The Country Baptist Church Newsletter
1 Mile south of Interstate 30 on HWY 19
May 06, 2007      
Pastor: Harace Hammond                                        Pastor E-Mail: cbcpastor@netscape.org
Web Site: 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, Randy & Donna Johnson, Loyce Smith, Junior Potts, Roberta Bruce and family, Barbara Fails, Jim & Linda Meier, Dina and The Boys, Troy Wiler, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia, Kathy Rosinbaum, Don & Wynell Hammond, Brenda Galusha, Baby Tucker Walker, Ruth Carlton, Helen Stone, Bro. & Mrs. Pinson, Wanda Malone, Leta Ellis, Chet Reagan, Sidney Strawn, Bro. Bob Lemmon, Amanda Tomlin,  and ALL of our Troops and their Families.
A Thought From C. H. Spurgeon:

CURE FOR ENVY
"Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off" Prov. 23:17, 18

When we see the wicked prosper we are apt to envy them. When we hear the noise of their mirth, and our own spirit is heavy, we half think that they have the best of it. This is foolish and sinful. If we knew them better, and specially if we remembered their end, we should pity them.

The cure for envy lies in living under a constant sense of the divine presence, worshiping God and communing with Him all the day long, however long the day may seem. True religion lifts the soul into a higher region, where the judgment becomes more clear, and the desires are more elevated. The more of Heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet. The fear of God casts out envy of men.

The death-blow of envy is a calm consideration of the future. The wealth and glory of the ungodly are a vain show. This pompous appearance flashes out for an hour, and then is extinguished. What is the prosperous sinner the better for his prosperity when judgment overtakes him? As for the godly man, his end is peace and blessedness, and none can rob him of his joy; wherefore, let him forego envy, and be filled with sweet content.
Thought Of The Week:

"Over-indulgence of fond and foolish parents!"
"I am going to carry out all my threats against Eli and his family. I have warned him continually that judgment is coming for his family, because his sons are blaspheming God and he hasn't disciplined them." 1 Samuel 3:12-13

There is, in some households,
  no family government,
  no order,
  no subordination,
  no discipline.
The children are kept under no restraint, but are allowed to do what they like. Their faults are
intentionally unnoticed and unpunished, and their corruptions allowed to grow wild and headstrong; until, in fact, the whole family becomes utterly lawless, rebellious against parental authority--and grievous to all around them!
How many have had to curse the over-indulgence of fond and foolish parents! How many, as they have ruminated amid the desolations of poverty, or the walls
of a prison, have exclaimed, "O, my cruelly fond parents, had you exercised that authority with which God entrusted you, over your children, and had you checked my childish corruptions, and punished my boyish disobedience; had you subjected me to the beneficial restraint of wholesome
discipline, I would not have brought you with a broken heart to your grave, nor myself with a ruined life to the jail!"
Overindulgence of children is awfully common, and continually making shocking ravages in human character. It is a system of great cruelty to the children, to the parents themselves, and
to society. This practice proceeds from various causes; in some instances, from a perverted and intentional sentimentalism; in others, from absolute indolence, and a regard to present ease, which leads the silly mother to adopt any means of coaxing, and yielding, and bribing--to keep the "young rebels" quiet for the time!
It is not uncommon for parents to treat the first acts of infantile rebellion, rather as accidents to be smiled at, than as sins to be disciplined. "O," says the mother, "it is only play, he will know better soon. He does not mean any harm. I cannot discipline him."
Lack of parental discipline, from whatever cause it proceeds, it is in the highest degree injurious to the character of the children!

By J. A. James, from his article "The duties of PARENTS" 1838
Pray for Pastor and Sister Hammond:

Last week Sister Hammond’s sister Ruth passed away and went to be with our Lord. Pastor and Sister Hammond will return to Sulphur Springs late Sunday or Monday from Tennessee. Please remember them for traveling mercies and remember the Lemmon family for their loss.
Please Remember!!

Next Sunday morning Pastor Randy Johnson of the Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church in Texarkana will be our guest speaker. Bro. Randy said his message will be titled "Forgiveness" "How Christians are to forgive one another" Please plan to attend if you can and ask others to come with you. This is a message every Christian needs to hear.

What a truth!!

"The rise among Baptists of preachers who demand for themselves a position of dictatorship and lordship over the Lord’s church, and who defend themselves by crying, ‘Touch not the Lord’s anointed,’ is a relatively recent development. It is not by any means a distinctively Baptist problem. The same tendency is arising among many denominations. It is the way of the flesh, the way of pride, of desire to dominate, desire to have the preeminence, a desire that goes back at least as far as the infamous Diotrephes, who took control of the church membership roll for himself, as some preachers do today . . . A small child must have everything his own way and cannot bear to be challenged, contradicted or denied anything he demands. He feels that the world should revolve around him, and that all should cater to his wishes. The dictatorial preacher is no different. His followers must devote themselves entirely to his service, going around on tiptoes for fear of offending him in any way, while he feels free to offend all. Little or no time or effort is left with which to serve Christ after the followers have served the ego and the cravings of their pastor . . . The preacher who thunders forth with the command, ‘Touch not the Lord’s anointed,’ intends thereby to silence and shut the mouths of all who might find fault with his doctrines or methods, no matter how unscriptural they may be. He is a man with much to hide, a man who cannot bear to have his deeds and his ways openly examined and compared with what the Word of God teaches."

By: Thomas Williamson