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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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<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/" target="_blank">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">February 2, 2013</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
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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
28 - GALATIANS 1:1-9 - LIBERTY: THREATENED BY FALSE GOSPEL</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.
1:1-2, NNT. PAUL: ESTABLIISHES HIS AUTHENTIC APOSTLESHIP. <font size="3">“Paul,
apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ,
and God </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
Father, who raised him from </span></font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
dead), </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="font-style:normal">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">and all
the brethren with me, to the churches of :Galatia:” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
in Your Kingdom, Jesus gave apostles to the church (EPH 4:11-12), and
You by Your purpose set them in the church for Christ to give (1 COR
12:28). May Christ build His church through apostolic teams. </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. PAUL: BRINGS APOSTOLIC GREETINGS. <font size="3">“Grace to
you and peace from God </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3">
Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We
thank You O God, for Paul! We thank You for Your grace and call which
made him what he was. Now O Lord, grant that we might let Your will
be done through us as effectively in our day, as was don</span><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
in the days of the early church. Yes, and because Christ made the
best wine last, Let the glory of Your latter house exceed the former!
</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.
1:4. PAUL: SETS FORTH CHRIST’S REDEMPTIVE WORK. <font size="3">“Christ,
who gave himself for our :sins, that he deliver us from the present
evil :age, according to the will of :God and our Father:” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Not
only have You looked after our deliverance through Christ O Father,
but you have covenanted to meed our daily needs. How faithful You
are! We have made ourselves bought-slaves of Christ, and You have
bound Yourself to meet our needs. </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.
1:5. PAUL: GLORIFIES THE FATHER. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">God
our Father: to whom the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">It
was Your will Father, that Christ should come, humble Himself,
identify Himself with us, die for our sins as our substitute, redeem
us, reconcile us, justify us, sanctify us, glorify us, and propitiate
Your wrath against Adam’s race. Now You can freely forgive our
sins, and by Christ's nature in us, we can forgive those who sin
against us, and love our enemies. </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.
1:6-7. PAUL: POWERFULLY SCORES GOSPEL PERVERSION. <font size="3">“I
marvel that you are so quickly removing from him that called you in
Christ’s grace unto a different gospel; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">7</font>
<font size="3">which is not another; only </font><font size="3"><i>there</i></font><font size="3">
are some that trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of the
Christ.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Perversion:
what an ugly word! Mixture: what an abomination! Your Gospel of the
Kingdom O Lord, we pledge not to pervert, add to, or corrupt. In this
You will guide us by the inward Spirit! </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.
1:8. PAUL: CURSES FALSE PREACHERS OF THE GOSPEL. <font size="3">“But
though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel
other than what we preached to you, let him be anathema.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
evil it is to preach another gospel! How Satan seeks to destroy
Kingdom foundations! If the foundations be destroyed, what can the
righteous do? O give us discernment against the devices of the devil.
</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.
1:9 PAUL: REPEATS HIS CURSE. <font size="3">“As we have said
before, so say I now again, If any preaches to you a gospel other
than what you received, let him be anathema.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
sober Your double affirmations, O Lord! O may we never deserve Your
wrath, Your curse, Your anathema! We would relate to You in a
responsible way. </span><b><i>But deliver us from the evil </i>one!</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>:
Our Psalm for the day: 58:3, 11 (58, ESV) </b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">GOD
WHO JUDGES THE EARTH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth,
speaking lies.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Apart
from Your revelation O Lord, we would not understand the
deceitfulness and utter corruption of the human heart. Natural man
recoils at this true revelation. But we humbly receive it, and trust
Christ only in us as our righteousness. </span></span><b><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">11
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Mankind
will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous: surely there
is a God who judges on earth.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Righteousness
belongs unto You O God, and You observe with pleasure those who walk
in righteousness on earth. Your wrath is upon the lawless who
persecute the righteous, and You vindicate the righteous for your
name’s sake!</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">This
is the fourth of the Psalms of the Golden Secret and the second of
the “Destroy Nots.” These names, if they serve for nothing else,
may be useful to aid the memory. Men give names to their horses,
jewels, and other valuables, and these names are meant not so much to
describe as to distinguish them, and in some cases to set forth the
owner’s high esteem of his treasure; after the same fashion, the
Oriental poet gave a title to the song he loved, and so aided his
memory, and expressed his estimation of the strain. We are not always
to look for a meaning in these superscriptions but to treat them as
we would the titles of poems of the names of tunes.</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">58:1.
</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Do
you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“What
everybody says must be true” is a lying proverb based upon the
presumption which comes of large combinations. Have we not all agreed
to hound the man to the death, and who dare hint that so many great
ones can be mistaken: Yet the persecuted one lays the axe at the root
by requiring his judges to answer the question whether or not they
were acting according to justice. It were well if men would sometimes
pause and candidly consider this. Some of those who surrounded Saul
were rather passive than active persecutors; they held their tongues
when the object of royal hate was slandered. </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">e
who refrains from defending the right is himself an accomplice in the
wrong. </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">58:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Yes, in
heart you work wickedness; you weight the violence of your hands in
the earth.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
See what a generation saints have to deal with! Such were the foes
of our Lord, a generation of vipers, an evil and adulterous
generation; they sought to kill Him because He was righteousness
itself, yet they masked their hatred to His goodness by charging Him
with sin.</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">58:3.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The wicked
are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born,
speaking lies. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
is small wonder that some men persecute the righteous seed of the
woman, since all of them are of the serpent’s brood, and enmity is
set between them. No sooner born tha</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">n</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
alienated from God - what a condition to be found in! He who starts
early in the morning will go far before night. To be untruthful is
one of the surest proofs of a fallen state, and since falsehood is
universal, so also is human depravity.</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">58:5.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Which will
not listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Ungodly men are not to be won by arguments the most logical or
appeals the most pathetic. Try all your arts, you preachers of the
Word! Lay yourselves out to meet the prejudices and tastes of
sinners, and you shall yet have to cry, “Who has believed our
report?” It is not in your music but in the sinners’ ear that the
cause of failure lies, and it is only the power of God that can
remove 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">58:8.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">As a snail
which melts, let every one of them pass away. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">As
the snail makes its own way by its slime, and so dissolves as it
goes, or as its shell is often found empty, as though the inhabitant
had melted away, so shall the malicious eat out their own strength
while they proceed upon their malevolent designs, and shall
themselves disappear. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Like
the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">They
are as if they had never been. Their character is shapeless, hideous,
revolting. They are fitter to be hidden away in an unknown grave than
to be reckoned among men. Their life comes never to ripeness, their
aims are abortive, their only achievement is to have brought misery
to others and horror to themselves. Such men as
Herod, Judas, Alva, Bonner, had it not been better for them if they
had never been born? Better for the mothers who bore them? Better for
the lands they cursed? Better for the earth in which their putrid
carcasses are hidden from the sun? Every unregenerate man is an
abortion. He misses the true form of God-made manhood; he corrupts in
the darkness of sin; he never sees or shall see the light of God in
purity in heaven. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by C.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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