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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><u><b>EPH
4:12 - SPIRITUAL CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT</b></u></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>ka-tarTIz<u>o</u>
(13x), total cognates (15x), to <u>restore</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span><u>unite</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">, Strong's #
2675</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="center">
<font size="3"><b>GOD'S PURPOSE FOR THE FIVE-FOLD MINISTRIES</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">1.
MT 4:21 (18-22, NNT by I. Panin) </span><u>MENDING</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
NETS: A FORM OF ADJUSTMENT. "And going on thence, he saw two other
brothers, James the </span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">son</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of :Zebedee, and John his :brother, in the boat with Zebedee their
:father, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>mending</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
their :nets; and he called them." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Fish
to be caught require </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">mended</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
nets. The church to become fishers of men, requires to be </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">mended</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
or </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">spiritually
adjusted</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
by the 5-fold ministries to effectively catch souls for God.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">2.
MT 21:16 (12-16) </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>PERFECTING</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
PRAISE: AGAIN, ADJUSTMENT. "And </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">the
chief priests </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">said
to him, Do you hear what these are saying? And :Jesus says to them,
Yes: did you never read [that] Out of </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
mouth of babes and sucklings you have </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>perfected</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
praise?" </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Isn't
it amazing that God uses babes and children to </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">perfect</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
praise? At the time the sperm unites with the egg at conception,
some have observed as it were a flash of light. Husband and wife God
uses to produce body and soul in the babe - but </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">He</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
adds the spirit at the moment of conception - and it seems that our
little ones have a sense of the unseen world superior to us adults
for the first years of their life. They easily see angels and have
visions. See "Visions Beyond the Veil" by H.A. Baker.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">3.
LK 6:40 (39-49) </span><u>PERFECT ADJUSTMENT</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
MAKES DISCIPLES LIKE THEIR TEACHER. "A disciple is not above the
teacher: but every one </span><u>perfected</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
shall be as his :teacher." </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">He
that lives </span></span><u><span style="">godly</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
in Christ Jesus </span></span><u><span style="">shall</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
suffer persecution! If we rise to let the life of Jesus manifest
through us by His Spirit and His Word, then in the </span></span><u><span style="">perfected</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
state, we too will be treated like Jesus. See the last two
Beatitudes.</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">4.
1 PET 5:10 (6-11) </span><u>PERFECT ADJUSTMENT</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
FOLLOWS SUFFERING. "And the God of all grace, who called you unto
his eternal :glory in Christ after you have suffered a little, shall
himself </span><u>perfect</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">,</span><u>
</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">establish, strengthen </span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">you</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">."</span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Notice that suffering is a necessary prelude to maturity and
</span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">perfection</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
See the book of Job: "Baffled to Fight Better!" Here God sets
forth his righteous man who hates evil and desires to do good - but
</span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">perfects</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
him and makes him a better man through suffering.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">5.
ROM 9:22 (19-29) </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>FITTED</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
UNTO DESTRUCTION: THE CONTRAST! "What if :God, willing to show
:wrath, and to make his :power known, bore with much long-suffering
vessels of wrath </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>fitted</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
unto destruction." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Those
who choose other than God, are then </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">fitted</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for destruction, just as saints who have chosen life, are </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">fitted</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
by God's 5-fold for life!</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6.
1 COR 1:10 (10-17) CORPORATE </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>PERFECTION</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
GOD'S GOAL THROUGH THE 5-FOLD. "Now I beseech you, brothers,
through the name of our :Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the
same, and no divisions be among you: but </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
you be </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>perfected
together</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
in the same mind and in the same judgment." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">We
have to </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">choose</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for God's appointed </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">adjusters</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
to fit us corporately for this same mind and same judgment. We can't
do it ourselves, but we can choose to let our Lord through His chosen
appointees do His work!</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
2 COR 13:9 (1-10) </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>PERFECT
ADJUSTMENT</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
PAUL'S PRAYER. "For we rejoice, when we be weak, and you be strong:
this we also pray for, </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">even</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
your </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>:perfecting</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">."
</span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Paul
in his weakness, tribulations, persecutions and suffering looks at
his converts, and desires for his spiritual children maturity and
</span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">perfection!</span></u></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">8.
2 COR 13:11 (11-13) BE </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>PERFECTED</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
A COMMAND (by submitting to the Lord's 5-fold). "</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">For
the</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
rest, brothers, farewell. </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>Be
perfected</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace: and the God of :love
and peace shall be with you." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">Perfection</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
is not an option for the saint - it is a </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">command!</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Again, we cannot do this for ourselves. It would be like trying to
lift ourselves up by our bootstraps. It takes another to lift us into
this state. And the Lord chooses to use the 5-fold to do so. And they
are not sinlessly perfect! Some say they will submit to the Lord, but
not to pastors or men. Careful! If we want the Lord's best, </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">this</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
is the Lord's appointed way! We can miss God if we refuse His
appointed way!</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">9.
GAL 6:1 (5:25-6:6) </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>RESTORE</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
THOSE OVERTAKEN IN A TRESPASS! "Brothers, even if a man be
overtaken in any trespass, you the spiritual, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>restore</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself, lest you
also be tempted." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">Restoration!</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
This is again God's appointed way when we fall. We must humble
ourselves and permit our fellow man to lift us back where we once
were. Humbling? Perhaps. But those who do the restoration must seek
the spirit in the above verse if they would be successful in this
needful duty.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">10.
