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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

August 7, 2016

God is not known, trusted, or worshipped by any who despise any of his attributes.

Daily Readings for the Week of August 7-14, 2016

Sunday Jeremiah 25-27 Thursday Jeremiah 36-38

Monday Jeremiah 28-30 Friday Jeremiah 39-41

Tuesday Jeremiah 31-32 Saturday Jeremiah 42-45

Wednesday Jeremiah 33-35 Sunday Jeremiah 46-48

· Quarterly Fellowship Today — There will be no service here tonight. I hope you can all stay with us for lunch and for this opportunity to visit with one another.

· I am scheduled to preach for Covenant of Grace Baptist Church in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina Monday through Wednesday, where Bro. Linwood Campbell is the pastor. — Bro. Mark Daniel will preach the gospel to you Tuesday night.

Happy Birthday! Anne Kendziora-11^th Ben Peterson-11^th

Happy Anniversary: Lindsay & Diane Campbell-8^th Rick & Shante’ Birchum-10^th Jerry & Marilyn-10^th Mark & Donna Daniel-11^th

Nursery Duty: Today: Jayalita McCormack — Tuesday: Stephanie Wall

All Glory to Jehovah’s Name — Don Fortner

(Tune: #228 — My Faith has Found a Resting Place —CMD)

1. All glory to Jehovah’s name —

Almighty God, our King!

His truth and faithfulness proclaim;

His grace and mercy sing.

He spoke in love, e’er time began,

His purposes of grace,

Which formed the glorious gospel plan

To save His chosen race.

2. He spoke the promises that shine

Upon the Sacred Page,

In Christ they are yea and amen,

Secure from age to age!

So, rest my soul. My heart be stilled. —

Jehovah cannot lie!

All that He spoke shall be fulfilled. —

On that we can rely.

“If you and another believer, who both love the gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace in Christ, one day realize that you do not have the same understanding of a particular point of doctrine please do not think it means either of you are suddenly unbelievers! God give us grace to never put a certain necessary level of knowledge between the sinner and Christ. That is no different than salvation by works. Salvation is not what (or how much) we know but WHO!” — Pastor Clay Curtis

Moses’ Question

Exodus 3:13

Anytime one man presumes to tell another that which he must do, it is likely that he will be asked, “Who sent you to me? By what authority do you speak? Who gave you the right to tell me what I must do?” Such a response is as reasonable as it is likely. When the Lord Jesus sent Moses to deliver Israel out of Egypt, Moses anticipated that the children of Israel would ask him by what authority he came to them. Though God sent him to Pharaoh (Exodus 3:10), and he was to command Pharaoh to let Israel go in the name of the Lord, he was not concerned about Pharaoh’s response. But he was concerned about how to speak to the children of Israel. How could he assure them that God would, indeed, deliver them? By what authority could he speak, that they might believe his message and trust God to save them? That is the question he raised in Exodus 3:13, and the question God answered in verses 14-15.

Acknowledged Insufficiency

Many see something evil and unbelieving in this question, and reproach Moses for asking it; but the Lord to whom he spoke did not reprove him or, in any way, indicate disapproval. Knowing his own insufficiency for the work to which the Lord God had sent him, Moses said, “Who am I? I can’t do that” (Exodus 3: 10). And the Lord said, “I am not sending you to do it. The work is mine. You are merely the instrument through which I have chosen to do the work.”

God’s Assurance

Remember the mission upon which Moses was about to embark. Any man sent upon such a mission must (if he is wise) be personally assured that he goes in the name of God. The Lord promised, “I will be with thee,” but he would have no visible God or representation of God to accompany him. In so far as others could tell, Moses would go to the enslaved Israelites and to Pharaoh alone, yet claiming to be a divinely sent deliverer. He was to tell them that the God of their fathers had promised to set them free. But the people to whom he was sent had, for the most part, embraced the idolatries of the Egyptians.

Moses knew that they would want to know, “Who is this God you speak of? What is his name? What is he like?” In those days and in that land, as in all the nations of the Gentiles, there were many gods, each having a name that indicated the particular power ascribed to him. So Moses asked the Lord God to tell him his name. Add to that the fact that Moses, no doubt, remembered what happened forty years earlier when he had come to deliver Israel in his own name. — “Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?” (Acts 7:27, 35).

Our Sufficiency

So it is with God’s servants today, and in every age. We are sent to proclaim redemption and grace in the name of our God to a people who have never known him. With Paul, every faithful gospel preacher cries from his inmost soul, “Who is sufficient for these things?” And by the Spirit of God, he is made to know that our sufficiency is not of ourselves, “but our sufficiency is of God, Who also hath made us able ministers of the new covenant” (2 Corinthians 2:16; 3:4-5; 5:17-21). — Let none go forth in the service of our Savior until he has, like Moses, gone to the Throne of Grace (Ezekiel 2:1-2, 6-7).

“I Came not with Excellency of Speech”

1 Corinthians 2:1

Pastor Chris Cunningham

A gospel sermon is not a work of art, or a display of human knowledge. It is a plain and simple declaration of the truth of God. It will be quite boring to those who have no interest in Christ. The reading of a will would be mind-numbing legalese unless you are a beneficiary. So the gospel message is of no consequence save to those who are joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.

There is a tendency toward making the gospel interesting or novel, and this is why Paul highlights this specific determination not to. But fleshly displays of human wisdom or art only make the message interesting to the self-righteous. A real sinner finds nothing of more interest than the simple truth of God being merciful to sinners in Christ.

A real sinner is riveted by the news that there is mercy even for the most foul and foolish. A real sinner is enthralled to hear that grace is free and that the precious blood of Christ is effectual to save to the uttermost all who come to God by him. The language you use will, in the end, be appropriate to the audience to whom you speak. The “Greeks” will always want human philosophy and “deep” studies of words and ideas, and to take “stances” on points of doctrine. The “Jews” will always seek the sensational, emotional, and that which impresses the senses. But those who are the called of God, whether Jew or Greek, will need and demand Christ, who is to them the wisdom and power of God himself.

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Be Careful What You Sing

Missionary Daniel Parks

Arius was a theologian in the Roman Empire and its church in the late-third and early-fourth centuries. He denied the Scriptural doctrine that God’s Son was begotten by an eternal generation (as taught in Psalm 2:7; et.al.). He therefore argued that “if the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not.” He expressed his doctrine in a poem called The Thalia (“abundance”, “good cheer” or “banquet”). He intended it “to be sung at table, and by sailors, millers and travelers”. This poem became very popular, and fulfilled its purpose. Soon people throughout the Roman Empire and its church were singing “There was a time when the Son was not.”

Much false doctrine has been widely spread through heretical songs. They generally are written by people who do not know the Truth or outright deny Him. Their heretical songs are joined to catchy tunes sung by traveling performers, broadcast by religious media, published in songbooks, and taught to little children and undiscerning adults who sing them for the rest of their lives.

Brothers and sisters, let us be very careful what we sing. It is as wrong to sing false doctrine as it is to preach it. False doctrine can be spread by singers as easily as by preachers. Songs popular in the world probably have no place in the church.