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Don Fortner

How Important Is Public Worship

Hebrews 10:224-27
Don Fortner March, 27 2001 Audio
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The other day out in Nashville, Tennessee, stopped
along the road. Shelby was shopping and I was
walking in. After I finished my walking,
I was sitting waiting on her. And I walked up to an area where
I saw a grown man sitting, sucking his thumb. And it looked like
nothing was wrong with him. He was just sitting there sucking
his thumb, playing with some little toy of some kind. And
I looked at him at first and thought, that seems so strange.
And then I realized that the man sitting there sucking his
thumb, playing with his toy, was demented and just had the
child of a boy. His father sitting beside him
was talking on the phone, was obviously concerned about something
very serious. You could tell by the look on
his face. I didn't even endeavor to speak to them, but you could
tell by the look on his face he was concerned about something.
And I only know it was his father, I presume it was, because when
they got up and left, they left together. But that man sitting there sucking
his thumb, playing with his little plastic toys, was totally oblivious
to that which concerned his father greatly. And that's a pretty
good picture. of the way men commonly are in
this world. We play and play games with things
that we think are so very, very important that are utterly insignificant
and live in almost total oblivion to things that are important.
And my text tonight will be Hebrews chapter 10, but you don't need
to turn there yet. I want us to first go to Psalm
5. And I want to put a question before you. This is the title
of my message. May God lay it to our hearts.
Here's the question. How important is the worship
of God? Specifically, how important is
what we're doing here tonight, I hope? How important is public
worship? And with all the pressures put
upon us in this world, all the cares, responsibilities, and
so forth we have, we must, if we are wise, put first things
first. We must get our priorities in
order, making certain that the most important things have our
greatest care and attention. If we neglect anything, let us
neglect matters that don't matter, matters of less importance. In
the light of these things, it is most reasonable for us to
ask and seek an answer to this question, finding the answer
only in this book. How important is the worship
of God? Now, it's obvious to all who
read this book with any familiarity at all that the single most important
thing in this world for any man is the worship of God. Nothing
more important. To call upon the name of the
Lord by which we are saved is the worship of God. To believe
God is to worship God. To fear God, this is the end
of the commandment, fear God. To fear God is to worship Him. To trust the Lord is to worship
Him. To walk with Christ is to worship
Him. To walk in the Spirit is to worship
God. To glorify God and enjoy Him
is to worship Him. Believers are men and women who
worship the Lord God. Now, let's look at Psalm 5 and
verse 7, and then we'll go to our text in Hebrews 10, but we'll
look at that last. The psalmist says, but as for
me, he'd been talking about the food, and then he talks about
himself. He says, as for me, I will come
into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy, and in thy fear
will I worship toward thy holy temple. Now David, this man who
was described accurately as the man after God's own heart, found
great pleasure, great satisfaction, great delight in daily prayer
and meditation. Daily, private worship, personal
worship was the characteristic of his life. With the rising
of the morning sun, he lifted his heart to God. Every morning
he directed his prayer to the throne of grace and looked to
the Lord his God with a heart of faith. Every evening he gave
thanks to God and laid his head on his pillow in the sweet rest
of faith, resting in Christ. Now that's the way to begin and
end the day. Blessed is that man or woman
who worships God in private. Let all who know and trust the
living God worship Him daily. Let all who follow Christ in
the path of faith and obedience follow Him also to the secret
place of solitary prayer. Let every priest of God offer
daily sacrifices to God in worship. Sacrifices of prayer and praise. But there's something even more
important than private worship. Something even more important
than your daily devotional reading, your daily reading of the scriptures,
your daily calling on God in prayer. Now I know that may surprise
some. I hope it doesn't surprise any
of you. Most people who are genuinely concerned about the glory of
God and the worship of God would rank personal private worship
above public worship. But I'm convinced that the public
worship of our God, if it is true worship, is the single most
important aspect of every believer's life. Let me show you why. David,
this man after God's own heart, this sweet singer of Israel,
himself gave the highest regard to the matter of public worship.
