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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
12 - HOSEA 8-10 - ISRAEL SHALL BE PUNISHED: GOD IS JUST</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.
8:1 (8:1-4, ESV) ISRAEL: JUDGMENT FOR INIQUITY. <font size="3">“Set
the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the
LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against
my law.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
plant Your fear in our heart, and write there that You are a Jealous
God. Clarify in our minds and hearts that Your Kingdom is in truth
and power! that judgment comes for violation of Kingdom principles.
</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.
8:7 (8:5-10) ISRAEL: IDOLATRY. <font size="3">“For they sow the
wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no
heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would
devour it.” </font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
judgments Father, are You</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">r</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">
strange acts of mercy, to bring us to true contrition and repentance.
We bow and submit to Your ways. </span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>Your
:kingdom come!</i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font style="font-size:11pt">3.
8:14 (8:11-14) ISRAEL: JUDGMENT</font><font size="3">. “For Israel
has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied
fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall
devour his strongholds.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">O
the tragedy of forgetting Your former times of goodness and mercy,
Father! Forgive us for forgetting You and growing lukewarm and cold
so so</span><span style="font-weight:normal">o</span><span style="font-weight:normal">n.
Awaken us to the truthfulness and soberness of Your warnings. </span><b><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
9:8 (9:1-9) ISRAEL: JUDGMENT FOR INIQUITY. <font size="3">“The
prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler’s
snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
sad th</span><span style="font-weight:normal">at</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
we have false prophets in the land, who have perverted the right ways
of Jehovah. Turn the prophets back to true watchmen and intercessors
once again! </span><b><i>Our :daily :bread Give us this day!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
9:15 (9:10-17) ISRAEL: BEREAVEMENT AND JUDGMENT. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Every
evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of
the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I
will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">With
You Jehovah Father, comes a time in our sinning when the die is cast!
Judgment no longer can be averted. </span><b><i>And forgive us our
:debt, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
10:8 (10:1-8) ISRAEL: JUDGMENT FOR INIQUITY. <font size="3">“The
high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and
thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the
mountains, ‘Cover us,’ and to the hills, ‘Fall on us.’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">O
God our Father, we tremble i</span><span style="font-weight:normal">n</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
our blindness to the reality of Your judgment in the light of our
rebellion, disobedience and ungratefulness! In judgment remember
mercy! </span><b><i>And bring us not into temptation!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>7.
10:12 (10:9-15) ISRAEL: ADMONITION. <font size="3">“Sow for
yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow
ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and
rain righteousness upon you.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Open</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
our ears that we may hear Your voice, O Jehovah Father, and tremble
at Your Word, for You are a Jealous God! Put Your fear in our hearts.
</span><b><i>But deliver us from the evil </i>one!</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>:
C.H. Spurgeon Quotes: “Glorified in us.” </b></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
endeavor to glorify him now by our actions, but then he will be
glorified in our own persons, and character, and condition. He is
glorified by what we do, but he is at the last to be glorified in
what we are.</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: 72:8; 18-19 (72) GIVE THE KING YOUR JUSTICE.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">May
he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of
the earth! </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Blessed
be Your holy Name Father, for triumph in the end is decreed by You.
This verse was selected by the Premier of New Brunswick, Canada in
1867 - for naming the Dominion of Canada! </span></span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“</span></span></font><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Blessed
be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">19
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Blessed
be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his
glory! Amen and Amen!” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Wisdom
comes forth from Your anointed, O Father! Wisdom from Solomon; wisdom
from Your Son Jesus; wisdom from Christ’s body. </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">It
is pretty certain that the title declares Solomon to be the author of
this Psalm, and yet from verse </span><span style="text-decoration:none">2</span><span style="text-decoration:none">0
it would seem that David uttered it in prayer before he died. Jesus
is here, beyond all doubt, in the glory of His reign, both as He now
is and as He shall be revealed in the latter-day glory.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">72:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And the little
hills by righteousness. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">In
a spiritual sense, peace is given to the heart by the righteousness
of Christ; and all the powers and passions of the soul are filled
with a holy calm, when the way of salvation, by a divine
righteousness, is revealed. Then do we go forth with joy, and are led
forth with peace; the mountains and the hills break forth before us
into singing.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">72:5.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>They fear You as
long as the sun and moon endure.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
His kingdom, moreover, is no house of cards, or dynasty of days; it
is as lasting as the lights of heaven; days and nights will cease
before He abdicates His throne. Neither sun nor moon as yet manifest
any failure in their radiance, nor are there any signs of decrepitude
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">in the kingdom of Jesus;
on the contrary, it is but in its youth, and is evidently the coming
power, the rising sun. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Throughout
all generations. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Each
generation shall have a regeneration in its midst, let pope and devil
do what they may. Even at this hour we have before us the tokens of
His eternal power; since He ascended to His throne, eighteen hundred
years ago, His dominion has not been overturned, though the mightiest
of empires have gone like visions of the night. We see on the shore
of time the wrecks of the Caesars, the relics of the Moguls, and the
last remnants of the Ottomans. Charlemagne, Maximilian, Napoleon, how
they flit like shadows before us! They were and are not; but Jesus
forever </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">is</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">.
And for the houses of Hohenzollern, Guelph, or Hapsburg, they have
their hour; but the Son of David has all hours and ages as His own.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">72:6.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>He shall come down
like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Each
crystal drop of rain tells of heavenly mercy which forgets not the
parched plains: Jesus is all grace, all that He does is love, and His
presence among men is joy. We need to preach Him more, for no shower
can so refresh the nations. Philosophic preaching mocks men as with a
dust shower, but the gospel meets the case of fallen humanity, and
happiness flourishes beneath its genial power. Come down, O Lord,
upon my soul, and my heart shall blossom with Your praise.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">72:8
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>He shall have
dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of
the earth. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">We are
encouraged by such a passage as this to look for the Savior’s
universal reign; whether before or after His personal advent, we
leave for the discussion of others. In this Psalm, at least, we see a
personal monarch, and He is the central figure, the focus of all the
glory; not His servant, but Himself do we see possessing the dominion
and dispensing the government. Personal pronouns referring to our
great King are constantly occurring in this Psalm; </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
has dominion, kings fall down before </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Him,</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
and serve </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Him; </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">for
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
delivers, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
spares, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
saves, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
lives, and daily is </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
praised.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">72:18-19.
As Quesnel well observes, these verses explain themselves. They call
rather for profound gratitude and emotion of heart than for an
exercise of the understanding; they are rather to be used for
adoration than for exposition. It is, and ever will be, the acme of
our desires and the climax of our prayers, to behold Jesus exalted
King of kings and Lord of lords. </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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ENDS BOOK II OF THE BOOK OF PSALMS</span></b></font></font></p>
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