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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

June 2, 2013

 

Never does the Lord God more strikingly display his sovereignty and grace than when he compels the wicked to promote the purposes of his sovereign will. It is not enough merely to say that Satan and his devices shall do no harm. As Haman was hanged on the gallows he built for Mordecai and Mordecai was exalted, so Satan’s schemes and assaults upon our God and his Christ and his church shall fall upon his own head (Romans 16:20).

 

Daily Readings for the Week of June 2-9, 2013

Sunday                Esther 5-8                                                                 Thursday       Job 12-15

            Monday                      Esther 9-Job 2                                                         Friday             Job 16-21

            Tuesday                    Job 3-7                                                                                  Saturday                    Job 22-27

            Wednesday  Job 8-11                                                                                Sunday                      Job 28-31

 

·      We will have our Quarterly Fellowship this afternoon. Stay for lunch and enjoy a little time together. There will be no service here tonight.

·      Bro. Peter Meney will be here to preach the gospel to you Tuesday evening. Bro. Meney is pastor of Egglesburn Baptist Church in Eggleston, England.

·      Bro. Frank Hall is preaching today for Millsite Baptist Church in Cottageville, WV.

 

God’s Salvation — by Joseph Hart

(Tune: #293 — The Lord’s My Shepherd — CM)

 

1.    A form of words, though e’er so sound,
Can never save a soul;
The Holy Ghost must give the wound,
And make the wounded whole.
 
2.    Though God’s election is a truth,
Small comfort there I see,
Till I am told by God’s own mouth,
That He has chosen me.
 
3.    That Christ is God I can avouch,
And for His people cares,
Since I have prayed to Him as such,
And He has heard my prayers.
 
4.    That sinners black as hell, by Christ
Are saved, I know full well;
For I His mercy have not missed,
And I am black as hell.
 
5.    Thus, Christians glorify the Lord,
His Spirit joins with ours,
In bearing witness to His Word,
With all His saving powers.
 

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Upcoming Bible Conferences and Special Meetings

 

·      June 6-8Glory of Christ Conference, Kansas City, MO — Speakers: Steve Carpenter, Peter Meney, Prem Waghmare and Don Fortner — Contact: John Carpenter – Telephone 816-774-4128 — Email: jcikok@gmail.com

·      June 9 — Pastor Don Fortner will preach for Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, Kansas City, MO. Robert Ganote, Pastor – Telephone816-358-5071 — Email: robertganote@att.net

·      June 21-23Lantana Grace Church Bible Conference, Crossville, TN. Speakers: Bruce Crabtree, David Eddmenson, Todd Nibert and Rupert Rivenbark. — Donnie Bell, Pastor — Telephone: — Email: tnbells@frontiernet.net

·      June 17-19 — Pastor Don Fortner will preach for Buck Mountain Baptist Church – Roan Mountain, TN — Gary Perkins, Pastor – Telephone 423-725-2969 Email: ritap@preferred.com

·      June 22-23 — Pastor Greg Elmquist will preach for the Sovereign Grace Fellowship meeting at Silicon Valley Business Center, Seminar Room — 1900 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA. Contact Scott McMinn — Telephone: 408.597.5040 — Email: scottmcminnjc@gmail.com

·      July 2-3 — Pastor Don Fortner will preach for San Diego Grace Church in Jamul, CA. — Eric Richards, Pastor – Telephone 713-408-7549 — Email: richardsmechanical@yahoo.com

·      July 5-7Rescue Baptist Church Bible Conference – Rescue, CA Speakers: Donnie Bell and Don Fortner — Gene Harmon, Pastor – Telephone 530-677-2486 Email: gharmon@hughes.net

·      July 17-19 — Pastor Don Fortner will preach for Sovereign Grace Baptist Church – Princeton, NJ — Clay Curtis, Pastor – Telephone 609-818-1887 Email: clay@sovereign-grace.us

·      July 29-31 — Pastor Don Fortner will preach for East Hendersonville Baptist Church – Hendersonville, NC — Carroll Poole, Pastor – Telephone 828-699-1164 Email: carrollpoole@bellsouth.net

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!    Oscar Bailey-6th   Nathaniel Duff-6th 

NURSERY DUTY:  Today: Jayalita McCormack        Tuesday: Jennifer Pruter

 

Christ Made Sin for Us — Forsaken of God

2 Corinthians 5:21

 

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” — As David penned those words as a prophet of God under the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit, I have no doubt he knew that he was writing as a prophet about the unutterable agonies of our dear Savior. He understood what he wrote in the Psalms about the Lord Jesus, and was utterly overwhelmed by it.

 

It was the thought and anticipation of being made sin for us, not of simply paying the debt due unto our sins, but of being made sin, that caused our Redeemer’s bloody sweat in Gethsemane. It was this fact, the fact that he was made sin for us that caused him to be forsaken of his Father as he hung upon the cursed tree on Golgotha’s hill.

 

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The Psalms

 

In Psalm 40:12 our great Surety, when made sin for us, cried out, “Innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.” Who can question the reality of his agony, the reality of his substitution?

 

            In the 69th Psalm we again hear Immanuel calling our sins his own as he hangs upon the cursed tree, suffering the wrath of God for us. — “Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me...O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee!” How could our sins be “his” otherwise than by this act of wondrous justice and grace? — “He hath made him sin for us!” As debts are transferred to the surety, our sins were transferred to our Savior. “Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer” (Luke 24:46). Since he became voluntarily responsible, “ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?” (Luke 24:26.)

 

New Testament

 

This great transfer of sin from chosen sinners to our blessed Surety is fully attested in the apostolic writings of the New Testament. All the expressions of the inspired apostolic writers in relation to this subject seem to have a reference to the legal sacrifices. As the animal offered in sacrifice was called sin, because it typically bore transgression, so Christ, who knew no sin, was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21). When he was made sin, he was made a curse for us (Galatians 3:13), because he was “once offered to bear the sins of many” (Hebrews 9: 28).

 

This one offering was not typical, like the sacrifices of the law, but a real expiation of iniquity. The imputation of sin to our blessed Savior was not figurative, but real. It was an imputation connected with a real transfer of our iniquities to him (1 Peter 2:24).

 

If there is anything in the Book of God with which we should desire to be acquainted, it is this, upon which our salvation and everlasting consolation depend. “He hath made him sin for us!” If we would know Christ and the fellowship of his sufferings, if we would look on him whom we have pierced and mourn, if we would die unto sin and bring forth fruit unto God, we must have the gift of God the Holy Spirit to reveal to us this great mystery, that God the Father has laid on Christ the iniquity of us all, that “He hath made him sin for us!

 

Why did the holy Redeemer go mourning to the grave? Why did divine justice pursue him? — Only because he bare the sin of many. From this fountain the streams of free salvation flow. We die unto sin; we live unto righteousness, only because he, his own self, bare our sins in his own body on the tree. O wondrous grace! O magnificent justice! O mysterious transfer! O amazing mystery!

 

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The Grace Bulletin

 

June 2, 2013

 

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 in Danville

 

Channel 6 - Sunday Morning 7:45 A.M.

Channel 6 - Wednesday Evening 6:00 P.M.

Channel 6 - Friday Evening 7:00 P.M.

 

Television Broadcasts in Harrodsburg

Channel 6 - Sunday Afternoon 3:00 P.M.

Channel 6 - Friday Evening 6:00 P.M.

 

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