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<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
27 - 1 CORINTHIANS 8-11 - 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.
8:1b-2 (8, NNT) IDOL OFFERINGS. “:Knowledge puffs up, but :love
builds up. <font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2 </font><font size="3">If
any thinks he knows anything, he knows not yet as he ought to know.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Love O Father, is the
key Kingdom principle. We can love You with all of our heart, mind
and strength, and then do what we </span><span style="font-weight:normal">please</span><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</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.
9:26-27 (9) APOSTOLIC PRIVILEGES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. <font size="3">“I
accordingly so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I as not beating
air; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">27 </font><font size="3">but
I bruise my :body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means,
after that I have preached to others, I myself should be
disapproved.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Holiness
as a wave, precedes the wave o</span><span style="font-weight:normal">f
Your Kingdom, Father. May we balance the gifts of the Spirit with the
the </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">fruit</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of the Spirit. </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><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
10:11 (10:1-13) OLD COVENANT WARNINGS. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Now
these happened to them as a figure; and were written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.”</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"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we would profit by the warning-examples of Israel. May we not become
high-minded and careless. We would be holy as </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are holy. </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>4.
10:20 (10:14-22) IDOLATRY AND THE EUCHARIST. <font size="3">“But </font><font size="3"><i>I
say, </i></font><font size="3">that the </font><font size="3"><i>things</i></font><font size="3">
which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to
God: and I would not that you should have communion with demons.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Thank You Father, that
You hate </span><i><span style="font-weight:normal">mixtures</span></i><span style="font-weight:normal">.
A pure walk honors You. </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="font-weight:normal">
lead us in the paths of righteousness, for Your Name’s sake!
Forgive us for succumbing to satanic, occult, and new age compromise.
Make us like Hezekiah and Josiah </span><span style="font-weight:normal">-</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
to purge d</span><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span><span style="font-weight:normal">monism
out of the land. </span><b><i>Our :daily bread Give us this day.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
10:32-11:1 (10:23-11:1) LIBERTY AND CONSCIENCE. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Give
no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the
church of :God: </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">33 </font><font size="3">even
as I also please all in all </font><font size="3"><i>things, </i></font><font size="3">not
seeking my own :profit, but that of the many, that they be saved.
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">11:1 </font><font size="3">Become
imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we would walk in the </span><i><span style="font-weight:normal">law
of love</span></i><span style="font-weight:normal"> toward all men,
and so fulfill the ethical and moral law! </span><b><i>And forgive
us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
11:3 (11:2-16) HEADSHIP. <font size="3">“But I would have you
know, that the head of every man is :Christ; and </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3">
head of woman is the man; and </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3">
head of the Christ is :God. </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
help us to see Your divinely appointed order. Thank You for godly
women who see the breaking of Your order by extreme women-libbers and
brazen sexual perversion. </span><b><i>And bring us not into
temptation.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>7.
11:27, 29 (11:17-34) LORD’S SUPPER AND WORTHINESS. <font size="3">“So
that whoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">29
</font><font size="3">For who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment
to himself, if he discern not the body.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we see the </span><span style="font-weight:normal">A</span><span style="font-weight:normal">toning
body of our Lord set forth on the cross; we see also His
many-membered spiritual body, of which we are all a part! </span><b><i>But
deliver us from the evil </i>one!</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>:
10:13 (10:1-13) GOD’S FAITHFULNESS IN OUR TEMPTATIONS! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Only
human temptation has </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">over</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">taken
you: but :God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that you are able; but will with the temptation make also the
way out, that you be able to endure </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">it</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yield
not to temptation, For </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">yielding</span></u><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">is
sin; Each victory will help you, some other to win. Fight manfully
onward, Dark passions subdue; Ask the Savior to help you; </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">He</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
will carry you through.</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: 27:13 (27, </span><span style="text-decoration:none">ESV</span><span style="text-decoration:none">)
THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“I
believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land
of the living! </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Jehovah
Father, You are our light and salvation; we will not fear, for </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are the strength of our life! You look after the orphan and the
widow. You give strength as we wait patiently on You. </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">Quotes
from C.H. Spurgeon: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“We
can never understand how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit can be three
and yet one. For my part, I have long ago given up any desire to
understand this great mystery, for I am perfectly satisfied that, if
I could understand it, it would not be true, because God, from the
very nature of things, must be incomprehensible.” and “It
is an odd product of our unhealthy nature - the fear to believe. Yet
have I met with it often: so often that I wish I may never see it
again. It looks like humility, and tries to pass itself off as the
very soul of modesty, and yet i</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">t</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is an infamously proud thing: in fact, it is presumption playing the
hypocrite. If men were afraid to disbelieve, there would be good
sense in the fear: but to be afraid to trust their God is at b</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">st
an absurdity, and in very deed it is a deceitful way of refusing to
the Lord the honor that is due to his faithfulness and truth.”</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">This
Psalm may with profit be read in a threefold way: as the language of
David, of the church, and of the Lord Jesus. The plenitude of
Scripture will thus appear the more wonderful.</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">27:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The Lord is
my light and my salvation.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Where there is not enough light to see our own darkness and to long
for the the Lord Jesus, there is no evidence of salvation. Salvation
finds us in the dark, but does not leave us there. It is not said
merely that the Lord gives light, but that he “is” light; not
that He gives salvation, but that He “is” salvation! </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">27:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">When the
wicked</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
It is a hopeful sign for us when the wicked hate us; if our foes
were godly men it would be a sore sorrow, but as for the wicked,
their hatred is better than their love.</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">27:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">To behold
the beauty of the Lord.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
We must not enter the assemblies of the saints in order to see and
be seen or merely to hear the minister. Better far - behold it by
faith! What a sight will that be when every faithful follower of
Jesus shall behold “the King in His beauty!” Oh, for the
infinitely blessed vision!</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">27:8.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">When You
said, Seek you My face; my heart said unto You, Your face, Lord, will
I seek</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Oh, for more of this holy readiness! Would to God that we were more
plastic to the Divine hand, more sensitive of the touch of God’s
Spirit.</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">27:12.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For false
witnesses are risen up against me. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Slander
is an old-fashioned weapon out of the armory of hell and is still in
plentiful use; and no matter how holy a man may be, there will be
some who will defame him. It is their vital breath to hate the good.</span></span></font></font></p>
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