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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font size="3"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>FEB
7 - EXODUS 19-20 - MORAL LAW: ITS COMMANDMENTS</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
19:5-6a (19:1-9) COVENANT PROPOSED AND ACCEPTED. “Now therefore,
if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you
shall be my own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth
is mine: <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">6</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.”
</font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">Father,
You are King of all the earth, and desire us to be a spiritual
Kingdom of Priests. </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Hallowed
be Your :Name!</i></font></b></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>2. 19:12 (19:10-13) MOUNT
SINAI GUARDED. “And you shall set bounds unto the people round
about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you go not up into the
mount, or touch the border of it: whoever touches the mount shall be
surely put to death.” </b><span style="">What a
contrast between the law of the Old Covenant and that of the New!
</span><b><i>Your :kingdom come.</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>3. 19:18 (19:14-20) JEHOVAH
DESCENDS. “And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because
Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended as the
smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.” </b><span style="">It
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God! Father,
You </span><u><span style="">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
that living God! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>4. 19:21-22 (19:21-25) THE
CHARGE. “And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people,
lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them
perish. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">22</font> And let the
priests also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest
Jehovah break forth upon them.” </b><span style="">O
Father, forgive us that we have so little fear of You! Reveal to us
that Your Name is </span><u><span style="">jealous</span></u><span style="">.
May we see You and Your Son Jesus in the book of Revelation! </span><b><i>Our
:daily :bread give us this day.</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>5. 20:1-3 (20:1-17) THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS. “And God spoke all these words, saying, <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">2</font>
I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">3</font>
You shall have no other gods before me.” </b><span style="">Keep
Your good hand upon us. Lift not Your presence from us to try us, as
You did Hezekiah. Your Son Jesus by His Spirit in us will walk out
Your commandments through us. </span><b><i>And forgive us our
:debts, as we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>6. 20:19 (20:18-21) EFFECT
OF GOD'S PRESENCE. “And they said unto Moses, Speak with us, and
we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” </b><span style="">Here
Father, You </span><u><span style="">proved</span></u><span style="">
Israel by Your awesome presence! How awful indeed is Your presence!
</span><b><i>And bring us not into temptation!</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>7. 20:24 (20:22-26) TWO
RELIGIOUS LAWS. “An altar of earth you shall make unto me, and
shall sacrifice on it your burnt-offerings, and your peace-offering,
your sheep, and your oxen: in every place where I record my name I
will come unto you and I will bless you.” </b><span style="">Write
on our heart Father, the importance of </span><u><span style="">Your</span></u><span style="">
plan and pattern for all we do! This is fitting. </span><b><i>But
deliver us from the evil one.</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
20:5b-6 (20:1-17) OUR GOD: A </b></span><b><u>JEALOUS</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
GOD! “For I Jehovah your God am a </span><u>jealous</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the
third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, </span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none;">
and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Father,
Your Name is </span></span><u><span style="">jealous</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!
- for Your Name, Your Word, Your Son, Your people! Write this truth
on our hearts. </span></span></font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">A
Kingdom of Priests</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">:
- Look at this in the light that the OT history of Israel is a
collection of “types and shadows” for the Church. We are to ask
the Lord through the Holy Spirit to understand </span></span><u><span style="">how
to interpret</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
these “types and shadows” just as Jesus interpreted His parables
for His disciples.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">In
the beginning God did not intend to have the tribe of Levi to form a
company of priests to serve Israel. He intended Israel herself to be
a company of priests to serve the other nations of the world. Once
Jesus died and rose again and ascended, and baptized the Church in
the Holy Spirit; then every member of the church became a holy
priesthood - a kingdom of priests for the world (1 Peter 2:5). God
does </span></span><u><span style="">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
intend church leaders to do all church work. </span></span><u><span style="">Their</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
job is to equip each of of us church members to function in this
capacity. See Ephesians 4:11-12 (4:1-16) - </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">“And
HE (Jesus) gave some as apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some shepherds and teachers; </span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">12</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none;">
for the perfecting (equipping, chiropractically adjusting) of the
saints, unto </span><u>a work of ministry</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
unto a building up of the body of the Christ.” </span></b></font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Just
as Israel found it difficult and almost impossible to let God's
purposes be realized through them - so 80% of church members prefer
being pew warmers - and let the 20% carry the full assignment of God.
