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Christ endured and completely exhausted all the hell we must have endured but could never exhaust, had he not suffered and died for us.
Daily Readings for the Week of November 19-26
Sunday Acts Acts 27-28 Thursday Romans 9-11
Monday Romans 1-2 Friday Romans 12-15
Tuesday Romans 3-5 Saturday Romans 16-1 Cor. 3
Wednesday Romans 6-8 Sunday 1 Corinthians 4-7
Joyce Montgomery and Ruth Peterson will confess Christ in believer’s baptism tonight.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Cody Henson-25th
NURSERY DUTY THIS WEEK
Today: Laura Peterson (AM) Celeste Peterson (PM) Tuesday: Debbie Bartley
Believing Sinners Christ Confess — Don Fortner
(Tune: #497 — When I Can Read My Title Clear — CM)
Believing sinners Christ confess,
(Immersed in wat’ry grave),
That we were crucified with Him
Who died our souls to save.
In this appointed ord’nance we
Show forth the gospel way
Our Substitute, dying for us,
Has washed our sins away.
Up rising from the grave with Christ,
Our resurrected Lord,
We lift our hands to God, and say, —
“My Savior and my Lord!”
“In the newness of life we’ll walk,
And seek grace to obey
Our Master’s will in everything,
In hope of that great day!”
Believer’s Baptism — Baptism is the divinely ordained, symbolic picture of righteousness fulfilled by Christ. It is a picture of substitutionary redemption and spiritual resurrection (Rom. 6:3-6). In baptism we confess our faith in Christ our Substitute, our death with him, our resurrection with him by the power of his Spirit, and our hope of the resurrection to come. The one prerequisite to, or condition for baptism in the New Testament is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Baptism is for believers only. — “If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest” be baptized (Acts 8:37). If God has granted you faith in Christ and you wish to be baptized tonight, see me after the service.
Ascending to the House of God
Our Prayer — Remember Christ
Psalm 132
Psalm 132 sets before us that which ought to be our prayer as we come to the house of our God. This rich gospel psalm gives us blessed views of our Lord Jesus Christ. Many are of the opinion that Solomon wrote this for the dedication of the temple. Without question, the historic person of whom it speaks is David, but a greater than David is here! As is the case throughout the Psalms, when we read this piece of sacred poetry, let us not be so focused on the shadow that we lose sight of the Substance, our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom David was a type (1 Chr. 28:1-10; 2 Chr. 6:41-42).
Remember His Sorrows
“Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions” (v. 1). — Coming to the house of God, we should ever have our hearts fixed upon our Savior’s afflictions as our Substitute, putting God our Father in remembrance of them for our souls’ good (Isa. 43:26). What a comfort it is to our hearts to remind our God of our Savior’s sorrows as our Surety. The sorrows he endured upon the cursed tree were our sorrows (Isa. 53:4). Sinners coming to the mercy-seat, the throne of grace (Heb. 4:16), obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need, because Christ, who once suffered for our sins, has put them away by the sacrifice of himself.
Remember His Oath
“How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob” (vv. 2-7). — Our Lord Jesus Christ stood as our Surety before the worlds were made and pledged himself to build his church, the house and temple of God, and was straightened until he accomplished the work. It was to great David’s greater Son, the Lord Jesus, our Surety, that the promise was given, “I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom” (2 Sam. 7:12), to whom the Father said, “He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my Son, and I will be his Father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever” (1 Chr. 22:10).
Far too often we read the Word of God with only a carnal eye, dwelling too much on the letter of the Word and missing the spirit, the message of the Spirit in the Word, — dwelling too much on the literal and missing the spiritual application to our souls, — dwelling too much on the type and missing Christ. Multitudes miss that which a passage is intended to teach, because they are consumed by a desire to define and understand the words by which the person and work of Christ are set before us in the Book of God. It is Christ of whom the Scriptures speak. We should always look first for him as we read the pages of Holy Scripture. When we open the Book of God, or come into the house of God, we come into his tabernacles who in the fulness of time came into the world at Bethlehem-Ephratah to redeem and save his people.
Remember to Visit
“Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength” (vv. 8-18). — The Lord has chosen Zion for himself. He has desired the church of his elect as the place of his habitation, the place of his rest, his dwelling place (vv. 12-14; 1 Cor. 3:16). As often as we gather as the family of God in the house of God, we ought to crave and earnestly seek that the presence of God be manifest in the fulfillment of the promises he has made to his Son as our Surety, particularly the fulfillment of those promises recorded in verses 8-18. — That his priests (his people – 1 Pet. 2:9) may be clothed with the righteousness of Christ and his salvation experimentally (vv. 8, 16). — That his saints, those sinners made holy by his grace, may shout for joy (vv. 8, 16). — That we may be made to experience the triumphs of Christ in the experience of his grace, reigning with him as kings unto God (vv. 11-12; Rev. 1:5-6). — That he would abundantly bless the provisions of his grace to us in Christ, feeding and satisfying our poor souls with the Bread of Life. — That he might make Christ’s horn to bud forth with plenteous fruit, cause his light to shine, clothe his enemies with shame and cause his crown to flourish in our midst (vv. 17-18).
It was to Christ, our covenant Surety, that all these promises were made and in whom they are fulfilled. All the blessings of them flow to us from him, in his name and for his righteousness’ sake alone. In him they are all “yea and amen” (2 Cor. 1:20). That makes them sure to us. Yet, the Lord God says, “I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them” (Ezek. 36:37).
“Can ye?...Ye shall.” — Mark 10:38-39
When James and John asked that they might sit at our Savior’s side in his kingdom, he asked them, — “Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? And they said unto him, We can.” They did not have a clue what they asked or what they said. But “Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized.”
Was our Savior telling these disciples that they would suffer the same wrath, the same fury, the same hell he suffered? Was he saying that his people would drink the very cup of unmitigated of woe and infinite wrath he would soon drink? — Indeed he was!
When our blessed Savior suffered all the hell of God’s wrath for us, when he was immersed in the abyss of divine vengeance, when he drank the last dregs of that bitter cup of damnation, and drank it dry, when he died, we suffered all the hell of God’s wrath, we were immersed in the abyss of divine vengeance with him, we drank the last dregs of that bitter cup of damnation, and drank it dry, we died. — We were crucified with Christ! We were one with him in all that he suffered!
One with Him e’er time begun, One with Him, the God-man born,
One with Him as He obeyed, One with Christ our cov’nant Head!
One with Him in agony, Immersed in wrath, in fury’s sea!
One with Him Who died for me. — One with Him in victory!
Grace Bulletin
November 19, 2006
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
SCHEDULE OF REGULAR SERVICES
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
Television Broadcasts
Danville
Channel 6 - Sunday Morning 8:00 A.M.
Channel 6 - Wednesday Evening 6:00 P.M.
Channel 6 - Friday Evening 7:00 P.M.
Web Pages
http://www.donfortner.com
http://www.sovereign-grace/gracechurch.htm
http://www.freegrace.net/danville/default.asp
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