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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

December 1, 2019

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The natural man may express thanksgiving for what he has in his hand; but the believer is thankful for what he has in his heart and what he has in Christ, even if he has nothing in his hand.

 

Daily Readings for the Week of December 1-8, 2019

Sunday                2 Corinthians 4-7                       Thursday Gal. 5-Ephesians 2

      Monday                2 Corinthians 8-11         Friday                   Ephesians 3-5

      Tuesday               2 Cor.12-Galatians 1                 Saturday              Eph. 6-Philippians 2

      Wednesday         Galatians 2-4                              Sunday                Phil. 3-Colossians 1

 

·      We will have our Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner following our worship service. There will be no service here tonight.

 

Happy Birthday! David Burge-4th 

Happy Anniversary: Mark & Regina Henson-29th

Nursery Duty Today Shante’ Birchum

 

God’s Son, in Condescending Love Don Fortner

 

(Tune: #87 — Joy to the World —CM)

 

 

1.    God’s Son, in condescending love,

A babe in flesh appeared!

He left the shining realms above

To be a servant here!

 

2.    The Lord of Heaven stooped to earth

To do His Father’s will,

A man of sorrows from his birth,

Yet Lord of Glory still!

 

3.    Sorrow and suff’ring, toil and pain

He, as a Servant, bore,

That His elect might live and reign

With Him for evermore.

 

4.    He did the work none else could do.

Then He resumed His throne,

Still keeping His designs in view,

And gath’ring in His own.

 

Redemption’s Plan

 

Hear it, O Heaven! Rejoice O Earth! God’s infinite mercy, grace, and love for perishing sinners shines forth brightly in redemption’s plan. He calls his Son to bear the sinner’s sins. He lays all help upon one mighty helper. The Triune Jehovah makes God the Son the sinner’s Substitute, Surety, and Sin-bearer!! Such a scheme of redemption is as a flood of grace bursting from springs of Jehovah’s infinite love for sinners! The first thought and the last is love. In love he chose us. In love he redeemed us. In love he called us. In love he preserves us. In love he will bring us home to heaven. — “God is love.”

 

 

Ecclesiastes

“The Words of the Preacher”

Ecclesiastes 1:1

 

God made Solomon wise above all in his day. And God the Holy Ghost inspired him in writing out his wisdom in Proverbs, the Song of Solomon, and Ecclesiastes. The wise man’s purpose in Ecclesiastes appears obvious. — In these twelve chapters of Inspiration we are forcibly confronted with two, undeniable facts.

 

Without Christ

Those who are without Christ are without God and without hope. The natural, unregenerate man lives in constant frustration. He is constantly looking for something to give him satisfaction, because there is no meaning to his life. Nothing under the sun can satisfy his immortal soul. When eternity bound creatures have earth bound hearts, they live in constant frustration and misery. Such poor souls constantly feel what Solomon declares from their point of view — “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!” When the natural man looks over his life, he is forced to conclude, though he tries with all his might to deny it, “all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun'” (2:11). That is how the Book begins.

 

“The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”

(Ecclesiastes 1:1-2)

 

In Christ

But the wisdom God gave Solomon taught him to never to look for satisfaction under the sun, but to look for and find satisfaction in Christ, the Son. The person who is born of God, the person who trusts Christ, the person who is taught of the Spirit finds meaning to his whole life and to all that is involved in life. His life has meaning because he lives in Christ and Christ lives in him. That’s how the Book ends.

 

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)

 

Beggars we are, though possessing all the riches of the world, without Christ. He is the substitute for everything. Nothing can be a substitute for him. The world is full of graspers; but all grasp in vain! They only draw in air. They do not know where the true substance lies — in him, the Pearl of Great Price. In him and with him we possess all things. Without him we are nothing, we can do nothing, and we have nothing.

      Oh, the emptiness of life without Christ! It is utter vanity to seek satisfaction in this world. Ecclesiastes is a beacon, that we may be spared the bitterness of learning the vanity of the things of earth by finding their waters to fail; that we may seek Christ and find all in him.

 

 

Seductive Babylon

Revelation 17:1-18

Pastor Daniel Parks

 

The last book in the Holy Scriptures, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, identifies three agents employed by Satan in his warfare against the church of Jesus Christ.

First is The Beast Out of the Sea (Revelation 13:1-10). It represents anti-Christian government. This beast is active wherever governments are trying to eradicate churches of Christ.

Second is The Beast Out of the Earth (Revelation 13:11-18). It represents anti-Christian persecution. This second beast is active not only where first beast is active but also in other parts of the world.

Third is Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth (Revelation 17). She represents anti-Christian seduction. This Babylon is active wherever you see false religion seducing people away from God and his Christ. She seduces people with a counterfeit Christianity, one that is contrary to Christ but attractive to natural men and women. She is so successful that they actually think that they are Christians serving the Lord. And she is so successful that even some true believers are enticed to join her.

Indeed, Babylon is so seductive that she has convinced many people that she and the two beasts will not exist until some time in the future.

It therefore is with good reason that God’s messenger exhorts Christians, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” (Revelation 18:4-5).

 

 

“The repeated experience we have of the deceitfulness of our own hearts, is a means which the Lord employs to make us willing debtors to his free grace, and teach us to live more entirely upon Jesus. He is our peace, our strength, our righteousness, our all in all.” — John Newton

 

 

“Christ is all in all.”

Colossians 3:11

Pastor Rick Warta

 

"Christ is all in all" (Colossians 3:11) give me such rest and delight. He is all in all eternity, in all time, in all things. He is all to God for me. He is all from God to me. He is all for me in eternity and in time. He is my only Answer in judgment. He is my shield (Genesis 15:1; Psalm 3:3) and my exceeding great reward (1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Colossians 2:10). He loved me and has given himself for me. By his Word and Spirit, by heaven's host of angels, even by the evil intentions of hell and the world, He works all things for my good to his glory (Romans 8:28-39; John 11:4, 40). His grace is all-sufficient. His love is ever the same, ever strong, ever saving, ever my comfort. His Word, his gospel, his Spirit, his church, his rule, his intercession, his comforts all delight my soul. And what am I? In myself, nothing. No, less than nothing, even a great sinner, a wretched man. Yet, in spite of me, Christ remains ever the same, ever my faithful Savior and reigning Lord. He has said so in his Word. He is full of grace and truth. I believe him. He cannot lie. He is faithful and loves at all times. Oh how I love the simple yet unspeakably profound truth that Christ is my all in all.

 

 

 

The Grace Bulletin

 

December 1, 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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