Announcements

• We will have a special meal at the church on Saturday, April 13th.  The losers in the March Penny March for Bibles (men or ladies) will bring the food, serve the meal and clean up afterwards.  The present score is two for the boys and one for the girls.  This will change Sunday morning.
• King James Bible Believers’ Conference will be held at Antioch Baptist Church in Knoxville on June 10th and 11th.

Church Ministry

• Pray for the Lord to open the door for a juvenile ministry at Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center.  The director of this facility is blocking the gospel from being preached to the youth who are detained here.  (There are usually over 100 young people kept overnight at the center.)  We have people willing to go but they cannot.  Pray that God would do whatever is necessary to open this facility to the gospel.  God’s word is the only thing that can really help these young people.

Church News

• We are getting the coil replaced on one of the air conditioners downstairs (library side).  We lost the use of this air conditioner last fall.
• Pastor and Mrs. Reagan are researching the Independent Baptist Church Movement in the Knoxville area.  We are especially interested in information and pictures about these churches between 1930 and 1970.  Churches that we know existed fairly early include Bible Baptist Church, Memorial Baptist Church, North Hills Baptist Church, Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle, Gospel Baptist Church and Temple Baptist Church (now on Woodrow).  If you have any information about these or other churches or know who might, please let us know.

Missions

March Bible Offering (Penny March in March)

• Money going to this special offering may be given in three ways:
1. Special Offering Envelope
2. Wednesday Night Offering
3. Sunday Morning & Evening Penny Marches
• This last Sunday put us at about $1200 with two weeks to go.  We are praying for $2000 for Bibles.
• This will purchase about 300 Bibles in Zambia and the Philippines

Preaching/Teaching

• Last week’s Sunday School lesson was on the rebellion of Miriam and Aaron against Moses (Numbers 12).  This next week’s lesson will be about the sending of the twelve spies into the land of Canaan and the report they brought back (Numbers 13).
• Pastor Reagan preached Sunday morning on “Our Debt to the Next Generation” from Psalm 78:1-11 [1] Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. [2] I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: [3] Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. [4] We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. [5] For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: [6] That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: [7] That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: [8] And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. [9] The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. [10] They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; [11] And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
  See All....  His points were:
1. We Must Listen to the Faithful Generation (v.1-3)
1. We must listen to the words of God (v.1)
2. We must listen to the hard sayings (v.2)
3. We must listen to our Fathers (v.3)
2. We Must Prepare the Coming Generation (v.4-7)
1. We must show the works of God (v.4)
2. We must teach the words of God (v.5-6)
3. We must uplift the will of God (v.7)
3. We Must Reject the Rebellious Generation (v.8-11)
1. We must reject their spirit (v.8)
2. We must reject their cowardice (v.9)
3. We must reject their disobedience (v.10-11)
• Pastor Reagan taught Sunday evening on the heavenly worship of the four beasts and 24 elders (Revelation 4:8-11 [8] And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. [9] And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, [10] The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, [11] Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
  See All...).  He described God’s holiness as the most excellent of all His perfections.  He gave five reasons.
1. God is called the Holy One forty-eight times in the Bible (see Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
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2. God’s name is described as “holy” more than with any other adjective (see 1Chr 16:10
   See All...; Ps 103:1Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
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3. God’s holiness is the only attribute by which He is given a threefold praise (Isa 6:3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
   See All...; Rev 4:8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
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4. Holiness is the characteristic by which God makes an oath (Ps 89:35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
   See All...; Am 4:2
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5. Holiness is God’s glory and beauty (2Chr 20:21
   See All...; Ps 29:2Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
   See All...; 96:9
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Web Site

• The web site now has about 85 total pages and it is growing.
• We have had two more sites link to our web site this week.  This gives us three sites that link to us now and will bring more viewers.

World News

• In the year 1858, Hudson Taylor’s mission in China was beginning to reach some of the Chinese people with the gospel.  There was Neng-kuei the basket-maker, Wang the farmer and Tsui the teacher.  One evening, a Mr. Ni passed by the open door where the bell was being rung to announce the time for Bible services to begin.  Mr. Ni had never heard the gospel, but he had searched all his life for the truth.  He had studied Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and had found no rest.  He stepped in to hear the religious message.
• As he listened to the message taken from John 3:14-17 [14] And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: [15] That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. [16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. [17] For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
  See All... about how Christ became sin for all, he understood many things for the first time.  At the close of the service, he arose and announced that he had finally found the peace he had long sought for and that from henceforth he would be a believer in Jesus.
• He proved true to his word and became one of the most faithful workers in the mission.  One day, he asked Hudson Taylor, “How long have you had the Glad Tidings in your country?”  The missionary reluctantly told him, “Some hundreds of years.”  “What!” replied Mr. Ni, “My father sought the Truth and died without finding it.  Oh, why did you not come sooner?”
• Adapted from Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor