<div align="center"><strong>"TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE" MINISTRIES</strong></div>
<div align="center"><strong>Jim & Marie Watt</strong></div>
<div align="center"><strong>PO Box 25116 -- Federal Way WA 98093-2116</strong></div>
<div align="center"><strong>Tel: 253.874.4265 -- Email: <a href="mailto:jmbetter@gmail.com">jmbetter@gmail.com</a></strong></div>
<div align="center"><strong>Web: <a href="http://www.2rbetter.org">www.2rbetter.org</a> -- December 31, 2007</strong></div>
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<div align="center"><strong><u>"NOTES" -- EPHESIANS 1-3</u></strong></div>
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<div>Friends -- 12.31.07</div>
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<div>In 2005 I laid out the first draft of the Interlinear Numeric Greek New Testament by Ivan Panin.</div>
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<div>Through the help and suggestions of friends, I have made what I believe are helpful changes. I am also making the up-dates in smaller bites and adding "NOTES" to each of these sections.</div>
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<div>You have already received 2 sets of "NOTES" from John 13-17. Unfortunately, there was an error in the second set: John 16:16-33 repeated John 15:1-15. "To err is human: to forgive is divine!" May I receive your forgiveness for this lapse on my part, as you move up into the Divine Mind to do so! Thanks.
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<div>I am adding the notes on this missing section at the bottom of the "Notes" on Ephesians 1-3.</div>
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<div>Jim Watt</div>
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<div><strong>"NOTES"</strong> on Ephesians 1-3</div>
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<div>Ephesians 1:1-14</div>
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</span>This letter by Paul is counted by many to be the high water mark of his writings. In it are 7 pictures of the church. In it Paul lays out the "One New Man" truth, of Jew and Gentile together making up the Church, the Body of Christ.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Chapter 1:3 is almost like a key verse or text for this letter. My professor of Church History at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary of Chicago loved this verse. He was a Norwegian Lutheran in his background. One day in Chapel he told 400 of us theologues – that when this verse opened up to him, he didn't run – he FLEW!!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">See if you can pick out the nine blessings in Christ in this passage. It is a passage so rich in what Christ has made available to us, and what we ARE in Christ, that perhaps only in eternity will we truly begin to appreciate the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This letter was a </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">high point</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> in revelation for George Hawtin of the 1948 Visitation in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">The armor of God for the Corporate Soldier of Christ in Ephesians 6 has been a challenge to many.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">And remember – both our texts, Greek and Hebrew, have been established by God's Numeric Phenomenon. Perhaps God sees Numerics as his fool-proof signature that prevents all false copying and counterfeiting.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">I love this book, and the God of this book. In 1946 it was the first book that I outlined according to the paragraphing and sentence structure established by Bible Numerics and laid out in the Introduction of the Greek Numeric New Testament by Panin. It was what initially captivated me in 1945, and has led me to put in at least 40,000 hours of research on this challenging discovery by Ivan Panin.
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</span>Several times in the complete Bible, the Holy Spirit leads various writers to record specific prayers, prophecies or revelations. This happened to the Apostle Paul TWICE in this letter.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">His first prayer for the Ephesian believers is recorded in Ephesians 1:15-23. Many believers have memorized both of Paul's prayers in this letter. There is such a depth of insight and revelation in this first prayer, that right up to the resurrection we will still be plumbing its depths.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">It is our Heavenly Father who in Jesus' Name will reveal to us the great grace that His Son both IS and HAS MADE AVAILABLE to us. To properly understand Christ's "Finished Work in Redemption" on our behalf, means that pride loses its vantage point.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Oh, after 1900 years, may the prayer of Paul still be answered on our behalf by God our Father!</font></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Note that the key words of this prayer in the Greek text are followed up by the numbers from "Strong's Concordance." One Adult Sunday School class in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Chapter 2:1-9 clearly points out our state in Satan prior to our conversion. And – THIS is the present state of ALL in the world who are not yet born into the second birth! We do not know those whom God has foreknown to know Him through His Son – but our CLEAR presentation of these truths will convict and waken to earnest searching after God – the LIVING God for all those He has foreknown and given to His Son as members of His Bride!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">It was the faithfulness of my grandfather who awakened in me this hungering and thirsting after God.</font></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">THIS clear Gospel presentation will make sinners either "mad" or "glad." This is the way the world of Jesus' day reacted to HIM! The world and religious leaders HATED Him – and they will hate us too as we are intimately related to Jesus on the basis of this prayer of Paul.