Without neglecting anything with regard to personal, private responsibilities,
he said, as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude
of your mercy, and in your fear will I worship toward your holy
temple. He could not force others to
worship God, and he wouldn't if he could. Though he was the
king in Israel, he didn't enact any laws. He didn't do anything
other than that which was required with the law of Moses. But when
he conquered a nation, conquered lands, he did not even attempt
to force other men to worship God. But he says, as for me,
as for me, this is what I will do. I will come into your house. That is to say, I will come into
the place where God is worshiped, in the assembly of God's saints,
to worship the Lord my God and my Savior. This is what I'll
do. And when he came, when he came to the house of God, when
he came to the place of worship, he came with the saints of God
determined not to just go through a mere empty religious ritual
and form and ceremony, but he came determined to worship God.
As for me, I will come into your house and in your fear, I will
worship you. He was determined to. He was
resolved in his heart at every appointed time to come with God's
saints into the place of public worship so that he might worship
God. And if we come here to worship
God, if we come here to worship God, Sam Wall, if you and I have come
here to worship God, that's what we're going to do. And if we
haven't, we won't. It's just that simple. David
says, I will come into thy house, the house of God. You don't have
to debate and argue about what that is. Now turn to 1 Timothy
3 and I'll show you. Hold your hands here in Psalm
5. The house of God is not this building. The house of God is
not the luxurious temple that stood in Jerusalem. The house
of God is not even the tabernacle, the material building itself.
But rather, the house of God is that place where God's people,
gather in God's name by God's spirit and worship Him. It doesn't
matter whether it's in a jail house or under an oak tree. It
doesn't matter whether it's in a barn or in a building like
this specifically built for the worship of God. But the house
of God is not a material structure. This is not a sanctuary. Don't ever refer to it as such.
It's not a sanctuary. This is not a holy place. It is simply a place devoted
to holy business. It is a place built and erected,
maintained for the business of worshiping God. The house of
God is His church. The house of God is this body
of believers here. Every local church, Wherever
the gospel of God's grace is preached, wherever Christ is
worshipped, wherever the people of God gather in the name of
Christ, every local church is a gathering of God's family,
and it is the gathering of God's house. Alright, let's see if
I can make good on that. 1 Timothy chapter 3, Paul is
giving instructions concerning how to behave ourselves in the
church of God. And it says in verse 14, these
things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly. But
if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave
yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living
God, the pillar and ground of the truth. What is this? Well, this is the house of God.
This is the church of God who is life. This is the pillar,
mainstay, and ground of the truth. This is where God has established
his truth and the place from which God sends out his truth. Not the developer of truth, not
the maker of truth, not even the interpreter of truth, just
the pillar and ground of truth. And as we gather in God's name
to worship Him, it is our business as His house and His family to
declare His truth unto the generation to come. God has established
this local assembly. And we will be kept in the way
of light and truth so long as God Almighty, by His grace, is
pleased to keep us in the way of light and truth. In time,
in all likelihood, this assembly will go the way of Ephesus, and
the way of Laodicea, and the way of all others. In time. That's tough business to deal
with, isn't it, Lindsay? We devote our lives to it. But
when the generation here present is gone and another rises up,
just as in Israel it may be that another will rise up who knows
not our God. But what will become of the Church of God? It'll go
on. It'll go on. It'll continue.
Because we're doing what you read back in Psalm 145 verse
4. One generation shall declare thy works to another and shall
praise thy mighty acts. This is what we're here for.
It is our business in this generation, serving our generation, to hold
forth the word of truth, declaring the truth, passing the torch
when we leave this world to the next generation, the torch of
truth, the truth of God Almighty, Jesus Christ and Him crucified,
the accomplishment of His mighty works. All right now then, the
psalmist back here in Psalm 5 says, I will come into thy house, look
at it, in the multitude of thy mercy. Now that's how sinners
come to worship God. It's not enough just to go to
church. I wish I could get that out of my vocabulary. I often
say, I've got to preach. And every time I say it, I cringe.
My soul, I've got to preach. Oh, what a privilege. My responsibility
in that sense, a weighty business I've got to look at seriously,
but got to preach. And we said, let's go to church.
I wonder if we couldn't start talking like this. Let's go worship
God. Let's go worship God. Let's go meet God. Let's go hear
from God. David says, in the multitude
of thy mercy will I come into your house. We must come into
the house of God in faith, trusting the Lord's mercy. And there is
a multitude of mercies with our God in Christ. Jeremiah 31 describes
his everlasting covenant mercy. I'm going to come into your house,
David said. in the multitude of your mercy.
