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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">January 10, 2012</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
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11 - JEREMIAH 46-48 - THREE PROPHECIES UPON GENTILE NATIONS</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.
46:10 (46:1-12, ESV) PROPHETIC JUDGMENT: AGAINST EGYPT. <font size="3">“That
day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to
avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and
drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a
sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Kingdom Father, has principles: reward for the obedience of faith;
judgment upon individuals and nations for rebels and the unbelieving!
</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.
46:13 (46:13-26) PROPHETIC JUDGMENT: THROUGH NEBUCHADNEZZAR. <font size="3">“The
word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, You even use the heathen to do Your will and be Your
servants. Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus were both Your servants. How much
more should we as you saints do your will! </span><b><i>Your
:kingdom come!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
46:28 (46:27-28) PROPHETIC WORD: ISRAEL ENCOURAGED. <font size="3">“Fear
not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will
make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of
you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just
measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a gracious word! How wise yet loving You are, O Father! </span><b><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
47:1 (47:1-7) PROPHETIC WORD: AGAINST THE PHILISTINES. <font size="3">“The
word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the
Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.” </font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
our sins bring Your judgment whether the sins of Israel, the nations
or the church. You are no respecter of persons. </span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day!</i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
48:11 (48:1-25) PROPHETIC JUDGMENT: AGAINST MOAB. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Moab
has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his dregs; he has
not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.”
</font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You desire troubles, trials, suffering and persecution to purge us
and make our hearts sweet. Give us a thankful and joyful heart for
trials. </span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font style="font-size:11pt">6.
48:42 (48:26-46) PROPHECY: MOAB’S HUMILIATION AND DESTRUCTION.
</font><font size="3">“Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a
people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.” </font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Loftiness,
arrogance, pride and haughtiness of heart - will destroy us even as
they did Moab! O Father, keep our hearts; make us like David: people
after Your own heart. </span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>And
bring us not into temptation!</i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font style="font-size:11pt">7.
48:47 PROPHETIC WORD: MOAB’S RESTORATION. </font><font size="3">“Yet
I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the
LORD.” Thus far is the judgment of Moab. </font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
gracious You are O Father, even unto sinners! How much more will You
show mercy to repentant saints! </span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>But
deliver us from the evil </i></font><font style="font-size:11pt">one!</font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b><font style="font-size:11pt">NOTE</font></b></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
C.H. Spurgeon Quotes: “The Older The More Calvinistic” - </b></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">I
always find that the older saints become more Calvinistic as they
ripen in age; that is to say, they get to believe more and more that
salvation is all of grace; and whereas, at first, they might have had
some rather loose ideas concerning free-will, and the power of the
creature, the lapse of years and fuller experience gradually blow all
that kind of chaff away.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 41:1 (41) O LORD, BE GRACIOUS TO ME. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Blessed
is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD
delivers him.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we hallow Your Name when we consider the poor. We are discerning
Christ’s spiritual body! We are doing it as unto one of the least
of Christ’s brothers, and He accepts it as unto Himself! 41:4
</span></span></font><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">As
for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have
sinned against you!” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
let this be our immediate prayer as soon as we sin. Let us remember
Your Word, and the many occasions when in wrath You remembered mercy!</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Introduction:
Jesus Christ, betrayed of Judas Iscariot, is evidently the great
theme of this Psalm but, we think, not exclusively. He is the
antitype of David, and all His people are in their measure like Him,
hence words suitable to the Great Representative are most applicable
to those who are in Him. Such as receive a vile return for long
kindness to others may read this song with much comfort, for they
will see that it is, alas, too common for the best of men to be
rewarded for their holy charity with cruelty and scorn; and when they
have been humbled by falling into sin, advantage has been taken of
their low estate, their good deeds have been forgotten, and the
vilest spite has been vented upon them.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">4</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">1:1.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
promise is not that the generous saint shall have no trouble but that
he shall be preserved in it and in due time brought out of it. How
