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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
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2 - GALATIANS 5:13-6:10 - SPIRIT-WALK TRIUMPHS OVER FLESH-WALK</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.
5:13 (5:13-15, NNT) LOVE: FULFILLS THE LAW. <font size="3">“For
you, brethren, were called for freedom: only </font><font size="3"><i>use</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be
bondmen one to another.” </span></font><span style="font-style:normal">
</span></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Let
God’s Kingdom come through righteous</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">ness</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Through contrition of heart,
repentance and reconciliation, ever make us walk in Your ways of
righteousness. </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">C</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">ursed
be all deception that blurs this truth. </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.
5:16 (5:16-18) SPIRIT-WALK TRIUMPHS OVER FLESH-WALK. <font size="3">“But
I say, Walk in Spirit, and you shall in no wise fulfill </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3">
lust of </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"> flesh.” </font>
</b><span style="font-weight:normal">Here is Your will O Father, and
Your provision and gracious promise. Your Spirit-walk is a
Spirit-controlled life. We declare it! Your remnant shall surely walk
in the pure truth. </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.
5:19-21. FLESH-WALK: EXCLUDES FROM GOD’S KINGDOM! <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">20</font><font size="3">
idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wraths, factions,
divisions, heresies, </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">21</font><font size="3">
envyings, drunkennesses, revelings, and the like of these: </font><font size="3"><u>of
which I forewarn you</u></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
as also I did forewarn, </span></font><font size="3"><u>that they who
practice such </u></font><font size="3"><i><u>things</u></i></font><font size="3"><u>
shall not inherit God’s kingdom</u></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">.”</span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
curse, repudiate and remove this evidence of the flesh-walk from our
lives, that </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Father might be vindicated and glorified. </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.
5:22-23. SPIRIT-WALK: A REALM ABOVE LAW. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faith</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">ful</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">ness,</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">
23</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
gentleness, self-control; against :such </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">there</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
is no law.”</span></font><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, blessed are </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
who have infused Yourself into our spirit and heart through the
Spirit of Your Son! Yes, and forgiven our sins, and granted us the
grace through the fruit of the Spirit not only to forgive one
another’s sins, but to love our enemies! </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.
5:24. FLESH CRUCIFIXION: PROVES CHRIST’S OWNERSHIP. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
they of Christ Jesus</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">have
crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.” </span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
open our eyes to see the walk of the man identified with Christ in
His crucifixion. Tear away from our eyes deceptive blindness. As
Nathan confronted David of his adulterous and murderous heart, strip
us of all delusion and seduction of Satan, and bring us to the heart
contrition of Psalm 51. </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.
5:25 (5:25-26) SPIRIT-WALK: ITS LIFE AND NATURE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“If
we live by </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Spirit, by </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Spirit let us also walk.”</span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we love righteousness and hate iniquity. Let not the enemy deceive,
seduce and delude us into calling black, white. Show us that the same
Spirit who gave us the Living Word, also gave the written Word, and
that the two </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">always
agree</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
Show us that we listen to a lying spirit, an angel of light, when our
unrighteousness is called holiness. </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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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
6:1 (6:1-10) SPIRITUAL PEOPLE: MEEKLY RESTORE FALLEN ONES.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Brethren,
even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, you the spiritual,
restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself,
lest you also be tempted.”</span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we see our brother and sister deceived by Satan like Eve in the
garden. Breaking Your Word will surely cause us to die! Then You give
us up (Romans 1:24, 26, 28). As you sought the one lost sheep: seek,
save and restore the lost through us! </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>:
6:7-8 (6:1-10) A REAPING OF CONTRAST! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Be
not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall
he also reap. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">8
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Because
who sows unto his own :flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but
who sows unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
humble ourselves in heart-contrition, repent, and like the prodigal,
return to You!</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “He Cares for the Little”. </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">To
suppose that temporal things are too little for our condescending
God, is to forget that he observes the flight of sparrows, and counts
the hairs of his people’s heads. Besides, everything is so little
to him, that, if he does not care for the little, he cares for
nothing.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day - 62:8 (62, ESV) THE SOUL WAITS FOR GOD ALONE.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Trust
in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is
a refuge for us.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You alone understand the human heart and the ways of man. Reveal how
prone to deception we are! Show us that in our flesh dwells </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">no
good thing</span></font></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Teach us to have </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">no
confidence in the flesh</span></font></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Father, 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="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
by resolving </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">always</span></font></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
to walk in the paths of righteousness.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><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, to Jeduthun.” This is the second Psalm which is
dedicated to Jeduthun, or Ethan, the former one being the
Thirty-Ninth, a Psalm which is almost a twin with this in many
respects, containing in the original the word translated </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">only</span></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
four times as this does six.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">62:7.
</span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>In God is
my salvation and my glory. </i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Wherein
should we glory but in Him Who saves us? Our honor may well be left
with Him who secures our souls. To find all in </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">G</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">od
and to glory that it is so is one of the sure marks of an enlightened
soul.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">62:8.
</span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>Trust in
Him at all times.</i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Faith is an abiding duty, a perpetual privilege. We should trust
when we can see as well as when we are utterly in the dark.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">62:9.
</span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>To be laid
in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.</i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">
A feather has some weight in the scale; vanity has none, and
creature confidence has less than that: yet such is the universal
infatuation that mankind prefer an arm of flesh to the power of the
invisible but almighty Creator; and even God’s own children are too
apt to be bitten with this madness.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">62:10.
</span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>If riches
increase, set not your heart upon them. </i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">To
bow an immortal spirit to the constant contemplation of fading
possessions is extreme folly. Shall those who call the Lord their
glory, glory in yellow earth? Shall the image and superscription of
Caesar deprive them of communion with Him <br>Who is the image of the
invisible God? As we must not rest in men, so neither must we repose
in money. Gain and fame are only so much foam of the sea.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">62:12.
</span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>Also unto
You, O Lord, belongs mercy.</i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">
God is so full of mercy that it belongs to Him, as if all the mercy
in the universe came from God and still was claimed by Him as His
possession. </span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i> </i></font></b></font></font>
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