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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
23 - EZEKIEL 25-32 - JUDGMENT ON SEVEN ADJOINING 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.
25:14 (25, ESV) PROPHECIES: AGAINST AMMON, MOAB, EDOM AND
PHILISTIA. <font size="3">“And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by
the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to
my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance,
declares the Lord GOD.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">You
are not mocked, O Father: whatever men sow, they reap! Rebellion to
Your Lordship inexorably brings upon us judgment. </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.
26:14 (26-27) PROPHECIES: AGAINST TYRE. <font size="3">“I will
make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets.
You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken,
declares the Lord GOD.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
You know the end from the beginning, O Jehovah! Therefore do we Your
people submit to You, and gladly desire Your will to be manifested.
</span><b><i>You</i><i>r</i><i> :kingdom come!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
28:15 (28:1-19) PROPHECIES: AGAINST BOTH EARTHLY AND ANGELIC TYRE.
<font size="3">“You were blameless in your ways from the day you were
created, till unrighteousness was found in you.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, Who symbolizes Lucifer by the prince of Tyre; keep back Your
servants from presumptuous sin. Keep us humble and contrite of heart
before You. May we not become proud like Lucifer and Solomon in the
face of great riches and glory. </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.
29:14 (28:20-29:14) PROPHECIES: AGAINST ZIDON AND EGYPT. <font size="3">“And
I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land
of Pathos, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly
kingdom.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We see and
acknowledge O Father, Your covenant love and faithfulness in
forgiving the sins of Egypt, and our sins. </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.
30:24 (30) PROPHECIES: EGYPT IN THE DAY OF THE LORD. <font size="3">“And
I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword
in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan
before him like a man mortally wounded.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">But
judgment must first come upon us before deliverance. Father, You are
with us when our pride has been humbled. </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.
31:11 (31) PROPHECIES: AGAINST PHARAOH. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">I
will give it (Egypt) into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He
shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it
out.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How faithful
You are O Father, in dealing with our sins and rebellion. You desire
none to perish, but all to come to repentance. And you unmask the
evil in our lives. </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.
32:18 (32) PROPHECIES: THOSE IN SHEOL WITH EGYPT. <font size="3">“Son
of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and
the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who
have gone down to the pit.” </font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
fear O Father, strikes our hearts as we contemplate Your righteous
judgment. In wrath remember mercy. </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>But
deliver us from the evil </i></font><font size="3">one.</font></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>:
</b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H. Spurgeon
Quotes: “Suffering For The Church”. </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Every
sufferer who bears pain. or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness
for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is
necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and
the upbuilding of His elect Church.</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
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">Psalm for the Day: 53:1
(53) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">THERE IS NONE WHO
DOES GOOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt,
doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good. </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, we accept this judgment upon ourselves, our flesh: in our
flesh dwells no good thing; only You in us are good! </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">53:6
“Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God
restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be
glad.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Salvation
is in You O God, only in You! Without You, our Creator, Redeemer and
Sustainer, we would n</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">v</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">r
make it!</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">Title:
“To the Chief Musician.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">If
the leader of the choir is privileged to sing the jubilates of divine
grace, he must not disdain to chant the miseries of human depravity.
This is the second time he has had the same Psalm entrusted to him
(see Psalm 14), and he must, therefore, be the more careful </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">in</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
singing it. “Upon Mahalath.” The word “Mahalath”
appears to signify, in some forms of it, “disease,” and truly the
Psalm is “The Song of Man’s Disease” - the mortal, hereditary
taint of sin. It is not a copy of the Fourteenth Psalm emended and
revised by a foreign hand; it is another edition by the same author
emphasized in certain parts and rewritten for another purpose.
</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Subject: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
evil nature of man is her</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
brought before our view a second time in almost the same inspired
words. All repetitions are not vain repetitions. We are slow to learn
and need line upon line. David, after a long life, found men no
better than they were in his youth.</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">53:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The fool has
said in his heart, There is no God</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
And this he does because he is a fool. Being a fool, he speaks
according to his nature; being a great fool, he meddles with a great
subject and comes to a wild conclusion. The atheist is, morally as
well as mentally, a fool, a fool in the heart as well as in the head;
a fool in morals as well as in philosophy. With the denial of God as
a starting-point, we may well conclude that the fool’s progress is
a rapid, riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins at impiety is
ready for anything. “No God,” being interpreted, means no law, no
order, no restraint to lust, no limit to passion. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Corrupt
are they. They are rotten. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
is idle to compliment them as sincere doubters and amiable thinkers -
they are putrid. There is too much dainty dealing nowadays with
atheism; it is not a harmless error, it is an offensive, putrid sin,
and righteous men should look upon it in that light. All men being
more or less atheistic in spirit are also in that degree corrupt;
their heart is foul, their moral nature is decayed. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
have done abominable iniquity. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">If
all men are not outwardly vicious, it is to be accounted for by the
power of other and better principles, but left to itself the “No
God” spirit so universal in mankind would produce nothing but the
most loathsome actions. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">There
is no</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">ne</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">
that does good. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
one typical fool is reproduced in the whole race; without a single
exception men have forgotten the right way. This accusation twice
made in the Psalm, and repeated a third time by the inspired Apostle
Paul, is an indictment most solemn and sweeping, but He Who makes it
cannot err, He knows what is in man; neither will He lay more to
man’s charge than He can prove.</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">53:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">God looked
down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any
that did understand, that did seek God. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
did so in ages past, and He has continued His steadfast gaze from His
all-surveying observatory. Had there been on</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
understanding man, one true lover of his God, the divine eye would
have discove</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">red
him. Those pure heathens and admirable savages that men talk
so much of do not appear to have been visible to the eye of
Omniscience, the fact being that they live nowhere but in the realm
of fiction. The Lord did not look for great grace but only for
sincerity and right desire, but these He found not. He saw all
nations, and all men in all nations, and all hearts in all men, and
all motions of all hearts, but He saw neither a clear head nor a
clean heart among them all. Where God’s eyes see no favorable sign
we may rest assured there is none.</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">53:3.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">There is
none that does good, no, not one. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
fallen race of man, left to its own energy, has not produced a single
lover of God or doer of holiness, nor will it ever do so. Grace must
interpose or not one specimen of humanity will be found to follow
after the good and true. This is God's verdict after looking down
upon the race. Who shall gainsay 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">53:5.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">There were
they in great fear, where no fear was. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">David
sees the end of the ungodly and the ultimate triumph of the spiritual
seed. The rebellious march in fury against the gracious, but suddenly
they are seized with a causeless panic. The once fearless boasters
tremble like the leaves of the aspen, frightened at their own
shadows. In this sentence and this verse, this Psalm differs much
from the fourteenth. </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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