That mercy whereby you declared you'd be my God and I'd be yours
forever. That mercy whereby you declared my redemption before
ever I had fallen into sin. That mercy whereby you secured
my everlasting glory in your Son. I'll come into your house
in the multitude of your mercy, that sin-atoning mercy, that
redeeming mercy that's found in the precious blood of your
darling Son. I'll come into your house, Lord, a sinner in the
multitude of your saving mercy. A sinner chosen because of mercy,
redeemed because of mercy, called because of mercy, fallen, yes,
but uplifted in heaven because of mercy, retrieved because of
mercy, kept because of mercy. I'll come into your house in
the multitude of your mercies. He says, truly, truly, Jeremiah
says, truly, it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. And David, as he comes in the
multitude of God's mercy, says this, and in thy fear will I
worship toward thy holy temple. You remember in the prayer that
Solomon made, like his father David, when the temple was dedicated
and David anticipating it, Solomon said, if a man will pray toward
your holy temple. What does that mean? You've seen
these fellows on television, in the newsreels, the Islamic
folks, they'll kneel three times a day and they'll turn their
face toward Mecca and pray toward Mecca. It's exactly the same
thing. Only we're not talking about physical posture. We're
talking about something spiritual. We're not talking about bowing
down and kneeling toward the temple of Jerusalem. It's God.
We're talking about the throne of God Almighty, the place of
His glory, the place where men do business with God is not here
on this earth, but yonder at His throne, where He sits in
His glory. David says, I'll worship you,
turning toward your holy temple. And we come to the house of God,
and we come here not not just to this physical place,
but gathering with God's saints around His throne in His Spirit. Somewhere tonight, somewhere
tonight, we're not the only folks worshipping God tonight. Somewhere
tonight, there are people gathered somewhere else in the name of
Christ, worshipping Him. I know there's some in Mexico.
There are others we know nothing about. This world is much bigger
than we are. And in another part of the world,
it's already Wednesday night. Folks worshipping our God. Well,
we come together, Hebrews chapter 12. We come together to the General
Assembly of the Church of the Firstborn, whose names are written
in heaven, to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. We come
this night, not to this place, but to His throne. Now that's what it is to gather
in the house of God and worship Him. It's to come in spirit,
in spirit to Him. David says, I'll come in your
fear. with reverence to see you, to
seek you, to hear from you, to adore you, to praise you, to
obey you. That's his resolve. Now I make
this statement without fear of contradiction. I've said it to
you many times. Public worship is the single
most important aspect of every believer's life. I've had this
on my mind a good while. Late last night, I received a
letter from a lady who's been converted in recent years, she
and her husband. As a matter of fact, I don't know whether
I heard from her husband or from her, but she and her husband
both been converted in recent years. I don't know whether the
name signed in the letter was a man's name or a woman's, kind
of like Bobby. I just don't know. I've never met him, but I've
heard from him a number of times. I directed them sometime back to a gospel
church, faithful gospel church, and have opportunity to make
some real advancement. Make some real advancement. There
was a place wanting to hire them. Big job promotion. Big money
promotion. Big prestige promotion. And she
asked me about it, or he asked me about it, whichever it was.
Asked if there's a place where I could recommend where this
thing about moving to. And I wrote him and said, no. And I said,
you didn't ask, but I'm going to offer some counsel. I pray
that God will make it acceptable in your heart. Whatever the reason,
whatever the reason, don't even think about making the move.
Don't even think about it. Don't move away from Christ and
the gospel. Don't move away from the worship of God. It ain't
worth it. It ain't worth it. God's given you one of the most
faithful pastors I've ever met. God's given you a faithful congregation.
Don't leave it. Don't leave it. When you leave
it, you're going to leave it at a high price. Nothing more
important. When David was banished from
Jerusalem, turn over to Psalm 84 for a minute. When David was
banished from Jerusalem, the place of public worship, He envied
even the sparrows who made their nest in the house of God. Here's
the king. His son has driven him from his
throne. Here he is. This man, the greatest
ruler Israel ever had as a nation. This man who was eminently the
type of Christ. This man who sat on the throne
by divine right is now driven into hiding in seclusion. And
his heart pines and longs for something. He wants something. He wants something. But it's
not his throne. It's not the power. It's not
the prestige. It's not what he had been driven
from physically that he wanted. But what he longed for was to
come one more time with God's saints into God's house. I can't tell you how many times
over the years I've heard from folks who refuse to take the
counsel I just gave to this other couple I mentioned. Give it six
months or a year. They say, oh, how I wish I could
undo that. I didn't realize what I had.