EPH 4:12 (1-16) </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>ADJUSTMENT
UNTO PERFECTION</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE 5-FOLD. "</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
5-fold is given </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">for
the </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>perfecting</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of the saints, unto a work of ministry, unto a building of the body
of the Christ." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">This
is the key verse for this whole study. Let us observe well God's plan
and program. He has designed to mature His church through </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">His</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
choice of the 5-fold ministries. We </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">cannot</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
take the prerogative upon ourselves! Nor can we deceive ourselves by
thinking we are His choice. We need the confirmation for this calling
through the Eldership or Presbytery. Man seals God's calling through
the "Laying on of Hands" and prophecy.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">11.
1 THESS 3:10 (1-10) PAUL'S DESIRE: TO </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>PERFECTLY</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
ADJUST MISSING DIMENSIONS. "Night and day praying exceedingly that
we may see your :face, and may </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>perfect</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
what are lacking in your :faith." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Paul's chief ministry is prayer and intercession on a constant basis
on behalf of the saints. Paul could see what was lacking in these
converts, and knew that through God's gifting and calling to him as
an apostle, that God through him could meet any need of these saints.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">12.
HEB 10:5 (1-18) MESSIAH'S </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>PREPARED</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
BODY: THE WORK OF GOD! "Wherefore when he comes into the world, he
says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, But a body did you
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>prepare</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
for me." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">See
God's wonderful work on behalf of His only begotten Son. Jesus had a
Pre-incarnate existence from the beginning with God! Before Abraham
was, </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">He
was!</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
God is </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">One</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
- but He is </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">One</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
in the Triunity of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, just as
we who are made in the image of God are one: spirit, soul and body.
Jesus who was very God of very God, became through the body His
Father </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">prepared</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for Him, very man of very man. A mystery? Indeed - and </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">much</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for us to meditate upon!</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">13.
HEB 11:3 (3-12) </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>FRAMING</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
OF WORLD: GOD'S MASTER PARABLE. "By faith we understand that the
ages have been </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>framed</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
by God's word, so that what is seen has not been made out of </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">things</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
which appear." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">God
used Jesus as the Pre-incarnate Son, as the Living Word, to create
all things. See the book of Colossians. According to Romans 1, the
universe was designed by God as a lesser gospel to lead us to the
light of the </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">greater</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Gospel: Jesus! He used this in the beginning to draw me to Himself as
a new teen-ager.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">14.
HEB 13:21 (20-21) </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>PERFECTING</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
OF GOD'S WILL IN US: MESSIAH'S HIGH CALLING. "</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Now
our God</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>perfect</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
you in every good to do his :will, to do in us what is well-pleasing
in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom the glory unto the ages
of the ages. Amen." </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">This
is one of the great Benedictory prayers of the Bible. Here is the
will of God! He wants us </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">perfected</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
into the image of His Son Jesus, so that He through the Spirit and
the Word can live His life out through us. He first wants incarnation
in us, and then growth, maturity and </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">perfection</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
to do His will. Are we ready? Are we willing?</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><u><b><span style="font-style: normal;">NOTE:</span></b></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">God
does not plan for all of the 5-fold to be resident and operate in any
one local church. He has designed that they all </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">should</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
be resident and operate in each city church, and should move from
local church to local church within the city. This insight finds
strong confirmation in the following analysis of </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Church</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
- ek-kl</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">e</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">SIa.
It appears 114x in the Greek NT. </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Once</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
in Acts 7 it refers to Israel as the church in the wilderness. 3x in
the book of Acts it refers to the secular church of Ephesus. 14x it
refers to a local church within the city church, such as the church
in the home of Aquila and Priscilla. 15x it refers to the Universal
Church of OT and NT saints. </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">But</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
- 81x - it refers to the </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">City
Church</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
composed of many local churches, such as 14 of these references in
Revelation 2-3.</span></span></span></font></p>
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frustration and damage has taken place because of the lack of
understanding in this since the Reformation days of Martin Luther.
However, in the last decades men like John Dawson have seen this
truth, and clear perspective is beginning to return to the church.
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">This</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
will enable the 5-fold ministry to once again function as God has
planned it from the beginning. Remember how in the beginning the
apostles went forth two by two from local church in the home to local
church in the home - in the context of the city church.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3">In 1948 God visited North Battleford, Saskatchewan with
a number of Restoration Revival Principles, and brought together 12
of these in an Embryonic state. George R. Hawtin taught on the nature
of the 5-fold, majoring on the office of the apostle. He pointed out
repeatedly that God sees the office of the apostle and prophet
functioning together in the foundation for His church. The Aorist
tense of the Greek in Ephesians 4:11 and 1 Corinthians 12:28
conclusively settles that in God's thinking, these 2 offices should
continue to function with the other 3 - throughout the entire church
age.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
importance of this teaching can be fully realized as we consider
Galatians 6:1, and the spirit in which spiritual leaders should
restore fellow leaders who have fallen. The last century on right
into this 21</span></span></span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">st</span></span></span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Century, we have witnessed the tragedy of fallen leaders, even to
this year in Lakeland, Florida. Leaders who are and young and
inexperienced need to be supported in prayer, intercession and
counsel, for they become targets of the enemy. And when one falls,
Paul in Galatians gives exceedingly wise counsel concerning their
restoration.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3">Just this day (August 22, 2008) a very wise and humble
article has come from Dutch Sheets emphasizing the true role of the
church in such matters. Thank God for his honesty, humility and
obedience in bringing forth this confession of repentance - much as
Daniel did in Daniel 9.</font></p>
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