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</span>J. Sidlow Baxter in his "Explore the Book," has an interesting and helpful insight for understanding the 7 city churches of Paul in his first 9 epistles.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Romans represents the Outer Court of the Tabernacle – Justification by Faith. 1 & 2 Corinthians represent how the
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">church</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Corinth</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> had moral lapses in relationship to the great standard restored through Martin Luther. Galatians shows how the churches in the area of modern
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Turkey</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> departed doctrinally from the key teaching of this letter, and through the Judaizers sought to return to the legalism of Jewish standards. Even in the Old Testament, only Gentiles living in close proximity to Jews were required to move in this manner, and in the latter part of Acts 15 were freed by God from even this.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Baxter saw Ephesians as the </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">high point</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
of church truth in the Bible. It is rich in pictures and analogies of the relationship of believers – both Jew and Gentile – to Christ. Philippians is the Holy Spirit through Paul shoring up lapses in Joy and Unity from this high standard. Colossians points out doctrinal aberrations from
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Ephesus</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, and tendencies to revert to worship of angels, and departing from God the Father's true standards for His Son. Greek cults of that day sought to wean true believers from the way God sees these things, and God used Paul by the Spirit to seek to return them to the true Plumbline of truth. Arianism and Jehovah's Witness cultism was in existence back then!
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </span>It is HERE that believers enjoy being in the </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Holy Place</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> of God's Tabernacle and </span>
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Temple</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">!</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">1 & 2 Thessalonians prepare God's people for the Second Coming of Christ and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The early church constantly kept this truth in view. George Muller in his day did the same, and Mother Basilea Schlink. Here believers experience the first-fruits of Bridal-Love with Christ. Here one enters the riven veil, and experiences divine relationship in the Holy of Holies.
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Man.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">" Reuven Doron has written a book in the early 1990's with this title. By all means do a "Google-Search" and order it. It is clear, warm and living. The recent writings of Daniel Juster also clearly bring out this truth of Jew and Gentile in one body, the Church. Mike Bickle has partnered with Juster to give a living example of this truth.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The Church has a marvelous privilege and responsibility of praying the Messianic Jewish Movement into the 5-fold ministry and the other 11 Embryonic Revival Principles restored in 1948 in
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Northern Canada</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. Next year – 2008 – is the 60<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the rebirth of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Israel</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
as a nation, and God's Visitation on February 11<sup>th</sup> at North </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Battleford</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Saskatchewan</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
. The Rev. Dr. John Roddam and Stuart Spani of North Vancouver BC have produced a 3 DVD package of 10 parts featuring Marie and myself as the last living elder of the 1948 July Camp Meeting of that time. Details on how to procure this will soon be available.