I didn't realize what it was. David longed in his exile. for the blessed privilege of
gathering with God's saints to worship Him. Look here in Psalm
84. How amiable are thy tabernacles,
O Lord. My soul longs, yea, even faints
for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cries out
for the living God. Yea, the sparrow has found an
house And the swallow would nest for herself, and look at this
next line, where she may lay her young. Even thine altars, O Lord of
hosts, my King, my God, blessed are they that dwell in thy house. They will be still praising thee.
Now look at that pause. Selah. You stop and roll that
over a while. You stop and roll that over a
while. Simeon was one of those who dwelt in his house and he
saw God's salvation there. Anna was one of those who dwelt
in his house. That's not talking about living there all the time,
that's talking about gathering there where they worshiped God.
At the appointed time of worship, they came to God's house and
they met Christ when he appeared in his temple. The fact is, all who are born
of God love the assembly of his saints in public worship. They
love the ministry of the gospel. There are no exceptions. God's people, if you're taking
notes, just take notes, write it down, you put Don Fortner
beside it in quotation marks. God's people will not willingly
cut themselves off from the worship of God. Not a believer. Believers will not willingly
absent themselves from the worship of God. Now it is true, there
are many who very strictly attend and even love the outward service
of public worship. Who do not have any knowledge
of God at all. Their outward worship is nothing
but a show of hypocrisy and will worship. For they worship God
not at all. They don't worship God in their
hearts. They don't worship God in spirit. They don't have any
knowledge of what it is to worship God. They simply observe and
find satisfaction in what Paul calls a form of godliness. A form of godliness. A form of
godliness is a form of religion. That's all it is. It's the practice
of religious ceremony. It's the practice of religious
custom. It may be an outwardly right practice of religion, but
all it is is just the outward practice of religion. Anyone who willfully neglects
and despises the public assembly of God's saints neglects and
despises God himself. Most people are very, very busy. I know that. The cares and pleasures
of life in this world consume almost all their time and attention. When it's convenient, they attend
the house of God, come to church, give God a little tip and sing,
oh, how I love Jesus. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory
divine. But anytime something more important
comes up. I mean important stuff. Like
a good ball game on TV. Important stuff. Like, boy, I
got an opportunity here to watch a special show on television.
Important stuff. Oh, mama came in today. My boys
came home today. My daughters came home today.
I got to see my grandchildren today. I can't leave them now.
Important stuff. Like my dog got sick. Now you
think I'm lying to you? I've heard folks speak of just
those things to justify the neglect of God's worship. Every one of
them. Personally. I'm not giving hearsay.
Personally. I preached one time down in Alabama.
Gal couldn't stay for service. She had to go let dogs out. They
had to take them out and take care of business. Important stuff. And so when that comes up, they
absent themselves from the house of God. And this is usually the
way it's looked at. Well, I can always go to church.
I can go next week. The Lord knows my heart. You can count on that. You can
count on that. And he will judge us accordingly. Something came up. Let me tell
you something. With God's people, nothing comes
up they can control. It just doesn't. I've been endeavoring,
Rex, to worship God for 30, nearly 35 years. And you know what? Nothing's ever come up. Never. Never come up. Nothing. But what? Nothing. But nobody, nothing,
nothing. And when I said that, and I thought
about it a good bit today, I thought, well, I have a little extra,
I have a little extra unction. After all, I'm the preacher.
After all, I'm the pastor. But before I became a pastor,
nothing came up. Nothing came up. How come? Because
God's people, now listen to me, God's people, arrange their lives
so they can worship Him. Now they just do. They just do.
Find me in this book, somewhere, where there's somebody who just
willfully, deliberately, for whatever reason, decided, I'm
not going to go down and worship God. Throughout the history of
Israel, the man who did so was cut off from among the people.
Well, why is this so important? Let me give you five reasons.