true was this of our Lord! never trouble deeper nor triumph brighter
than His, and glory be to His name, He secures the ultimate victory
of all His blood-bought ones. Selfishness bears in itself a
curse; it is a cancer in the heart; while liberality is happiness,
and makes fat the bones. In dark days, we cannot rest upon the
supposed merit of almsgiving, but still the music of memory brings
with it no mean solace when it tells of widows and orphans whom we
have succored and prisoners and sick folk to whom we have ministered.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">4</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">1:3.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing.</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
The everlasting arms shall stay up his soul as friendly hands and
downy pillows stay up the body of the sick. How tender and
sympathizing is this image; how near it brings our </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">G</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">od
to our infirmities and sicknesses! Who ever heard this of the old
heathen Jove, or of the gods of India, or China? This is the
language peculiar to the God of Israel; He i</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">t</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is Who deigns to become nurse and attendant upon good men. If He
smites with one hand, He sustains with the other. Oh, it is blessed
fainting when one falls upon the Lord’s own bosom and is upborne
thereby!</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">41:4.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For
I have sinned against Thee. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Sin
and suffering are inevitable companions. Observe that by the
Psalmist, sin was felt to be mainly evil because directed against
God. This is of the essence of true repentance. Applying the petition
to David and other sinful believers, how strangely evangelical is the
argument: heal me, not for I am innocent, but </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I
have sinned</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
How contrary is this to all self-righteous pleading! How consonant
with grace! How inconsistent with merit! Even the fact that
the confessing penitent had remembered the poor is but obliquely
urged, but a direct appeal is made to Mercy on the ground of great
sin. O trembling reader, here is a divinely revealed precedent for
you, be not slow to follow it.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">41:6.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
if he come to see me, he speaks vanity. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">His
visits of sympathy are visitations of mockery. When the fox calls on
the sick lamb, his words are soft but he licks his lips in hop</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of the carcass. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">His
heart gathered iniquity to itself.</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Like will to like. The bird makes its nest of feathers. Out of the
sweetest flowers, chemists can distill poison, and from the purest
words and deeds malice can gather groundwork for calumnious report.
It is perfectly marvelous how spit</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
spins webs out of no materials whatever.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">41:9.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Yes,
my own familiar friend. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
“The man of my peace,” so runs the original, with whom I had no
differences, with whom I was in league, who had aforetime ministered
to my peace and comfort. This was Ahithophel to David, and Iscariot
with our Lord. Judas was an apostle, admitted to the privacy of the
great Teacher, bearing His secret thoughts, and, as it were, allowed
to read His very heart. </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Et
tu Brute? </span></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">said
the expiring Caesar. The kiss of the traitor wounded our Lord’s
heart as much as the nail wounded His hand.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">41:13.
The Psalm ends with a doxology. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Blessed
be the Lord, </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">i</span></span></i></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">.e.</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
let Him be glorified. The blessing at the beginning from the mouth of
God is returned from the mouth of His servant. <br>We cannot add to
the Lord’s blessedness, but we can pour out our grateful wishes,
and these He accepts, as we receive little presents of flowers from
children who love us. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">HERE
ENDS THE FIRST BOOK OF THE PSALMS</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">P.S.
Mike Huckabee recommended “</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Last
Ounce of Courage”, 2012 - </b></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">a
DVD on how to preserve the “Freedom” that our veterans have given
their li</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">ves</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">
for </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">on
our behalf</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
Through the “Tyranny of the Minority”, our freedoms such as
“Christmas”, Nativity Scenes, Christmas Carols, Prayer in our
schools, The Ten Commandments as plaques in our City Halls - all
these </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">and
more - </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">perhaps
because of one atheistic family, have been robbed from us. Our
Constitution has been perverted by a wrong application by our
government. Time we retrieved our freedom. By all means check out the
above DVD through Netflix or other sources. You will not be
disappointed. My wife Marie felt it would be good for me to alert
you to this opportunity. Jim Watt</span></font></font></font></p>
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