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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
14 - ISAIAH 28-33 - SIX “WOES” UPON JERUSALEM</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.
28:11-12 (28, ESV) WOE TO EPHRAIM AND JUDAH. <font size="3">“For
by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will
speak to this people, </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">12
</font><font size="3">to who he has said, ‘This is my rest to the
weary; and this is repose’; yet they would not hear.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">The
Babylonian tongue, had it been submitted to, wo</span><span style="font-weight:normal">u</span><span style="font-weight:normal">ld
have brought rest to Judah for 70 years. The Pentecostal tongues
brought </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">rest</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to those submitting to God’s Holy Spirit. </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.
29:14 (29) WOE TO JERUSALEM AND LEBANON. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Therefore,
behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with
wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
Your will be done in us according to Your Word: not our humanistic
reasonings whereby we deify the human mind as God! </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.
30:15 (30</span><span style="text-decoration:none">-31</span><span style="text-decoration:none">)
WOE TO EGYPTIAN PARTY: CAPTIVITY TURNED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning and
rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your
strength.’ But you were unwilling.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Our
way Father, is to trust in man before You. We repent of our
man-trust, and return to You with God-trust! </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.
30:21 (30</span><span style="text-decoration:none">-31</span><span style="text-decoration:none">)
WOE TO EGYPTIAN PARTY: REPRIEVE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way,
walk in it,’ when you turn to the right or when you turn to the
left.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Egypt
will not help us! The wisdom of the world is a mirage! We repent of
our proneness to trust in any but You, Father! We hear Your voice and
follow. </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.
32:17 (32) MESSIANIC JUDGMENT AND MERCY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of
righteousness, quietness and trust forever.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
how You love to make peace and joy flow from righteousness (Romans
14:17). Yes, in the last days You shall work a work to make our ears
tingle. You will open the book and unseal its words! </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.
33:6 (33:1-12) WOE TO ANTICHRIST. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation,
wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.”</span></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">O
teach us this truth, Father! By Your Spirit write it deeply upon our
heart. In the midst of chaos and confusion, You will keep us secure
in the eye of the storm. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And
bring us not into temptation!</b></span></i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>7.
33:22 (33:13-24) REIGN OF MESSIAH. </b></span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>“For
the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our
king; he will save us.” </b></span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">Yes
Father, we assent to this word! We embrace it, and by doing so
embrace You! In You we </span><u>more</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
than conquer! </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>But
deliver us from the evil </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>one!</b></span></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>:
28:17-18b (28) A CORNERSTONE IN ZION! </b></span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>“And
I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and
hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm
the shelter.” </b></span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>18a
</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Then
your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with
Sheol will not stand.” </b></span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">Father,
you have started to lay the plumb line against the lie and falsehood.
What You have commenced, You </span><u>will</u><span style="text-decoration:none">
complete! </span></font></font>
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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: 14:7 (14) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">THE
FOOL SAYS, THERE IS NO GOD! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Oh,
that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD
restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be
glad.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Weeping
may endure for a night, but </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">joy</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
comes in the morning. After judgment - You O Father, send </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">mercy</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
You only correct in measure! </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">As
no distinguishing title is given to this Psalm, we would suggest as
an assistance to the memory, the heading “Concerning Practical
Atheism.”</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">14:1
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The fool. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
atheist is the fool preeminently and a fool universally. He would
not deny God if her were not a fool by nature, and having denied God
it is no marvel that he becomes a fool in practice. Sin is aways
folly, and as it is the height of sin to attack the very existence of
the Most High, so is it also the greatest imaginable folly. On</span><span style="text-decoration:none">e</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
fool makes hundreds, and a noisy blasphemer spreads his horrible
doctrines as lepers spread the plague. Ainsworth, in his
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Ann</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">o</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">tations,
</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">tells us that the word
here used is </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Nabal</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">,
which has the significance of fading, dying, or falling away, as a
withered leaf or flower; it is a title given to the foolish man as
have lost the juice and sap of wisdom, reason, honesty, and
godliness. Trapp hits the mark when he call hi</span><span style="text-decoration:none">m</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
“that sapless fellow, that carcass of a man, that walking sepulcher
of himself, in whom all religion and right reason is withered and
wasted, dried up and decayed.” Some translate it the </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">apostate</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">,
and others </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the wretch</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">.
With what earnestness we should shun the appearance of doubt as to
the presence, activity, power, and love of God, for all such mistrust
is of the nature of folly, and who among us would wish to be ranked
with the fool in the texts? Yet let us not forget that </span><u>all
unregenerate men are more or less such fools</u><span style="text-decoration:none">!</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">14:3
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>They are altogether
become filthy</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">.
The only reason why we do not more clearly see this foulness is
because we are accustomed to it, just as those who work daily among
offensive odors at last cease to smell them! </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>There
is none that does good, no, not one.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
The </span><span style="text-decoration:none">H</span><span style="text-decoration:none">oly
Spirit is not content with saying all and altogether, but adds the
crushing threefold negative, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>none,
no, not one</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">14:4
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Who eat up my
people as they eat bread.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
As pikes in a pond eat up little fish, as eagles prey on smaller
birds, as wolves rend the sheep of the pasture, so sinners naturally
and as a matter of course, persecute, malign, and mock the followers
of the Lord Jesus.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">14:7
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Oh that the
salvation were come out of Zion! when the Lord brings back the
captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be
glad. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Natural
enough is this closing prayer, for what would so effectually convince
atheists, overthrow persecutors, stay sin, and secure the godly, as
the manifest appearance of Israel’s great salvation? The coming of
Messiah was the desire of the godly in all ages, and though He has
already come with a sin-offering to purge away iniquity, we look for
Him to come a second time, to come without a sin-offering unto
salvation. - (From “The Treasuries of David” by C.H. Spurgeon,
Abridged by David Otis Fuller.)</span></font></font></p>
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