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<div class="SSN_title">January 1996</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. BY DIRECT COMMANDMENT FROM JESUS, PETER HAD VIOLATED THE TRADITIONS OF THE JEWS BY GOING INTO THE HOUSE OF A GENTILE AND EATING WITH HIM.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. At the commandment of Jesus, he had gone to the house of Cornelius a Roman Centurion in Caesarea.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. While Peter was sharing the gospel with the Gentiles who had gathered in the house of Cornelius, suddenly they were baptized with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in tongues and glorify God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It was then decided by Peter that it would be proper to baptize them in water seeing that the Lord had already baptized them with the Holy Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Peter because of his vision probably figured that the Lord was going to do something among the Gentiles so he took 6 Jews with him as witnesses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Now Peter has returned to Jerusalem and those who Luke refers to as of the circumcision began to contend with him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This refers to those who believed that only a Jew could be saved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They taught that as a Gentile, your only hope for salvation was to become a Jew, and that was accomplished by the rite of circumcision, and baptism, and obedience to the Mosaic law.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. In the early church there were those radicals who insisted that the Gentiles had to be circumcised. They caused real confusion and division among the new believers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Jesus did not look kindly upon those who would offend the faith of a babe that had come to trust in Him. He said it would be better for that man, that a mill stone be tied around his neck and he by cast into the sea.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Paul was so upset with those who offended the new believers with the issue of circumcision, he said, "I wish they were castrated who trouble you."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They called Peter on the carpet. Their accusation? "You went in to men that were uncircumcised and ate with them."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In response Peter rehearsed his vision and the commandment of the Spirit. "The Spirit bade me go."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Peter assured them that it was God who gave them the gift of the Holy Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "WHO WAS I, THAT I COULD WITHSTAND GOD?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. In <a onClick="return mV('Job',9,12);">Job 9:12</a> Job asked, "Who can hinder Him, or say to Him, What are you doing?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Elihu asked Job, "Why do you strive with Him?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. That is a reasonable question, "Why do you strive with God?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. What can you possible hope to gain by striving with God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Isaiah said, "Woe unto him who strives with his Maker."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Can you not see what folly it is to strive with God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. If God were cruel and seeking to destroy you then I could see a reason to try to strive with Him. But He is loving and has your best interests in His heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. In <a onClick="return mV('Jer',29,11);">Jeremiah 29:11</a> the Lord said, "I know the thoughts that I have concerning you, thoughts of peace not of evil, to bring you to a glorious future."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. We read in the scriptures where there were those who tried to withstand God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The Pharaoh of Egypt. When Moses went into the Pharaoh and declared, "Thus saith Jehovah God of Israel, let My people go that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness." The Pharaoh answered, "Who is Jehovah that I should obey His voice to let the people go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Pharaoh tried to withstand God and in the process learned just who He was.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. God first turned the waters of the Nile into blood.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. God covered the land with frogs.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. God covered the people and animals with lice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. God filled the land with flies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. God devastated the livestock.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. God covered the people and the remaining animals with boils.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. The it rained great hail stones upon the land that killed the livestock that were out in the open fields, as well as destroying the crops.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">h. God brought great hoards of locusts that devoured what remained of the crops.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">i. God covered the land with darkness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">j. God killed the firstborn throughout the land.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">k. God destroyed the army with their chariots in the Red Sea.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">l. Is it possible that some of the miseries and hardships that you are presently going through are the result of your seeking to withstand the work that God desires to do?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Abijah was the great grandson of King David, when he came to the throne at the death of his father Rehoboan he came to the King of Northern tribes of Israel Jeroboam, who had led the rebellion against allegiance to the Davidic throne. He rebuked Jeroboam for seeking to withstand the kingdom of the Lord and setting up the golden calves as the symbols of their god. He said that they allowed anyone to purchase the position of priest over the people. He declared,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',13,12);">2CH 13:12</a> And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper. Jereboam did not harken to him because his troops outnumbered the men of Ahijah by a margin of two to one. He sent a part of his troops to encircle the army of Ahijah and then began the attack from the front and the rear. We read,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',13,15);">2CH 13:15</a> Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',13,14);">2CH 13:14</a> And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',13,15);">2CH 13:15</a> And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',13,18);">2CH 13:18</a> Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The Kings of Moab, Mt. Seir and Ammon had gathered their armies to come against Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,3);">2CH 20:3</a> And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,4);">2CH 20:4</a> And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,5);">2CH 20:5</a> And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,6);">2CH 20:6</a> And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God in heaven? and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand [is there not] power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,7);">2CH 20:7</a> [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Then the Spirit of the Lord came on the prophet Jahaziel</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,15);">2CH 20:15</a> And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,16);">2CH 20:16</a> Tomorrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,17);">2CH 20:17</a> Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,18);">2CH 20:18</a> And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The next morning they went out to watch the battle of the kings against God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,20);">2CH 20:20</a> And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,21);">2CH 20:21</a> And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ch',20,22);">2CH 20:22</a> And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THOSE WHO HAVE SOUGHT TO WITHSTAND THE LORD, HAVE ALWAYS SUFFERED FOR IT.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God wants to do a work in our lives, you can withstand that work.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God allows you to say no to Him, but to do so is to court disaster.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is interesting in the story of Peter and his vision and call to the Gentiles, when the Lord first let down the sheet with the many different animals and commanded Peter to kill and eat, he said, "No so, Lord." He was trying to withstand God. God was insistant and the vision was repeated three times, and Peter yielded.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. What a total blessing it is to yield fully to God, to let Him work freely in and through your life, and thus discover what His glorious plans are for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. As the Master Potter He has plans as He begins to mould and shape your life. That plan can only be discovered by yielding to His touch, the minute you seek to withstand Him the vessel He is seeking to make is marred in the hands of the Potter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He is patient, and will start over until He has accomplished His purposes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. David said, "And I shall be satisfied when I awake in His likeness."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. That is just what God seeks to do, mould you into the image of His Son. "And we all with unveiled faces, beholding the glory of the Lord, and being changed from glory to glory into the same image."</div>
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