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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>
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<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/" target="_blank">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">July 31, 2012</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font size="3"><b>2012-07-30
- Survey IX - REV 2-3 - OVERCOMERS: CONDITION FOR RESURRECTION</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b>1.
LOVE. aGAp<u>e</u><span style="text-decoration:none"> from
a-gaPA</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">* - 116
(320) references</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
EPHESUS, Revelation 2:1-7. A Church threate</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ne</span><span style="text-decoration:none">d
with Removal for leaving first </span><u>love</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- LOVE: The characteristic
word of Christianity.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- The Lord Jesus is the
perfect expression of love among men.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Self-will (self-pleasing)
is the negation of love to God.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Love can be known only from
the action it prompts.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
TRIBULATION. THLIpsis from THLIb</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">*
- 45 (58) references</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
SMYRNA, Revelation 2:8-11. A church in </span><u>Tribulation</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
makes overcomers.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Sufferings due to pressure
of circumstances, antagonism of persons.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- For believers, invariably
that which comes upon them from without.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Like Christ, believers
share sufferings of body and mind, Colossians 1:24.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
TEACHING. di-daCH</span><u>E</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
from diDASk</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">* - 30
(220) references</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
PERGAMUM, Revelation 2:12-17. Lowered standards through False
</span><u>Teaching</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
Emphasizes the </span><u>Authority</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
of teaching: di-da-skaLIa, the Act.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Teaching of Fornication by
Balaam came with authority.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Authority of God’s
ministries suffered from teaching of Nicolaitans.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- False teaching robs one of
his overcoming potential.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
PROPHETESS. proPH</span><u>E</u><span style="text-decoration:none">tis
from eRE</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">* - 2
(4076) references</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
THYATIRA, Revelation 2:18-29. Lowered Standards through False
</span><u>Prophetess</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- The self assumed title “of
the woman Jezebel”.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Luke 2:36 - Anna was a good
prophetess.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Lying prophets like
Jezebel, if unchecked, can destroy a church.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font size="3"><b>5. DEAD. neKROS* - 132 from 137 references</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
SARDIS, Revelation 3:1-6. A Church rebuked for </span><u>Dead</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
Orthodoxy.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
One can be Orthodox (and </span><u>dead</u><span style="text-decoration:none">)
in letter, but alive in spirit.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- James 2:26, used most
frequently of death of the body.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Ephesians 2:1, the actual
spiritual condition of unsaved men!</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Revelation 3:1, a church in
declension; a state inactive and barren.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Romans 6:11, ideal
spiritual condition of believers in regard to sin.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
FAITHFUL. piSTOS from PEIth</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">*
- 67 (711) references</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
PHILADELPHIA, Revelation 3:7-13. A Church fulfilling the Ideal:
</span><u>Faithful</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
1 Peter 1:5, Christ keeps the </span><u>faithful</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
by His power.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Used here in the Passive
sense: faithful, trustworthy, reliable.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Used of God, 1 Corinthians
1:9; of Christ, 2 Thessalonians 3:3; of the words of God, Acts 13:34;
of servants of the Lord, Matthew 24:45; of believers, Ephesians 1:1.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font size="3"><b>7. LUKEWARM. chli-aPOS* - 1 reference</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">LAODICEA, Revelation
3:14-22. A Church </span><u>Lukewarm</u><span style="text-decoration:none">:
abhorred by Christ.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Only hot or cold would
offer refreshment to the Lord.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
Wretched. taLAIp</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">-ros
from P</span><u>O</u><span style="text-decoration:none">ros* - 2
(13) references.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Wretched - a weight
hardening the spirit as blindness dims the eye.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Miserable - e-le-eiNOS from
Ele-os* - 1 (78) references.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
Poor - pt</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">CHOS* -
34 (38) references.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
Blind - tuphLOS from TUph</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">*
- 53 (61) references.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Naked - gumNOS* - 15 (24)
references.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- The above five - produce a
lukewarm condition.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><u><b>OVERCOME</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
- niKA</b></span><b><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none"> from
NIk</span><u>e</u><span style="text-decoration:none">* - 28 (34)
references</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- Believers are to be
pre-eminently victorious, Romans 8:37.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
Believers overcome the world through </span><u>faith</u><span style="text-decoration:none">,
1 John 5:4.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>- We overcome through the
blood of Christ and Word of our testimony, Revelation 12:11.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
All promises of 1 & 2 Thessalonica and the 7 Revelation churches
are for </span><u>overcomers</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">-
Thessalonians teach that </span><u>fornication</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
will rob of Christ’s </span><u>Parousia</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
I link the above “teaching” with the tribe of “Naphtali”.
