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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

October 6, 2013

“In the hour when death shall open the door into eternity many things which now assume an ‘air of importance’ will be found as light and unsubstantial as a child's dream!”                                                    — John Newton

·      Covenant of Grace Baptist Church in N. Wilkesboro, NC has called Bro. Linwood Campbell to be its pastor. We rejoice with them and give thanks to our God for supplying them so quickly with a faithful pastor. May God be pleased to bless them in all to which they put their hands for the cause of Christ (Psalm 28:9)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 Don Raneri-10th     Kairi Guest-12th    Doug Hacker-12th     Mindy Peterson-13th

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY:  Walter & Betty Groover-19th

CHURCH CLEANING IN OCTOBER:  Skip & Sandy Gladfelter

NURSERY DUTY THIS WEEK

Today: Vicci Rolley (AM) Jennifer Pruter (PM)          Tuesday: Ruth Wall

The Gospel — Don Fortner

(Tune: The Doxology — LM)

1.    Our message to a ruined race,

Is sov’reign, free, eternal grace;

No other Gospel can impart

God’s peace, and comfort to the heart.

2.    But those are tidings good indeed,

Which tell me Jesus deigned to bleed,

To vanquish Satan, cancel sin,

And bring eternal glory in.

3.    The only Gospel we can own,

Sets Jesus Christ upon His throne;

Proclaims salvation full and free,

Obtained on Calvary’s curs-ed tree.

4.    The Gospel is the news from heaven,

Of grace bestowed and sins forgiven,

Redeeming blood, electing love,

Of quick’ning grace, and joys above!

5.    Lord write this Gospel in my heart,

And in its blessings give me part,

Until I see my Savior’s face,

And sing, “I’m saved by Gospel grace!”

“A Just God and a Savior”

Isaiah 45:21

C.H. Spurgeon

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, but yet with no dread of any penalty to come; for Christ has paid the debt of His people to the last jot and tittle, and received the divine receipt; and unless God can be so unjust as to demand double payment for one debt, no soul for whom Jesus died as a substitute can ever be cast into hell. It seems to be one of the very principles of our enlightened nature to believe that God is just; we feel that it must be so, and this gives us our terror at first; but is it not marvellous that this very same belief that God is just, becomes afterwards the pillar of our confidence and peace! If God be just, I, a sinner, alone and without a substitute, must be punished; but Jesus stands in my stead and is punished for me; and now, if God be just, I, a sinner, standing in Christ, can never be punished. God must change His nature before one soul, for whom Jesus was a substitute, can ever by any possibility suffer the lash of the law. Therefore, Jesus having taken the place of the believer, having rendered a full equivalent to divine wrath for all that His people ought to have suffered as the result of sin, the believer can shout with glorious triumph, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" Not God, for He hath justified; not Christ, for He hath died, "yea rather hath risen again." My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. On the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides like a queen.

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Wicked Balances and Deceitful Weights

“Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?” (Micah 6:11)

God does not use wicked balances and deceitful weights when He makes sinners the righteousness of God in Christ. Just as the Lord Jesus Christ was so completely made to be sin for us that He fully deserved to die under the furious wrath of the holy Lord God, so all God’s elect, all for whom Christ was made sin, all for whom He died at Calvary are made the very righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). Our great and righteous God accepts His elect, embraces us, and assures us of everlasting blessedness in heaven righteously and justly.

Redemption

As all human beings were made sinners by Adam’s disobedience, so all God’s elect were made righteous before God by Christ’s obedience unto death (Romans 4:25-5:2). God does not count us pure with wicked balances and a bag of deceitful weights. He does not bend His law and compromise His justice to save His chosen. Rather, by the wondrous works of His grace in Christ, He makes His chosen righteous. By the obedience of His Son as our Representative, we have fulfilled all righteousness. By the sin-atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ as our Substitute, justice has been satisfied for us, for we were crucified with Him (Romans 5:19; Galatians 2:20).

Regeneration

In the new birth God the Holy Spirit makes every chosen, redeemed sinner a new creature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). All who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ have been made “partakers of the Divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). That new man created in us is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27), “created in righteousness and true holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). That new man is not going to be righteous and worthy of heaven some day. He was “created in righteousness and true holiness.” He is right now born of God and “cannot sin because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9).

Because we have been made righteous by redemption and regeneration, all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ are “meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light” (Colossians 1:12). If I am in Christ and Christ is in me, I am really and truly righteous, so perfectly righteous in Him that I am worthy of God’s approval, worthy of heavenly glory, worthy of eternal life! Yes, we who live in hope of eternal life have a good hope through grace, a confident “assurance of hope,” because we are worthy of heaven in our Savior!

“With His spotless garments on,

I am as holy as God’s Son!”

Grace Experienced

When Paul tells us that Christ is made of God to us Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption, he is telling us what transpires in the experience of grace, when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Our experience of grace does not make Christ our Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption; and our faith in Christ does not make Him our Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption. — But you will never know that Christ is your Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption until you trust Him, until you believe on the Son of God. That is what the Holy Spirit tells us, when He describes Abraham’s faith as an illustration of saving faith. When Abraham believed the record of God concerning His Son, the Lord Jesus, it was imputed to him (conscientiously) for righteousness (Romans 3:24-26; 4:3-11; 6:11). As our Lord Jesus was “numbered” with transgressors when He experienced being made sin for us, we are numbered with Him when we experience being made the righteousness of God in Him. It is in this experience of grace, as the sinner believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, that all that Christ is is consciously imputed to him.

“The moment a sinner believes and trusts in his crucified God,

His pardon at once he receives, redemption in full through His blood!”

To say, as many do, that God treats sinners as though they were righteous, but does not actually make sinners righteous by His grace, is to declare that the God of heaven “counts them pure with the wicked balances and with the bag of deceitful weights.”

The Grace Bulletin

October 6, 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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