And I'll be very, very brief here. Number one, this is the
place where God meets sinners in saving mercy. Number two, this is the place
where our family comes together. Number three, this is the place
where Christ meets his people. You said a little bit ago, I
love my family. Love you too. Love my family, my family, my
family. I love my family physically. And our family gets together
every year, have for years, have done so for years. And I've never
been able to do it. Not one time. Never been able
to get together with them. Not all of them. In all the years
since I left home. Because I always get together
at a time when I'd have to miss the worship of God to get together
with them. And it ain't gonna happen. It ain't gonna happen.
It ain't gonna happen. For me to do so. Now listen to
me. Listen to me. For me to do so,
Bobby, is for me to say to my family, you're more important
than my God. And they ain't. He used to say to my family,
you're more important than this family. And they're not. They're not.
This is my family. Didn't our master say, behold
my mother, my brother, my sisters. This is my family. This dear
lady, oh. Oh. We spend 24 hours a day together,
most all the time. And I love every time we get
a chance to sit down and talk to her. She's my family. But not really. Not really. She's not in that
relationship. Husband and wife. She's part
of this family. The family of God. Do you understand
that? And our elder brother, the Lord
Jesus Christ has promised to meet his family right here. Right
here. Sin is in need of mercy. Have I identified you? Is that
what we are, David? Sinners in need of mercy? They
would be wise to arrange to put themselves in the place where
mercy is always found in great abundance. And I'm telling you, mercy is
always found in great abundance where the Son of God meets with
sinners. Always. Fourthly, this is the
place where God deals with sinners. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter
3. 1 Corinthians chapter 3. Verse
16. Know you not that you are the
temple of God? That the Spirit of God dwells
in you? Wow! What on earth is that talking
about? Now read the context. He's not
talking about the individual believer. Folks read this all
the time, say, if any man defile the temple of God, oh, you don't
put anything in your body to defile it. That's not what he's
talking about. Read the context. He's talking about folks dividing
the church. He said, you're the temple of God. How can that be? Well, that's when we come together
in God's name, come together trusting Christ, worshiping Him. As we come together and meet
in His name, oh, something profoundly mystical and mysterious happens.
Instead of being a bunch of folks who gathered together to watch
a football game and root on our favorite team, instead of being
a bunch of folks who gathered together at a political rally
and got all inspired at a political rally, we come together in God's
name and God the Holy Spirit meets in this place with us.
The temple of God. Here's where God speaks to man.
This is where God deals with man. In all ages, the people
of God have been known and identified by their public worship, by their
gatherings for the worship of God. God has had a people in
this world, and wherever he has his people in this world, he
has a congregation of people in this world who worship him.
Sheep are always found in flocks. I'll tell you, the only time
you'll find one by himself. is when he's sick. Either sick or
lost, one of the two. No matter how few they are, God's
people gather together in the worship of Him. In the public
assembly, we bear public, united testimony to the world of our
Savior's grace and glory. In the public assembly of God's
saints, we strengthen and encourage, cheer and comfort one another,
edify one another, help one another along the way. Even from the
beginning, it was so. Adam and Eve worshipped God at
the day of Eden. Cain and Abel came to the place
of worship. Throughout the days of the Old
Testament, when Noah got off the ark, first thing he did,
built an altar and worshipped God. The patriarchs, wherever
they went, erected an altar and worshipped God. Whenever you
go through the Book of Acts, you find men and women, wherever
they were scattered, even by persecution, they looked up and
found some folks who worshipped God. And Paul went into the city
of Philippi and inquired, is there anybody here who worships
Jehovah? Who? We're Gentiles. Who are you talking about? The
one true and living God. Anybody here who worships a God
they can't see except by faith? Anybody here who worships God
who sits on the throne and declares that he rules everywhere by right? And everybody exactly according
to his will. Oh, you know, I heard about some
crazy women, just a bunch of crazy women who every Saturday
morning they gather down, they gather down by a little clearing
next to a pond down there and they read and say they're worshiping
that God. That might be who you're talking
about. Where's that pond? And I read and reasoned with
them from the scriptures, and God opened the heart of a woman
named Lydia, and she met the master. Public worship identifies
God's people. With David, every saved sinner
is resolved, as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude
of thy mercy, and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy
