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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">November 19, 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"><b>JUL
4 - PROVERBS 8-9 - WISDOM’S CALL</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.
8:7 (8:1-11, ESV) WISDOM’S APPEA<font size="3">L. “For my mouth
will utter truth; wickedness i</font><font size="3">s </font><font size="3">a</font><font size="3">n
</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">abom</font><font size="3">ination
to my lips.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You are the God of truth! Jesus, You </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the Truth. Lawlessness and rebellion have no part in You, nor in Your
servants. As King, Lord Jesus, burn out of our hearts by Your baptism
of fire, the last root of rebellion. </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.
8:13 (8:12-21) WISDOM AND ITS EXCELLENCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way
of evil and perverted speech I hate.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Burn
these truths, O Lord, into our heart. Impart unto us Your Divine
Nature by Your great and exceeding precious promises. Yes, Lord; we
will say “Yes” to You. We release You completely to take over our
lives (Romans 12:1-2; Mark 8:34). </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</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">3.
8:30 (8:22-31) WISDOM: ITS ETERNITY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Then
I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Lord
Jesus, we see You in Your pre</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">-</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">incarnate
state with the Father. “Before Abraham was, I AM!” O Father, how
can we doubt Your daily provision when we are in You, and Christ is
in us? W</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ith</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
contrite heart, we loose You in completeness to have Your way in us.
</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.
8:35 (8:32-36) WISDOM: AN EXHORTATION TO HEED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Life
for our spirit in the new birth; life for us now in our souls; life
in fullness in our body at the resurrection: past, present and
future, for all Your mature sons and daughters. This humbles us -
first realizing we must deliberately, voluntarily, sacrificially and
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">joyfully</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
grant forgiveness to all. </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.
9:1-2 (9:1-6) WISDOM’S INVITATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Wisdom
has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">She
has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set
her table.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">And
what O Jehovah, are wisdom’s 7 pillars, her foundations? Surely the
foundations, the first principles, the milk of Hebrews 6:1-2:
repentance, faith, baptisms, laying on hands, resurrection, judgment
- and on to maturity. No house can be built without these 7
foundational pillars. And who builds us upon these? The ministries of
Ephesians 4:11-12 adjust (ka-tarTIz</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">o</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">)
us and mature us unto the functioning of our respective ministries.
Now we are equipped, and have on the armor of our Lord Jesus to face
testing! </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.
9:10 (9:7-12) WISDOM’S PROOF AND DEFINITION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the
Holy One is insight.” </span></font></b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
grant to each of Your children wisdom and understanding in abundance.
The</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">y</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are already in us in Christ! We loose them into fullness and
maturity! Come, Lord Jesus, increase while we decrease. By this, a
hedge of thorns is about us like Job. </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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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
9:18 (9:13-18) THE FOOLISH WOMAN’S INVITATION: WISDOM’S
OPPOSITE! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the
depths of Sheol.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Adultery
and fornication give entrance to Satanic spirits. They are doorways
to the spirit of hell. </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">B</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">y
them we sin against our own body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Father, save us from such presumptuous sin. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the </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>:
</b></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
important these two chapters! Let us receive You in Your fullness,
Lord Jesus, God’s incarnate Wisdom. We release You within ourselves
in fullness as our wisdom, made such unto us by God (1 Corinthians
1:30). How precious is Your Word; and 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">!
(John 1:1).</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>Our
Psalm for the day: 4:8 (4) ANSWER ME WHEN I CALL. <font size="3">“In
peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me
dwell in safety.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Jehovah Father, our everlasting Covenant God, we learn continually to
lean harder upon You. Let us lean harder on You, Jesus; Yes harder,
Lord, each day. Then lost in Your great love, praise wells up
unbidden from our hearts. For You instruct us with dreams in the
night season. </span><b><i>Hallowed be your :name!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">If
the Third Psalm may be entitled The Morning Psalm, this from its
matter is equally deserving of the title of “The Evening Hymn.”
In the first verse, David pleads with God for help. In the second, he
expostulates with his enemies, and continues to address them to the
end of verse 5. Then from verse 6 to the close, he delightfully
contrasts his own satisfaction and safety with the disquietude of the
ungodly in their best estate. C. H. S.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">4:3
<i>The Lord has set apart him that is godly for Himself.</i> David
was king by Divine decree, and we are the Lord’s people in the same
manner; let us tell our enemies to their faces that they fight
against God and destiny when they strive to overthrow our souls. C.
H. S.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">4:4
</span></span></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Commune
with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.</span></span></i></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
“Tremble and sin not.” How many reverse this counsel and sin but
tremble not. Oh that men would take the advice of this verse and
</span></span></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">commune
with their own hearts. </span></span></i></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">C.
H. S.</span></span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">4:7
<i>You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that
their corn and their wine increased.</i> “It is better,” said
one, “to feel God’s favor one hour in our repenting souls than to
sit whole ages under the warmest sunshine that this world affords.”
Christ in the heart is better than corn in the barn or wine in the
vat. Corn and wine are but fruits of the world, but the light of
God’s countenance is the ripe fruit of heaven. Let my granary be
empty, I am yet full of blessings if Jesus Christ smiles upon me; but
if I have all the world, I am poor without him.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">This
verse is the saying of the righteous man in opposition to the saying
of the many. How quickly does the tongue betray the character!
“Speak, that I may see you!” said Socrates to a fair boy. The
metal of a bell is best known by its sound. Birds reveal their nature
by their song. C. H. S.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">4:8
<i>I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for You, Lord, only
makes me dwell in safety</i>. A quiet conscience is a good bedfellow.
How many of our sleepless hours might be traced to our untrusting and
disordered minds! They slumber sweetly whom faith rocks to sleep. No
pillow so soft as a promise; no coverlet so warm as an assured
interest in Christ. C. H. Spurgeon - from “The Treasury of David”,
abridgment - by David Otis Fuller</font></font></p>
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