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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Tel:
253-517-9195 - Email: <a href="mailto:jmbetter@gmail.com">jmbetter@gmail.com</a></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Web:
<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">February 17, 2012</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>Congregation
Beth Chesed</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt - May 21, 2006</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><u>“<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>CONVERSION
& THE FIVE KINGDOMS”</b></font></u><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">One
of D.L. Moody’s favorite authors was Henry Drummond of Scotland.
His book “Natural Law in the Spiritual World” especially
intrigued Moody. Here we see the wisdom for the basis of Jesus’
parables. He took from nature and ordinary human events -- the human
interest foundation for his parables, and then related them to the
Kingdom of God.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">In
1946 I came across Drummond’s use of the 5 Kingdoms, and passed it
on to some 100 Christian students of the InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship (IVCF) of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a witnessing tool.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">We
are all familiar with the “Mineral Kingdom”. It lies beneath our
feet. To all intents and purposes it is inanimate, though in the
movement of atoms and electrons, who knows how God looks on this
Kingdom.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">But
the “Vegetable Kingdom” reaches down into the Mineral Kingdom,
and through osmosis and other abilities, has the wonderful function
of converting the mineral kingdom into the higher vegetable kingdom.
A transformation takes place. Scientists can still analyze the
mineral content of vegetation, but through photo-synthesis the
minerals now partake of the life of this higher kingdom, howbeit in a
transformed state.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Then
Mrs. Cow reaches out her tongue and grabs a tuft of grass, and
converts this part of the vegetable kingdom into a higher state –
that of the “Animal Kingdom”. True, the content of the vegetation
can be detected by scientists in the life of the animal – but it
has been TRANSFORMED indeed, and now exists on a higher plane.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Next
we human beings go to the market and purchase beef steaks. When we
have eaten what God said to Noah was now open to the human race after
the flood, we transform the animal by digestion into a yet higher
state – the Human Kingdom. Conversion has been active in each of
these three stages.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">But
– wonder of wonders – in the wisdom and foreplanning of God,
through Jesus Christ, He reaches down and accomplished the fourth and
greatest phase of transformation and conversion. Through the atoning
work of Jesus Christ we by identification receive justification by
our faith, all by grace. Then we freely and boldly come to the
Father, who grants us “forgiveness” of our sins – at the very
place Jesus brought His blood as our Great High Priest after the
order of Melchizedek – after His death, burial and first Ascension.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Christ
Jesus then tells us that except we eat of His flesh (the Word) and
drink of His blood (the Spirit); we have no life (</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Z</b></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><b>O</b></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>-</b></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><b>e</b></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">)
in us. But then the Spirit through Paul bids us offer our bodies a
LIVING SACRIFICE to God, which is our spiritual and Levitical service
to God. Through this He receives us into Himself, and we enter into a
life of the Kingdom of God – more complete, revolutionary and
transforming than any of the 3 preceding conversions.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Are
we INDEED in Him and He in us? Are we truly one with God as Jesus is
in the Father, and the Father in the Son? Don’t too quickly claim
such an extraordinary transformation – unless the fruit of it bears
witness to the truth of such an experience. All of this is wrought by
“grace” through faith – not of works, lest any man should
boast.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">God
initiated this. Previously He foreknew, and foreordained it. George
Muller at one time said such teaching was of the pit and the devil –
but when challenged to look into the New Testament thoroughly, found
that 4 times to one the Scriptures corroborated what he had been
condemning. He acknowledged that there was a danger in this position
if held only in the head and mind – but if it through prayer and
meditation came into the heart – then it became a powerful
incentive to holy living.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">CONVERSION!
CONVERSION! Have we entered into God’s thinking on this marvelous
transformation? If we have – then all the promises of God, become
through us a possibility of attainment! Jim Watt</font></p>
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