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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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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
9 - EPHESIANS 5:15-6:9 - RELATIONSHIPS IN OUR 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.
5:15-16 (5:15-17, NNT) OUR WALK: ACCORDING TO GOD’S PURPOSES.
<font size="3">“Look therefore carefully how you walk, not as unwise,
but as wise; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">16 </font><font size="3">redeeming
the season, because the days are evil.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we are sons and daughters of Your Kingdom! We are not of t</span><span style="font-weight:normal">h</span><span style="font-weight:normal">is
world. We have been delivered out of the authority of Satan and
translated in the Kingdom of Your dear Son! </span><b><i>Hallowed be
your :name!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<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>2.
5:18-19 (5:18-21) OUR WALK: BY THE SPIRIT. <font size="3">“And be
not drunk with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3">
Spirit; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">19 </font><font size="3">speaking
to yourselves </font><font size="3"><i>in</i></font><font size="3">
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your
:heart to the Lord.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We
thank You Father, for the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus Your Son. We
thank You that Your Spirit through Your Son enables us to sing a new
song, the song of the soul set free, the song of the redeemed. </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.
5:22-24. OUR WALK: FOR OUR WIVES. <font size="3">“:Wives, </font><font size="3"><i>be
subject</i></font><font size="3"> to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">23 </font><font size="3">because
</font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"> husband is the
wife’s head as also the Christ is head of the church, himself
savior of the body. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">24 </font><font size="3">But
as the church is subject to the Christ, so the wives </font><font size="3"><i>be</i></font><font size="3">
also to the</font><font size="3"><i>ir</i></font><font size="3"> husbands
in everything.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">In
the Spirit, we submit ourselves one to another in Your fear, Father,
without respect of persons. In divine order, we submit to this order,
and rejoice that wives can portray the love and respect of the church
to Christ. </span><b><i>Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on
earth.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<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>4.
5:25-26 (5:25-30) OUR WALK: FOR HUSBANDS. <font size="3">:Husbands,
love the wives, even as the Christ also loved the church, and gave
himself up for it; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">26 </font><font size="3">that
he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of the water
with </font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"> word.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, we who are husbands quake at our high calling. Forgive us as
husbands for failing so often to portray the love and self-giv</span><span style="font-weight:normal">int</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
of Christ to His church. May our wives too forgive us for falling
short. By Your Grace we resolve to live up to Your purposes. </span><b><i>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<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>5.
5:33 (5:31-33) OUR WALK: AN ANALOGY OF THE CHURCH. <font size="3">“Nevertheless
you love also severally each his own :wife, even as himself: and the
wife </font><font size="3"><i>see</i></font><font size="3"> that she fear
the husband.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Mutually,
we commit ourselves as husbands and wives to </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">walk</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
in our order and responsibility. We marvel how Your standard in the
home Father, is just now being restored. O that present helps were in
existence a few decades ago! </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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<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.
6:1, 4 (6:1-4) OUR WALK: FOR CHILDREN AND FATHERS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Children,
obey your :parent in </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the
</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Lord:
for this is right. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">4
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And,
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">you</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
the fathers, provoke not your :children to wrath: but nurture them in
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Lord’s chastening and admonition.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
we have let the enemy in by the failure both of children and fathers.
Heavenly Father, forgive us our blindness and disobedience. </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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<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.
6:5 (6:5-9) OUR WALK: FOR EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“:Bondmen,
be obedient to the lords, according to </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your :heart, as unto
the Christ.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Employees,
apprentices, modern workers, slaves in other countries - we submit
Father, to Your wisdom in these words. We know it worked in the days
of Paul. We know Your eternal principles still work today. </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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<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>:
5:20-21 (5:18-21) </b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">OUR
WALK: AN ETERNAL PRINCIPLE IN CHRIST. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Thanking
always for all in our Lord Jesus Christ’s name the God and Father;
</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">21
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">subjecting
yourselves one to another in fear of Christ.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we accept and obey these Your words through Paul.</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">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “Charismatic in Excess” - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Some,
I know, fall into a very vicious habit, which habit they excuse in
themselves - namely, that of ordering their steps according to
impressions. Every now and then I met with people whom I think to be
rather weak in the head, who will journey from place to place, and
will perform follies by the gross under the belief that they are
doing the will of God, because some silly whim of their diseased
brains is imagined to be an inspiration from above.</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 for the Day: 69:10-11 (69, ESV) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">SAVE
ME, O GOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">When
I wept </span></font><u><font size="3">and humbled my soul with
fasting</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
it became my reproach. </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">I am
the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs
about me.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
In David You show us David’s greater Son by Your Spirit. You O
LORD, show us David’s Lord! And in Jesus we see prophetically the
suffering He endured on our behalf. You Father, were in Christ
reconciling the world to Yourself. </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">In
the Forty-First they were golden lilies, dropping sweet-smelling
myrrh, and blooming in the fair gardens which skirt the ivory
palaces: in this we have the lily among thorns, the lily of the
valley, fair and beautiful, blooming in the Garden of Gethsemane. If
any inquire, “Of whom speaks the psalmist this? of himself, or of
some other man?” we would reply, “Of himself and of some other
man.” Who that other is, we need not be long in discovering; it is
the Crucified alone Who can say, “In My thirst they gave Me vinegar
to drink.” His footprints all through this sorrowful song have been
pointed out by the Holy Spirit in the New Testament, and therefore we
believe, and are sure, that the Son of man is here. Yet it seems to
be the intention of the Spirit, while He gives us personal types and
so shows the likeness to the firstborn which exists in the heirs of
salvation, to set forth also the disparities between the best of the
sons of men and the Son of God, for there are verses here which we
dare not apply to our Lord; we almost shudder when we see our
brethren attempting to do so, as for instance, verse 5.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Save me, O God.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
“He saved others, Himself He cannot save.” With strong cryings
and tears, He offered up prayers and supplications unto Him that was
able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared. Thus
David had prayers, and here his Son and Lord utters the same </span><span style="text-decoration:none">c</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ry.
