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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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<a href="tel:253-517-9195" target="_blank">253-517-9195</a> - Email:
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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 7, 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>SEP
1 - GALATIANS 4:8-5:12 - LOVE-SERVICE ENDS LAW-BONDAGE</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.
4:10-11 (4:8-11, NNT) GALATIANS: TURNED BACK TO LAW-BONDAGE. <font size="3">“You
observe days and months and seasons and years. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">11
</font><font size="3">I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have toiled
over you in vain.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Away
with picayunish dabbling with carnal, unprofitable law-traditions!
Father, help us to grow in maturity in Christ! </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.
4:16 (4:12-18) GALATIANS: REMINDED BY PAUL OF FIRST-LOVE. <font size="3">“So
then am I become your enemy, by telling you truth?” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Gospel of the Kingdom Father, frees us from legalism and convicts of
sin. Our self-will rebels at Your Good News, all of grace, none of
works! Father, </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus
redeemed</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
us from self-will. We join Him in saying Yes! - to all Your will!
</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.
4:19-20. GALATIANS: CAUSE PAUL A SECOND TRAVAIL. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“My
little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed
in you - </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">20
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">but I
could wish to be present with you now, and to change my :voice; for I
am perplexed about you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
can You meet our daily needs if we are double-minded, ambivalent,
like sea-waves tossed? Father, we renounce carnality, and choose </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
way</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of maturity! We desire You not only to use us, but also to </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">endorse</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
us! </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.
4:26-27 (4:21-31) GALATIANS: PAUL WOULD PERSUADE BY ALLEGORY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">But
the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">27
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For it
is written, </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Rejoice,
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">you</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
barren that does not bear; Break forth and cry, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">you</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
that do not travail: For more are the children of the desolate than
of her that has the husband.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Forgive
us our low state of faith, Father! We believe: help our </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">unbelief</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Help us to forsake Hagar and choose Sarah. Help us to identify with
Isaac, not Ishmael. We choose to forgive those who also walk the
lowlands of little faith. </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.
5:1. GALATIANS: EXHORTED BY PAUL UNTO LIBERTY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
:freedom did Christ set u</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of
bondage.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a carnal temptation! How prone we are to lapse into this low level!
Father, lift our sights to heaven’s table-land.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>And
forgive our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</b></i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
5:4 (5:2-6) GALATIANS: LAW CONTRASTED WITH FAITH WORKING BY LOVE.
<font size="3">“You are severed from Christ, you who would be
justified by law; you are fallen away from :grace.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">What
an indictment! May none of us deserve such words. Only in the law of
the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus will we cling. </span><b><i>And
bring us not into temptation.</i></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>7.
5:9 (5:7-12) GALATIANS: WARNED AGAINST THE LEAVEN OF CIRCUMCISION.
“<font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">A little leaven
leavens the whole lump.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
would beware of the very </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">beginnings</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of compromise with the pure Gospel of the grace of God. Father,
clearly write on our hearts this truth, that we may truly honor Yo</span></span></span><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">u!
</span></span></span></font><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></span></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"><u><b><span style="font-style:normal">NOTE</span></b></u><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
5:6 (5:2-6) GALATIANS: NEED TO KNOW THIS TRUTH! </b></span></span><b><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor
uncircumcision; but faith working through love.” </span></span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is one of the most significant verses of Scripture! He</span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ar</span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
this: “If you love Me, you </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">will</span></span></u><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
keep My commandments.” These are Your words of the Father, Lord
Jesus! Father, in love we commit ourselves to walk in Your words in
Christ!</span></span></span></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><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">SPECIAL
OPPORTUNITY: </span></span></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">God
has planned that each one of us be stewards over our own bodies. And
if God has our bodies: our soul and spirit are automatically
included, for our body is house for them. Perhaps a key verse for
this is Romans 12:1. Jesus as Son of man offered His body to His
Father as a Holocaust, a whole burnt offering. We, as members of His
spiritual body, the One New Man, the church - need to join Him in
this act, and offer our bodies to Him, not as a Levitical offering to
be killed, but as a </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">living</span></span></u><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
offering, over which we reign as stewards on God’s behalf.</span></span></span></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"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">One
hears little of this teaching in the church, but it is God’s will
in His Word, His Bible.</span></span></span></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"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">One
of the clearest messages on this challenge was given by Derek Prince
back in the 80’s entitled, “How Do You View Your Body?” You can
see this sermon freely by doing a “Google-search” on “Derek
Prince Youtube” - and clicking on the above title. It had a
profound effect on a Fort Lauderdale congregation - perhaps 60%
positively responding.</span></span></span></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"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
goes along with another of his messages there, “God’s Medicine
Bottle”. Between the two of them, you and I should not only end up
in much better bodily health - but also be vibrant, active,
productive, fruitful members of Christ’s spiritual body! </span></span></span></font></font>
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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"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">I
believe a number of you will respond. J.A.W.</span></span></span></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><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “Christ Loves His Church and Let Us Do the Same.”
</span></span></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
church is not perfect, but woe to the man who finds pleasure in
pointing out her imperfections. Christ loved his church, and let us
do the same. I have no doubt that the Lord can see more fault in his
church than I can; and I have equal confidence that he sees no fault
at all. Because he covers her faults with his own love - that love
which covers a multitude of sins; and he removes all her defilement
with that precious blood which washes away all the transgressions of
his people.</span></span></span></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><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 61:5 (61, ESV) LEAD ME TO THE ROCK. </span></span><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of
those who fear your name.” </span></span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
more can we say Father, than David has said in this Psalm? Our hearts
are filled with gratefulness to You. We see Your love unto us in
Christ. Therefore with all of our hearts we say, </span></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">Subject
and Division: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
Psalm is a pearl. It is little but precious. To many a mourner, it
has furnished utterance when the mind could not have devised a speech
for itself. It was evidently composed by David after he had come to
the throne (see 61:6). The second verse leads us to believe that it
was written during the Psalmist’s enforced exile from the
tabernacle, which was the visible abode of God: if so, the period of
Absalom’s rebellion has been most suitably suggested as the date of
its authorship, and Delitzsch is correct in entitling it, “Prayer
and thanksgiving of an expelled King on his way back to his throne.”
C.H.S.</span></span></font></font></p>
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