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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
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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>AUG
2 - JEREMIAH 13-20 - FIVE MORE GENERAL UNDATED PROPHECIES</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.
13:8-9 (13, ESV) SIGN OF THE LINEN GIRDLE. <font size="3">Then the
word of the LORD came unto me: “Thus says the LORD; Even so will I
spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Kingdom Father, demand</span><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Your</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Rulership! O let us not be marred like Judah because we reject Your
Kingship! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name.</span></i></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><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
15:1a; 16a (14-15) MESSAGE ON THE DROUGHT. Then the LORD said to
me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my hear</span><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
would not turn toward this people. </span><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">16a
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy
and the delight of my heart.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Those
who reject Your Word and yet think themselves righteous are
hypocrites! Father, Your will be done in us as we rejoice in Your
Word to do and live it! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></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><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
16:1-2 (16) SIGN OF THE UNMARRIED PROPHET. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
word of the LORD came to me: </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">“You
shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this
place.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You look after us by Your Word. As You looked after Jeremiah and
protected him from coming judgment, so You for us today meet our
needs! </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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<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><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
17:5-6 (17) JEREMIAH: HIS PRAYER AND ANSWER. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Thus
says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh
his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">6
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">He is
like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall
dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt
land.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">But
see 17:7-8 for a contrast! </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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<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><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
18:1-2 (18) SIGN OF THE POTTER’S HOUSE: FURTHER PERSECUTION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: </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">“Arise,
and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my
words.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Unnecessary
testings will not come our way, if only we will pay heed to Your
Words O Jehovah Father, to do them. </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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<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><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
19:15 (19) SIGN OF THE POTTER’S BOTTLE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Thus
says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon
this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have
pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck,
refusing to hear my words.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">A
hedge against the evil one is there when we walk in Your Word, O
Father; but judgment come</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
from You when we turn from Your ways. </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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<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><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
20:9 (20) JEREMIAH’S COMPLAINT. </span><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">If
I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,”
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones,
and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Word O Father, prevails above </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
our troubles! </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"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
15:19 (14-15) JEREMIAH: RECEIVES AN INSIGHTFUL WORD! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Therefore
thus says the LORD: “If you return, I will restore you, and you
shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is
worthless, </span></font><u><font size="3">you shall be as my mouth</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
day O Father, You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">and</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Your Word - are pre-eminent for us!</span></span></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><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 32:5 (32) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">BLESSED
ARE THE FORGIVEN. </span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">I
acknowledge my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said,
“I </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">w</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">ill
confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the
iniquity of my sin. </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Selah
</span></i></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, we will praise You for the </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Atoning
Work</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of Christ. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">This</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is the basis and ground for all forgiveness. No wonder we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow
Your :name!</span></i></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><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: </span></b><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
fact is, brethren, there is a predestination, and the doctrines of
election and effectual grace are true, nor may we deny them; but yet
the Lord deals with men as responsible beings, and bids them “strive
to enter in at the strait gate,” and to “lay hold on eternal
life.” Such exhortations are evidently intended for free agents,
and indicate that our salvation requires energetic action. (One
preacher said: “I just go ahead and believe, as if </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
depended upon the Lord; and I just go ahead and work, as if </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
depended upon me!)</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
32 - Title: “A Psalm of David, Maschil.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">That
David wrote this gloriously evangelic Psalm is proved not only by
this heading but by the words of the Apostle Paul in Romans 4:6-8;
</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">“Even as David
also describes the blessedness of the man unto God imputes
righteousness without works,” etc. </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Probably
his deep repentance over his great sin was followed by such blissful
peace that he was le</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">d</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to pour out his spirit in the soft music of this choice song. In the
order of history, it seems to follow the </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">F</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ifty-First.</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">32:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Blessed.
