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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. WE HAVE BEEN "BORN AGAIN?"</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. What do we mean "born again?"</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. That Spirit has been lying dead within.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. My capacity for God - understanding and communing.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. It has come alive. "And you hath He made alive who were dead."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. "Why must I be born again?"</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. My problem is with my nature.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. I was born once of the flesh a natural man.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. "And by nature, a child a wrath."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. I went around sinning because I was a sinner.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. "For by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death (of my spirit) by sin, so death passed unto all men for all sinned."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Uselessness of reformation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. The result of being born again.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WE HAVE A "LIVING HOPE."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. What is the basis for the living hope?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The resurrection of Christ from the dead.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Disciples on road to Emmaus.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Muhammadism - Buddahism.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. What hope in world apart from Christ? "Without Christ, and without hope in the world."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. The nature of the hope.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Inheritance." Aphthartos:</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Incorruptible - imperishable - unravaged by invading army.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Undefiled.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Unfading.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">d. Reserved in heaven for you.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Some lose everything at death.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Others gain everything.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. The security of the hope.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Who are "kept" garrisoned about by the power of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Through faith." Believe that God is able to do what He says He will.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. The result of the hope.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Wherein ye greatly rejoice."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Even in present trial of faith."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "The enduring power of hope."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. "They endured as seeing the invisible."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Every trial is a test.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Gold must be refined by fire.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. The hard training of an athlete not to make him collapse - to create greater endurance.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Jesus is waiting at the end, "Well done." Some of the highest efforts of life put forth not for money but for the "Well done."</div>
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