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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
21 - EZEKIEL 1-3 - PREPARATION AND CALL OF EZEKIEL</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.
1:1 (1:1-3, ESV) EZEKIEL: FIRST TIME FOR THE WORD OF THE LORD. <font size="3">“In
the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the
month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens
were opened, and I saw visions of God.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
can we be instrumental in manifesting Your Kingdom Father, except we
daily walk in Romans 12:1-2, Mark 8:34 and Galatians 2:20? We choose
</span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">this</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
daily walk for us each day! </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.
1:10 (1:4-25) EZEKIEL: THE FACES OF THE CHERUBIM. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“As
for the likeness of their faces, each had a human face. The four had
the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox
on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we see </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Christ</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
in the cherubim, with the four faces representing the four Gospels.
We would manifest You through us on earth in the fullness of the Four
Gospels, as You are in heaven. </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.
1:28 (1:</span><span style="text-decoration:none">2</span><span style="text-decoration:none">6-28)
EZEKIEL: JEHOVAH AND HIS THRONE. “</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Like
the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so
was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw
it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
Ezekiel’s day, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">he</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
was your Sovereign choice of grace to reveal your Word to Israel at
this time! Lord, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
will</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is for us supreme! </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.
3:1 (2:1-3:3) EZEKIEL: HIS COMMISSION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this
scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">To
be Your ambassador, spokesman and prophet Father - like Ezekiel we
need to love and </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">forgive
our persecutors</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
We need to rejoice in these opportunities of glorifying You. </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.
3:11 (3:4-11) EZEKIEL: DIFFICULT CHALLENGE TO “HARD” ISRAEL.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And go to
the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus
says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
Your commissions are not always easy. They tax us beyond both our
abilities and our capabilities. Yet </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are sufficient! </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.
3:15 (3:12-21) EZEKIEL: GOD’S WATCHMAN. “And I came to the
exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat
where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them
seven days.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
choose to identify ourselves with You and Your people Father. We
choose to see You as a hedge of protection round about us as we do
Your will. We choose to trust You, though we do not always understand
You! </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.
3:27 (3:22-27) EZEKIEL: SIGN OF DUMBNESS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to
them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ He who will hear, let him hear;
and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a
rebellious house.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
ways Father, are past finding out. But we choose to believe Your
wisdom behind all Your leadings and commands! </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 face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt">NOTE</font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">:
3:16-17 (3:12-21) EZEKIEL: COMMISSIONED AS A WATCHMAN! </span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">
“</span><span style="text-decoration:none">And at the end of seven
days, the word of the LORD came to me: </span><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">17
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">‘Son
of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever
you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">A
</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">watchman</span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is an intercessor. He is chosen and commissioned of God. All are not
called to this high calling. It is the same as for apostles and
prophets - all of the 5-fold ministries. Like some Gentiles in a
Messianic Jewish congregation - you will find some “wanna-Be's”.
</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">See
“Rees Howells, Intercessor” - to look at a true intercessor! </span></span></font></font>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “Christ’s Servant” - </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him,
cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of
thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you
shall, but it will be upon a cross.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 51:3-4 (51) CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">4
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Against
you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so
that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your
judgment.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
when we acknowledge Your Word that it is true, we </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">hallow
your :name. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
we perceive and confess our sins, we </span></span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">hallow
your :name. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Evermore
let us </span></span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">hallow
your :name!</span></i></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Title:
</span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“To
the chief Musician.” Therefore, not written for private meditation
only, but for the public service of song. Suitable for the loneliness
of individual penitence, this matchless Psalm is equally well adapted
for an assembly of the poor in spirit. “A Psalm of David.” It is
a marvel, but nevertheless a fact, that writers have been found to
deny David’s authorship of this Psalm but their objections are
frivolous; the Psalm is David-like all over. It would be far easier
to imitate Milton, Shakespeare, or Tennyson, that David. His style is
altogether </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">sui
generis</span></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
and it is as easily distinguishable as the touch of Rafael or the
coloring of Rubens. The great sin of David is not to be excused,
but it is well to remember that his case has an exceptional
collection of specialties in it. He was a man of very strong
passions, a soldier, and an Oriental monarch having despotic power;
no other king of his time would have felt any compunction for having
acted as he did, and hence there were not around him those restraints
of custom and association which, when broken through, render the
offense the more monstrous. He never hints at any form of
extenuation, nor do we mention these facts in order to apologize for
his sin, which was detestable to the last degree; but for the warning
of others, that they reflect that the licentiousness in themselves at
this day might have even a graver guilt in it than in the erring King
of Israel. When we remember his sin, let us dwell most upon his
penitence, and upon the long series of chastisements which rendered
the after part of his life such a mournful history.</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">51:1.
Have</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">
mercy upon me, O God.</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
appeals at once to the mercy of God, even before he mentions his sin.
