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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

January 17, 2016

It is impossible, by any fair reasoning, based on Scripture, to separate salvation from redemption.

 

Daily Readings for the Week of January 17-24, 2016

Sunday                Genesis 48-50                                 Thursday       Exodus 10-12

      Monday                Exodus 1-3                                       Friday             Exodus 13-14

      Tuesday              Exodus 4-6                                       Saturday                    Exodus 15-17

      Wednesday        Exodus 7-9                                       Sunday                      Exodus 18-21

 

Happy Birthday! Cody Groover-18th

 

Nursery Duty this Week

Nicole Abell (AM) — Debbie Bartley (PM) — Tuesday: Ruth Wall

 

Altogether Lovely Don Fortner

(Tune: #118 — When I Survey —LM)

 

1.    Let Zion hear while I proclaim,

My SaviorÕs matchless, precious name:

HeÕs holy, wise, and just and true,

And altogether lovely too!

 

2.    Chiefest among ten thousand He!

His heart is love. His mouth most sweet.

My Friend, Beloved, Christ my King,

To You, my heart and praise I bring.

 

3.    Completely man, completely God,

The God-man bought us with His blood.

He lived, and died, and reigns for us —

HeÕs altogether lovely thus!

 

4.    Your loveliness has won my heart.

Hold me, and let me never part!

IÕll sound Your lovely name abroad,

My altogether lovely Lord!

 

5.    Up to His throne, I soon shall go,

More of His loveliness to know;

With ransomed millions IÕll declare,

HeÕs altogether lovely there!

 

ÒThe first work of God, in the soul, is to make the sinner aware of his sin. It is to pull back the veil that false religion and the prince of darkness have laid upon him to hide from him the terrible condition of his soul. He is at his best state altogether vanity. He is vile in his heart and by nature a child of wrath. Even his righteousness is as filthy rags.  No man will ever seek the mercy and grace of God, or willingly cast himself prostate at his feet, until God the Holy Spirit convinces him of sin.Ó — Pastor Darvin Pruitt

 

Quarterly Fellowship — Next Sunday

 

GodÕs Prophet and GodÕs People

 

ÒAnd thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn.Ó                                                                        (Exodus 4:22)

 

Here is the authority and power by which a true prophet of God speaks. — ÒThus saith the Lord.Ó This is the first time we find that expression in Holy Scripture. From this point on, throughout the Old Testament, inspired prophets frequently prefaced their declarations with these words. — ÒThus saith the Lord.Ó But this is the first mention of the phrase. With those words, Moses was commanded to declare to Pharaoh that he stood before him as GodÕs ambassador with GodÕs message. GodÕs preachers are men who come with boldness, because they come with the authority of God to proclaim the Word of God.

      Here is the name by which GodÕs people are identified. — ÒIsrael.Ó The name was first given to the patriarch Jacob. It was given to him because, when the Lord wrestled with him and prevailed over him by his mighty grace, he prevailed with the Lord (Genesis 32:28). Israel means ÒPrince with God.Ó It conveys the idea of one who has power with God. Those who are conquered by Christ, over whom grace so prevails that they confess their sin (1 John 1:9), as when Jacob was compelled to confess, ÒMy name is Jacob,Ó have power, authority with God, and prevail. We are more than conquerors with Christ, in Christ, and by Christ.

      Next, the Lord God declares, ÒIsrael is my son.Ó With those words, the God of Glory identifies his special relationship with the descendants of Jacob. Specifically, he is here talking about JacobÕs physical descendants. He chose Israel from among the nations of the earth and bestowed special privileges and blessings upon them (Deuteronomy 7:6-8; 14:2). But its broader, fuller reference is not to JacobÕs physical descendants, but to believing sinners, his spiritual descendants, Òthe Israel of GodÓ (Galatians 6:16; Romans 9:4-8).

 

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Are those who die as infants saved?

Romans 5:14

 

Infants, dying in infancy, the Spirit of God tells us, have not sinned Òafter the similitude of AdamÕs transgression.Ó They, like all the human race, sinned in our father Adam. But God the Holy Ghost tells us plainly — ÒThe soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the fatherÓ (Ezekiel 18:20). It is obvious then that dying infants, having committed no offence of their own, are chosen, redeemed, and born again by the grace of God, and must be saved.

      These, it is equally obvious, will constitute the great bulk of ChristÕs kingdom at last. How else can he possibly have the pre-eminence in all things — in numbers, as well as in all other things? For it is only a little flock of the adult population of the world that belong to him in every age. But if you add to them the multiplied millions who die in infancy, you see him in possession of the multitude which no man can number, to shout his praises forever.

 

ÒMy FirstbornÓ

Exodus 4:22

 

There is a definite reference here to our Lord Jesus Christ. Hosea 11:1 and Matthew 2:15 tell us that when God said, ÒIsrael is my son,Ó he was not talking about the nation of Israel, or even his elect, alone. He was talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, that baby boy brought up from Egypt by Joseph. He was telling us that the man Christ Jesus is God the Son.

 

GodÕs Message

This is the message God gave to Moses to declare to Pharaoh. Indeed, this is the message God gives to every man who is his ambassador among men, the message GodÕs servants must proclaim to all men everywhere throughout the ages. — ÒIsrael is my Son, even my Firstborn.Ó Israel typified Christ, who is here said to be GodÕs Firstborn, that One man who is Òabove all people that are upon the face of the earthÓ (Deuteronomy 7:6). The Word of God has much to say about Christ the Firstborn, as he was typified in Israel and throughout the Old Testament.

 

GodÕs Purpose

In all things the triune God has purposed and determined that his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, have preeminence as the God-man Mediator, the Savior of his people. Therefore, he is declared to be Òthe firstborn.Ó The Holy Spirit tells us that GodÕs purpose in saving his elect is that his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Òmight be the firstborn among many brethrenÓ (Romans 8:28-29). We read in Colossians chapter one that our Savior Òis the image of the invisible God, the firstborn from the deadÉthe head of the body, the church: the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.Ó And in Hebrews 12:23 the church of God is called Òthe church of the firstborn.Ó The Lord our God is determined that his Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, be exalted and have all preeminence as his Firstborn. He says, ÒAlso I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earthÓ (Psalm 89:27).

 

Old Testament Types

Throughout the Old Testament, the preeminence of our Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior is typified as the first, the firstborn, the firstfruits, and the firstlings of the flock, and of the herd. Indeed, everything recorded in the Old Testament foreshadows him who is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, and the Sum and the Substance of all things in the salvation of his people (Luke 24:25-27, 44). There is nothing in the Book of God that does not speak of our all-glorious Christ, nothing that does not, in one way or another, set forth his supremacy, excellence, and glory as God our Savior. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in those passages dealing with the firstborn.

      The firstborn symbolized a fatherÕs might and strength, Òthe excellency of dignity and the excellency of powerÓ (Genesis 49:3). In that awesome night, when the Lord God slew the firstborn of both man and beast among the Egyptians (Exodus 12:29), he claimed the firstborn of both man and beast in Israel as his own, requiring that they be sanctified unto him (Exodus 13:2).

 

 

 

The Grace Bulletin

 

January 17, 2016

 

Grace Baptist Church of Danville

2734 Old Stanford Road-Danville, Kentucky 40422-9438

Telephone (859) 576-3400 — E-Mail don@donfortner.com

 

Donald S. Fortner, Pastor

 

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10:30 A.M. Morning Worship Service

6:30   P.M. Evening Worship Service

 

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