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·      The Lord willing, I will leave immediately after this morning’s service for Mexico, to visit our missionaries and the pastors and churches in the Yucatan. Bro. Frank Hall will preach here tonight. Bro. Todd Nibert will preach Tuesday night.

·      Next Sunday – December 15th – Shelby and I would like for you to join us for our Annual Open House at the parsonage following our morning worship service.

Happy Birthday!  Jesse Rice-9th     Alexis Mason-10th     LeAnn Duff-12th

David Coleman-13th     Jennifer Pruter-15th

Nursery Duty this Week

Today: Sherri Warta (AM) —   Jennifer Pruter (PM)  — Tuesday: Ruth Wall

Here Gathered with the Church of God — Don Fortner

(Tune: #142 — Jesus Shall Reign —SM)

1.    Oh, what a joy it is, our Lord,

Here gathered with the Church of God,

To sing Your praise and seek Your face,

And hear the gospel of Your grace

2.    To Zion’s hill today we’ve come,

To worship God, the Three-in-One,

O Holy Spirit, condescend!

Come, feed our souls, reprove our sin!

3.    Oh, write upon our hearts, dear Lord,

The doctrine of Your sacred Word,

That we may worship and adore,

And love our Savior, more and more!

4.    With thoughts of Christ and things above,

And ravished with our Savior’s love,

As sinners pardoned through His blood,

We bow before the throne of God.

“Come out of her, my people.”

Revelation 18:4

Throughout the Word of God Babylon represents false religion. It does not matter what name the religion wears, every religion that declares salvation by the will, works, and worth of the sinner, in whole or in part, is the religion of Babylon. It is antichrist. It engulfs the whole world in darkness. God’s command to his people concerning Babylon is not, “Reform her,” “Rebuild her,” or “Restore her.” God's command is crystal clear and forcibly repeated throughout the Scriptures (Isaiah 48:20; 52:11; Jeremiah 50:8; 51:6; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4). No less than six times he says, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins (her religious doctrines, ceremonies, and blasphemies), and that ye receive not of her plagues.” We are to totally abandon all false religion, touching not the unclean thing, and align ourselves with Christ, his gospel, and his people.

A Unity to Keep

Always endeavor “to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” Bend over backwards to get along with God’s saints. Make allowances for one another’s faults, failures, and offenses. Never be guilty of alienating a brother, or refusing to graciously embrace one who is a child of God. But this brotherly kindness is not to be extended to those who are “the enemies of the cross of Christ.” — “Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord?” Yes, let us do everything possible to dwell with God’s saints in peace, love, and joy. But we are commanded to separate ourselves from all false religion (2 Chronicles 19:2; Psalm 139:21-22; Galatians 1:6-9).

Freewill Religion

Let me be crystal clear. All freewill, works religion, Arminianism in every form, under any denominational name, is false religion. It may call itself Christian. But it is not Christian at all. Such religion is utter paganism! It is a total denial of God’s free and sovereign grace in Jesus Christ (Galatians 5:2, 4). Any mixture of works with grace is a total denial of grace (Romans 11:6). To assert that salvation is by the will of man is to deny that “Salvation is of the Lord” (Jonah 2:9; Romans 9:16).

Come Out

I repeat, the Son of God calls for all who worship him to clearly separate themselves from false religion (2 Corinthians 6:14; Revelation 18:4). Yes, that means we are not to attend, support, or promote those synagogues of Satan where will worshippers meet. We must never forsake the assembly of the saints (Hebrews 10:25). But we are specifically commanded to forsake the religious assemblies of those who do not worship our God and “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.” God never says, “Stay in Babylon, try to reform her, teach in her Sunday School, and maybe you can do a little good.” Compromise will never benefit the souls of men. The only thing to do with Babylon is to “Come out of her, that ye be not partakers of her sins (her religious activities), and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

Aaron’s Sacrifice First for His Own Sin

Leviticus 9:7-21

Here is Aaron, as one of the old Brethren writers observed, “ministering as high priest of the Jewish confession. It was the inauguration of the priesthood in full standing. Accordingly Aaron and his sons offered the calf as Sin-offering for himself, putting of its blood presented by his sons on the horns of the altar and the rest at its base, and burning the fat and the kidneys and the net above the liver on the altar; but the flesh and the skin without the camp as prescribed. But nothing is said here, as in Leviticus 8:14, of laying their hands on its head, though there is the same witness borne to Christ’s sacrifice in the acceptance of the inwards as holy and precious on the altar, but the body reduced to ashes without as identified with sin. His work explains the seeming inconsistency but bright witness, that though he knew no sin, God made him sin for us.”

Christ Our Priest

This is precisely the way God the Holy Ghost states the matter in Hebrews 7:27, when he shows us the superiority of Christ’s priesthood, — “Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.”

            Our dear Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, was made flesh (John 1:14) that he might be made sin for us. He became a man that he might bare our sin in his own body on the tree (1 Peter 2:24). When he was made sin for us, the Lord Jesus owned our sins as his own because they were made his (Psalm 40:12; 2 Corinthians 5:21). When our sins became his, the Lord Jesus Christ, being a real and perfect Substitute, we are told, offered “up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.”

Real Substitution

This he did that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now, child of God, try to grasp this great wonder: — All for who Christ was made sin are made the righteousness of God in him. His righteousness is our righteousness (Revelation 19:8). We own it as ours by faith in our Savior because it really is ours (Psalm 4:1). The Lord Jesus, as the Lord Our Righteousness, as our Mediator and Representative, was first rewarded for his perfect righteousness which he performed and accomplished for us by his obedience unto death (Isaiah 53:10-12). Then, in the end, the triune Jehovah shall reward us for that perfect righteousness, that perfect obedience to God, that is ours in him, saying to every chosen, redeemed, heaven-born sinner saved by his matchless, free grace, — “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21).

That is the gospel doctrine of Substitution in which we rejoice. Our all-glorious Christ is a real substitute. The gospel of God proclaims real substitution. I repeat what I have said to you many times. I repeat it often because it is a matter of great joy and needs to be understood. — God doesn’t play pretend. He really did make his Son sin for sinners that he might really make sinners righteous, that he might be “a just God and a Savior.” Yes, our Lord Jesus is for us a real substitute. God did not pretend to make him sin, pretend to kill him, or pretend to make us righteous. He really did it all for the praise of his own glory and the everlasting salvation of our souls.

The Grace Bulletin

December 8, 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

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

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

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

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

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