<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 0.79in }
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }
A:link { so-language: zxx }
-->
</style>
<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>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Tel:
<a href="tel:253-517-9195" target="_blank">253-517-9195</a> - Email:
<a href="mailto:jmbetter@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmbetter@gmail.com</a></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Web:
<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"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/" target="_blank">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 0.79in }
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }
-->
</style>
</a></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
8 - EPHESIANS 4:17-5:14 - SANCTIFICATION: INEVITABLE COROLLARY</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
4:17 (4:17-19, NNT) OUR WALK: NOT LIKE THE NATIONS. <font size="3">“This
I say therefore, and testify in </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
Lord, that you no longer should walk as the nations also walk, in </span></font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
vanity of their :mind.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Kingdom Father, is not apart from holiness. You appoint a </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">walk</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
for us that is according to Your Word, Your Spirit and our
profession. </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
4:23-24 (4:20-24) OUR WALK: THROUGH THE NEW MAN. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
that you be renewed in the spirit of your :mind, </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">24
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">and
put on the new man, that after God has been created in righteousness
and holiness of the truth.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
Jesus we see and experience Your Kingdom of righteousness, peace and
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">j</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">oy
in the Holy Spirit, Father! We are a new creation in Christ! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
4:26-27 (4:25-29) OUR WALK: REMOVED FROM NEGATIVE SINS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Be
angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: </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">neither
give place to the devil.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
you equate anger </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">here
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">with
Satan! We renounce Satan and all his works. We make no provision to
walk in his ways! </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>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
4:30. OUR WALK: NOT GRIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
grieve not the Holy :Spirit of :God, in whom you were sealed unto a
day of redemption.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
forgive us that so often we grieve the Holy Spirit by a sinful walk.
O show us Calvary love in Jesus, and lift us into grateful and
thankful hearts. Lead us to be compassionate and forgiving toward our
fellow man! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
5:1-2 (4:31-5:2) OUR WALK: ONE OF LOVE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Be
therefore imitators of :God, as beloved children; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">and
walk in love, even as the Christ also loved you, and gave himself up
for you, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet
smell.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we see Jesus washing His disciples’ feet! We see Him propitiating
You for our sins. We see Him redeeming us from the hand of the enemy
and </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">reconciling</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
us to You by His blood! </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>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
5:5 (5:3-5) OUR WALK: APART FROM SINS OF THE BODY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
this you know </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">and</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
perceive that no fornicator, nor unclean, nor covetous </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">man</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
(which is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of the
Christ and God.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Write
these things upon our hearts, O Father! Teach us the fear of the
Lord, which is to depart from evil! Bring us into a close </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">walk</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
with You. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
5:14 (5:6-14) OUR WALK: A REPROOF TO DARKNESS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Wherefore
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">it</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
says, Awake, you that sleep, And arise from the dead, And the Christ
shall shine upon you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You shine forth through those who walk in righteousness. You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">love</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
those in a special way who </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">walk</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
in ways pleasing to You! Put in our hearts the desire to please You
in our </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">walk</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</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>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
4:31-32 (4:31-5:2) OUR WALK: BOTH NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Let
all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put
away from you, with all malice: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">32
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">and be
kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as
:God also in Christ forgave you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
strikes a responsive chord in our hearts, Father. We want our
relationships with one another to be the same as Christ’s to us.
Yes, let it be so Father, </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">by</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the blessing of your Grace!</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “Every Christian’s Call” - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church
that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his
time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian
service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of
ministry or another.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 68:5-6 (68, ESV) </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Father
of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy
habitation. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">6
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">God
settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to
prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Your justice and compassion, Father! How You balance them! Mercy and
truth kiss each other! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">It
is a most soul-stirring hymn. The first verses were often the
battle-song of the Covenanters and Ironsides; and the whole Psalm
fitly pictures the way of the Lord Jesus among His saints and His
ascent to glory. The Psalm is at once surpassingly excellent and
difficult. Its darkness in some stanzas is utterly impenetrable. Well
does a German critic speak of it as a Titan very hard to master.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">68:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Let God arise.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
The ark would have been a poor leader if the Lord has not been
present with the symbol. Before we move, we should always desire to
see the Lord lead the way. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Let
His enemies be scattered. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
glorious Captain of the vanguard clears the way readily, however many
may seek to obstruct it; He has but to arise, and they flee. He has
easily overthrown His foes in days of yo</span><span style="text-decoration:none">re</span><span style="text-decoration:none">,
and will do so all through the ages to come. Sin, death, and hell
know the terror of His arm; their ranks are broken at His approach.
Our enemies are His enemies, and in this is our confidence of
victory. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b> Let
them also that hate Him flee before Him. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">To
hate the infinitely good God is infamous, and the worst punishment is
not too severe. He comes, He sees, He conquers. How fitting a prayer
is this for the commencement of a revival! How it suggests the true
mode of conducting one: the Lord leads the way, His people follow,
the enemies flee.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">68:4.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Sing unto God, sing
praises to His name. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Sing
not for ostentation, but devotion; not to be heard of men, but of the
Lord Himself. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And
rejoice before Him. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">We
ought to avoid dullness in our worship. Our songs should be weighty
with solemnity, but not heavy with sadness. Angels are nearer the
throne than we, but their deepest awe is consonant with the purest
bliss.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">68:11.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Lord gave the
word: great was the company of those that published it.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
The ten thousand maids of Israel, like good handmaids of the Lord,
aroused the sleepers, called in the wanderers, and bade the valiant
men hasten to the fray. Oh, for the like zeal in the church of today,
that when the gospel is published, both men and women may eagerly
spread the glad tidings of great joy.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">68:18.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>You have ascended
on high. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The ark
was conducted to the summit of Zion. The antitype of the ark, the
Lord Jesus, has ascended into the heavens with signal marks of
triumph. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>You
have led captivity captive. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">As
great conquerors of old led whole nations into captivity, so Jesus
leads forth from the territory of His foe a vast company as the
trophies of His grace. The Lord Jesus destroys His foes with their
own weapons; He puts death to death, entombs the grave, and leads
captivity captive.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">68:28.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Strengthen, O God,
that which You have wrought for us. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">We
expect God to bless His own work. He has never left any work
unfinished yet, and He never will. “When we were without strength,
in due time Christ died for the ungodly”; and now, being reconciled
to God, we may look to Him to perfect that which concerns us, since
He never forsakes the work of His own hands.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">68:32.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Sing unto God, you
kingdoms of the earth. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Happy
are men that God is One Who is consistently the object of joyous
worship, for not such are the demons of the heathen. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>O
sing praises unto the Lord. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Again
and again is God to be magnified; we have too much sinning against
God but cannot have too much singing to God.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">68:34.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Ascribe you
strength unto God. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Let
us never by our doubts or our</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">daring defiances
appear to deny power unto God; on the contrary, by yielding to Him
and trusting in Him, let our hearts acknowledge His might. When we
are reconciled to God, His omnipotence is an attribute of which we
sing with delight. </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>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b>TO
SUBSCRIBE - Please Email: <a href="mailto:mailing-subscribe@2rbetter.org" target="_blank">mailing-subscribe@2rbetter.org</a></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b>TO
UNSUBSCRIBE - Please Email: <a href="mailto:mailing-unsubscribe@2rbetter.org" target="_blank">mailing-unsubscribe@2rbetter.org</a></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b>FOR
ARCHIVE ARTICLES - Web:<a href="http://2rbetter.org/pipermail/mailing/" target="_blank">http://2rbetter.org/pipermail/mailing/</a></b></font></p>