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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="http://www.2rbetter.org/" target="_blank">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">February 10, 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;text-align:center"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
3 - GALATIANS 6:11-18 - FINAL DOCTRINAL APPEAL</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.
6:11, NNT. PAUL: POINTS OUT HIS LETTER’S PERSONAL NATURE. </b></font><b>
“See with how large letters I have written you with my own hand.”
</b> Not often O Lord, did your servant write in his own hand. Let
our love and concern for Your people and Kingdom, be as Paul’s! O
may we give ourselves to You and others in self-denial,
cross-bearing, and following as Your Kingdom servants.<font style="font-size:11pt"><i>
</i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b> Hallowed be
your :name!</b></i></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>2.
6:12 (6:12-13) PAUL: POINTS OUT TRUE NATURE OF CIRCUMCISION. </b></font><b>
“As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, compel you to
be circumcised; only that they be not persecuted for the cross of
:Christ Jesus.” </b>O let us not hold back from full surrender
because of fear of identification with the complete message of the
Gospel of the Kingdom. <font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>Your
:kingdom come!</b></i></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>3.
6:14. PAUL’S GLORYING: THE CROSS OF CHRIST. </b></font><b>“But
far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our :Lord Jesus
Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to
the world.” </b> We renounce the right of the world to rule over
us! We identify ourselves with Your cause and Your Cross, O Lord!
<font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>Your :will be done, As in
heaven, so on earth.</b></i></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>4.
6:15. PAUL: MAGNIFIES CHRIST’S NEW CREATION. </b></font><b> “For
neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new
creation.”</b> Thank you Lord for what You accomplished for us
legally at Calvary. Thank You that through the Holy Spirit You work
this in us and through us vitally. Thank You Father, that this lays
the righteous base for Your great gift of “forgiveness” to each
of us upon our repentance and faith. <b> </b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day!</b></i></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>5.
6:16. PAUL: BLESSES THOSE WHO WALK BY THIS RULE. </b></font><b>
“And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them, and
mercy, and upon the Israel of :God.” </b> How great is Your mercy O
Lord: to the Jews, to the Gentiles, and to the Church of God. You
have not forgotten nor forsaken Israel, for a remnant even now honors
You, and more to come! O may we all walk in New Creation truths! <i><b>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors!</b></i></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>6.
6:17. PAUL: AN ODD CONCLUSION.</b></font><b> “Henceforth let no
one trouble me; for I bear on my :body the marks of :Jesus.”</b>
And now, what shall we say? Persecution for the Gospel of the Kingdom
came to Paul physically. Not all experienced this. But Lord, if Your
will leads some of us this same way, Your will be done! <font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>And
lead us not into temptation!</b></i></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.
6:18. PAUL: APOSTOLIC BENEDICTION</b></font><b>. “The grace of
our :Lord Jesus Christ be with your :spirit, brethren. Amen.”</b>
O Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed be Your Name.
But deliver us from the evil one!</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>NOTE:
C.H. Spurgeon Quotes: </b></font>“Regeneration” - Those who are
saved by God the Holy Spirit are created anew according to Scripture;
but who ever dreamed of creation creating itself? God spoke the world
out of nothing, but nothing did not aid in the creation of the
universe. Divine energy can do everything, but what can nothing do?
Now if we have a new creation, there must have been a creator, and it
is clear that being then spiritually created, we could not have
assisted in our own new creation, unless, indeed, death can assist
life, and non-existence aid in creation.</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>Our
Psalm for the day: 63:1-2 (63, ESV) MY SOUL THIRSTS FOR YOU. </b></font>
<b>“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts
for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where
there is no water. 2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding your power and glory.” </b> Lord, as our hearts reach out
after You as men like David, people after Your own heart: so shall we
be people who hallow your :name! 63:3-4. <b>“Because your
steadfast love (CHEsed) is better than life, my lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up
my hands.” </b>Praise becomes You, O Jehovah! Your Covenant love
is better than the life of body, soul and spirit; for if we die, yet
shall we live again! Amen and Amen!</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>Title:</b></font>
<span style="font-weight:normal">“A Psalm of David, when he was
in the wilderness of Judah.” This was probably written while David
was fleeing from Absalom; certainly at the time he wrote it he was
king (verse 11), and hard pressed by those who sought his life.
The distinguishing word of this Psalm is “Early.” When the bed is
the softest, we are most tempted to rise at lazy hours, but when
comfort is gone, and the couch is hard, if we rise the earlier to
seek the Lord, we have much for which to thank the wilderness.</span></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-weight:normal">63:1
</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>Early will I
seek You. </b></i></font><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Possession breeds desire. Full assurance is no hindrance to diligence
but is the mainspring of it. How can I seek another man’s God? But
it is with ardent desire that I seek after Him Whom I know to be my
own. Observe the eagerness implied in the time mentioned; he will not
wait for noon or the cool eventide; he is up at cock-crowing to meet
his God. </span></span><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>My
soul thirsts for You.</b></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Thirst is an insatiable longing after that which is one of the most
essential supports of life; there is no reasoning with it, no
forgetting it, no despising it, no overcoming it by stoical
indifference. Thirst will be hear</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">d</span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">;
the whole man must yield to its power; even thus is it with that
divine desire which the grace of God creates in regenerate men.</span></span><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></font>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">63:3.
</span><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>Because Your
lovingkindness is better than life.</b></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
To dwell with God is better than life at its best; life at ease, in a
palace, in health, in honor, in wealth, in pleasure; yes, a thousand
lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah’s
smile.</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">63:4
</span></span><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>I will lift
up my hands in Your name. </b></i></font><i><b> </b></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">No
hands need hang down when God draws near in love. The name of Jesus
has often made lame men leap as a hart and it has made sad men clap
their hands for joy.</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">63:11</span></span><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>But
the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.</b></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
And the sooner the better. If shame will not do it, nor fear, nor
reason, then let them be stopped with the sexton’s shove-full of
earth; for a liar is a human devil, he is the curse of men, and
accursed of God, who has comprehensively said, “All liars shall
have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.”
See the difference between the mouth that praises God and the mouth
that forges lies: the first shall never be stopped, but shall sing on
forever; the second shall be made speechless at the bar of God.
</span></span><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:normal"><b>(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span></font></font></p>
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