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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

November 8, 2015

 

There is nothing that will keep you out of heaven but your own will; but there is nothing that will keep you out of hell but God’s will.

 

Daily Readings for the Week of November 8-15, 2015

Sunday                Acts 2-3                                             Thursday       Acts 10-12

      Monday                Acts 4-5                                             Friday             Acts 13-14

      Tuesday              Acts 6-7                                             Saturday                    Acts 15-16

      Wednesday        Acts 8-9                                             Sunday                      Acts 17-19

 

Nursery Duty: Today: Jenny Bartley (AM) — Debbie Bartley (PM)

Tuesday: Shelby Fortner

 

Come, Sing of God’s Electing Love — Don Fortner

(Tune: The Doxology — LM)

 

1.    Come, sing of God’s electing love

And His eternal purpose good.

Let sinners saved by sov’reign grace

Lift heart and voice in praise to God.

 

2.    Before the angels sang His praise,

Before God made the earth or sun,

He chose the people He would save

And gave them to His darling Son.

 

3.    Without condition we must meet,

God’s choice most sov’reign, wise, and good,

Was fixed by free, eternal love.

He loved us just because He would.

 

4.    Nothing in heaven, earth, or hell

Can alter God’s most wise decree.

Each chosen sinner shall be saved,

And shall at last God’s glory see!

 

5.    Immutable, His purpose stands,

Immortal as it is sublime!

God’s justice, mercy, truth, and grace

United make salvation mine!

 

Come to Christ — C. H. Spurgeon

 

Come to the cross of our Lord Jesus and bring the doctrine of election and free grace with you; and remember that the reason Christ gave his life to be a ransom for his sheep was because he loved them, not because they loved him; was because it pleased God to bruise him, to put him to grief, to make his soul an offering for sin, to number him with transgressors, and to justify many because he bore their iniquities.

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ”

Revelation 1:1

 

The singular subject theme, and message of the entire Bible, the Old Testament and the New, is the person, work, and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. As in creation, providence, and redemption, so in the Holy Scriptures, it is the purpose of God “that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:18).

 

All about Christ

 

The Book of God is a book all about Christ (Luke 24:27, 44-48). All the promises and blessings of God given to sinful men and women are in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). Apart from Christ, God promises nothing but wrath, and every supposed blessing will prove to be a curse. All the love, mercy, and grace of God are found in Christ. All the revelation and knowledge of the triune God are in Christ. Christ is not only the central message of Holy Scripture, he is the message of Holy Scripture. To understand that is to have the key that opens the Word of God and reveals its treasures.

That which is true of the whole of Scripture is especially and gloriously true of the last, closing chapters of the Sacred Volume, the Book of Revelation. This last book of the Bible is Christ’s revelation of himself to his servants. This book is “the Revelation of Jesus Christ.” It is not the revelation of St John, but “the Revelation of Jesus Christ” given to, and recorded by John. It is not the book of “revelations” (plural). It does not contain many revelations; it contains one revelation seen in many things. It is “the Revelation of Jesus Christ.”

 

Seven Visions

 

The Book of Revelation gives us seven visions of the Person and work of God our Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, in this Gospel Age. In these seven visions the Lord God revealed to John what he had done, is doing, and shall hereafter do for his Church, in his Church, and with his Church. The whole purpose of the Book of Revelation is to assure God’s children in this world of their ultimate conquest over the world, the flesh, and the devil. By revealing to us who he is and what he does, our Lord calls for us to ever look to him with confident faith, and assures us that we are “more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

      The seven visions John saw and recorded by Divine Inspiration are set before us in consecutive order in the twenty-two chapters of this book. He saw...

1.    Christ in the midst of his churches, the seven golden candlesticks, in this world (chapters 1-3).

2.    Christ opening and fulfilling the seven sealed book of God’s sovereign, eternal purpose (chapters 4-7).

3.    Christ answering the prayers of his people, protecting them from their enemies, and vindicating them by executing the seven trumpets of judgment in his providential rule of the universe (chapters 8-11).

4.    Christ and his Church persecuted by Satan, world government, and false religion (chapters 12-14).

5.    Christ sending his angels to pour out the seven vials of his wrath upon the earth (chapters 15-16).

6.    Christ’s conquest over Babylon, the beast, and the false prophet (chapters 17-19).

7.    Christ’s dominion over and destruction of Satan and the glory of the New Jerusalem (chapters 20-22).

 

All Well

 

These seven visions each cover the whole Gospel Age from the first to the second coming of Christ. They do not represent different ages, dispensations, or prophetic events. They all tell the same story. They all tell us what our Lord has done, is doing, and shall do for the salvation of his people. The use of the word “seven” is striking. There are “seven golden candlesticks,” “seven stars,” “seven seals,” “seven trumpets,” “seven angels,” “seven vials.”

      Seven is the number of perfection, completion, and satisfaction. And in each of these seven visions, the Holy Spirit assures us of the perfect rule of Christ as the Monarch of the universe for the complete victory and eternal salvation of his Church. Seven speaks of perfection and completion. Christ’s rule is perfect. His work is perfect. His salvation is perfect. He is perfectly accomplishing the purpose of God in this world for the complete and perfect salvation of his Church. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” was given to assure God’s Church in all ages that all is well, because Christ our Savior is Lord over all, King of kings and Lord of lords!

 

 

Free-will Augustus Toplady

 

A man’s free-will cannot cure him even of a toothache or a sore finger, and yet he madly thinks it is in his power to cure his soul of sin.  Actually, the greatest judgment which God himself can in this present life inflict upon a man is to leave that man in the hands of his own boasting free-will! Look where you will, and you will generally find that free-willers are not free-givers nor are they free-forgivers, but are very free-livers!

 

 

Free Grace C. H. Spurgeon

 

Today some of us have believed the gospel, and have been changed by it, and have become heirs of light, life, and immortality while others are left in unbelief or in false religion. There is no reason in us why we should have been chosen and called and others left.

“There was nothing in us to merit esteem or give the Creator delight;

`Twas even so, Father! We must ever sing, because it seemed good in Thy sight.”

In the great decree of election, the only reason why God chose the vessels of mercy must have been because “He will have mercy upon whom he will have mercy, and be gracious to whom he will be gracious.”

There is nothing in anyone of us which would cause God to choose us. We are all alike — all lost, all ruined by the fall, all without the slightest claim upon his mercy — all, in fact, deserving of his wrath and vengeance! His choice of his elect was the effect of his sovereign will and of nothing which they did, could do, or ever would do.

 

 

 

The Grace Bulletin

 

November 8, 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

 

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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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