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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
29 - 1 CORINTHIANS 15 - RESURRECTION UNDERSTANDING</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.
15:3-5a (15:1-11, NNT) RESURRECTION: A BASIC TO THE GOSPEL. <font size="3">“For
I delivered to you among first </font><font size="3"><i>things</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
what also I received: that Christ died for our :sins according to the
scriptures; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="font-style:normal">4
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">and that
he was buried; and that he has been raised on the third: day
according to the scriptures; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="font-style:normal">5a
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">and that
he was seen of Cephas; then of the twelve; thereupon was seen of
above five hundred brethren at once. </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You were in Christ reconciling the world to Yourself. You planned
this whole plan of Redemption. Christ willingly and joyfully
fulfilled Your will! </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.
15:19 (15:12-19) RESURRECTION: IMPORTANCE AS IT RELATES TO FAITH.
<font size="3">“If we have in this :life only hoped in Christ, we are
of all men rather pitiable.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Your</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
estimate of this life and the next, Father! The next is far better!
Paul by the Spirit said so. We declare this as truth, and proclaim it
as so. </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.
15:21-22 (15:20-28) RESURRECTION: IMPORTANCE OF CHRIST RISING
FIRST! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
since by man </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">is</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
death, by man </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">is</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
also resurrection of </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
dead. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">22
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For as
in :Adam all die, so also in the Christ shall all be made alive.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
rejoice Father, in </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
Lord Jesus, we rejoice in </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">ou!
O Your Majesty, in all You have done for us in Christ, Father! </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.
15:33-34 (15:29-34) RESURRECTION: SERIOUSNESS OF FALSE TEACHING ON
THIS SUBJECT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Be
not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">34
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Awake
to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of
God: I speak to shame you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Forgive
us Father in Jesus’ Name, for so often living on such a low,
darkened, self-deceived plan</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">!
We shake off our lethargy, and rise up as men and women of God! </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.
15:45 (15:35-49) RESURRECTION: UNDERSTOOD THROUGH NATURAL AND
SPIRITUAL ORDER. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“So
also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last
Adam a life-giving spirit.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Hallelujah!
Yes Father, we are quickened by You in Christ by Your Spirit, because
of the marvelous new state of Jesus in His Resurrection! Let us fully
assimilate the fullness of the revelation of 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.
15:57 (15:50-57) RESURRECTION: ITS ORDER AND VICTORY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
thanks be to :God, who gives us the victory through our :Lord Jesus
Christ.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Death
is overcome! Sin is overcome! The old law of commandments through
flesh is overcome! You have made us more than conquerors Father,
through Christ! Hallelujah! All praise be unto You, Jehovah Father!
</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.
15:58. RESURRECTION: ITS PRACTACAL RESULTS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Wherefore,
my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the
work of the Lord, knowing that your :toil is not vain in </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Lord.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, the hope of the resurrection enables us to fulfill this. We
were resurrected in the spirit. Our soul is in the process of
resurrection renewal. Our body </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">will
be</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
like Jesus’ glorious Resurrection body! </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>:
15:28 (15:20-28). RESURRECTION: ITS ULTIMATE COMPLETION! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
when all the </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
have been subjected to hi</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">m</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
t</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">hen
also the Son shall himself be subjected to him that did subject all
the </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
to him, that :God be all in all.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we receive this summation! Jesus has! We do!</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: 29:11 (29, ESV) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">ASCRIBE
TO THE LORD GLORY! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“May
the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people
with peace!” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
This is the day </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
have made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Lord Jesus, we invite
You in Your Resurrection life to </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">reign
in us</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
Father, we see You in Christ reconciling the world to Yourself.
</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">C.
H. Spurgeon Quotes: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Whether
you are Calvinists, or Arminians, or anything else, dear friends, be
first and chiefly Christians - Christians - following Christ,
receiving him as the great Expositor to you of God, and of the great
truths of revelation. You will tell me you have your “bodies of
divinity;” there never was but one “body of divinity,” and that
was the “body” of man, Christ Jesus; do you, abating all
prejudices and self-formed opinions, receive our Lord as the
embodiment of truth!</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">Psalm
29. </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
Psalm is meant to express the glory of God as heard in the pealing
thunder. The verses march to the tune of thunderbolts. True ministers
are sons of thunder, and the voice of God in Christ Jesus is full of
majesty. Thus we have God’s works and God’s Word joined together!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">29:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Give unto the Lord.
</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Neither man nor
angels can confer anything upon Jehovah, but they should recognize
His glory and might. Natural causes, as men call them, are God in
action, and we must not ascribe power to them.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">29:2.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Give unto the Lord
the glory due unto His Name. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">A
third time the admonition is given, for men are backward in
glorifying God, and especially great men. Unbelief and distrust,
complaining and murmuring, rob God of His honor.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">29:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The glory of God
thunders. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Thunder
is in truth no mere electric phenomenon but is caused by the
interposition of God Himself. Electricity of itself can do nothing;
it must be called and sent upon its errand: and until the Almighty
Lord commissions it, its bolt of fire is inert and powerless. As well
might a rock of granite or a bar of iron fly in the midst of heaven
as the lightning go without being sent by the Great First Cause.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">29:4.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The voice of the
Lord is powerful. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">As
the voice of God in nature is so powerful, so is it in grace; the
reader will do well to draw a parallel, and he will find much in the
Gospel which may be illustrated by the thunder of the Lord in the
tempest. See that you refuse not Him that speaks. If His voice be
thus mighty, what must His hand be!</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">29:9.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The voice of the
Lord makes the hinds to calve. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
first parents sought a refuge among the trees but the voice of the
Lord soon found them out and made their hearts to tremble. The gospel
has a like revealing power in dark hearts and bids the soul tremble
before the Lord.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">29:11.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Lord will give
strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.
</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Power was
displayed in the hurricane whose course this Psalm so grandly
pictures; in the cool calm after the storm, that power is promised to
be the strength of the chosen. </span><span style="text-decoration:none">(</span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, Abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span></font></font></p>
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