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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>OCT
29 - HEBREWS 13 - LEADERSHIP: APPOINTMENT DEFEATING ANARCHY</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.
13:4 (13:1-6, NNT) BOLD SPEAKING: BECAUSE OF THE LORD. <font size="3"><i>“Let</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
marriage </span></font><font size="3"><i>be</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">
in honor among all, and the bed undefiled: for fornicators and
adulterers :God will judge.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">All</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
sexual sin outside of marriage, including adultery within marriage,
is a violation against You Father, and against our bodies. This is a
word to </span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">believers</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
</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.
13:7. RULERS HONORED: BECAUSE OF WORD, FAITH AND RESULTS.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Remember
those ruling over you, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">men</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
that spoke to you the word of :God; considering the outcome of their
behavior imitate the</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">ir</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
faith.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
Father, have placed leaders over us. When we oppose them, we oppose
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
</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.
13:12-13 (13:8-16) STRANGE DOCTRINES: GUARDED FROM BY RULERS.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Wherefore
Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own :blood,
suffered without the gate. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">13
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Let us
therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his :reproach.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is the teaching of Your appointed leaders Father, keeping us safe. We
accept Your safeguards through them. </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.
13:17. OBEY RULERS: AS SOUL-WATCHERS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Obey
th</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">os</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">e
ruling over you, and submit: for THEY watch in behalf of your :souls,
as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and
not groaning: for this </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">is</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
unprofit</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">a</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">ble
for you.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Forgive
us Father, for resisting You by so often rejecting Your leaders over
us. Israel did </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">this
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">to
Moses and Samuel. We do it to Your apostles, prophets and pastors
oftentimes today. </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.
13:18-19. GODLY PRAYERS: COVETED BY PAUL. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Pray
for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring
to behave honorabl</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">y</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
in all </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things.
</span></i></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">19
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And I
exhort the more exceedingly to do this, that I be restored to you the
sooner.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Without
prayer our leaders cannot function adequately. Father, You have
ordained it this way. We are one body, team members, and dependent
one upon another. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven o</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">u</span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">r
: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.
13:20-21. PAUL’S PRAYER: CHRIST-HONORING BENEDICTION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Now
the God of :peace, who brought again from </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
dead the great :shepherd of the sheep in blood of an eternal
covenant, our :Lord Jesus, </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">perfect
you in every good to do his :will, to do in us what is well-pleasing
in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom the glory unto the ages
of the ages. Amen.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
Jesus we conquer! </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" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>7.
</b></span></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>13:24-25
(13:22-25) CLOSING EXHORTATION, NEWS AND SALUTATIONS. </b></span></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>“Greet
all that are ruling over you, and all the saints. They of :Italy
greet you. </b></span></span></font></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>25
</b></span></i></font></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>The
grace </b></span></span></font></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>be</b></span></i></font></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
with you all.” </b></span></span></font></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we too move in the exchange of greetings. In all things we honor You.
</span></span></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>But
deliver us from the evil </b></span></i></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>one!</b></span></span></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>:
13:5-6 (13:1-6) OUR APPROPRIATE RESPONSE. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Let
your </span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">:turn
</span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">of
mind</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
be without love of money, content with what </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">things
</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">you
have; for himself has said, I will in no wise fail you, neither will
I in any wise forsake you. </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">So
that we boldly say, </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 my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do to me?” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
what a word of encouragement to your saints, Father! We receive it!</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">Quote
from Frank Bartleman, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Azusa
Street</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none"> - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“God
has always sought a humble people. He can use no other... There is
always much need of heart preparation, in humility and separation,
before God can consistently come. The depth of any revival will be
determined exactly by the spirit of repentance that is obtained. In
fact, this is the key to every true revival born of God.” </span></span></font></font>
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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: 119:130 (119, ESV) YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY
FEET. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the
simple. </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
magnify You Father, for Your Word! Your promises are backed by all
the honor of Your Name!</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">There
is no title to this Psalm; neither is any author’s name mentioned.
It is the longest Psalm, and this is a sufficiently distinctive name
for it. Nor is it long only; for it equally excels in breadth of
thought, depth of meaning, and height of fervor. Many superficial
readers have imagined that it harps upon one string and abounds in
pious repetitions and redundancies; but this arises from the
shallowness of the reader’s own mind: those who have studied this
Divine hymn and carefully noted each line are amazed at the variety
and profundity of the thought. The more one studies it, the fresher
it becomes. It contains no idle word; the grapes of this cluster are
almost to bursting </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">full
with the new wine of the kingdom. Again and again have we cried while
studying it, “Oh, the depths!” Yet these depths are hidden
beneath an apparent simplicity, as Augustine has well and wisely
said, and this makes the exposition all the more difficult. We
believe that David wrote this Psalm. It is Davidic in tone and
expression, and it tallies with David’s experience in many
interesting points. The one theme is the Word of the Lord. “The
most,” says Martin Boos, “read their Bible like cows that stand
in the thick grass, and trample under their feet the finest flowers
and herbs.” It is to be feared that we too often do the like.
