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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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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
6 - EPHESIANS 2:11-3:21 - REVELATION: THE MYSTERY CHURCH</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.
2:12 (2:11-12, NNT) CHURCH: ONCE UNATTAINABLE FOR NATIONS. <font size="3">“that
you were at that :season apart from Christ, alienated from the
commonwealth of :Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the
promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">You
have Sovereignly set Israel aside temporarily Father, unt</span><span style="font-weight:normal">il</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
the fullness of Gentiles i</span><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
grafted into Your Tree of Life. Today in the Church, Jew and Gentile
are one. </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.
2:13. CHURCH: MADE POSSIBLE FOR NATIONS THROUGH CHRIST. <font size="3">“But
now in Christ Jesus you that once were far </font><font size="3"><i>off</i></font><font size="3">
are become nigh in the blood of the Christ.” </font></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Reconciliation</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">:
through the blood of Your Son, Father! Then alive in the Holy Spirit!
First the blood; then the oil! </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.
2:14-15 (2:14-18) CHURCH: BOTH JEW AND NATIONS RECONCILED IN
CHRIST. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
HE is our :peace, who made :both one, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">and</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
broke down the middle wall of the partition, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">15
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">having
abolished in his :flesh the enmity, the law of the commandments
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">contained</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two </span></font><font size="3"><u>one
new man</u></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
making peace;” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You have made Jesus our peace, reconciling both Jew and Gentile in
Himself. </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.
2:19-20 (2:19-22) CHURCH: FOUNDED ON APOSTLES AND PROPHETS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">So
then you are no more strangers and sojourners, but are
fellow-citizens with the saints, and of :God’s household, </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">being
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus
himself being chief corner stone;” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
grace, Father! </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
the chief cornerstone, builds Jew and Gentile together into </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">one</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
holy habitation for God! We all share in the Covenant of God. </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.
3:10-11 (3:1-13) CHURCH MYSTERY: NATIONS FELLOW-HEIRS WITH JEWS.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">in
order</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenlies be
made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">11
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">according
to a plan of the ages which he made in the Christ, Jesus our Lord:”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
Satan and all his princes and demons shall know Your wisdom through
us, Your Church! You will not suffer them to tempt us above what we
are able to bear, but will make a way of escape for us. </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.
3:14-15 (3:14-19) CHURCH: INDWELT BY FULLNESS OF GOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
this cause I bow my :knees unto the Father, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">15
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">from
whom all fatherhood in heavens and on the earth is named.”</span></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">What
power You manifest on our behalf, Father. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And
bring us not into temptation.</b></span></i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>7.
3:20-21. CHURCH: CUSTODIAN OF GOD’S GLORY IN CHRIST. </b></span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>“</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Now
to the </b></span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>one</b></span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us, </b></span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>21
</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>to
him the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the
generations of the age of the ages. Amen.” </b></span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
hearts are dumb Father, before such a revelation of grace! </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>But
deliver us from the evil </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>one!</b></span></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>:
3:16-19. CHURCH: THE REVELATION GOD EXPECTS US TO ENVISION! </b></span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>“That
he give you, according to the riches of his :glory, to be made mighty
through his :Spirit unto the inward man; </b></span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>17
</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>that
the Christ dwell in your :hearts through :faith in love, rooted and
grounded, </b></span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>18
</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>so
that you be strong to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth
and length and depth and height, </b></span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>19
</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>and
to know the love of the Christ which passes :knowledge, that you be
filled unto all the fullness of :God.” </b></span></font><span style="text-decoration:none">The
close of the second great prayer of Paul in Ephesians.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “The Atonement is Essential”. </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
the sun is to the heavens, that the doctrine of a vicarious
satisfaction is to theology. Atonement is the brain and spinal cord
of Christianity. Take away the cleansing blood, and what is left to
the guilty? Deny the substitutionary work of Jesus, and you have
denied all that is precious in the New Testament.</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
Psalm of the Day: 66:12 (66) HOW AWESOME ARE YOUR DEEDS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“You
let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we choose to loose Your Niagara Falls through our lives, removing
every hindrance because of Christ’s Redemption! </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"><span style="text-decoration:none">He
has need to be a man of great skill, worthily to sing such a Psalm as
this: the best music in the world would be honored by marriage with
such expressions. We do not know who is its author, but we see no
reason to doubt that David wrote it!</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">66:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Make a joyful noise
unto God, all you lands. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">We
need not so much no</span><span style="text-decoration:none">i</span><span style="text-decoration:none">se
as </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">joyful</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
noise. God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go
there</span><span style="text-decoration:none">in</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
with holy exultation All praise from all nations should be rendered
unto the Lord. Happy the day when no shouts shall be presented to
Juggernaut or Boodh, but all the earth shall adore its Creator.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">66:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b> Say unto God.
</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Devotion, unless
it be resolutely directed to the Lord, is no better than whistling to
the wind. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Through
the greatness of Your power shall Your enemies submit themselves unto
You. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Power brings
a man to his knee, but love alone wins his heart. Pharaoh said he
would let Israel go, but he lied unto God; he submitted in word but
no</span><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
in deed. Tens of thousands, both in earth and hell, are rendering
this constrained homage to the Almighty; they only submit because
they cannot do otherwise; it is not their loyalty, but His power
which keeps them subjects of his boundless dominion.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">66:10.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>For You, O God,
have proved us. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">God
had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial. The
day may come when we shall make hymns out of our grief and sing all
the more sweetly because our mouths have been purified with bitter
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">d</span><span style="text-decoration:none">raughts.
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">66:12.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>We went through
fire and water. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
fires of the brick-kiln and the waters of the Nile did their worst to
destroy the chosen race; hard labor and child-murder were both tried
by this tyrant, but Israel went through both ordeals unharmed, and
even thus the church of God has outlived, and will outlive, all the
artifices and cruelties of man. The fire is not kindled which can
burn the woman's seed, neither does the dragon know how to vomit a
flood which shall suffice to drown it.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">66:18.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>If I regard
iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Nothing
hinders prayer like iniquity harbored in the breast; as with Cain, so
with us - sin lies at the door, and blocks the passage. If you listen
to the devil, God will not listen to you. If you refuse to hear God’s
commands, He will surely refuse to hear your prayers. An imperfect
petition God will hear for Christ’s sake, but not one which is
willfully miswritten by a traitor’s hand. For God to accept our
devotions while we are delighting in sin would be to make Himself the
God of hypocrites, which is a fitter name for Satan than for the Holy
One of Israel. </span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span></font></font></p>
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