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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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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>AUG
22 - EZEKIEL 4-24 - JERUSALEM TO BE JUDGED</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.
4:8 (4-7, ESV) SIGNS: PROPHECIES OF BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY. <font size="3">“And
behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one
side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">As King of Your
dominion, O Jehovah, You punish disobedience for our good. Thank You
for Your faithfulness as a wise, firm and loving Father. Your
chastisements are a mark of Your love and favor! </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.
11:19-20 (8-11) VISIONS: PROPHECY OF RESTORATION. <font size="3">“And
I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them.
I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a
heart of flesh, </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">20 </font><font size="3">that
they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And
they shall be my people, and I will be their God.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We
hear Your Word, O Father; we submit to 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.
12:28 (12-17) SIGNS: PROPHECIES OF BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
<font size="3">“Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None
of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak
will be performed, declares the Lord GOD.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">There
is a time in Your Kingdom O Father, for fulfillment of Your
prophecies. As judgment for Israel then, so restoration for Your
church now! </span><i><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></i><b>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
18:31 (18:1-20:44) SERMONS. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Cast
away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and
make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O
house of Israel?” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father
how patient and longsuffering You are to Your people! How You plead
with us to meet the conditions that permit Your blessing! </span><b><i>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
22:30 (20:45-22:31) SIGNS OF JUDGMENT. <font size="3">“And I
sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in
the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but
I found none.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, find among us today for Your Church and Israel, what You
could not find for Israel in days gone by! In judgment remember
mercy, for it is time to complete Your restoration. </span><b><i>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
23:4 (23) PARABLE OF OHOLAH AND OHOLIBAH. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">O</font><font size="3">holah
was the name of the elder and </font><font size="3">Oholibah the name
of her sister. They became min</font><font size="3">e</font><font size="3">,
and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is
Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
patience and longsuffering O Father, were tested beyond limits. Only
judgment was left! </span><b><i>And bring us not into temptation.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>7.
24:24 (24) PROPHECIES AGAINST JERUSALEM. <font size="3">“Thus
shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you
shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord
GOD.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father, You </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the Lord Jehovah! You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Sovereign Lord! You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the everlasting Covenant God! </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>:
14:20 (12-17) THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD’S WILL IN JUDGMENT! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Even
if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord
GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. The</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">y</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, how terrible are Your judgment</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">
in all the earth, and how righteous. Teach us to apply our hearts
unto wisdom in the light of the times in which we live.”</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: “Spurgeon Eschatology”. </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Some
think that this descent of the Lord will be post-millennial - that
is, after the thousand years of his reign. I cannot think so. I
conceive that the advent will be pre-millennial; that he will come
first; and then will come the millennium as the result of his
personal reign upon earth. Notice, next, dear friends, that
it is not good for you to know the times and the season</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">
That is what the Savior means when he says, “It is not for you to
know.” For, first, it would distract your attention from the great
things of which you have to think.</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: 52:8-9 (52) THE STEADFAST LOVE OF GOD ENDURES.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But I am
like </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">a
green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love
of God forever and ever. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">9</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for
your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You are the One Who delivers us from our enemies, gives retribution,
and makes us rest in You! </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.” Even short Psalms, if they record but one
instance of the goodness of the Lord, and rebuke but briefly the
pride of man, are worthy of our best minstrelsy. When we see that
each Psalm is dedicated to “the chief musician,” it should make
us value our Psalmody and forbid us to praise the Lord carelessly.
“Maschil.” An instructive. Even the malice of a Doeg may furnish
instruction to a David. “A Psalm of David.” He was the prime
object of Doeg’s doggish hatred, and therefore the most fitting
person to draw from the incident the lesson concealed within it.</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">52:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Why do you
boast yourself in mischief, O mighty man? </span></i></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">Doeg
had small matter for boasting in having procured the slaughter of a
band of defenseless priests. A mighty man indeed to kill men who
never touched a sword! He ought to have been ashamed of his
cowardice. He had no room for exultation! Honorable titles are but
irony where the wearer is mean and cruel.</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">52:3.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Selah</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Let us pause and look at the proud, blustering liar. Doeg is gone,
but other dogs bark at the Lord’s people. Saul’s cattle-master is
buried, but the devil still has his drovers, who fain would hurry the
saints like sheep to the slaughter.’’</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">52:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You love.
</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
have a taste, a gusto for evil language. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">All
devouring words. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">There
are words that, like boa-constrictors, swallow men whole, or like
lions, rend men to pieces; these words evil minds are fond of. Their
oratory is evermore furious and bloody. That which will most readily
provoke the lowest passions that are sure to empty, and they think
such pandering to the madness of the wicked to be eloquence of a high
order. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">O
you deceitful tongue. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Men
can manage to say a great many furious things and yet cover all over
with the pretext of justice. They claim that they are jealous for the
right, but the truth is they are determined to put down truth and
holiness and craftily go about it under this transparent pretense.</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">52:7.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Lo.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Look you here, and read the epitaph of a mighty man, who lorded it
proudly during his little hour and set his heel upon the necks </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">of
the Lord’s chosen. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">This
is the man that made not God his strength. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Behold
the man, the great, vainglorious man! He found a fortress, but not in
God; he gloried in his might, but not in the Almighty. Where is he
now? How has it fared with him in the hour of his need? Behold his
ruin, and be instructed. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in
his wickedness. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
substance he had gathered and the mischiefs he had wrought were his
boast and glory. Wealth and wickedness are dreadful companions; when
combined they make a monster. When the devil is master of money-bags,
he is a devil indeed. Beelzebub and Mammon together heat the furnace
seven times hotter for the child of God, but in the end they shall
work out their own destruction. Wherever we see today a man great in
sin and substance, we shall be well to anticipate his end and view
this verse as the divine in memoriam. </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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