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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 style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">March 25, 2013</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">
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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>OCT
3 - 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-12 - A LIFE OF CONDUCT AND CALLING</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.
4:1, (NNT) EXHORTATION: TO AN ABOUNDING WALK. <font size="3">“For
</font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
rest, brethren, I ask and exhort you in </span></font><font size="3"><i>the</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
Lord Jesus, that, as you received of us :how you ought to walk and to
please God, even as you </span></font><font size="3"><i>do</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
walk, - that you abound more. </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we bless You for </span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">growth</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
in the Kingdom of God. How we please You today, we can do it more
abundantly tomorrow! Our capacity for a well-pleasing walk increases.
</span></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.
4:2. CHARGES: GIVE</span><span style="text-decoration:none">N</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
BY THE LORD JESUS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
you know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
it was </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
through the apostles giving charges. Your Kingdom is </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">more</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
than the word of man (1 Corinthians 14:37). Yes, we </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">glory</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
in the privilege of walking out these truths! </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.
4:3-4 (4:3-6) SANCTIFICATION: CHIEFLY CONCERNING FORNICATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
this is </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
will of :God, your :sanctification; that you abstain from
:fornication; </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">that
each of you know how to possess himself of his own :vessel in
sanctification and honor.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we would keep our bodies free from sexual sin. All sin is apart from
the body except fornication and perversion. We hear your word. </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.
4:7. SANCTIFICATION: CONTRASTED WITH UNCLEANNESS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
:God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Circumcise
our ears and hearts Father, that we may hear this word. Your wave of
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">holiness</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
precedes Your Kingdom wave. May we not only be </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">used</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of You, but may we also be </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">approved</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of You! O forgive us the smallness of our commitment to You! We give
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">our utmost</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
for </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Your highest</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</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.
4:8. UNCLEANNESS: DESPISES GOD AND HOLY SPIRIT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Therefore
who rejects, rejects not man, but :God, who give</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
his :Holy :Spirit unto you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Anoint
our eyes with eye-salve Father, that we may see! He who despises a
servant of the Lord despises </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
(1 Samuel 8:7). Cleanse us from all hindrances that prevent us from
seeing. </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.
4:9-10a. BROTHERLY LOVE: TAUGHT </span><span style="text-decoration:none">BY</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
GOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
concerning brotherly :love you have no need that one write you: for
you yourselves are taught of God :to love </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">one</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
another; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10a
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">for
indeed you do it toward all the brethren :in all :Macedonia.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
bless You Father, that in this teaching You give us through the
apostles, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">brotherly
love</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is Your emphasis. We receive Your Word, Father! We embrace it! We
love one another with Philadelphia love. </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.
4:10b-11 (4:10b-12) GOAL: A QUIET BUT INDUSTRIOUS SPIRIT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
we exhort you, brethren, that you abound more; </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">and
that you be ambitious to be quiet, and to do </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">your
</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">:own
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">business</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">,
and to work with your :hands, even as we charged you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Brotherly
love must increase. Good work habits must increase. You said so
Father, through Your apostles. And You above all have the right to do
this! </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"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
4:5-6 (4:3-6) GOD SPELLS OUT YET MORE CLEARLY AREAS OF FORNICATION.
</b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Not
in passion of lust, even as the nations who know not :God; </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">that
no one transgress, and wrong his :brother in the matter: because </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Lord is avenger in all these, as also we forewarned you and
testified.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Keep
fornication thought o</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ut</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of our minds, Father. We curse pornography in Jesus’ Name! Let it
not once be named amongst us!</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: “Conduct is Character” - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Should
everything seem to go amiss with us after we have done the right
thing, there is no cause for regret. Remember that our conduct is the
maker of our character.</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: 93:1 (93, ESV) THE LORD REIGNS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on
strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never
be moved.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Kings
of earth are not arrayed with Majesty such as You, O Jehovah Father!
Their pomp and splendor palls into insignificance before You.
Concerning </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You
alone</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
we say, </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">This
brief Psalm is without title or name of author, but its subject is
obvious enough, being stated in the very first line. It is the Psalm
of Omnipotent Sovereignty: Jehovah, despite all opposition, reigns
supreme. :Possibly at the time this sacred ode was written, the
nation was in danger from its enemies, and the hopes of the people of
God were encouraged by remembering that the Lord was still King. What
sweeter and surer consolation could they desire?</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">93:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Lord is clothed
with strength. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">May
the Lord appear in His church, in our day, in manifest majesty and
might, saving sinners, slaying errors, and honoring His own Name. Oh,
for a day of the Son of man, in which the King immortal and almighty
shall stand upon His glorious high throne, to be feared in the great
congregation, and admired by all them that believe.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">93:3.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The floods have
lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Sometimes
men are furious in words - they lift up their voice, and at other
times they rise to acts of violence - they lift up their waves; but
the Lord has control over them in either case. The ungodly are
all foam and fury, noise and bluster, during their little hour, and
then the tide turns or the storm is hushed, and we hear no more of
them; while the kingdom of the Eternal abides in the grandeur of
power. The whole Psalm is most impressive and is calculated
to comfort the distressed, confirm the timorous, and assist the
devout. O You Who are so great and gracious a King, reign over us
forever! We do not desire to question or restrain Your power; such is
Your character that we rejoice to see You exercise the rights of an
absolute monarch. All power is in Your hands, and we rejoice to have
i</span><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
so. Hosanna! Hosanna! </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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