temple. All right, now let me show you something else. Turn
to our text, Hebrews 10. The neglect of public worship. is the first step toward total
apostasy. Let us consider one another to
provoke and to love and do good works. Now he's talking about
perseverance. And in the context, he links
it with his business of worshiping God. Verse 25, not forsaking
the assembling of ourselves together. I rather gatherings together
unto Christ. In fact, that's exactly what
Paul calls it in 1 Thessalonians 2 and verse 1. To forsake such
assembling refers to a willful infrequency in attending the
gathering of God's saints. There are a lot of folks who
ramble here and there from place to place and never really commit
themselves to any local church and ministry, never really put
their hands to the plow, never really put their shoulders under
the work and commit themselves, this is where I am planted by
God's grace and this is where I'm staying. Never do. How come? Because they're seeking self-gratification,
self-satisfaction and their own pleasure. And so they ramble
from one place to the other and always find a good reason for
going to another. This abandoning of God's church is the abandoning
of God, the gospel of his grace, the
glory of his son. It's apostasy. It's apostasy. And so Paul, by inspiration,
urges us, don't ever let anything get in your way of worshiping
God. Try to find an illustration. If I were a drowning man and
I were able to have someone pass by me and throw out a lifeline
to me and I got hold of it, got hold of it, and I know, I know
if I let it go, I'm gone. If this hand began to slip, I'd
get hold of it with this one. And if that one began to slip,
I'd get hold of it with this one. I recall your boy, Rex,
when he was over there in that frozen pond, he got hold of it
with his teeth. Well, what are you going to do? Either get hold
of it with your teeth or die, one of the two. Knowing full
well that our safety and security is not our hold on Christ, but
rather His hold on us. But with everything that seems
to tug our hearts away from Him, hold Him. Hold Him. As the manner of some is. In those early days, as in ours,
there are many who profess faith in Christ, who absent themselves
from the house of God and thereby show an utter contempt for Christ.
His church, His gospel, and the grace of God. So that's too strong. Read the chapter. I haven't stated
it near as strong as the Holy Spirit has. But exhorting one
another, urging, prouding one another, and so much the more,
as you see the day approaching. Man, we're coming to the end
of this thing called life. We're coming to the day when
Christ appears. We're coming to judgment. Verse
26, for if we sin willfully. You see the connection, buddy?
It's not haphazard the way it's written. He's talking about worship. If we sin willfully, after we've
received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more
sacrifice for sin. If we willfully abandon that
which we know to be the truth and the worship of God Almighty,
we've abandoned all hope. If we've abandoned Christ, we've
abandoned everything. Remember what the disciples said when
multitudes abandoned the Savior? He turned and looked at those
disciples and said, Will you also go away? And Peter spoke
well. He said, Lord, to whom shall
we go? May we leave you? We've left
everything. Thou hast the words of eternal life. We know and
are sure thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. The
only thing left, if we abandon Him, He is, according to verse
27, a certain fearful looking for a judgment, fiery indignation
which shall devour the adversaries. How important is this business
then of worshiping God? Look at verse 28. He that despised
Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses.
Of how much sore punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought
worthy who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God." Oh, what a solemn word. But the connection,
Wes, is with worshiping God. That's the connection. I have a choice. I can go worship God tonight
or I can sit at home and relax tonight. I believe my pleasure is just
more important than the son of God. Did you hear that? Did you hear
that? I got a choice. I can go worship
God tonight or I can I can go visit my granddaughter tonight.
I believe I'll go visit my granddaughter tonight because I believe she's
more important than God Almighty. So that's putting it too straight. You tell me any other way to
interpret that text of scripture. Tell me any other way. That's
just reality of it. That's just reality of it. of
how much sore punishment, that trod underfoot the Son of God,
and have counted the blood of the covenant wherewith He was
sanctified, an unholy thing, a common, ordinary, contemptible
thing, and despised the Spirit of His grace. Now, the reality is, we have every
one done so. No exceptions. No exceptions. So get hold of the life rope
with both hands and make this the resolve of your heart by
the grace of God. As for me, I will come into your
house In the multitude of your mercy, I will worship towards
your holy temple. Amen. All right Lindsay, you listen
to him please.
Don Fortner
About Don Fortner
Don Fortner (1950-2020) served as teacher and pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Danville, Kentucky.

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