That was </span></span><u><span style="">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the way it worked in the early church, nor the church in the days of
John Wesley. Wesley had 70,000 discipled men meeting </span></span><u><span style="">at
least</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
once a week in cell groups of approximately 8 each. They so
adequately fulfilled God's purposes through them, that England was
saved from the French Revolution and guillotine of 1789. Lenin was so
impressed with these </span></span><u><span style="">still
functioning</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
cell groups in the early 1900's, that he adapted them, and took the
concept back to use it to found and function Russian Communism!</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
heart of Exodus 19-20 is the recounting of the 10 commandments which
God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai following 2 forty day fasting
sessions - even omitting water as well as food. The water part is
humanly speaking impossible - so that God supernaturally enabled
Moses to do </span></span><u><span style="">that</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
which is humanly impossible. 7-10 days of fasting without water is
the absolute “max” concerning this, and even that is dangerous.
Just 3 days!</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">But
the 10 commandments have severely been tampered with by the Catholic
church in </span></span><u><span style="">both</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
of these regards. They have omitted or taken away the second command,
Exodus 10:4-6, because of their public use of graven images in their
churches. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">“You
shall not make unto you a </span><u>graven image</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
nor </span><u>any likeness</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">of
any thing</span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;"> that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth: </span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">5
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">you
shall </span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">not</font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
bow down yourself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah your God
am a </span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">jealous</font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the
third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none;">
and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and
</span><u>keep my commandments</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">.”</span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Then to add insult to injury, they divided into two the 10</span></span><sup><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">th</span></span></sup><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
commandment to read: </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">You
shall not covet your neighbor's house” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">as
#9, and </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">“You
shall not covet your neighbor's wife etc.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">as
#10!</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">I
would fear to stand before Christ Jesus at His Judgment Seat
following His return, and </span></span><u><span style="">answer</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for this two-fold flagrant abuse of Scripture! Let us remember that
our God is </span></span><u><span style="">not
only</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
a God of love - He is </span></span><u><span style="">also</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
a Jealous God of Justice protecting His Holy Name and </span></span><u><span style="">His</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Holy word! And - the NT ending with the Book of Revelation is just as
clear on this as the clear teaching of the OT. Mary is </span></span><u><span style="">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the Queen of Heaven - </span></span><u><span style="">nor</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the </span></span><u><span style="">mother</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
of the </span></span><u><span style="">Son of God</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
She is the virgin mother of Jesus as the son of man only, and He did
</span></span><u><span style="">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
obey her various requests and desires. On one occasion when she
wanted to see Him - He refused! Instead He pointed to His 12
disciples and said, </span></span><u><span style="">They</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
were His mother, brothers and sisters, because </span></span><u><span style="">they</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
kept His commandments - while at that time His mother and brothers
and sisters were </span></span><u><span style="">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
doing so!</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Only</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the 66 books of our Bible are authenticated by God as being </span></span><u><span style="">His</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
through Bible Numerics! This is God's eternal method of ensuring that
</span></span><u><span style="">no one</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
can </span></span><u><span style="">tamper</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
with </span></span><u><span style="">His Word</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.
Church commandments </span></span><u><span style="">do
not</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
and </span></span><u><span style="">cannot</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
cause His Word to be diminished or changed. Neither the Koran, nor
the Book of Mormon! Those who truly love God will </span></span><u><span style="">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
let all the traditions of man such as the Talmud or the Mishnah to
</span></span><u><span style="">make void</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the Word of God!</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Psalm
37:25-26 - </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">“I
have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not see the righteous
forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread. </span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">26</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none;">
All the day long he deals graciously, and lends; And his seed is
blessed.”</span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
This is our Psalm for February 7</span></span><sup><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">th</span></span></sup><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!
How fitting! J.A.Watt</span></span></font></p>
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