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Grace Baptist Church of Danville September 8, 2013
Even when His providence brings great pain and sorrow, our heavenly Father’s eye is ever watching over us to do us good.
Daily Readings for the Week of September 8-15, 2013 Sunday Daniel 6-8 Thursday Hosea 8-14 Monday Daniel 9-10 Friday Joel 1-3 Tuesday Daniel 11-Hosea 1 Saturday Amos 1-5 Wednesday Hosea 2-7 Sunday Amos 6-9
THANK YOU — What a blessed conference the Lord gave us last weekend! I thank each of you who labored so tirelessly and gave so generously to make it possible; and “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.”
· Bro. Mike Walker has accepted a call from Millsite Baptist Church in Cottageville, WV to be her pastor. May God be pleased to give His faithful servant and that faithful congregation many years of fruitful labor together (Psalm 28:9). · I am scheduled to preach Thursday night for Zebulon Baptist Church in Pikeville, KY, where Bro. Tom Harding is pastor. — Friday night and Saturday morning I am scheduled to preach for Grace Baptist Church in Dingess, WV, where Bro. Gary Vance is pastor.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Evelyn Clark-10th Jenny Bartley-14th HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: David & Betty Burge-7th NURSERY DUTY THIS WEEK Today: Jenny Bartley (AM) Mindy Peterson (PM) Tuesday: Dee Dee Raneri
Hail, Sovereign Grace, Eternal, Free! — Don Fortner (Tune: #400 — Jesus, And Shall It Ever Be? — LM) 1. Hail, sovereign grace, eternal free, So bountif’ly bestowed on me! Grace chose me in eternity, And sent my Lord to die for me!
2. ‘Twas grace, God’s free and sovereign grace, That stopped me as to hell I raced, And sweetly forced me to confess My sin so vile, my wretchedness!
3. Grace gave me eyes and made me see What Christ, my Lord, has done for me. He ransomed me with His own blood And reconciled me to my God.
4. Let heav’n and earth my song now hear, Come, ransomed sinners, sing with cheer Hail, sovereign grace, eternal, free, So bountif’ly bestowed on me! The Place Called Calvary Luke 23:33
“When they were come to the place…” — Not just any place would do. They must come to this specific place, “the place which is called Calvary.” It was at this place, Golgotha, the place of the skull, that the God-man must suffer and die. When our Lord set His face to go up to Jerusalem, He knew what He was doing. He knew where He was going. He knew what would happen there. But to Calvary he must go! He said, “What shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name.” Satan tried to take His life in the wilderness. The Jews tried on many occasions to kill Him. The devil tried to destroy Him again in the garden of Gethsemane. But His hour had not yet come. He had not yet come to “the place,” “the place which is called Calvary.” But now His hour had come. Now “they came to the place.”
His Own Purpose The Jews thought they had dragged Him as a helpless victim to the place of His execution. But in reality, the Lord of Glory had led them as a sovereign King to the place of His great conquest. God the eternal Son had purposed from all eternity to come to this place. It was the object, desire, and purpose of His heart to come to this place before the world began. It could truthfully be said that the great purpose for which God created this world was that, in the fulness of time, the Lord of Glory might come to this place. Our great Redeemer, from old eternity, fixed his eye on “the place which is called Calvary.” He had sworn to redeem us; and he would not rest until, from the tree fixed on Calvary’s hill, He had cried, “It is finished.” And so Luke records these words, “and when they were come to the place.” It came to pass exactly as our Lord had purposed. He must come to “the place which is called Calvary.”
Steady March In my mind’s eye, I see King Jesus marching with steady pace from old eternity, through the ages of time, to the place where he would make for Himself an everlasting and glorious name. (Read Isaiah 50:5-7.) He was on his way to Calvary when He stopped outside the gates of Eden and promised our fallen parents, Adam and Eve, that He would come to undo the ruins of the fall as our Redeemer (Genesis 3:15). — He was on his way to Calvary when He paused to make a covenant of pure grace with Noah. — He was on his way to Calvary when He stretched out His arm to deliver Israel by the price of blood and the power of grace from cruel Egyptian bondage. — He was on his way to Calvary when He led Israel through the wilderness, a pillar of smoke by day and fire by night. — He was on his way to Calvary when He caused David to write prophetically of him, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” — He was on his way to Calvary when Isaiah got a vision of Him and penned these words: “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.”
Behold, God’s own Son as He comes into this world, out of the womb of the virgin! Even then He declares the purpose for which he came (Hebrews 10:5-14). He was on his way to Calvary when He stopped by the pool of Bethesda to heal a certain poor, cripple man. — He was on his way to Calvary when He sat on Jacob’s well, down in Samaria, to give eternal life to a poor harlot. — He was on his way to Calvary when He paused to meet with Moses and Elijah on the mount of Transfiguration. — He was on his way to Calvary when He stopped by the Jericho road to give sight to a poor, blind beggar named Bartimaeus. — He stopped on that same road, leading up out of Jericho, to save a wretched publican named Zacchaeus. — King Jesus was on His way to Calvary when He rode into Jerusalem on an ass’s colt, on His great inauguration day. Even then, His people took palm branches and shouted in anticipation of His victory, “Hosanna! Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
Complete Salvation Well do I recall my first visit to Calvary. I came as a guilty, heavy-laden sinner, burdened down with the oppressive load of my sin and guilt. But there I beheld the Son of God dying in my place; and the burden of my sin rolled away. I went home that day singing… Mercy there was great and grace was free; Pardon there was multiplied to me; There my burdened soul found liberty — At Calvary! Standing here by grace alone, I have all God’s salvation. I stand before God in Christ, through His blood poured out for me at Calvary, fully forgiven, completely justified, perfectly accepted, entirely righteous, forever reconciled, wholly sanctified, securely preserved, holy, unblameable, and unreproveable! Will you come by faith to the Christ of Calvary? You have no other hope. Come just like you are. Come in submission. Come, trusting Christ alone. He is able and willing to save all who come to Him. God help you to come now.
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Child Bearing in Tough Times Exodus 2: 1-10 While the children of Israel were enslaved in Egypt, Pharaoh sought to prevent them from multiplying by ordering the mid-wives to kill their male babies (Exodus 1:17, 20, 22). Behind Pharaoh’s evil, Satan’s purpose was to destroy God’s people to prevent the woman’s Seed, Christ Jesus, from coming into the earth, glorifying God and saving God’s elect (Genesis 3: 15). Despite Pharaoh’s demands, a man named Levi and his wife, Jochebed, had three children. God saved these three children from Pharaoh’s madness and used all three to redeem Israel out of bondage (Micah 6:4) In these three children, we see that in all providence, God is ruling all things, even our enemies, to bring to pass His eternal purpose of glorifying His name in the salvation of His people by Christ Jesus our Lord. So brethren as you behold the evil desire and schemes of Pharaoh all overruled and defeated by our God who saved these three children to show us these beautiful types of our Prophet, Priest and King, rest assured that we have nothing to fear. Even now in these tough times, God is doing all things well for our good and his glory in the face of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. — Pastor Clay Curtis
The Grace Bulletin
September 8, 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
Schedule of Regular Services
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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Channel 6 - Sunday Morning 7:45 A.M. Channel 6 - Wednesday Evening 6:00 P.M. Channel 6 - Friday Evening 7:00 P.M.
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