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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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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>JUL
1 - ROMANS 12:1-16:23 - PRACTICAL OUTWORKING OF JUSTIFICATION</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"><b>1.
12:1-2 (NNT) PRACTICAL SPIRITUAL SERVICE. <font size="3">“I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of :God, to present
your :bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing to God, your
spiritual service. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2 </font><font size="3">And
be not fashioned according to this :age: but be transformed by the
renewing of the mind, that you may prove what </font><font size="3"><i>is</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of :God.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Completely,
once for all, we give ourselves to You, Father. We accept our white
funeral of the </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">self
life</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
We accept renewal of mind. </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
12:3 (12:3-13:14) PRACTICAL USE OF GIFTS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
I say through the grace :given me, to every </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">man</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
that is among you, not to think more highly that </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">he</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, as :God has
dealt to each a measure of faith.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
thank You Father, for the differing gifts You give to each of us.
Your gifts are all from You of Your grace. We cannot glory in any
gift, natural or spiritual. Therefore we humbly acknowledge You as
the </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Giver</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
and You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">alone</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></b></i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
14:16-17 (14:1-15:6) PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF LOVE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Let
not then your :good be evil spoken of: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">17
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">for
the kingdom of :God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and
p</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">e</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">ace
and joy in </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.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Like
the birds of the air we receive our food from Your hand, Father!
Because idols are nothing, if it stumble not a brother, we can even
eat of this! </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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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
15:13 (15:7-13) PRACTICAL LIVING THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Now
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in :believing, that
you may abound in :hope, in power of </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.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You made Jesus the minister to the Jew first, to the circumcision.
But You have grafted us into Christ our </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">hope</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
that one day we will all be blessed together in one body! </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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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
15:14 (15:14-21) PRACTICAL MUTUAL ADMONISHMENT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brethren, that
yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all :knowledge, able
also to </span></font><font size="3"><u>admonish</u></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
one another.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is equivalent to </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">nouthetic
counseling</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
And how should we admonish one another, Father? To show to one
another that as Gentiles, Paul as minister to Gentile strove mightily
to protect us. May we perceive and walk humbly in this truth. </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"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
15:29 (15:22-33) PRACTICAL PRAYERS FOR OUTREACH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in fullness of
Christ’s blessing.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we read the heart of Paul on our behalf, as he spoke to the Romans.
What a desire! What faith! What boldness! May we too make known Your
grace to both Jew and Gentile! </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"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
16:3-5a (16:1-23) PRACTICAL GREETINGS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Salute
Prisca and Aquila my :fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">4
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">who
for my :life laid down their own :necks: whom not only I thank, but
also all the churches of the nations: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">5a
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">and
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">salute</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
the church :in their :house.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
down to earth is Your Gospel, Father! We rejoice in its simplicity
and practicality! </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"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
13:8, 10 (12:3-13:14) PRACTICAL OUTWORKING OF LOVE! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Owe
no one anything, save to love one another: for who loves the other
has fulfilled the law. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">:Love
works </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">n</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">o
ill to the neighbor: :love therefore is fulfillment of law.” </span></font></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">This</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is the heart of Your Gospel, Father! In Christ alone can we fulfill
it. We glorify You by choosing through Him, to become Your sons and
daughters in Glory! </span></span></font></font>
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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"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
next to the last section of the Book of Romans - is as the title
suggests - “The Practical Outworking of Justification.” It is
somewhat self-explanatory. Two verses however deserve extra emphasis:
14:13 concerning the “God of all Hope” - and 15:14 as it relates
to “nouthetic counseling.” Paul alone is led by the Holy Spirit
i</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">n</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
using this term - which has the thought of “</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">establishing
the mind</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">”
through counseling. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">This</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is what each believer should do with his fellow-believer. We </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
according to God - “A Kingdom of Priests”. As such then, God sees
us each one as having a responsibility to our fellow-believer. Cain
wanted to weasel out of this responsibility concerning his murder of
his brother Abel. God wouldn’t allow him to “cop out” of being
his brother’s keeper! Nor will God let any of us as spiritual
priests in His Kingdom - weasel out of helping to “establish the
mind” in the full Word of God” on behalf of each of our
fellow-believers. In Acts 20, Paul witnessed that he had not shunned
to declare the </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">whole
counsel of God</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to the Ephesian elders.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">But
today, we start over the second time this year in reading through the
book of Psalms. Spurgeon in his “Treasury of David” says that
this Psalm may be regarded as THE PREFACE PSALM, having in it a
notification of the contents of the entire Book. It is the Psalmist’s
desire to teach us the way to blessedness and to warn us of the sure
destruction of sinners. This, then, is the matter of the First Psalm,
which may be looked upon, in some respects, as the text upon which
the whole of the Psalms make up a divine sermon.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">See
also his note attached to </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Blessed
is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
He takes wiser counsel, and walks in the commandments of the Lord,
his God. To him the ways of piety are paths of peace and
pleasantness. His footsteps are ordered </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">by
the Word of God</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
and not by the cunning and wicked devices of carnal man. It is a rich
sign of inward grace when the outward walk is changed and when
ungodliness is put far from our actions!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">And
lastly under verse 2 - </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">But
his delight is in the law of the Lord.</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
“The law of the Lord” is the daily bread of the true believer.
And yet, in David’s day, how small was the volume of inspiration,
for they scarcely had anything save the first five books of Moses!
How much more, then, should we prize the whole written Word which it
is our privilege to have in all our houses! But, alas, what
ill-treatment is given to this angel from heaven! We are not all
Berean searchers of the Scriptures. How few among us can lay claim to
the benediction of the text!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">If
the above 3 paragraphs by Spurgeon bless you as they do me - then you
will be glad to know that Spurgeon’s original 7 volume Treasury of
David - has been abridged by </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">David
Otis Fuller and published by Zondervan, and is available in 2
volumes! It is an </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">excellent</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
bargain, and I have profited much by its purchase. I can heartily
recommend it to each one of you reading this. - Jim Watt</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 1:3 (1, ESV) THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE
WICKED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“He
is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in
its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he
prospers.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Blessed
be David Father, who so clearly perceived the basic nature of Your
Word behind all other blessings! Give us a heart like him, a man
after Your own heart. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></b></font></font>
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