails, Gary & Cindy Hogan, MSgt. Bobby S Briggs, Jim & Linda Meier, Dina and The Boys, Steve & Kimberley McCool, Troy Wiler, Helen Rowe, Dalton Froneberger, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia, Bettye Huckabee, Kathy Rosinbaum, Don & Wynell Hammond, Brenda Galusha, Bro. Keith & Susie Kennison, Bro.& Mrs. Robert Ellis, Baby Tucker Walker, Ruth Carlton, Rosa Tomlin, Cynthia Hammond, Helen Stone, Bro. & Mrs. Pinson, Daniel Haygood, Sister McEvoy, Bob Jones, Wanda Malone, Bro. Bert and Heather Craft, Leta Ellis, James Douglas Rolin, Roger Littrell, Chet Reagan, Sidney Strawn, and ALL of our Troops and their families.
A Thought From C. H. Spurgeon:

JOYFUL SECURITY
"I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness" Isa. 41:1

Fear of falling is wholesome. To be venturesome is no sign of wisdom. Times come to us when we feel that we must go down unless we have a very special support. Here we have it. God's right hand is a grand thing to lean upon. Mind, it is not only His hand, though it keepeth Heaven and earth in their places, but His right hand: His power united with skill, His power where it is most dexterous. Nay, this is not all, it is written, "I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." That hand which He uses to maintain His holiness, and to execute His royal sentences -- this shall be stretched out to hold up His trusting ones. Fearful is our danger, but joyful is our security. The man whom God upholds, devils cannot throw down.Weak may be our feet, but almighty is God's right hand. Rough may be the road, but Omnipotence is our upholding. We may boldly go forward. We shall not fall. Let us lean continually where all things lean. God will not withdraw His strength, for His righteousness is there as well: He will be faithful to His promise, and faithful to His Son, and therefore faithful to us. How happy we ought to be! Are we not so?supply of all thy needs.
Thought Of The Week:

A furious beast

"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood." Romans 3:13-15
The body itself also is partaker of corruption and defilement. Therefore the Scripture calls it sinful flesh, Romans 8:3. The natural temper, or rather distemper of our bodies have a natural tendency to sin. The body incites to sin, betrays the soul into snares, yes, is itself a snare to the soul. The body is a furious
beast, of such a temper, that it will not be beat down, kept under control, and brought into subjection. It will cast the soul into much sin and misery.
The body serves the soul in many sins. Its members are weapons of unrighteousness, whereby men fight against God. The eyes and ears are open doors, by which impure motions and sinful desires
enter the soul. The tongue is "a world of iniquity," "an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison;" by it the impure heart vents a great deal of its filthiness. The throat is "an open grave." The feet run the devil's errands. The belly is made a god, Phil. 3:19, not only by drunkards and riotous livers—but by every natural man. So the body naturally is an agent for the devil, and a storehouse of weapons against the Lord.
To conclude: man by nature is wholly corrupted, "from the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in him." As in a dunghill, every part contributes to the corruption of the whole, so the natural man grows still worse and worse—the soul is made worse by the body, and the body worse by the soul; and every faculty of the soul (the mind, will, affections, conscience and memory) serves to corrupt another more and more.

From "Human Nature in its Fourfold State" Thomas Boston,
NO LONGER DO I WALK IN DARKNESS

Once I spurned the old gospel story
And salvation that Jesus would bring.
For my heart was desperately wicked
And deceitful above all things.

I stood condemned in God’s sight already,
in the sight of a thrice-Holy God,
For I’d tramp’ed the blood of the Savior
And rejected His Holy Word.

‘Twas sin that nailed Him to the cross
And cost Him His blood, divine;
But I was blind and could not see,
That the sins He bore were mine.

I cared not at all that Jesus died,
His blood meant nothing to me;
I walked on in darkness and foolish pride —
A slave, by Satan’s decree.

And then one glad and happy day,
God’s Spirit took control;
He showed me Jesus, the sinless one.
The Savior of my soul.

No longer do I walk in darkness,
But in His glorious light;
His Spirit fills my heart with joy
And makes my pathway bright.

By: K. Parrish
Happy Birthday:

Timothy Fails February 12th
Junior Potts February 12th
Verda Carrington February 13th