This sacred ode is a little Bible, the Scriptures condensed, a mass
of Bibline, Holy Writ rewritten in holy emotions and actions.</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">NOTES
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">R</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ELATING
TO THE PSALM AS A WHOLE</span></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 recorded of the celebrated St. Augustine, who among his voluminous
works left a </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Comment on
the Book of Psalms, </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">that
he delayed to comment on this one till he had finished the whole
Psalter; and then yielded only to the long and vehement urgency of
his friends, “Because,” he says, “as often as I essayed to
think thereon, it always exceed the powers of my intent though</span><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
and the utmost grasp of my faculties.” Q. DeBurgh</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">In
Matthew Henry’s </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Account
of the Life and Death of His father, Philip Henry, </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">he
says: “Once, pressing the study of the Scriptures, he advised us to
take a verse of this Psalm every morning to meditate upon, and so go
over the Psalm twice in the year; and that, says he, will bring you
to be in love with all the rest of the Scriptures. He often said,
“All grace grows as love to the Word of God grows.”</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">George
Wishart, the chaplain and biographer of </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
Great Marquis of Montrose</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">,
as he was called, would have shared the fate of his illustrious
patron but for the following singular expedient. “When upon the
scaffold, he availed himself of the custom of the times, which
permitted the condemned to choose a Psalm to be sung. He selected the
One Hundred Nineteenth Psalm, and before two-thirds of the Psalm had
been sung, a pardon arrived, and his life was preserved. It may not
be out of place to add that the George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh,
above referred to, has been too often confounded with the godly
martyr of the same name who lived and died a century previously.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">It
seems to me to be a collection of David’s pious and devout
ejaculations, the short and sudden breathings of his soul to God,
which he wrote down as the</span><span style="text-decoration:none">y</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
occurred, and towards the latter end of his time gathered them out of
day-book where they lay scattered, added to them many like words, and
digested them into this Psalm, in which there is seldom any coherence
between the verses. M. Henry</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">I
know of no part of the Holy Scriptures where the nature and evidence
of true and sincere godliness are so fully and largely insisted on
and delineated as in the One Hundred Nineteenth Psalm. J. Edwards</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
name Jehovah occurs twenty-two times in the Psalm. Its theme is the
Word of </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">G</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">od,
which it mentions under one of the ten terms: law, way, testimony,
precept, statute, commandments, judgment, word, saying, truth, in
every </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">except</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">
verse one twenty-two. J.D. Murphy.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:none"> </span>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">EXPOSITION
OF ITS VERSES</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">119:2.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Blessed are they
that ke</b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>e</b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>p
His testimonies. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
What! A second blessing? Yes, they are doubly blessed whose outward
life is supported by an inward zeal for God’s glory. Blessedness is
ascribed to those who treasure up the testimonies of the Lord: in
which is implied that they search the Scriptures, that the come to an
understanding of them, that they love them, and then that they
continue in the practice of them. God’s Word is His witness or
testimony to grand and important truths which concern Himself and our
relation to Him: this we should desire to know; knowing it, we should
believe it; believing it, we should love it; and loving it, we should
hold it fast against all comers. We cannot fight a good fight,
nor finish our course, unless we keep the faith. To this end the Lord
must keep us: only those who are kept by the power of God unto
salvation will ever be able to keep his testimonies. God is not
truly sought by the cold researches of the brain: we must seek Him
with the heart. God is One, and we shall not know Him till our heart
is one. A broken heart need not be distressed at this, for no </span><span style="text-decoration:none">heart
is so whole in its seekings after God as a heart which is broken,
whereof every fragment sighs and cries after the great Father’s
face. A heart may be divided and not broken, and it may be broken but
not divided; and yet again it may be broken and be whole, and it
never can be whole until it is broken.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">119:23.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>But Your servant
did meditate in Your statutes. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Who
were these malignants that they should rob God of His servant’s
attention or deprive the Lord’s chosen of a moment’s devout
communion? The rabble of princes </span><span style="text-decoration:none">were
not worth five minutes’ thought if those five minutes had to be
taken from holy meditation. It is very beautiful to see the two
sittings: the princes sitting to reproach David, and David sitting
with his God and his Bible, answering his traducers by never
answering them at all. Those who feed upon the Word grow strong and
peaceful and are by God’s grace hidden from the strife of tongues.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">119:78.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>I will </b></span></i><u><i><b>meditate</b></i></u><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
in your precepts. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
verb </span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>asiach, </b></span><span style="text-decoration:none">in
the second clause of the verse, may be rendered as </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>I
will speak of</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">, as
well as </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>I will
meditate upon</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">;
implying that when he had obtain</span><span style="text-decoration:none">ed</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
the victory, he would proclaim the goodness of God, which he had
experienced. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>To
speak of God’s statutes</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
is equivalent to declaring ou</span><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
of the law how faithfully He guards His saints, how securely He
delivers them, and how righteously He avenges their wrongs. J.
Calvin</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">119:97.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>It is my
meditation. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Holy
Scripture is not a book for the slothful; it is not a book which can
be interpreted without, and apart from and by the deniers of the Holy
Spirit by Whom it came. Rather it is a field, upon the surface of
which, if sometimes we gather manna easily and without labor, and
given, as were, freely to our hands, yet of which also, many portions
are to be cultivated with pains and toil ere they will yield food for
the use of man. This bread of life also is to be eaten in the
wholesome sweat of our brow.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">119:148.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>My eyes prevent the
night watches, that I might </b></span></i><u><i><b>meditate</b></i></u><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
in Your Word. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">The
Bible is a book in which we may continually meditate and yet not
exhaust its contents. When David expressed himself in the language of
our text, Holy Writ - the Word of God - was of course a far smaller
volume than it now is, though even now, the Bible is far from a large
Book. Yet David could not, so to speak, get to the end of the Book.
He might have been studying the Book for years - no, we are sure that
he had been - and yet, as though He were just entering on a new
course of reading, with volume upon volume to peruse, he must rise
before day to prosecute the study. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>My
eyes prevent the night watches, that I might </b></span></i><u><i><b>meditate</b></i></u><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
in Your Word. </b></span></i><i><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Henry Melville</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><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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