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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">June 1, 2013</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br>
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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>NOV
12 - ESTHER 6-10 - CRISIS OVERRULED</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.
6:11 (6:1-11, ESV) HAMAN: HIS F<font size="3">ALL BEGINS. Haman took
the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through
the square of the city, proclaiming before him, </font></b></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT">‘<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font size="3">Thus
shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Here
we see the beginning of the end; it is all of Your working Father,
and it is marvelous in our sight. </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.
6:13 (6:12-14) HAMAN: HIS FALL PREDICTED. <font size="3">And Haman
told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened
to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If
Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish
people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">What a prophetic word!
It parallels the extraordinary prophecy of wicked Caiaphas (John
11:49-52). Thank You Father for Mordecai and Esther, who did Your
will on earth as it is done in heaven. </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.
7:10 (7) HAMAN: POETIC JUSTICE. <font size="3">And the king said,
“Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he
had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated. </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">What
poetic justice! Sometimes Your ways of justice mover very swiftly,
Father. But always You are watching over our total good! </span><b>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</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.
8:5 (8:1-6) HAMAN’S PLOT REVERSED. <font size="3">Esther rose and
stood before the king. And she said, “If it please the king, and if
I have found favor in his sight, and if the things seems right before
the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to
revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of
Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the
provinces of the king.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How
marvelous are Your ways, O Father! </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.
8:16-17 (5:7-9:19) ESTHER AND MORDECAI: TRIUMPH OVER HAMAN. <font size="3">“The
Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">17
</font><font size="3">And in every province and in every city, wherever
the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and
joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples
of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the the Jews had
fallen on them.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is the Good News of the Kingdom of God! </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You
</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">are
reigning Father through Esther and Mordecai! </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.
9:32 (9:20-32) FEAST OF PURIM INSTITUTED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
command of Queen Esther confirmed these practices of Purim, and it
was recorded in writing.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
is good to see the end of conflict confirmed and sealed. Then the
enemy is completely defeated. </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.
10:3 (10) AHASUERUS AND MORDECAI. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was
great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers,
for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his
people.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Joseph,
Daniel and Mordecai: three Jews used to further Your purposes Father,
in mighty nations, kingdoms and empires! But the greatest of all
Kingdoms Father, is Yours, and the Power and the Glory forever.
<br>Amen! </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>:
9:25 (9:20-32) HAMAN’S PLOT BOOMERANGED! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil
plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own
head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
are not ignorant of Satan’s devices (2 Corinthians 2:11), nor are
You Father; and through us You overturn them!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>Quote
from Catherine Booth - “If we are to better the future, we must
disturb the present.”</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">Our
Proverb’s Verse for the Day: 1:33 (1) THE CALL OF WISDOM </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without
dread of disaster.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a helpful insight for </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
young people!</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">I.
A new author, made use of by the Holy Spirit for making known the
mind of God to us, is Solomon; through his hand came this book of
Scripture and the two that follow it, Ecclesiastes and Canticles, a
sermon and a song. Some think he wrote Canticles when he was very
young, Proverbs in the midst of his days, and Ecclesiastes when he
was old. 1. He was a king, and a king's son. The penmen of scripture,
hitherto, were most of them men of rank in the world, as Moses and
Joshua, Samuel and David, and now Solomon; but, after him, the
inspired writers were generally poor prophets, men of no figure in
the world, because that dispensation was approaching in which God
would choose the weak</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">
and foolish things of the world to confound the wise and mighty and
the poor should be employed to evangelize.</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
Solomon was a very rich king, and his dominions were very large, and
yet he was a prophet and a prophet’s son. 2. He was one whom God
endued with extraordinary measures of wisdom and knowledge, in answer
to his prayers at his accession to the throne. His prayer was
exemplary: </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Give me a
wise and an understanding heart;</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
the answer to it was encouraging: he had what he desired and </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">all
other things were added to him</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">.
3. He was one who had his faults, and in his latter end turned aside
from those good ways of God. But let those who are most eminently
useful take warning by this not to be proud or secure; and let us all
learn not to think worse of good instructions though we have them
from those who do not themselves altogether live up to them.</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">II.
a new way of writing, in which divine wisdom is taught us by
Proverbs, or short sentences, which contain their whole design within
themselves and are not connected with one another. We have had divine
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">laws, histories, </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">and</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">
songs</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">, and now divine
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">proverbs</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">;
such various methods has Infinite Wisdom used for our instruction.
Teaching by proverbs was, 1. An ancient way of teaching. It was the
most ancient way among the Greeks; each of the seven wise men of
Greece has some one saying that he valued himself upon, and that made
him famous. These sentences were inscribed on pillars, and had in
great veneration. 2. It was a plain and easy way of teaching. A
proverb, which carries with its sense and its evidence a little
compass, is quickly apprehended and easily retained. 3. It was a
very profitable way of teaching, and served admirably well to answer
the end. The world is governed by proverbs. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">As
says the proverb of the ancients (</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">1
Samuels 24:13), or (as we commonly express it), As the old saying is,
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"> goes very far with
most men in forming their notions and fixing their resolves. Some
think we may judge of the temper and character of a nation by the
complexion of its vulgar proverbs. </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Yet
there are many corrupt proverbs, which tend to debauch men's minds
and harden them in sin. The devil has his proverbs, which reflect
reproach on God and religion (as Ezekiel 12:22; 18:2;). These
proverbs of Solomon were not merely a collection of the wise sayings
that had been formerly delivered, as some have imagined, but were the
dictates of the Spirit of God in Solomon. The very first of them (ch.
1:7) agrees with what God said to man in the beginning (Job
28:28,</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Behold, the fear
of the Lord, that is wisdom);</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
so that though Solomon was great, and his name may serve as much as
any man’s to recommend his writings, yet, behold, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">a
greater than Solomon is here. </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">It
is God, by Solomon, that here speaks to us. The first nine chapters
of this book are reckoned as a preface, by way of exhortation to the
study and practice of wisdom’s rules. We have then the first volume
of Solomon’s proverbs (chapters 10-24); after that a second volume
(chapter 25-29); and then Agur’s prophecy (chapter 30) and
Lemuel’s, chapter 31. (From “An Exposition, with Practical
Observations, of THE PROVERBS” by Matthew Henry - New One Volume
Edition COMMENTARY on the Whole Bible, Edited by Rev. Leslie F.
Church, 1961, Zondervan - highly recommended by Wilbur M. Smith.
Charles H. Spurgeon counted Matthew Henry as one of the outstanding
Puritan Commentators of the 3 centuries preceding him.</span></b></font></font></p>
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