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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
14 - 2 CORINTIANS 1-2 - PAUL’S MINISTRY</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.
1:2 (1:1-2, NNT) PAUL: APOSTOLIC GREETINGS. <font size="3">“Grace
to you and peace from God our Father and </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
Lord Jesus Christ.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
highest form o</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">f</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
government on earth Father, is Your apostles. Prophets declare Your
mind; apostles make Your mind practical to Your church. Hence these
two offices are Your foundation for Your church, Jesus Christ the
Chief Cornerstone! Therefore we pray, </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.
1:3-4 (1:3-11) PAUL: COMFORTED TO BE A COMFORT. <font style="font-size:13pt" size="3">“Blessed
the God and Father of our :Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of :mercies
and God of all comfort; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">4</font><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3">
</font><font size="3">who comforts us in all our :affliction, that we
be able to comfort those in any :affliction, through the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted of :God.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
wise Your ways, Father! We rejoice and rest in Your wisdom. </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.
1:12 (1:12-14) PAUL: BASIS OF HIS REJOICING. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">For
our :glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in
holiness and sincerity of :God, and not in fleshly wisdom but in
God’s grace, we behaved in the world, and more abundantly toward
you.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">What a gift of
wisdom You gave Your church in Paul, Father! He truly let You have
Your way in him. His words are the words of our Lord through him!
</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.
1:19-20 (1:15-22) PAUL: NOT FICKLE IN HIS PROMISES. <font size="3">“For
the Son of :God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you through us,
through me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in hi</font><font size="3">m</font><font size="3">
is yes. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">20 </font><font size="3">For
however many the promises of God, in hi</font><font size="3">m</font><font size="3">
</font><font size="3"><i>is</i></font><font size="3"> the yes: therefore
also through him </font><font size="3"><i>is</i></font><font size="3">
the Amen, unto glory to :God through us.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, and one word in Jesus is the word of </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">forgiveness</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
and its paramount necessity! We embrace His teaching! </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.
2:4 (1:23-2:4) PAUL’S DESIRE: NOT TO CAUSE SORROW. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote you with many
tears; not that you be made sorry, but that you might know the love
which I have more abundantly unto you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
bless You Father, for the compassionate heart of Paul. We see Your
heart in him. Out of the great compassion in Jesus he speaks. </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.
2:10-11 (2:5-11) PAUL’S FORGIVENESS: DEFEATS SATAN! </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">But
to whom you forgive anything, I also: for what I also have forgiven,
if I have forgiven anything, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">it
is</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
for your sakes in Christ’s person; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">11
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">that
no advantage be gained over us by :Satan: for we are not ignorant of
his :devices.” </span></font></b><font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Unforgiveness</span></u></font><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
gives a strong open door to Satan. Father, seal this truth in our
hearts. Help us not to speak against a stumbling member of Your body;
help us to love our enemies and persecutors. </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.
2:14 (2:12-17) PAUL: HIS TRIUMPH CONTINUALLY IN CHRIST. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
thanks to :God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and
makes manifest through us the savor of his :knowledge in every
place.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Hallelujah!
We rejoice in Your favor unto us in Christ, Father! What triumph You
manifest </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">after</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
leading us into the crucified life. </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>:
1:21-22 (1:15-22) PAUL’S REVELATION FOR US. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Now
who establishes us with you unto Christ, and anointed us, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">is</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
God; </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">who
also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our :hearts.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Blessed
be Your holy Name for ever Father, for the Gift of the Holy </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">pirit,
the d</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">o</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">-reA.
Through </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">this</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
we are </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">sealed</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
and have the </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">down-payment</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of the fullness which is yet to come!</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">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: Young People and Prayer: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Dear
young people, take care that you start right in your Christian life
by being much in prayer! A profession of faith that does not begin
with prayer will end in disgrace. If you come to join the Church, but
do not pray to God to uphold you in consistency of life, and to make
your profession sincere, the probability is that you are already a
hypocrite!</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: 44:4-5 (44) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">COME
TO OUR HELP. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“You
are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">5
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Through
you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who
rise up against us.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we bless You that through intercession Your purposes forge ahead!
Saints are lifted up; enemies are defeated; Your Name is glorified!
</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">Title</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">:
“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.” The
title is similar to the Forty-Second, and although this is no proof
that it is by the same author, it makes it highly probable. No other
writer should be sought for to father any of the Psalms when </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">avid
will suffice, and therefore we are loath to ascribe this sacred son</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">g</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to any but the great Psalmist; yet as we hardly know any period of
his life which it would fairly describe, we feel compelled to look
elsewhere. The last verses remind us of Milton’s famous lines on
the massacre of the Protestants among the mountains of Piedmont.</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">44:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">We have
heard with our ears, O God. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">To
hear with the ears affects us more sensitively than to read with our
eyes; we ought to note this and seize every possible opportunity of
telling abroad the gospel of our Lord Jesus </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">viva
voce, </span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">since
this is the most telling mode of communication. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
fathers have told us. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
fathers are tongue-tied religiously with their offspring, need they
wonder if their children’s hearts remain sin-tied? Religious
conversation need not be dull, and indeed it could not be if, as in
this case, it dealt more with facts and less with opinions.</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">44:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">How you did
afflict the people and cast them out. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
fair is Mercy when she stands by the side of justice! Bright beams
the star of grace amid the night of wrath! It is a solemn thought
that the greatness of divine love has its counterpart in the
greatness of His indignation.</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">44:3.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For they got
not the land in possession by their own sword. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
passage may be viewed as a beautiful parable of the work of
salvation; men are not saved without prayer, repentance, etc., but
none of these save a man; salvation is altogether of the Lord. Canaan
was not conquered without the armies of Israel, but equally true is
it that it was not conquered by them; the Lord was the conqueror, and
the people were but instruments in His hands.</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">44:5.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Through Your
Name will we tread them under that rise up against us. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Mark
well that all the conquests of these believers are said to be
“through You,” “through Your Name”; never let us forget this,
lest going a warfare at our own charges, we fail most ignominiously.
Let us not, however, fall into the equally dangerous sin of distrust,
for the Lord can make the weakest of us equal to any emergency.</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">44:6.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For I will
not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Arm of flesh, how dare I trust you? How dare I bring upon myself the
curse of those who rely upon man?</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">44:8.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">In God we
boast all the day long. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a blessed boasting is this! It is the only sort of boasting that is
bearable. All other manna bred worms and stunk except t</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">h</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">at
which was laid up before the Lord, and all other boasting is
loathsome save the glorying in the Lord, which is laudable and
pleasing.</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">44:11.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And has
scattered us among the heathen. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">All
this is ascribed to the Lord, as being allowed by Him, and even
appointed by His decree. It is well to trace the hand of God in our
sorrows, for it is surely there.</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">44:14.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You make us
a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
The world knows not its nobility; it has no eye for true excellence:
it found a cross for the Master and cannot be expected to award
crowns to His disciples.</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">44:17.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">All this is
come upon us; yet have we not forgotten You. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
in the midst of many griefs, we can still cling to God in loving
obedience, it must be well with us. True fidelity can endure rough
usage. Those who follow God for what they get will leave Him when
persecution is stirred up, but not so the sincere believer; he will
not forget his God, even though the worst come to the worst.</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">44:22.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">We are
counted as sheep for the slaughter. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">From
Piedmont and Smithfield, from St. Bartholomew’s massacre and the
dragoonades of Claverhouse, this appeal goes up to heaven, while the
souls under the altar continue their solemn cry for vengeance. Not
long shall the church plead in this fashion; her shame shall be
recompensed, her triumph shall dawn. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O. Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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