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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

January 10, 2016

 

God’s love is not a passion, but both an attribute and an act of his infinite being. God’s love toward his elect is his sovereign, eternal benevolence toward us, his eternal purpose and determination to deliver, bless, and save us, arising from “the good pleasure of his will.” God’s love is his eternal complacency, delight, approval, and acceptance of his chosen in Christ.

 

Daily Readings for the Week of January 10-17, 2016

Sunday                Genesis 31-32                           Thursday Genesis 41-42

      Monday                Genesis 33-35                           Friday                   Genesis 43-44

      Tuesday              Genesis 36-37                           Saturday              Genesis 45-47

      Wednesday        Genesis 38-40                           Sunday                Genesis 48-50

 

We extend our sincere sympathy to Ruth Wall, Billy McCormack, and their families. Ruth’s father, Dwight Montgomery, died last week. Billy’s sister, Peggy McCormack died Friday morning.

 

Happy Birthday! Allen Kibby-13th  Bernita Singleton-17th  Molly McCormack-17th

 

Nursery Duty this Week

Shante’ Birchum (AM) — Diane Campbell (PM) — Tuesday: Stephanie Wall

 

Is God My Father? Don Fortner

(Tune: #98 — I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day —LM)

1.    What wondrous names Jehovah bears,

By which His love and grace appear! —

My Father, “Abba, Father,” He

Reveals Himself in Christ to me!

 

2.    Is God my Father? — He’ll instruct.

He will His childrens’ steps conduct.

His chas’ning rod I must expect.

The child He loves He will correct.

 

3.    Is God my Father? — All my care

I’ll cast on Him and leave it there.

His wisdom and His love I’ll trust,

Whose ways are righteous, true, and just.

 

4.    Is God my Father! — Then His love,

His everlasting, cov’nant love,

Is fixed on me, His chosen child;

And He will not disown His child!

 

5.    Is God my Father? — He’s engaged

To give me heav’n, when I’m of age.

To this, my portion, I shall come:

My Father’s dwelling is my home!

 

Quarterly Fellowship — January 24th

Water, Wine, and The Glory of Christ

John 2:1-11

 

Here we see the Lord Jesus performing his first miracle, turning water into wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee. In performing this miracle, the Holy Ghost specifically tells us, in verse 11, that “Jesus manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.” This miracle was a picture of something far more important than the display of our Savior’s divine omnipotence and the public demonstration of his eternal Godhead.

 

Water made Wine

 

The water we are told was “made wine.” — Pictures of wine were not pasted on the water pots. The water was made wine. — The water was not made to look like wine. It was made wine. — The water was not made to taste like wine. It was made wine. — The water was not treated as though it were wine. It was made wine.

This “beginning of miracles,” performed by the Son of God in Cana of Galilee, shows us how the God of all grace takes sinners like you and me and makes us saints, how God takes one who is altogether sinful, and nothing but sin, and makes him righteous, perfectly righteous, by his grace.

 

The Word made Flesh

 

When the water was made wine, it did not cease to be water. You have to have water to make wine. But it could never again be just water. The water was made wine. In John 1:14 we read that “the Word was made flesh.” When the Word was made flesh, God the Word did not cease to be God; but he would never again be just God. He is for evermore the God-man. The Scriptures also assert that all who trust Christ are “made the righteousness of God in him.” Though we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ, both in justification the righteousness of Christ being imputed to us and in sanctification the righteousness (holiness) of Christ being imparted to us, we have not ceased to be sinners.

 

Christ made Sin

 

But we could never have been made the righteousness of God in Christ had he not been made sin for us, that he might suffer and die for our sins upon the cursed tree. Yes, God “hath made him sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” The Book of God does not say that our sins were pasted on him in a legal, ceremonial way. The Book of God says, “He hath made him sin for us!” The Book does not say he was treated as though he were sin. The Book of God says, “He hath made him sin for us!” The Book does not say he was accounted a transgressor. The Book of God says, “He hath made him sin for us!” And the Holy Spirit does not say that he was made a sin-offering. The Book of God says, “He hath made him sin for us!

      Mysteriously, profoundly, wondrously, in a way that defies explanation, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Darling of heaven, who knew no sin, did no sin and could not sin, was made sin for us. Thus he manifests forth his gory in the accomplishment of redemption by the sacrifice of himself.

      This is the good wine of the gospel. Truly, it makes glad the heart! When Christ was made sin for us, it was he and he alone who trod the wine-press of his Father’s wrath as our Substitute, when the Lord bruised him and put him to grief. This is the wine that cheers both God and men. When God’s justice took the full draught of it for the sins of the redeemed, the Lord declared himself well pleased. And when the poor sinner, by sovereign grace, is first made to drink of the blood of the Lamb, he feels constrained to cry,

 

“Hallelujah! I have found Him

Whom my soul so long has craved!

Jesus satisfies my longings,

Through His blood I now am saved.”

 

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Does God love you?

Romans 9:13

 

You may think that is a ridiculous question. Anyone who can read, sees signs, tracts, and bumper stickers saying, “God loves you,” all over the place. All men presume that because “God is love” (1 John 4:16), he must love them; but it is not so.

 

Not Everyone

 

God does not love everyone. Had Noah hung a sign over the side of the ark that read, “Smile, God loves you,” it would have been an act of utmost cruelty. Those who perished in the flood might well have cried out, “If God loves us, he has a mighty strange way of showing it!”

The fact is, God does not love everyone. The Word of God says that very plainly (Psalms 5:5; 7:11; Romans 9:13). The inhabitants of Sodom upon whom God rained fire and brimstone and those who now suffer the wrath of God in hell are everlasting proof to all reasonable men that God does not love everyone.

 

In Christ

 

God does love all who are in Christ. If you trust the Lord Jesus Christ, if you are robed in his righteousness and washed in his blood, God loves you. Your faith in Christ is both the fruit and the evidence of God’s everlasting, immutable love for you. — “We love him because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

That love which caused God to redeem and save chosen sinners is without cause, without condition, without beginning, without change, and without end. If you now trust Christ as your Savior and Lord, it is because he loved you from the beginning; and he will love you forever! If you do not trust and love the Lord Jesus Christ, you have no reason to imagine that God loves you. The wrath of God abides on you (John 3:36). Flee from the wrath of God. Flee away to Christ, and you will find in him all the fulness of Jehovah’s everlasting love.

 

 

The Grace Bulletin

 

January 10, 2016

 

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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10:30 A.M. Morning Worship Service

6:30   P.M. Evening Worship Service

 

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