The sight of mercy is good for eyes that are sore with penitential
weeping. Pardon of sin must ever be an act of pure mercy, and
therefore to that attribute the awakened sinner flies.</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">51:2.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Wash
me thoroughly from my iniquity. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
dye is in itself immovable, and I, the sinner, have lain long in it,
till the crimson is ingrained; but, Lord, wash, and wash, and wash
again, till the last stain is gone and not a trace of my defilement
is left. The hypocrite is content if his garments be washed; but the
true suppliant cries, “Wash me.” The one sin against Bathsheba,
served to show the Psalmist the whole mountain of his iniquity, of
which that foul deed was but one falling stone. He desires to be rid
of the whole mass of his filthiness, which though once so little
observed, had then become a hideous and haunting terror to his
mind. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
cleanse me from my sin. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is a more general expression; as if the Psalmist said, “Lord, if
washing will not do, try some other process; if water avails not, let
fire, let anything be tried, so that I may but be purified. Rid me of
my sin by some means, by any means, by every means, only do purify me
completely, and leave no guilt upon my soul.” It is not the
punishment he cries out against, but the sin. Many a murderer is
more alarmed at the gallows than at the murder which brought him to
it. The thief loves the plunder, though he fears the prison. Not so
David: he is sick of sin as sin; his loudest outcries are against the
evil of his transgression and not against the painful consequences of
it. When we deal seriously with our sin, God will deal gently with
us. When we hate what the Lord hates, He will soon make an end of it,
to our joy and peace.</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">51:3.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For
I acknowledge my transgressions. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
He seems to say, “I make a full confession of them” Not that this
is my plea in seeking forgiveness, but it is a clear evidence that I
need mercy and am utterly unable to look for any other quarter for
help. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
my sin is ever before me. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">My
sin as a whole is never out of my mind; it continually oppresses my
spirit. I lay it before You because it is ever before me: Lord, put
it away both from You and me. To an awakened conscience, pain on
account of sin is not transient and occasional, but intense and
permanent, and this is no sign of divine wrath but rather a sure
preface of abounding favor.</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">51:5
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Behold,
I was shaped in iniquity. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
is thunderstruck at the discovery of his inbred sin and proceeds to
set it forth. This was not intended to justify himself, but it rather
meant to complete the confession. It is as if he said, “Not only
have I sinned this once, but I am in my very nature a sinner. The
fountain of my life is polluted as well as its streams. My
birth-tendencies are out of the square of equity; I naturally lean to
forbidden things. Mine is a constitutional disease, rendering my very
person obnoxious to Your wrath.” </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
in sin did my mother conceive me. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
goes back to the earliest moment of his being, not to traduce his
mother, but acknowledge the deep taproots of his sin. It is a wicked
wresting of Scripture to deny that original sin and natural depravity
are here taught. Surely men who cavil at this doctrine have need to
be taught of the Holy Spirit what be the first principle of the
faith.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">51:7.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Purge
me with hyssop. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Give
me the reality which legal ceremonies symbolize. This passage may be
read as the voice of faith as well as a prayer, and so it runs -
“You will purge me with hyssop, </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">and
I shall be clean</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.”
Foul as I am, there is such power in the divine propitiation that my
sin shall vanish away. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
I shall be whiter than snow. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">None
but Yourself can whiten me, but You can in grace outdo nature itself
in its purest state. Snow soon gathers smoke and dust; it melts and
disappears; You can give me an enduring purity. Though snow is white
below as well as on the surface, You can work the like inward purity
in me and make me so clean that only a hyperbole can set forth my
immaculate condition. Lord, do this; my faith believe</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
You will, and well she knows You can. Scarcely does Holy
Scripture contain a verse more full of faith than this. Considering
the nature of the sin and the deep sense of the Psalmist had of it,
it is a glorious faith to be able to see in the blood sufficient, no,
all-sufficient merit entirely to purge it away.</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">51:9.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Blot
out all my iniquities. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">If
God hid</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">
not His face from our sin, He must hide it forever from us; and if He
blot not out our sins, He must blot our names out of His book of
life.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">51:10.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Create</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
What! has sin so destroyed us that the Creator must be called in
again? What ruin then does evil work among mankind! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Create
in me.</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
I, in my outward fabric, still exist; but I am empty, desert, void.
Come, then, and let Your power be seen in a new creation within my
old fallen self. You did make a man in the world at first; Lord, make
a new man in me. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">A
clean heart. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
the seventh verse he asked to be clean; now he seeks a heart suitable
to that cleanliness; but he does not say, “Make my old heart
clean”; he is too experienced in the hopelessness of the old
nature. He would have the old man buried as a dead thing, and a new
creation brought in to fill its place. None but God can create either
a new heart or a new earth.</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">51:11.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Cast
me not away from Your presence. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Throw
me not away as worthless; banish me not, like Cain, from Your face
and favor. Permit me to sit among those who share Your love, though I
only be suffered to keep the door. I deserve to be forever denied
admission to Your courts; but, O good Lord, permit me still the
privilege which is dear as life itself to me.</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">51:12.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Restore
unto me the joy of Your salvation. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">None
but God can give back this joy; He can do it; we may ask it; He will
do it for His own glory and our benefit. This joy comes not first,
but follows pardon and purity: in such order is it safe, in any other
it is vain presumption or idiotic delirium.</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">51:13.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Then
will I teach transgressors Your ways. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Reclaimed
poachers make the best gamekeepers. Huntingdon’s degree of S.S., or
Sinner Saved, is more needful for soul-winning evangelists than
either M.A. or D.D. The pardoned sinner’s matter will be good, for
he has been taught in the school of experience, and his manner will
be telling, for he will speak sympathetically, as one who has felt
what he declares. The audience the Palmist would choose is memorable
- he would instruct transgressors like himself; others might despise
them, but “a fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind.” If unworthy
to edify saints, he would creep in along with the sinners and humbly
tell them of divine love. </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></p>
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