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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

August 30, 2015

 

Either the Lord Jesus was made sin for us and our sins were transferred to him, or his sufferings were not penal sufferings and the justice of God was not satisfied by them.

 

Daily Readings for the Week of August 30-September 6, 2015

Sunday                Ezekiel 33-34                             Thursday Ezekiel 42-44

      Monday                Ezekiel 35-37                             Friday                   Ezekiel 45-47

      Tuesday              Ezekiel 38-39                             Saturday              Ezekiel 48-Daniel 1

      Wednesday        Ezekiel 40-41                             Sunday                Daniel 2-3

 

·      Conference — Friday Night — There will be no service here Tuesday evening. Our conference will begin Friday night at 7:00 PM. In preparation for the conference, we will have a work night Thursday at 6:00 PM. I hope you can all be here for every service of the conference. I encourage you to bring friends and neighbors with you. Pray for God’s blessing upon our meetings.

·      Bro. Mark Daniel is preaching today for Laird Street Baptist Church in New Caney, Texas.

 

Happy Birthday!  Norma Rankin-1st

 

Nursery Duty Today – Shante’ Birchum

 

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!

 

Ordinance or Sacrament

Papists and Protestants alike look upon baptism and the Lord’s Supper as sacraments (visible signs of inward grace and/or means by which grace is conferred). They are not sacraments, but ordinances of worship, divinely ordained symbols by which we confess, remember, and proclaim redemption accomplished by Christ.

 “In many things we offend all.”

James 3:1-2

 

In many things we offend all.” — What a sad, sad fact; but fact it is. — “In many things we offend all!” I wish it were not so, but I know it is. I cannot and will not deny it.  “In many things we offend all!

 

Early Church

The early Church, like the Church today, was a mixed multitude. Nominal professors of religion mingled with the people of God who possessed true godliness. The seed of the serpent sat side by side with the woman’s seed. The children of the devil sat at the Lord’s Table with the sons of God. Reprobate vessels of wrath fitted themselves for destruction by trampling underfoot the precious blood of Christ, while chosen vessels of mercy were being prepared for Glory by hearing the same Gospel.

 

Our Experience

Because that is the way it has always been and the way it always shall be in this world, God the Holy Ghost, by his servant James, uses this fact to teach us again a fact that we are terribly prone to overlook and forget. — As it is in the professed Church of God, as it is in this world, so it is in each of us. Living here, in this body of flesh is both righteousness and sin, both faith and unbelief, both good and evil, both purity and pretense, both sincerity and hypocrisy, both the child of God and a child of the devil, that which is born of the flesh and is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit and is spirit. Obviously, these things are written plainly in the Book of God (Romans 7; Galatians 5; 1 John 3). And they are painful facts of everyday life experienced by every believer.

 

Judge Not

In James 3:1 the Spirit of God teaches us again that we are not to set ourselves up as masters and judges over God’s elect. — “My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.”

      This might be applied to the great error men make when they set themselves up as preachers. Let none run who have not been sent. Let none assume to themselves the work for which God has not gifted them and to which he has not called them. Yet, we are clearly taught to pray that God would raise up laborers from among us and send them out into the harvest. And we are clearly taught that the work of the ministry is a work to be desired.

      Obviously, then, James is not here talking about preaching, and warning men not to do that great work. Rather, he is telling us what we are told throughout the Scriptures. — We are not to set ourselves up as masters over and judges of God’s elect. That is an evil work we are specifically forbidden to practice (Matthew 7:1-5; Romans 14:4).

      It is not my business to govern your life; and it is not your business to govern your brother’s life. It is our business to help one another along life’s road (Galatians 6:1-5).

 

Double Minded

 

James has told us in the first two chapters of unstable, double minded men (James 1:8), very religious men and women who are mere hearers of the Word. They hear the Gospel and loudly profess to believe the Gospel; but the Gospel they profess has not made them new creatures in Christ. Instead of making them godly people, James tells us that their religion has made them nothing but men and women who partially observe the law, pretending to be righteous because they do some of the things required by the law, failing to understand that to break the law in one point is to be guilty of all (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10).

What multitudes there are among professed believers who are guilty of this evil! They are (at best) partial in their religion. They pick and choose what they like and disregard the rest. They do so in the doctrines they believe, in observing the ordinances of divine worship, and in their day by day conduct in this world. Their religion, while pretending to be surrendered to Christ the Lord, is nothing but obstinate rebellion cloaked in religion

 

Sinners Still

Believers are not double minded hypocrites; but they are both sinners and saints. Though we are new creatures in Christ and partakers of the divine nature, having Christ formed in us by the new birth, heaven-born souls are sinners still. Here, in James 3, the Apostle speaks of bitter envying, strife in the heart, and of lying against the truth; and says “in many things we offend all,” including himself with the offenders. This is a fact that every heaven born soul knows; but a fact we appear too often to forget. — “In many things we offend all!” You have the evidence in yourself, and I have it in myself. With the same tongue we bless God and curse men! These things, as James tells us, ought not to be, but they are!

 

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Who needs a preacher?

Pastor Clay Curtis

Christ says, “They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick.” Churches today use every marketing gimmick under the sun to try to fill pews and keep them filled. Can you imagine emergency rooms using the same gimmicks to entice folks to come to the emergency room! They do not have to because sick people know their need of a physician. Christ’s true people — true chosen, redeemed, regenerated believers made so by God—know their need of Christ. Therefore, the preaching of Christ crucified is more needful to them than their everyday bread. But the reason so few come to hear Christ speak in the gospel is that most think they are whole, righteous, with no need. But will you hear Christ? He said, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

 

The Grace Bulletin

 

August 30, 2015

 

Grace Baptist Church of Danville

2734 Old Stanford Road-Danville, Kentucky 40422-9438

Telephone (859) 576-3400 — 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

 

Television Broadcasts in Danville

 

Channel 6 - Sunday Morning 7:45 A.M.

Channel 6 - Wednesday Evening 6:00 P.M.

Channel 6 - Friday Evening 7:00 P.M.

 

Television Broadcasts in Harrodsburg

Channel 6 - Sunday Afternoon 3:00 P.M.

Channel 6 - Friday Evening 6:00 P.M.

 

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