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Grace Baptist Church of Danville July 21, 2013
The word “impute” is an accounting term, not a legal term. It is not possible to justly account a person something that he is not, or impute to him that which is not true. To do so is both unjust and dishonest. The God of heaven is neither dishonest, nor unjust. He imputed sin to his darling Son, because he “made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” We worship, serve, and proclaim him who is and declares himself to be, “a just God and a Savior”
Daily Readings for the Week of July 21-28, 2013 Sunday Isaiah 31-34 Thursday Isaiah 45-48 Monday Isaiah 35-38 Friday Isaiah 49-53 Tuesday Isaiah 39-41 Saturday Isaiah 54-58 Wednesday Isaiah 42-44 Sunday Isaiah 59-63
· Bro. Frank Hall is preaching today for Bible Baptist Church in Madisonville, KY. · Following our worship service next Sunday, we will have a special fellowship dinner in honor of Jerry and Marilyn Sadler’s 50th wedding anniversary. · MISSIONS OFFERING TODAY · CONFERENCE OFFERING —NEXT SUNDAY
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Larry & Carol Brown-31st
NURSERY DUTY THIS WEEK Today: Shante’ Birchum (AM) Jennifer Pruter (PM) Tuesday: Celeste Peterson
“God is Love” — Don Fortner (Tune: The Doxology — LM)
1. The King of kings who reigns above, The self-existent “God is love.” His essence, attributes, and name, Boundless, unchanging love proclaim.
2. O depth unfathomed! Height unknown! O breadth unmeasured, like His throne! — Its length no finite mind can tell. — God’s perfect love all fears dispel!
3. The love of God our tongues employ In songs of praise and thankful joy, While through our Savior’s blood we prove This sacred truth, that “God is love.”
7 Christ Our Righteousness 1 Corinthians 1:30
Many use the words “righteousness” and “holiness” interchangeably, as if they were synonyms. They are not. Righteousness is primarily a legal term. Though it may be and is used to refer to one’s character, it primarily refers to his deeds. Righteousness refers to that which is right before the law, or right in the eyes of the law. Holiness, on the other hand, is a word that is used to describe one’s character.
Yet the Word of God makes it abundantly clear that none are righteous (right before the law) and none are holy in character (sanctified) except the Lord Jesus Christ. And he alone is the Righteousness and Holiness (Sanctification) of his people. If we have righteousness before God, Christ must be our Righteousness; and he must be “of God made unto us righteousness.”
Gospel Doctrine This is the blessed doctrine of the gospel revealed in Holy Scripture. The Son of God came into this world in human flesh that he might magnify the law and make it honorable as a Representative man, to bring in everlasting righteousness for his people. God’s demand is plain and clear: — “Walk before me, and be thou perfect.” It is written, “It must be perfect to be accepted.”
Our Representative The Lord Jesus Christ did what none of us could ever do. He walked before God all the days of his humiliation in absolute perfection, totally obedient to the will of God and to the law of God. This he did, not for himself but for us, to bring in everlasting righteousness for us, as our Representative, Surety, and Mediator. When he died upon the cursed tree as our Substitute, he met and fully satisfied every demand of God’s law and justice for his elect, and made us, by his obedience unto death, the righteousness of God. Just as we were made sinners by the disobedience of the first man, Adam, we are made righteous by the obedience of Christ, the last Adam (Romans 5:12, 18-19). That means that every sinner for whom Christ lived and died and rose again is right (righteous) before the law Christ is made of God unto us righteousness; and we are made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21; Jeremiah 23:6; 33:16; 50:20), by virtue of our union with him. When our Substitute obeyed God’s law and paid our debt to divine justice, we obeyed in him; and we died in him. When he was “justified in the Spirit” by his resurrection from the dead, we were justified in him and raised up from the dead in him.
Everlasting Righteousness Christ is our righteousness in such a sure way and with such everlasting value and efficacy that being one with him and redeemed by his blood, we have his righteousness by right and title as the purchased possession he obtained for us,
8 when he obtained eternal redemption for us. It is a righteousness that can never be lost, or even lessened. It is everlasting and everlastingly perfect!
Rewarded Righteousness This is the righteousness for which we shall be fully and everlastingly rewarded in heavenly glory. What a blessed thought! It seems too great to be believed. Indeed, it could not be believed were it not written in the Book of God. Even though it is plainly written in Holy Scripture by the finger of inspiration, it can never be believed by any man, until it is inscribed in his own soul by the experience of grace. Yet, when God the Holy Spirit grants a sinner the grace of life, giving him faith in Christ, this is the first and most blessed article of saving faith. — As God has made him sin for us who knew no sin, so he has made us the righteousness of God in him, though we are nothing but sin!
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All My Salvation Pastor Scott Richardson
All my salvation — sin pardoned, my person justified and accepted in all the acceptability of his person, washed from all impurity, put among the children of God with an “I will and thou shalt,” kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation — is of the Lord. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and his covenant is to make them know it. When this is known and felt, the desire of the soul is after him and him alone. When Christ is seen in his beauty, grace, and suitability, our hearts pant after him. He is our hope, our longing, expectation, and desire; nothing but himself will satisfy. And even though the world, the flesh, and the devil are dead set against us, and trouble brings my poor heart to ache, yet my cry is “whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.”
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Partakers of the Divine Nature B. B. Caldwell
This divine nature is the nature of Christ and the holiness of God. It is the imparting to us of God himself by the Holy Spirit in the soul. This divine nature befits us for heaven. Without it, heaven would be hell. If an unregenerated person should go to heaven without bring born again, without this divine nature, heaven would be a hell to him, and not only that, but he would make heaven a hell for everybody else. How do you think an ungodly person would feel in a holy heaven, in the presence of a holy God, and in the presence of holy angels with all of the saints and the angelic hosts singing “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts”? You see we must have a nature to befit us for heaven. This nature is given us in the new birth!
9 The Grace Bulletin
July 21, 2013
Grace Baptist Church of Danville 2734 Old Stanford Road-Danville, Kentucky 40422-9438 Telephone (859) 236-8235 - E-Mail don@donfortner.com
Donald S. Fortner, Pastor
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Sunday 10:00 A.M. Bible Classes 10:30 A.M. Morning Worship Service 6:30 P.M. Evening Worship Service
Tuesday 7:30 P.M. Mid-Week Worship Service
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