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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

January 6, 2019

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The Lord Jesus presents us to the Father in his own eternal perfection. And the Father delights in us as thus presented in his perfection because we are in him.

 

Daily Readings for the Week of January 6-13, 2019

Sunday                Genesis 20-23                                 Thursday       Genesis 31-32

      Monday                Genesis 24-25                                 Friday             Genesis 33-35

      Tuesday              Genesis 26-27                                 Saturday                    Genesis 36-37

      Wednesday        Genesis 28-30                                 Sunday                      Genesis 38-40

 

á      We plan to have our Quarterly Fellowship dinner on Sunday, January 20th.

 

Happy Birthday!  Emily Rice-8th

Happy Anniversary:  Merle & Charlotte Hart-10th

Nursery Duty Today: Celeste Peterson (AM) — Debbie Bartley (PM)

 

Look Up, My Soul Don Fortner

(Tune: #87 — Joy to the World —CM)

 

1.    Look up, my soul, to yonder throne,

Where Jesus undertook,

The Surety for chosen ones,

And wrote us in His book.

 

2.    Look up, my soul, to yonder cross,

Where Christ your Savior bled.

For Him consider all things loss. —

He suffered in your stead!

 

3.    Look up, my soul, where Jesus stands,

And for you intercedes.

See how He shows His side and hands,

And for His ransomed pleads!

 

4.    Look up, my soul, where Jesus waits

To welcome you to bliss.

Soon, I shall enter HeavenÕs gates,

And see Him as He is!

 

God is Everywhere

God is everywhere by his power, upholding, maintaining, sustaining all things, and performing with his own hands the works of his eternal purpose in all places. God is everywhere by his providence, taking care of and governing all his creatures, executing in all places at the same time his everlasting decrees. God is everywhere by his omniscience, beholding all things, all places, all events, all people, even the secrets of the hearts of all men at one time (Psalm 139:1-6). — ÒThe eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.Ó (Proverbs 15:3).

 

Doctrinal Error and Damning Heresy

 

ÒA man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject.Ó                                                                                                                                                       (Titus 3:10)

 

A friend once asked me, ÒDo you make a distinction between doctrinal error and damning heresy, and if you do, what is it?Ó That is a good question and deserves a public answer. While I do not find such a distinction made in the Scriptures between the use of the words, ÒerrorÓ and Òheresy,Ó the word ÒerrorÓ as we commonly use it is a much milder word than the word Òheresy.Ó But in the New Testament distinctions were made. For example, Peter was in grave error in the dissimulation he made at Antioch. By his actions he gave the appearance that believers should still be held under the yoke of the law. For this error, Paul publicly rebuked him (Galatians 2:11-21). However, his error was not damning heresy. Had he taught that men gain salvation or improve their relationship with God by obedience to the law, that would have been damning heresy (Galatians 5:2, 4).

 

Line of Distinction

 

This is where we must draw the line of distinction. — Doctrinal error is the misinterpretation or application of any biblical teaching. — Damning heresy is any doctrine or practice that is contrary to salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Obviously, any teaching that allows the worship of false gods, denies the deity of Christ, his virgin birth, or vicarious atonement is damning heresy. But there are other forms of heresy far more subtle and dangerous.

To teach sprinkling for baptism is grave error, but not necessarily damning. However, to make baptism a condition of grace to any degree is damning heresy. To substitute grape juice for wine in the LordÕs Supper is serious error, though not damning to the soul. But to make the LordÕs Supper a sacrament by which grace is conferred upon a sinner is damning heresy.

 

The Test

 

The list could be greatly enlarged. But there is one test by which damning heresy can always be identified. — Any doctrine that teaches or practice that leads people to believe that salvation is in anyway conditioned upon, dependent upon, or determined by the worth, work, or will of the sinner is damning heresy and always deadly to those who embrace it. Arminian, free-will, works religion is as damning to the souls of men as Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, or Satan worship. It is our responsibility to expose heresy by instructing people in the truth and to reject those who will not obey the truth as self-condemned heretics (Titus 3:9-11).

      GodÕs people and GodÕs servants, faithful, believing sinners, saved by the grace of God, washed in the blood of Christ, can and often do embrace doctrinal error, though they truly trust and love the Lord Jesus Christ; but that does not make them heretics who are to be rejected by us.

 

The Who of History

Isaiah 23:1-18

 

The prophet asked, ÒWho hath taken this counsel against Tyre?Ó and tells us plainly that it is our God who did so, the Triune Jehovah. Here is the who and why of all things. I do not think there is a passage in the whole of IsaiahÕs prophecy that is more instructive and more comprehensive in explaining the wonders of GodÕs adorable providence in the out-working of his grace, to show manÕs nothingness, GodÕs supremacy, and GodÕs determination to stain the pride of man than this 23rd chapter.

Yes, there is a ÒwhoÓ to history. And that ÒwhoÓ is our God. He is who undertook this counsel against Tyre and executed it. He who undertook this counsel against the merchants, and princes, and traffickers, and honorable of the world and executes it is God our Savior.

 

His Story

God writes history. History is his-story. God reconstructs geography. He is not merely the Geologist of the globe, but its Geographer. The God who built up the rocks manages all the surface work. God readjusts the map of the world. He alters names, boundaries, and capacities. The four seasons are his servants. He tells them what to do. Precisely at the time of this prophecy Chittim (Cyprus) revolted against Tyre and the Phoenician colonies began to be restless and joined Sennacherib when he attacked the mother city. Who did it? God shook the kingdoms: Egypt, Ethiopia, Babylon, Syria, Israel, and Judah quaked down to their foundations, while Tiglath-Pileser built and enlarged the Assyrian Empire. Yet, in due time his neck was wrung, and he was thrown away.

 

One King

There are many kings, but they all have a King over them — eternal, immortal, invisible, the only Potentate. All others are painted figures. Christ our God, the King of Glory, reigns everywhere, always, over all things, absolutely! All gates fly back at his coming. All doors lift themselves up to welcome him and acknowledge his right to come. There cannot be two Almighties! There can be only one Supreme! And that one Almighty, that one King, that one Supreme, that one God is Jehovah our Savior.

      Things are not ordered by the whims and moods of petty dictators, toy-kings, and politicians. They come and go. They die of disease, like dogs. They are but a puff of smoke, a vapor, just like you, just like me. — Withering grass! — Nothing more! — ÒThe Lord reigneth!Ó

 

GodÕs Purpose

Why does God do things the way he does them? What is his purpose in everything he does? — ÒThe LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.Ó — ÒThat no flesh should glory in his presence!Ó God is determined to stain all pride, to smear the glory of man in the muck and mire of his own excrement — In Providence (Romans 8:28) — In Redemption (1 Corinthians 1:26-31) — In Grace (Ephesians 1:3-14) — In Judgment (John 5:25-29).

 

 

The Grace Bulletin

 

January 6, 2019

 

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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