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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">March 17, 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" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
27 - MICAH 1-2 - THREATS OF COMING JUDGMENT</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.
1:2 (1:1-4, ESV) JUDGMENT: THROUGH JEHOVAH. <font size="3">“Hear,
you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in
it, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his
holy temple.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Jehovah
Father, You are Sovereign Lord! You can do </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
things. You can chastise, judge and purge Your people. You </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">do</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
so! And in wrath, You remember mercy! </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"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
1:5 (1:5-9) JUDGMENT: FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“All
this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house
of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And
what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Samaria
first - then Judah! What man sows, he </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">must</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
reap! Your judgments Father, are necessary, righteous and just. We
deserve </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">more</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
than You mete out! </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.
1:12 (1:10-16) JUDGMENT: UPON JUDAH AND JERUSALEM. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
the inhabitants of Maroth (bitterness) wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of
Jerusalem.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
blind we are, Father! We think judgment will fall on every one else
but ourselves. We think that as Your chosen ones Your grace covers
all our sins and rebellion, and that the law of sowing and reaping is
lifted for us. How blind! How foolish! </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.
2:3 (2:1-3) WOE TO OPPRESSORS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Therefore
thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising
disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not
walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
forgive us for our willful, obdurate and determined blindness!
Forgive us our oppressions, and grant contrition and repentance of
heart! Forgive us our sins in the home against spouse and family.
Forgive us our sin against believer and unbeliever alike. Forgive us
for sullying Your Name! </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.
2:4 (2:4-5) LAMENTATION FOR THOSE JUDGED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“In
that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan
bitterly, and say, ‘We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion
of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our
fields.’” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, be with us when temptation’s hour is necessary. </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.
2:11 (2:6-11) JUDGMENT OF JUDAH: FALSE PROPHETS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“If
a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, ‘I will
preach to you of wine and strong drink,’ he would be the preacher
for this people!” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">God
help us! We deserve the prophets and leaders over us: women and
children (ISA 3:12)! We want it so and love it so. Like Daniel, we
pray for our sins and the sins of our fathers. O Father, hear our
confession and heal our land. </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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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
2:12 (2:12-13) JUDGMENT BY BREAKER: RESTORATION BY MESSIAH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“I
will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant
of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a
flock in it</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
pasture, a noisy multitude of men.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Righteous,
Just and Holy art Thou, O Father, King of the universe! </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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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><u>NOTE</u><span style="text-decoration:none">:
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H. Spurgeon Quotes: “A
Little Sin” - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">For
a little sin, or for a sin, however great, which had but little of
evil in its consequences, we might have been saved by some finite
being; but if God himself must quit his high abode, and sojourn here
to be our Saviour, then was our ruin terrible in the extreme.</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: </span><span style="text-decoration:none">87:1-3;
5-7 (87) GLORIOUS THINGS OF YOU ARE SPOKEN. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“On
the holy mount stands the city he founded; </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">the
LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of
Jacob. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">3
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Glorious
things of you are spoken, O city of God.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You take pleasure in us, Your holy city, Your habitation, Your Zion!
We bless You that You have chosen us as Your dwelling place. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">87:5-7
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And of
Zion it shall be said, ‘This one and that one were born in her’;
for the Most High himself will establish her. </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">The
LORD records as he registers the peoples, ‘This one was born
there.’ </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Selah
</span></i></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">7
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Singers
and dancers alike say, ‘All my springs are in you.’” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
faithfully You chastise us as sons, that this might come to pass!</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">Subject
and Division</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">:
The song is in honor of Zion, or Jerusalem, and it treats of God’s
favor to that city among the mountains, the prophecies which made it
illustrious, and the honor of b</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ing
a native of it. Many conceive that it was written at the founding of
David’s city of Zion, but does not the mention of Babylon imply a
later date? It would seem to have been written after Jerusalem and
the Temple had been built and had enjoyed a history of which glorious
things could be spoken.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">87:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">His
foundation is in the holy mountains. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Sudden
passion is evil, but bursts of holy joy are most precious.
Not on the sand of carnal policy, nor in the morass of human
kingdoms, has the Lord founded His church, but on His own power and
godhead, which are pledged for the establishment of His beloved
church, which is to Him the chief of all His works. Rome stand</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
on her seven hills and has never lacked a poet’s tongue to sing her
glories, but more glorious far are You, O Zion, among the eternal
mountains of God: while pen can write or mouth can speak, Your
praises shall never lie buried in inglorious silence. </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">87:7.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">All my
springs are in You. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
springs of my faith and all my graces; the springs of my life and all
my pleasures; the springs of my activity, and all its right doings;
the springs of my hope, and all its heavenly anticipations, all lie
in You, my Lord. Without Your Spirit I should be as a dry
well, a mocking cistern, destitute of power to bless myself or
others. O Lord, I am assured that I belong to the regenerate whose
life is in You, for I feel that I cannot live without You; therefore,
with all Your joyful people will I sing Your praises. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From:
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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