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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
18 - 2 CORINTHIANS 10 - PAUL ON WARFARE</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.
10:1 (10:1-2, NNT) WARFARE: NOT TO BE TURNED ON SAINTS. <font size="3">“Now
I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the
Christ, who in person am lowly among you, but absent show courage
toward you.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we thank You for Paul, who in maturity in You, sets us an example how
to deal with one another. We want to know You intimately as Paul did.
We want You to take control and keep control of our lives. </span><b><i>Hallowed
be your :name.</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>2.
10:3-5 (10:3-6) WARFARE: ITS WEAPONS AGAINST WRONG THOUGHTS. <font size="3">“For
though we walk in </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3">
flesh, we do not war according to </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3">
flesh </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">4 </font><font size="3">(for
the weapons of our :warfare are not of flesh, but mighty before :God
unto casting down of strongholds); </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">5
</font><font size="3">casting down reasonings, and every high </font><font size="3"><i>thing</i></font><font size="3">
that is exalted against the knowledge of :God, and bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of the Christ.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Our
battle is </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">in the mind</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
We acknowledge and confess it. We thank You Father, for providing us
with the weapons that bring our thoughts into captivity to Christ:
the Word, the </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">B</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">lood,
the Name, 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><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
10:7 WARFARE CAPABILITY: NOT BASED ON OUTWARD APPEARANCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Do
you look at the </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
pertaining to appearance? If any trusts in himself that he is
Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as
he is Christ’s, so also we.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we acknowledge that our faith is communal. You are </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">our</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Father, not just </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">my</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Father! We have many brothers and sisters in Your family. We are a
gift from You to one another. </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.
10:8 (10:8-10) WARFARE AUTHORITY: INTENDED FOR LETTERS OF
EDIFICATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
though I should glory somewhat more abundantly concerning our
:authority (which the Lord gave for building up, and not for casting
you down), I shall not be shamed.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we thank You for Your gentleness in Christ which You are working into
each of us. You are bringing </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">many</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
sons and daughters into </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">glory</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</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.
10:12 (10:11-12) WARFARE AUTHORITY: CAN ALSO BE MANIFESTED BY
PRESENCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
we are not bold to judge among, or to judge ourselves with certain of
them that commend themselves: but themselves measuring themselves by
themselves, and judging themselves with themselves, are without
understanding.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">There
is a time Father, when You lead our leaders to confront us sternly in
love. But how glad we are that it is tempered in mercy! </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.
10:13 (10:13-16) WARFARE BOASTING: BASED ON ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But WE
will not glory beyond :measure, but according to the measure of the
measuring-rod which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even
unto you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Teach
us honesty Father, first of all before You, in </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">every</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
aspect of our lives. Then before our fellow man may we wear no masks,
but be transparent. </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.
10:17-18 WARFARE GLORYING: FOCUSED ON THE LORD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
who glories 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 let him glory. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">18
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
not that </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">man</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
is approved who commends himself but he whom the Lord commends. </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
hear You, O Great Jehovah Father! We hear You through Your servant
Paul. Again, we see Your insistence upon absolute honesty, sincerity,
truthfulness and integrity in the inward parts. We accept Your
challenge. </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>:
10:6 (10:3-6, ES</b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">V)
W</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ARFARE: ITS TIMING.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And being
in readiness to avenge all disobedience, </span></font><u><font size="3">when</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
your :obedience shall be made full.” </span></font></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Mercy</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is Your way of dealing with us, Father. We bless You for this.</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: “Dying Life or Living Death.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">St.
Augustine used to say he did not know whether to call it a dying
life or a living death, and I leave you the choice between those two
expressions. This is certainly a dying life; its march is marked by
graves. Nothing but a continuous miracle keeps any one of us from the
sepulcher. Were omnipotence to stay its power but for a moment, earth
would return to earth, and ashes to ashes. It is a dying life: and
equally true is it that it is a living death. We are always dying.
Every beating pulse we tell leaves but the number less: the more
years we count in our life, the fewer remain in which we shall behold
the light of day.</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: 48:1-2 (48) ZION, THE CITY OF OUR GOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Great
is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His
holy mountain, </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">beautiful
in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far
north, the city of the great King.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You are the God of Zion, the house of Your people. We are Your people
Father - Your house, Your workmanship. </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">:
“A Song and Psalm for the Sons of Korah.” A song for joyfulness
and a Psalm for reverence. Alas! every song is not a Psalm, for poets
are not all heaven-born; and every Psalm is not a song, for in coming
before God we have to utter mournful confessions as well as exulting
praises. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Subject:
</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
would be idle dogmatically to attribute this song to any one event of
Jewish history. Its author and date are unknown. It records the
withdrawal of certain confederate kings from Jerusalem, their courage
failing them before striking a blow.</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">48:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Great is the
Lord. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
great Jehovah is essentially none can conceive; but we can all see
that He is great in the deliverance of His people, great in their
esteem who are delivered, and great in their hearts of those enemies
whom He scatters by their own fears. Instead of the mad cry of
Ephesus, “Great is Diana,” we bear the reasonable, demonstrable,
self-evident testimony, “Great is Jehovah!”</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">48:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The joy of
the whole earth, is Mount Zion. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Jerusalem
was the world’s star; whatever light lingered on earth was borrowed
from the oracles preserved by Israel.</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">48:5.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">y</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">
saw it, and so they marveled. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">They
came, the</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">
saw, but they did not conquer. There was no </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">veni,
vidi, vici</span></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
for them. No sooner did they perceive that the Lord was in the Holy
City than they took to their heels. Before the Lord came to blows
with them, they were faint-hearted and beat a retreat.</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">48:7.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You break
the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Speculative heresies, pretending to bring us wealth from afar, are
constantly assailing the church, but the breath of the Lord soon
drives them to destruction. The church too often relies on the wisdom
of men, and these human ships are soon ship-wrecked; yet the church
itself is safe beneath the care of her God and King.</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">48:9.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">We have
thought. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Holy
men are thoughtful men; they do not suffer God’s wonders to pass
before their eyes and melt into forgetfulness, but they meditate
deeply upon them. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Of
Your lovingkindness, O God. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a delightful subject! Devout minds never tire of so divine a theme.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">In the
midst of Your temple. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Memories
of mercy should be associated with continuance of praise. Hard by the
table of show-bread commemorating His bounty, should stand the altar
of incense denoting our praise.</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">48:10.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">According to
Your Name, O God, so is Your praise unto the ends of the earth.
</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Great
fame is due to His great Name. The glory of Jehovah’s exploits
overleaps the boundaries of earth; angels behold with wonder, and
from every star delighted intelligences proclaim His fame beyond the
ends of the earth. What if men are silent, yet the woods, and
seas, and mountains, with all their countless tribes, and all the
unseen spirits that walk them, are full of the divine praise. As in a
shell we listen to the murmurs of the sea, so in the convolutions of
creation we hear the praises of God. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
right hand is full of righteousness. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
scepter and Your sword, Your government and Your vengeance, are
altogether just. Your hand is never empty, but full of energy, of
bounty, and of equity. Neither saint nor sinner shall find the Lord
to be an empty-handed God; He will in both cases deal out
righteousness to the full: to the one, through Jesus, He will be just
to forgive, to the other just to condemn.</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">48:14.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Mark you
well her bulwarks. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
security of the people of God is not a doctrine to be kept in the
background. It may be safely taught, and frequently pondered. Only to
base hearts will that glorious truth prove harmful. The sons of
perdition make a stumbling-stone even of the Lord Jesus Himself; it
is little wonder that they pervert the truth of God concerning the
final perseverance of the saint</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">.
</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">
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