And in turn I link “Naphtali” with the “Presbytery” concept
which was the first of 12 truths restored to the church in the 1948
Visitation at North Battleford, Saskatchewan. </b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(My
linkages are </span><u>not</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
“Thus says the Lord.” Feel free to work out your own linkages.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">These are like my sentence
titles in the “Outlined Interlinear NT”.)</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>The Continent of Africa has
been moving in the direction of demonstrating the “Presbytery”
concept. When Elvin Gladney and Felix Anderson visited Kenya
recently, a real break-through took place in this direction. Other
adjoining nations also took a decided interest.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Years
ago, Rees Howells and his wife spent 6 years in </span><span style="text-decoration:none">Gazaland</span><span style="text-decoration:none">,
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">near the border of
Portuguese East Africa, </span><span style="text-decoration:none">and
God gave them a promised outpouring of the Spirit that fulfilled this
expectation. 10,000 souls came to Christ in the various nations </span><span style="text-decoration:none">of
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">the </span><span style="text-decoration:none">South
Africa General Mission founded by Andrew Murray.</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
The challenging account of this appears in the biography “Rees
Howells, Intercessor” written by Norman P. Grubb in 1951.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>Only 2 of the 7 churches
addressed by Jesus in the Book of Revelation have a clear testimony,
and two have very bad testimonies. Yet - each of the 7 have
“Overcomers” in them! How encouraging!</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">The
Presbytery concept restore</span><span style="text-decoration:none">d</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
in 1948 featured or majored upon the “Laying on of Hands” and
Prophecy to set apart individuals in Christ’s body, with His
particular and unique calling on their behalf.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">However
- the Bible recounts a number of other functions th</span><span style="text-decoration:none">at</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
God uses the Presbytery for. In the Book of Ruth, Boaz through the
witness of Presbytery, solved an “Inheritance Problem”. In Acts
13:1-3 Presbytery or Eldership in the Gate of a City Church
commissioned the first missionaries - Barnabas and Saul. In Acts 15
the serious doctrinal problem of solving the “Judaizing
Controversy” of the early church was solved. In Acts 6, the
challenge of meeting the Jerusalem City Church need for 7 deacons was
met. In the beginning, 7 deacons served the </span><u>entire</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
church of Jerusalem composed of scores and hundreds of local churches
in the home. Plurality of Eldership in the beginning was on a City
Church basis, not on the basis of a local church.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">James
5 indicates </span><span style="text-decoration:none">that the
Eldership or Presbytery of a City Church could be called upon for a
“healing ministry” that was unique.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">It
might be appropriate at this point to repeat an abbreviated study on
“church”, ek-kl</span><u>e</u><span style="text-decoration:none">SIa,
114 references, referring to those called out of a former state - ek,
“from or out of” and kaLE</span><u>o</u><span style="text-decoration:none">,
to call. I did this back in 1967. “Church” appears 1x in Acts 7,
referring to Israel as the church in the Wilderness; 14x as the
church in a home, a local church, such as that of Aquila and
Priscilla; 15x as the </span><u>universal</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
church of all time, composed of Jews and Gentiles; but - </span><u>81x</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
as the </span><u>City</u><span style="text-decoration:none"> Church.
14x of this latter are contained in Revelation 2 & 3. The Holy
Spirit invariably has His writers place emphasis by number of
references upon that which </span><u>He</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
deems most important!</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">A
missionary from Brazil on one occasion told me: “Jim, your vision
for City Churches </span><span style="text-decoration:none">wi</span><span style="text-decoration:none">th
an Eldership or Presbytery functioning in their Gates - appears
Scriptural and valid. However, until </span><span style="text-decoration:none">God</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span><u>demonstrates</u><span style="text-decoration:none"> this
concept by seeing a functioning City Church and Presbyter</span><span style="text-decoration:none">y</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
restored, it won’t have too much effect. But once one such city
church and Presbytery can be demonstrated, I can guarantee bringing
leaders to visit it from some 40 countries. They will not only
observe what God demonstrates in restoration power, but they will
request bringing key leaders back home with them - to help them
reduplicate this concept in the major cities of their nations!”</span></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>Some of us in the State of
Washington, believe that God is about to make such a restoration
demonstration in one of its cities.</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">May
then we soon see a City Church composed of numbers of local churches
- moving in unity with not only </span><u>overcomers</u><span style="text-decoration:none">,
but also a functioning Eldership or Presbytery in its Gate. As Jesus
said, the gates or counsels of hell will </span><u>not</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
prevail against such a church that </span><u>He</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
builds! Jim Watt</span></b></font></p>
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