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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

May 28, 2017

 

Night and day, in labor and in leisure, in religion and in recreation, use your time for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).

 

Daily Readings for the Week of May 28-June 4, 2017

Sunday                Nehemiah 6-7                                  Thursday       Esther 2-4

      Monday                Nehemiah 8-10                               Friday             Esther 5-8

      Tuesday              Nehemiah 11-12                             Saturday                    Esther 9-Job 2

      Wednesday        Nehemiah 13-Esther 1                  Sunday                      Job 3-7

 

á      I am preaching today for Merton Evangelical Baptist Church in London, England, where Bro. Harry Qazi is pastor. — I am scheduled to preach Monday and Tuesday for the Free Grace Fellowship (Orange Hall) in Ballymoney, N Ireland.

á      We are privileged to have Bro. Larry Criss home this week. Bro. Criss is pastor of Fairmont Grace Church in Sylacauga, Alabama. He will bring the messages here today and on Tuesday.

 

Happy Birthday!  Audrey Grace Hacker-2nd

Happy Anniversary: Rex & Debbie Bartley-1st   Don & Shelby Fortner-1st

Nursery Duty This Week

Nicole Abell (AM) — Ruth Wall (PM) Tuesday: Elizabeth Peterson

Church Cleaning in June:  Sam & Ruth Wall

 

Blest Spirit, Own this Sacred Hour Don Fortner

(Tune: #52 — Majestic Sweetness — CM)

  1. Blest Spirit, own this sacred hour; enflame the preacherÕs heart;

Let every hearer feel Your power, ere from Your house we part!

 

  1. Direct Your arrows to the souls of unconverted men;

And, while Your servant truth unfolds, may some be born again!

  1. O give Your saints a foretaste sweet of their eternal rest;

Each seeking soul be pleased to meet, and make each mourner blest!

 

ÒBe of Good CheerÓ

John 16:33

Pastor Eric Richards — San Diego Grace Fellowship, San Diego, California

 

What a word of comfort for tried and troubled hearts! Often in this world GodÕs children are perplexed and troubled by persecutions, by the lusts of the flesh, by manifold temptations. Life in this world is filled with tribulation for a believer. Often, weÕre guilty of saying as Jacob said, ÒAll these things are against me.Ó We are so easily disheartened and cast down at the least difficulty that God brings into our lives in his all-wise providence. To add to our misery, we begin looking at ourselves and sink even lower with the weight of all our failures and falls. But our blessed Savior bids us look away from our weakness and inability, and set our hearts on him who is our Strength! We cannot overcome the least temptation and trial. ÒBut be of good cheer,Ó he says, ÒI have overcome the world

 

Sweet Sleep

 ÒI laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.Ó

(Psalm 3:5)

Pastor Larry Criss — Fairmont Grace Church, Sylacauga, Alabama

 

Blessed Quietness

ÒI laid me down and slept.Ó — We often lay down, but toss and turn, because like Martha, we are careful and troubled about many things. David was not sitting on his throne when he wrote these words, or resting in his palace. He wrote these words when he fled from his own son Absalom, who was leading a rebellion to take his throne. David knew trouble and heartache, but he also knew the reality of GodÕs faithfulness and grace. I donÕt recall as a child at home ever losing sleep worrying whether I would be fed the next day. When Mom tucked me in at night, kissed my forehead, and said, ÒI love you,Ó I felt safe and secure. — ÒWhen thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweetÓ (Proverbs3:24).

 

God Does the Watching

 

ÒI awaked; for the Lord sustained me.Ó There are times I would honor my God more by doing nothing rather than trying to do what only he can. There are times to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord — ÒBehold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleepÓ (Psalm 121:4). With GodÕs good providence for our pillow, the perfect righteousness of Christ for our blanket, and the promise of our everlasting Father to preserve us unto his heavenly kingdom, why should we not lie down and sleep? — ÒCasting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.Ó David, who was himself a shepherd and a king, now beholds the Chief Shepherd and the King of kings, Jesus Christ himself!

 

The Morning is Coming

 

ÒI awaked.Ó I wonder how much goes on while weÕre asleep. We learn sometimes of danger that was in the neighborhood during the night, but we slept right through it. — ÒI will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.Ó And so we shall until that time comes for us to close our eyes for the very last time here. What happens then? — ÒAs for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.Ó The Psalm ends on a sweet note of confident assurance that all the blessings of GodÕs great salvation are upon his people. ÒSelahÓ — Stop, pause, and think about it. May God give me grace to trust him more.

 

 

ÒWhen Christ entered into Jerusalem, the people spread garments in the way: when he enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under ChristÕs feet, but even trample upon it ourselves.Ó

 — Augustus Toplady

 

 

 

ÒThe ScapegoatÓ

Leviticus 16:8

 

The scapegoat beautifully portrays our dear Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. As the slain goat portrays him as the Lamb sacrificed for our sins, the scapegoat portrays him as the sacrifice accepted. The scapegoat is a picture of the complete removal of our sins by Christ. The first goat, the LordÕs goat, the slain victim, gave us a picture of the atonement. The second goat, the scapegoat, gives us a picture of the result of the atonement.

 

A Fit Man

With all the sins of Israel made his, the scapegoat was taken away by a fit man. That fit man is the Judge of all the earth who must do right, the very justice of God. The scapegoat is borne beyond the camp—beyond all sight—beyond the track of man—to the far borders of an uninhabited land. Released, it disappears in rocks and thickets of an uninhabited desert. Unseen, unknown, forgotten, it departs from mortal view. It is now buried in oblivion's land.

 

Full Pardon

There is no brighter picture of the full pardon of all sin in Christ. Christ bore the accursed load of all my sin and guilt away, as far away as the east is from the west; and God's all-seeing eye cannot find it.

Oh, precious tidings! Oh, heart-cheering truth! Oh, wondrous grace! God the Spirit, by the testimony of the gospel, proclaims this good news and confirms it in the soul by the gift of life and faith in Christ. God has cast our sins, all our sins, behind his back and into the depth of the sea of infinite forgetfulness! As we watch that fit Man and the Scapegoat, Christ Jesus, the horizon recedes. Infinite separation has infinitely separated our transgressions from us! Christ, our Scapegoat, has borne our iniquities away (Psalm 103:12; Isaiah 38:17; Micah 7:19).

Can we recover what the ocean buries? No line can reach to the unmeasured depths. It has sunk downward, never to arise. Deep waters hide it; and it must be hidden. Such is the grave of sin. Our Scapegoat drowned it in a fathomless abyss. The word is sure. "Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea!"

Can that be seen to which the eye of omniscience is blind? Are objects visible which are behind your back? Our Scapegoat has cast our sins behind GodÕs back! He has blotted out, as a thick cloud, our transgressions (Isaiah 44:22), and can never find them (Jeremiah 50:20).

 

Not Remembered

That which Christ has taken away, blotted out, and removed by his precious, sin-atoning blood, God cannot and will not remember. He promised, "I will remember their sin no more" (Jeremiah 31:34). Do you need comfort? Drink deeply from this stream of joy. Lay down in this green pasture of delight. Your sins, so many, vile, and hateful, your Scapegoat has taken away. All your blemishes, defects, iniquities, transgressions, and sins are forever gone! And God your Savior. God, who cannot lie, says to you, ÒThou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in theeÓ (Song of Solomon 4:7).

 

 

 

The Grace Bulletin

 

May 28, 2017

 

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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