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ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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253-517-9195 - Email: <a href="mailto:jmbetter@gmail.com">jmbetter@gmail.com</a></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>(Jim
& Marie Watt – Beth Chesed, Tacoma</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>December
13, 2006)</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><u>“<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>THE
RETURN OF GOD’S GLORY” – Bakht Singh</b></font></u><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>Solomon:
The Fourth Divine Principle</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Now
let us consider Solomon illustrating the fourth Divine principle to
ensure God’s glory. “And the house when it was in building, was
built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that
there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the
house while it was in building.” 1 Kings 6:1.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> This
was a very unique building. There is no building in the world which
can be built without a sound; but there was no need for any sound at
all in this building, because every stone fitted in so beautifully
according to God’s plan.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> When
you follow God’s plan in your individual life, and family and
church life, you will find unity, co-operation, openness, fellowship,
and spiritual joy in living together. Otherwise there is strife. When
we have God’s plan, and we know our ministries, there will not be
any jealousy. Much work has suffered because of jealousy.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
remember in one place we were having a meeting. I found it very hard
going that day in the meeting. When I came back to my room, I asked
the Lord, “What is it that made it hard?” The Lord spoke to me
and showed me that it was my prayer-partner that was at fault. So I
called him and said, “Brother, tell me why was it so difficult
today?” He said, “I am very sorry to confess to you, but I felt
very jealous of you while you were speaking.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Even
as God’s servants, we can be jealous of each other, and it brings
loss. There is no doubt about it; we may have to pray for a whole
night or longer to make sure of God’s mind. And then we find
oneness.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> When
the work of building was complete, we read in 2 Chronicles 7:1 that
there was great joy that day, because the glory of the Lord filled
the house! For 140 years God had waited. He loved His people, rebuked
them, and chastised them, till they came into His heavenly order, and
then the glory came down.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
conclusion, let me bring these four things before you again. First,
we acknowledge that the glory is departed. We confess our barrenness,
and our fruitlessness – that we are not receiving God’s Word
today, as we ought to receive it. “Lord, make me like Hannah, that
knowing Your need, I can learn how to pray, and have the privilege of
meeting that need – as Hannah did, when she offered her son to the
Lord.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> :”Lord,
make me like Samuel – Your true mouthpiece, that I may know Your
message and have Your authority and boldness to give that message.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> “Lord,
give us men like David; men after Your own heart, who will be
completely free from worldly wisdom; and who can receive Your
pattern.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
David we see God’s plan for the Church emerging, when God revealed
to him the heavenly plan for the temple. Before God could give David
the plan, He had to chastise him; He had to punish him, cleanse him,
change him, humble him, empty him completely of human wisdom. So in
David we are made Church conscious; in Solomon we are made
God-conscious.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> “Lord
make me like Solomon – a man of peace – building God’s temple
by living stones fitly joined together by unity and openness.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Our
Lord prays in John 17:21-24 for a four-fold oneness: “that they may
be one, as we are,” oneness in relationship; “that they may be
made perfect in one,” oneness in perfection, “that the love with
which You have loved Me may be in them,” oneness in love; “and
the glory which You have given me I have given them;” oneness in
glory.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> It
is only by such oneness that we can finally see God’s glory coming
down.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><b>NOTE:</b></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">
Bakht Singh states that jealousy among fellow Christian workers can
arise when we are not clear concerning our position in the Body of
Christ.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Consider
this: of all the multitude members in the human body, there is no
thought of jealousy. Each member became itself under the hand of God
while the embryo was but weeks old. </font>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Differentiation
took place according to the DNA structure in each cell. The complete
body requires EACH member performing in harmony to produce a healthy
body.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
February of 1948 in Northern Canada, a prophetic word came forth in a
Bible College one morning during chapel. God revealed that what He
had been promising for the past 13 years, He was about to fulfill! He
informed some 80 or so present that morning, that in a new way He was
about to reveal to each one their place in His spiritual body – the
Church – where in the Body God saw him placed – and how he was to
function.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> He
said that He would reveal those who spiritually were ready and
prepared for this ministry. When called forth to be ministered to
through the laying on of hands and prophecy, God would fulfill His
will and desire.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
much trepidation, several teaching elders approached the first
candidate as he knelt at a chair. Then the Spirit of God like a
magnet caused their hands to descend on his head. An anointing to
prophesy God’s mind came. It was revealed the type of missionary
apostolic ministry God had designed for him with his airplane – and
how this would be enhanced by a powerful gift of healing to confirm
God’s purposes.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Following
this “Presbytery” type of ministry, the leader being a practical
man, invited any sick that morning to come forward to be ministered
to by this candidate. Some 15 or so immediately received healing!</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> All
the above greatly concerned and disturbed the elders. Were they
moving into heresy? Did they have Scriptural warrancy in what they
felt led to do?</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> All
that night – like the Bereans of the book of Acts – they searched
the scriptures to see if the leading they followed was legitimate.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Among
many Bible confirmations they found the account of Timothy. Paul
reminded him that according to the prophecies that came to him, he
should by them war the good warfare (1 Timothy 1:19). He also said,
“Neglect not the gift in you, which was given you through prophecy,
with laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Be diligent in these;
give yourself wholly to these; that your progress may be evident to
all” (1 Timothy 14-15).</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Ponder
these words. What Hannah, Samuel, David and Solomon performed to see
the Glory of God return to His Temple in that day – so God in 1948
started a restoration of the Presbytery and 5-fold Ministry concept
to start putting living stones into His Spiritual Body, the Church.
For those who by the above ministry learned their position in
Christ’s Body, and received an immediate anointing to start
functioning in it – much occasion for jealousy was counteracted.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> What
came in embryonic form in 1948, is now starting to mature. Recently
in France the power and effectiveness of the Presbytery concept was
demonstrated. Before the return of Christ we should see this
multiplied in all nations and multiplied cities.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> It
is also well to note that the New Testament Presbytery functioned
much more widely that just ordaining a man like Timothy to join
Paul’s apostolic team. Later Timothy became the Apostolic pastor of
the many congregations for the city church of Ephesus, just as James
the brother of Jesus functioned in similar fashion in Jerusalem.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
Acts 13:1-3 we read of the functioning Presbytery of Antioch, and how
the first great missionary movement was launched under Barnabas and
Saul.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
Acts 15 we see God using the Presbytery concept to successfully solve
the great Judaizing controversy that was playing havoc among the
Gentile churches Paul and Barnabas were founding.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
Israel of old, each town and city had an eldership (or Presbytery) in
the main gate of that city. There problems both spiritual, secular
and practical were solved. It was in Bethlehem that Boaz called
together the elders, and they were witnesses in solving that Ruth the
Moabitess, the ancestress of David and Jesus, should go to Boaz, not
the nearer kinsman.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Just
as the glory of God returned to Israel through the Temple of Solomon
and his 3 predecessors – so the Glory of God shall return to the
church prior to the return of Jesus, God’s Son. The 12 Embryonic
Revival principles of 1948 are coming to maturity! As Communism
received a terrific set-back in 1991, so Islam will suffer God’s
blow soon – and 10’s of millions of Muslims will be set free to
find the Living God!</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Submitted
by Jim Watt</font></p>
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