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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">September 12, 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 face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>MAY
16 - 1 PETER 1:3-2:10 - THE LIVING HOPE</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>1.
1:3 (1:3-5) JESUS’ RESURRECTION: BASIS OF OUR HOPE. <font size="3">“Blessed
the God and Father of our :Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his
great :mercy begot us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
dead” (NNT). </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">And
what is our hope? that just as </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Lord Jesus, are the firstfruit of the dead, now in Your Father’s
Glory; so we in </span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your</span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
time Father, shall be one with </span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Him</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
It is almost inconceivable - but we accept it by faith! </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
1:8-9 (1:6-9) JESUS OUR JOY: OBTAINED BY FAITH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Whom
not seeing you love; on whom, though now you see him not, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">yet</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and glorified: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">9
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">receiving
the end of the faith, salvation of souls.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">By
Your Spirit Father, we are able to endure in this life, until eternal
life is manifested in its fullness! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
1:12 (1:10-12) JESUS’ SALVATION: REVEALED BY SPIRIT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“To
whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, did they
minister </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
very </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
which now have been announced to you through them that preached </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
gospel to you by </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
angels desire to look into.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
privileged we are to be chosen by Your Father: for this privilege,
all of grace. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
1:15-16 (1:13-21, </span><span style="text-decoration:none">LEV
11:44; 19:2; 20:7) JESUS’ REDEMPTION: BASED ON HIS BLOOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
like as he who called you is holy, become YOU also holy in </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">your</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
whole behavior; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">16
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">because
it is written [that], You shall be holy, because I </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">am</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
holy.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">And
what should our response be unto You Father, in the light of our high
calling in Christ? </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Holiness</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
unto You, O great Jehovah Father! O forgive us that we so often fail
to apprehend the Glory of our high calling in Your Son, and
spontaneously offer our bodies daily as living sacrifices! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
1:23 (1:22-25) GOD’S WORD: INSTRUMENTAL IN SPIRITUAL BIRTH!
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Begotten
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, </span></font><font size="3"><u>through
God’s word</u></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
which lives and abides.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Love
of our brothers: our appropriate response for this supernatural birth
through Your incorruptible </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Word</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Father! Show us that You and Your Word are </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">One</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
Show us that You and Christ are </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">One</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And forgive
us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
2:2-3 (2:1-5) JESUS HIMSELF: FOUNDATION FOR GOD’S HOUSE! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“As
newborn babes, long for the reasonable guileless milk, that you may
grow thereby unto salvation: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">3
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">if you
have tasted that the Lord is good!” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
we feed on Your Word Father, we feed on </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
When we feed on Him, we grow in a manner well-pleasing to </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And bring us
not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
2:9 (2:6-10) JESUS AS CORNER-STONE: FOR BLESSING OR STUMBLING.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But you
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">are</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">God’s</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
possession, so that you may show forth the excellencies of him who
called you out of darkness into his marvelous :light.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Why
are we so highly favored as Your people, Father? because we are built
upon </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
the chief Corner-stone of Your Holy Temple, Whose temple we are.
Praise fills our hearts at such a revelation! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
1:4-5 (</b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">1</span><span style="text-decoration:none">:1-5)
JESUS: HIS INHERITANCE GIFT TO US. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Unto
an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved
in </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
heavens for you, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">5
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">who by
God’s power are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be
revealed in </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
last season.” </span></font></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">This</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is the </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">fullness</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of our inheritance in Christ that You have reserved for us, Father! </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Peter
recognized that God chose him first - to introduce the Gospel to
Gentiles - through Cornelius! He makes this statement in Acts 15.
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">This</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
was the official beginning of the “One New Man” that Paul
mentions in Ephesians. Prior to Paul’s time of explanation, the
revelation was a </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">mystery</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
But as God chose Peter to officially bring the first Gentiles into
His Kingdom - so He used Paul to reveal the </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">mystery</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to the church as a whole. He also made Paul apostle of the Gentiles,
just as He made Peter the chief apostle of the Circumcision. Acts
1-12 brings forth Peter’s place in this, and Acts 13-2</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">8</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Paul’s!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Peter
with the 12 received Jesus’ 3 years of personal ministry prior to
Pentecost. Up to this time Jesus was “straitened” in His
effectiveness of teaching, for prior to the Cross and the Giving of
the Holy Spirit, the 12 apostles were unable to perceive the
significance of His Kingdom teaching. But after Pentecost, Peter
demonstrated the difference the Holy Spirit made.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Then
after Paul’s conversion recorded in Acts 9, then Jesus in the
Arabian desert unfolded to him personally the meaning of the 27
Gospel mysteries. In the OT, prophets and angels did not have clarity
of understanding in this area - but God chose Paul to have unusual
revelation in this area. In Ephesians 3:4 he confirms that believers
would be able to perceive the wisdom and understanding that God gave
him in these areas - especially concerning the “One New Man”.
This brought great joy to Gentiles - and some difficulties for Jews.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
two epistles of Peter are rich in simple and practical understanding
of the Gospel - but don’t delve into this area of unfolding the
mysteries. Peter himself had a lapse in the church of Antioch with
Barnabas - through fear of the Judaizers. Paul, because of the
extraordinary clarity of this mystery among others - was forced to
rebuke Peter before those present.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Imagine
- 14 of the 27 NT books came to us through Paul, God’s choice as
apostle to the Gentiles, and the one to clarify the OT prophetic
words of mysteries awaiting revelation until Christ’s Atoning death
at Calvary, His Resurrection, Ascension and Giving of the Holy
Spirit. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Then</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
with the conversion of Paul and his 3 year desert time with Jesus -
these things became the basis of his epistles. Peter mentioned that
these things of Paul for some - had difficulty of understanding, and
the unsteadfast wrested them to their own destruction.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">The
Key</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Meditation</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">on
the epistles of Paul along with the whole NT. The coming “Outlined
Interlinear NT” based on God’s Bible Numerics as revealed to
Russian Ivan Panin - is </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
an end in itself - but </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">a
means to an end</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
- namely - the basis for meditation on these revelation mysteries
given by the apostle Paul. Aim for an understanding of all 27 NT
mysteries! - Jim Watt</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Our
Psalm for the day: </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">136:1
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">HIS STEADFAST LOVE
ENDURES FOREVER! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Give
thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love (CHEsed)
endures forever” (ESV). </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
blessings do we enjoy? Ultimately they all redound back to You,
Father! Creation, deliverance, destruction of enemies, redemption and
provision: </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
provide them </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">All</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
good things come from </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed be
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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