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</span>In Ephesians 3:7 Paul posits his unusual and remarkable ministry from God – as BASED on the "d<u>o</u>-reA" – Gift." THIS is one of 11 remarkable usages of this Greek word in the New Testament. ALL references point back to the Comforter, the Paraclete coming in – in place of Jesus – according to His promise. And, the Holy Spirit living in and THROUGH Paul, personified Jesus in His earthly life – a demonstration what He wants to do through EACH ONE OF US through the GIFT of the Holy Spirit from the Father, through the Son. This is all based on Christ's Finished Work on the Cross.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It is important to note the "Law of First Reference," for here we normally find the definition of a word! John </span>
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">4:10</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> in this instance reveals that the definition of "d<u>o</u>-reA – Gift" is an artesian well. John 7:37-39 explains this more fully. According to Smith Wigglesworth, think of the "
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Then in Acts 2:38 we find the second reference to this word "Gift." It is found in the context of "The Peter Package." First a candidate for salvation must "Repent!" Secondly he must be baptized! And next hands are laid on him and he receives the GIFT of the Holy Spirit. See Acts 8:1-24 for a further illustration of this principle! Look back to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" to understand His Love and the great price He paid to make all of this possible for us.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">See also that of all Bible "Mysteries" – and there are a number! – perhaps the greatest is that it has been God's eternal plan to make the nations fellow-heirs of God's Covenants and promises with
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Then in Ephesians 3:14-19 Paul prays his second great prayer on behalf of each individual believer in "The One New Man" – composed of Jew and Gentile alike. This is a REVELATION by the Spirit through prayer. To understand God's Love behind all He does on our behalf – is Paul's great desire. What a prayer! Again – one can see why these two prayers in this letter have been memorized by so many believers! And too – we can see how through Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" – why many have at last begun to search for deeper answers about God and His Love. May such searching continue. May we never be the same again, as we begin to understand the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of Christ which passes knowledge, and that we be filled unto all the fullness of God.
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</span>See the difficulty Jesus had in communicating with His disciples prior to the coming of the Holy Spirit. If ANY passage shows up the outstanding importance of the indwelling Spirit – this one does. It is of paramount importance first that human beings are born of the Spirit from above. Next, on the basis of covenant understanding, we must become disciples by not only confessing with our mouth Jesus as LORD – but also by faith receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit as the Comforter, and Jesus' full replacement. When we are born again, the Spirit comes in (Greek "en") us. When we are baptized in the Spirit He comes upon (Greek "epi0 us. Dr. T. J. McCrossan, teacher for Dr. Charles S. Price, has a whole book on this subject.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">By the very questions of Jesus' disciples here, we see the inability of Jesus to get across to them the truths of this passage. In another Gospel Jesus says – "I have a baptism to be baptized with – and how am I straitened until it is accomplished!" Until Jesus completes His Commission from the Father on the Cross, and through His "Finished Work" there, the Holy Spirit is not yet lawfully and righteously made available – and human beings apart from His Indwelling Presence – are unable to grasp spiritual truths! No wonder worldly people are hopelessly at a loss to understand spiritual truths. 1 Corinthians chapters 1 & 2 lay this insight out in clear and simple form.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">But verse 23 of this passage in John 16 shows the tremendous blessing in answered prayer from the Father in Jesus' Name – that becomes ours once this divine reception from heaven takes place.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This Jesus in John 16:15-23 restates and summarizes His teaching on the intimate relationship of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
Calvary</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> and the Holy Spirit. To see this in a yet clearer manner, do a Greek word study on the word <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">"d<u>o</u>-reA" </b>– Gift – as it appears first in John 4:10 and next in Acts 2:38. There are only 11 references to this Greek word in the entire New Testament. Each refers back to the law of first reference in John 4:10, where Jesus likens the
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">"d<u>o</u>-reA" </b>to an ARTESIAN WELL. The Romans </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">5:15</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> and 17 references are startling. Some have in 2 Corinthians 9:15 interpreted the "d
<u>o</u>reA" to refer to Christ. This can't be accurate in the light of the other 10 references. If these 10 refer to the Holy Spirit clearly according to context, then the 2 Corinthians </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
9:15</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> reference must ALSO refer 5to the GIFT of the Holy Spirit.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Take note now – John 13-16 has laid the foundation for John 17, and therefore links these 5 chapters together. John 17 can only be fully understood in seeing this previous foundation. It states the NECESSITY of Jesus' Atoning work, and the subsequent coming of the Holy Spirit. His High Priestly Prayer after the order of Melchizedek that follows, makes perfect sense in the light of this context.
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