August 28,
2005
Not once in all the Word of God is the word “Trinity” used. Yet, the Scriptures everywhere teach the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Not once in the Inspired Volume is the word “imputed” (or any that might be translated “imputed”) used in reference to Christ being made sin for us. Yet, the Book of God everywhere teaches that our sins were imputed to him because he was made sin for us. Even so, not once are the words “imparted righteousness” used in the Book of Divine Revelation to speak of us being made righteous by our God. Yet, the whole testimony of Scripture asserts that the righteousness of Christ is imparted to all in the new birth to whom righteousness has been imputed in justification.
Sunday Ezekiel
27-29 Thursday Ezekiel 38-39
Monday Ezekiel
30-32 Friday Ezekiel 40-41
Tuesday Ezekiel
33-34 Saturday Ezekiel 42-44
Wednesday Ezekiel 35-37 Sunday Ezekiel 45-47
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There will be no service here
Tuesday night. — Our conference begins Friday night. I hope you
will all take advantage of this opportunity to hear the gospel of Christ by the
eight faithful men who will be preaching to us, and that you will seize this
opportunity to bring family and friends to hear. It may be that this will be
for some “the time of love,” the time appointed for their calling.
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We will meet this Thursday
evening, September 1, to make final preparations for our
conference. Please plan to come and work if you possibly can. There is a lot
yet to be done and your help will be greatly appreciated.
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY! Mark
Henson-30th Norma Rankin-1st Robin Hellar-2nd
A Sinner, Blind, I Could Not
See — Don Fortner
(Tune: The Doxology — LM)
1. A sinner, blind, I could not see. In bondage I thought I was free.
Then Jesus came to set me free, shed forth His light and made me see!
2. My guilty soul He shook with fear. Then His atoning blood appeared.
Now wakened from my deep distress, I trust His blood and righteousness.
3. Though vexed I am with all my sin, before my God I’m pure and clean.
My God declares (How can it be?), that Christ Himself resides in me!
4. It’s from His sufferings, I know, that saving grace to sinners flows,
To justify and pardon, too, and make this fallen sinner new.
5. A worthless worm, I now possess, in Christ all grace and righteousness!
All glory to my Savior God, Who bought me with His precious blood!
“To believe God and not dispute with Him over His
word. To not argue with Him over His dealings with you in this world, but to be
able to say; ‘It is the Lord let him do what seemeth good.’ Faith not
only ‘receives a good report’ from our heavenly Father, but also gives a
good report of our heavenly Father.” Donnie
Bell
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“Then cometh THE END.”
1 Corinthians 15:24
When everything has run its
predestined course, when time shall be no more, when this earth is dissolved in
a ball of fire, the resurrection is past, and the judgment is over, we read, “Then
cometh the end.”
Though creation
has revolted against God and sin has marred his handiwork, though it appears
that everything here is in utter chaos, though antichrist seems to reign among
men without rival, though Babylon (the great whore of free-will, works
religion) has made all the earth drunk with the wine of her fornications, there
is a day coming called “the times of the
restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
prophets since the world began” (Acts
3:21).
Though today
all the world, all men, and all events appear to be set in direct opposition to
Christ, there is a day coming called “the
dispensation of the fulness of times,” in which the Lord God will “gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him” (Eph. 1:10).
Though all men
by nature despise his rule, there is a day appointed by God, in the which “at
the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth; and every tongue shall confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:10-11).
Though all men
by nature are the enemies of God, though Satan and all the demons of hell
oppose his purpose, though men and devils unite as one in thought, word, and
deed to rob the triune God of his glory, in the end, through the blood of his
cross, by our Lord Jesus Christ, almighty God shall “reconcile all things unto himself, whether they be things in earth or
things in heaven” (Col. 1:20).
Read what the Lord God himself has to say about the way things shall be in the end and hearken unto the gracious counsel he gives (Isa. 45:20-25). — “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”
In the end every creature in heaven, earth,
and hell, every deed performed in God’s creation by men, angels, devils, and
Satan himself, (Every deed!) great and small, good and evil, and every event of
providence shall magnify, honor, exalt, and praise our great and glorious God.
Then, when the end comes, the Lord Jesus Christ shall deliver up the kingdom unto God the Father (1 Cor. 15:24-28). What do those two verses mean?
Do
Not Mean
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First, let me tell you what they most certainly do not mean. When the Scriptures here declare that the Son shall deliver up the kingdom unto the Father, they do not teach, suggest, or in any way imply that Christ is not God (1 Tim. 3:15), that the Son of God is in any way inferior to the Father (1 John 5:7), or that Christ will cease to be Prophet, Priest, and King over his Church and Kingdom (Heb. 1:8).
Christ’s Final Work
What does Paul mean when he tells us that Christ shall deliver up the kingdom unto God, even the Father, and shall be subject to him? When the resurrection is over, when the great white throne judgment is done, and all things are created new, when all God’s elect are saved, there will be one final work to be done by our Lord Jesus Christ as Jehovah’s Servant, as the Surety and Mediator of the covenant. The Shepherd will present his sheep to the Father, who trusted them to him. The Savior will present his Church in glory. The Son will present his brethren, all of them, to their Father. The King will present his Kingdom to God, even the Father (John 10:16; Eph. 5:25-27; Heb. 2:13).
Augustus Toplady was exactly right when he wrote, “I take the kingdom to consist of that innumerable company whose names were written in heaven; and which, when their numerical fulness is completed, the Son of God, who graciously consented to become the Son of Man for their sakes, will present in one, entire, and glorified body to the Father.”
In that great day, in the end, Christ will stand before his Father and our Father, with all his elect by his side in the perfection of his holiness, and say, “Lo, I and the children which thou hast given me. All are here. Not one is lost!” — “All, my Father, you chose and gave to me, all you trusted me to redeem, here they are, just as I promised, holy, unblameable, unreproveable, washed in my blood, robed in my righteousness.” — “All that I redeemed, every blood bought soul is here.” — “All those who have been regenerated, called, and sealed by the blessed Holy Spirit are here.”
He will, no doubt, go on to say, “Now, my Father, all the purpose of grace is fulfilled. All the counsel of peace is accomplished. All that we agreed upon in the covenant is done. In all things our great purpose in predestination is now fully accomplished. Now grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life!”
God All in All
This shall be the end of all things: — “That God may be all in all!”
God Almighty has from eternity ordained everything that comes to
pass in time to make himself an everlasting and a glorious name (Isa. 63:12,
14), that in all things Christ might have the pre-eminence (Col. 1:18). And in
the end, God, the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as he is revealed,
known, loved, and worshipped in the Person and work of Christ, our God-man
Mediator, shall be “ALL IN ALL.”
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Grace Bulletin
August 28, 2005
GRACE BAPTIST
CHURCH of DANVILLE
2734 Old Stanford Road-Danville, Kentucky 40422-9438
Telephone (859) 236-8235 - E-Mail don@donfortner.com
Donald S. Fortner, Pastor
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
Channel 6 - Sunday Morning 8:00 A.M.
Channel 6 - Wednesday Evening 6:00 P.M.
Channel 6 - Friday Evening 7:00 P.M.
http://www.donfortner.com
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