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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">December 17, 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
26 - 1 CORINTHIANS 5-7 - MORAL AND ETHICAL JUDGMENTS</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.
5:7-8b (5, NNT) FORNICATION: RULES FOR BELIEVER AND UNBELIEVER.
<font size="3">“Purge out the old leaven, that you be a new lump,
even as you are unleavened. For our :passover also has been
sacrificed, Christ: </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">8a-b
</font><font size="3">wherefore let us keep festival with unleavened
</font><font size="3"><i>bread</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
of sincerity and truth.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">No
mixture Father, no mixture! This is Your will for us. Body, soul and
spirit - holy and blameless before You! This is Your desire!
</span></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"><b>2.
6:7-8 (6:1-11) LAWSUITS: RULES FOR BELIEVERS. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">No,
already it is altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one
with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">8</font><font size="3"> But
YOU wrong a</font><font size="3">nd</font><font size="3"> defraud, and
that brethren.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we thank You that </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">we can
</span></u><u><span style="font-weight:normal">d</span></u><u><span style="font-weight:normal">o
your will in this respect</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
We thank Your for agencies to help us in this respect. </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.
6:18 (6:12-20) FORNICATION: SIN AGAINST THE BODY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Flee
fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but who
commits fornication sins against </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">his</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
:own body. </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You have written Your laws into our bodies. Whatever a man sows, that
shall he also reap. Homosexual perversion is reaping </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Aids</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
We choose to reject unscriptural seduction, and walk in ways of
righteousness. </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.
7:7 (7:1-7) MARRIAGE: GOD’S PROVISION AGAINST FORNICATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Yet
I would all men were even as I myself. But each has </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">his</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
:own gift from God, one this </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">wise</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
and another thus </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">wise</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
thank You,</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
for those able and willing to be eunuchs for Your Kingdom’s sake.
We thank You for the example of Paul. But we thank You that he did
not legally shut us all up to the same rule! Required priestly
celibacy breaks God’s provision. Forgive us for legally forcing our
personal standards on one another! </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.
7:14 (7:8-16) SEPARATION: RULE WHEN INITIATED BY AN UNBELIEVER.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
the unbelieving :husband is sanctified in the wife, and the
unbelieving :wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your
:children unclean; but now are they holy.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
wisdom in words! What comfort! We bless You Father, for Your words of
wisdom through the apostle Paul. Help us to be just as wise and
loving in applying these truths. </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.
7:17 (7:17-24) PRINCIPLE: ABIDE IN STATE IN WHICH CALLED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Only,
as the Lord has distributed to each, as :God has called each, thus
let him walk. And thus I ordain in all the churches.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Whether
married or unmarried; circumcised or uncircumcised; slave or free:
You Father, tell us to remain at the stage into which we come into
Your Kingdom. Our state does </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">not</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
hinder our walk with You. </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.
7:25 (7:25-40) GIFT OF SINGLENESS: ITS ADVANTAGE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Now
concerning the virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give
judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord, to be
faithful.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
an amazing revelation! Almost everything Paul wrote is </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Your</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Word to us, Father, through Jesus Christ! And even the advantage of
the Gift of Singleness is most likely Your will. </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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<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><u>NOTE</u><span style="text-decoration:none">:
6:19-20 (6:12-20) OUR BODIES’ RELATIONSHIP TO HOLY SPIRIT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Or
do you not know that your :body is a sanctuary 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 who </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">is</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">20
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">for
you were bought with a price: glorify :God therefore in your :body.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
thank You Father, that we have no right over our bodies. They are
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Yours</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to be lived in holy and righteous fashion. We are </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">stewards</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of our body, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">answerable</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to You! </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Burn</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
this truth upon our heart!</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: 26:8 (26, ESV) I WILL BLESS THE LORD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“O
LORD, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your
glory dwells.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
House, Your Name, Your Honor, Your Spirit, Your Kingdom: for all
these and more Father, we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow
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">How
to Choose a Church: Quote by Charles H. Spurgeon - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“I
would recommend you to choose the church of which you would be a
member and the pastor whom you would hear by this one thing - by how
much of Christ there is in that church and how much of the savor of
Christ there is in that ministry.</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></b></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Psalm
26 Title: “A Psalm of David.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
sweet singer of Israel is before us in this Psalm as one enduring
reproach; in this he was the type of the great Son of David and is an
encouraging example to us to carry the burden of slander to the
throne of grace. It is an ingenious surmise that this appeal to
heaven was written by David at the the time of the assassination of
Ish-bosheth by Baanah and Rechab to protest his innocence of all
participation in the treacherous murder. The tenor of the Psalm
certainly agrees with the supposed occasion, but it is not possible
with such a slender clue to go beyond conjecture.</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">26:1
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For I have
walked in my integrity. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
held integrity as his principle and walked in it as his practice.
David had not used any traitorous or unrighteous means to gain the
crown or to keep it; he was conscious of having been guided by the
noblest principles of honor in all his actions with regard to Saul
and his family.</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">What
a comfort it is to have the approbation of one’s own conscience! If
there be peace within the soul, the blustering storms of slander
which howl around us are of little consideration. When the little
bird in my bosom sings a merry song it is no matter to me if a
thousand owls hoot at me from without!</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">26:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I have not
sat with vain persons. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">So
far from being himself an open offender against the laws of God, the
Psalmist had not even associated with the lovers of evil. He had kept
aloof from the men of Belial. A man is known by his company, and if
we have kept ourselves apart from the wicked, it will always be
evidence in our favor should our character be impugned. He who was
never in the parish is not likely to have stolen the corn. He who
never went to sea is clearly not the man who scuttled the ship. </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">24:7.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And tell of
all Your wondrous works. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">God’s
people should not be tongue-tied. The wonders of divine grace are
enough to make the tongue of the dumb sing. God’s works of love are
wondrous if we consider the unworthiness of their objects, the
costliness of their method, and the glory of their result. And as men
find great pleasure in discoursing upon things remarkable and
astonishing, so the saints rejoice to tell of the great things which
the Lord has done for them.</span></span></font></font></p>
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