</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Like
the Sermon on the Mount, this Psalm begins with beatitudes. This is
the second Psalm of benediction. The First Psalm describes the result
of holy blessedness, the Thirty-Second details the cause of it. The
first pictures the tree in full growth: this depicts it in its first
planting and watering. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Blessed
is he whose transgression is forgiven.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
A full, instantaneous, irreversible pardon of transgression turns
the poor sinner’s hell into heaven and makes the heir of wrath a
partaker in blessing. The word rendered forgiven is, in the original,
“taken off,” or “taken away,” as a burden is lifted or a
barrier removed. What a lift is here! It cost our Savior a sweat of
blood to bear our load, yes, it cost Him His life to bear it quite
away. Samson carried the gates of Gaza, but what was that to the
weight which Jesus bore on our behalf? </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Whose
sin is covered. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Covered
by God, as the ark was covered by </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">the
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">mercy-seat,
as Noah was covered from the flood, as the Egyptians were covered by
the depths of the sea. What a cover must that be which hides away
forever from the sight of the all-seeing God all the filthiness of
the flesh and of the spirit! He who has once seen sin in its
horrible deformity will appreciate the happiness of seeing it no more
forever.</span></span></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"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">32:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Blessed is
the man unto </span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">whom
</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the Lord imputes
not iniquity. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Note
the three words so often used to denote our disobedience:
transgression, sin, and iniquity, are the three-headed dog at the
gates of hell, but our glorious Lord has silenced his barkings
forever against His own believing ones. The trinity of sin is
overcome by the Trinity of heaven. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
in whose spirit is no guile.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Free from guilt, free from guile. Those who are justified from fault
are sanctified from falsehood. A liar is not a forgiven soul.
Treachery, double-dealing, chicanery, dissimulation, are l</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">in</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">eaments
of the devil’s children, but he who is washed from sin is truthful,
honest, simple, and childlike.</span></span></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"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">32:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For day and
night Your hand was heavy upon me. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">God’s
finger can crush us - what must His hand be, and that pressing
heavily and continuously! Under terrors of conscience, men have
little rest by night, for the grim thoughts of the day dog them to
their chambers and haunt their dreams, or else they lie awake in a
cold sweat of dread. God’s hand is very helpful when it uplifts,
but it is awful when it presses down: better a world on the shoulder,
like Atlas, than God’s hand on the heart, like </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">David.</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">32:6.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">In a time
when you may be found.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
There is, however, a set time for prayer beyond which it will be
unavailing; between the time of sin and the day of punishment mercy
rules the hour, and God may be found, but when once the sentence has
gone forth, pleading will be useless, for the Lord will not be found
by the condemned soul.</span></span></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"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">32:7.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You shall
preserve me from trouble. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Trouble
shall do me no real harm when the Lord is with me; rather it shall
bring me much benefit, like the file which clears away the rust, but
does not destroy the metal. Observe the three tenses; we have notice</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">d</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the sorrowful past, the last sentence was a joyful present, this is a
cheerful future.</span></span></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"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">32:9.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Whose mouth
must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto you.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Those cutting bits of affliction show how hard-mouthed we are; those
bridles of infirmity manifest our headstrong and willful manners. We
should not be treated like mules if there was not so much of the ass
about us.</span></span></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"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">32:10.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Many sorrows
shall be to the wicked. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
who sows sins will reap sorrow in heavy sheaves. Sorrows of
conscience, of disappointment, of terror, are the sinners sure
heritage in time, and then forever sorrows of remorse and despair.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But he that
trusts in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
wicked have a hive of wasps around them, many sorrows; but we have a
swarm of bees storing honey for us.</span></span></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"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">32:11.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Be glad.
</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Happiness
is not only our privilege but our duty. Truly we serve a generous
God, since He makes it a part of our obedience to be joyful. How
sinful are our rebellious murmurings! How natural does it seem that a
man blest with forgiveness should be glad! We read of one who died at
the foot of the scaffold of overjoy at the receipt of his monarch’s
pardon; and shall we receive the free pardon of the Kong of kings and
yet pine in inexcusable sorrow? </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
is to be feared that the church of the present day, through a craving
for excessive propriety, is growing too artificial; so that
enquirers’ cries and believers’ shouts would be silenced if they
were heard in our assemblies. This may be better than boisterous
fanaticism, but there is as much danger in the one direction as the
other. For our part, we are touched to the heart by a little
sacred excess, and when godly men in their joy o’erleap the narrow
bounds of decorum, we do not, like Michal, Saul’s daughter, eye
them with a sneering heart. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></span></font></font></p>
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