It is remarkable that such a scene of woe should be presented to us
immediately after the jubilant ascension hymn of the last Psalm, but
this only shows how interwoven are the glories and the sorrows of our
ever-blessed Redeemer. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>For
the waters are come in unto My soul. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Bodily
anguish is not His first complaint; He begins with the gall which
embittered His lips, but with the mighty griefs which broke into His
heart. All the sea outside a vessel is less to be feared than that
which finds its way into the hold. In all this, He has sympathy with
us and is able to succor us when we, like Peter, beginning to sink,
cry to Him, “Lord, save, or we perish.”</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>My throat is dried.
</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Few, very few, of
His saints follow their Lord in prayer so far as this. We are, it is
to be feared, more likely to be hoarse with talking frivolities to
men than by pleading with God; yet our sinful nature demands more
prayer than His perfect humanity might seems to need. H</span><span style="text-decoration:none">is</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
prayers should shame us into fervor. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>My
eyes fail while I wait for my God.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
There are times when we should pray till the throat is dry, and
watch till the eyes grow dim. Only thus can we have fellowship with
Him in His sufferings. What! can we not watch with Him one hour? Does
the flesh shrink back? O cruel flesh, to be so tender of yourself and
so ungenerous to your Lord?</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:4.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>They that hate Me
without a cause are more than the hairs of My head.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
“This is the heir, let us kill Him that the inheritance may be
ours,” was the unanimous resolve of all the keepers of the Jewish
vineyard; while the Gentiles outside the walls of the Garden
furnished the instruments for His murder and actually did the deed.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:8.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>I am become a
stranger unto My brethren.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
The Jews, His brethren in race, rejected Him; His family, His
brethren by blood, were offended at Him; His disciples, His brethren
in spirit, forsook Him and fled; one of them sold Him and another
denied Him with oaths and cursings. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And
an alien unto My mother’s children. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">May
none of us ever act as if we were strangers to Him; never may we
treat Him as if He were an alien to us: rather let us resolve to be
crucified with Him, and may grace turn the resolve into fact.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:9</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>.
For the zeal of your house has eaten me up. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Zeal
for God is so little understood by men of the world that it always
draws down opposition upon those who are inspired with it; they are
always sure to be accused of sinister motives, or of hypocrisy, or of
being out of their senses. When zeal eats us up, ungodly men seek to
eat us up, too, and this was preeminently the case with our Lord,
because His holy jealousy was preeminent.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:10.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>When I </b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>wept,
and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Savior wept much in secret for our sins, and no doubt His private
soul-chastenings on our behalf were very frequent. Lone mountains and
desert places saw repeated agonies, which, if they could disclose
them, would astonish us indeed. The emaciation which these exercises
sought in our Lord made Him appear nearly fifty years old when He was
but little over thirty; this which was to His honor was used as a
matter of reproach against Him.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:21.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And in My thirst
they gave Me vinegar to drink. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
A criminal’s draught was offered to our innocent Lord, a bitter
portion to our dying Master. Sorry entertainment had earth for her
King and Savior. How often have our sins filled the gall-cup of our
Redeemer! While we blame the Jews, let us not excuse ourselves.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:29.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>But I am poor and
sorrowful. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">No man
was ever poorer or more sorrowful tha</span><span style="text-decoration:none">n</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
Jesus of Nazareth, yet His cry out of the depths was heard, and He
was uplifted to the highest glory. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Let
Your salvation, O God, set me up on high. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">O
you poor and sorrowful ones, lift up your heads, for as with your
Lord, so shall it be with you. You are trodden down today as the mire
of the streets, but you shall ride upon the high places of the earth
ere long; and even now you are raised up together and made to sit
together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">69:31.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>This also shall
please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that has horns and
hoofs. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">opus
operatum, </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">which our
ritualists think so much of, the Lord puffs at. The horning and
hoofing are nothing to Him, though to Jewish ritualists the</span><span style="text-decoration:none">se</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
were great points, and matters for critical examination; our modern
rabbis are just as precise as to the mingling of water with their
wine, the baking of their wafers, the cut of their vestments, and the
performance of genuflections towards the right quarter of the
compass. O fools, and slow of heart to perceive all the the Lord has
declared. </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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