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<div class="SSN_title">"GOD'S OFFSPRING"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Paul was in Athens, center of Greek culture and art. "Moved" when he saw their quest for God, "very religious". Quotes their poets, "We are also His offspring." Affirms this truth, "for as much..."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. MAN IS THE OFFSPRING OF GOD.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. The natural man likes to see himself at the tap of the ladder of evolutionary progression.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He sits as king, being the fittest, he has survived.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. He seeks to relate to the lower forms of life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Speaks of animal instincts.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. He sees himself the offspring of the ape.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Man is not in an exhalted elevated state.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Being the offspring of God he has degenerated, fallen state.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. His answers and purposes will never come by seeking to relate to animals, but by relating to God.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. EVIDENCES OF OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Passion for life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Rich young ruler.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Conscious that life more than just existence.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Desire for order.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Motivation for government, to arrange orderly development of our society.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Women love to set an orderly table."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Thirst for knowledge.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The establishment of schools.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Appreciation of beauty.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Enjoy watching colorful sunset.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Dogs and birds seemed oblivious.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. Desire to create.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Music.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Art.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Beauty.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">F. Capacity for love.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Both to give and receive.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. EVIDENCES OF DEGENERATION AND FAlLURE.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Death.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Chaos.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Still do dumb things.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. So much ugliness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. Destructive forces.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">F. So much hatred, war, strife, bitterness.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. GOD DESIRES TO LIFT FALLEN MAN BACK INTO RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM AGAIN.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. For this purpose He sent His Son.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. In Him was life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Perfect order.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. "In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. "Bright and morning star."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. All things were made by Him.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">6. Embodiment of love.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. He was man in perfect relationship with God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. All that I admire and desire, He is.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. All that I am by the fall, He isn't.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. He identified with me.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He yielded to the fallen forces.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "God made Him to be sin for me..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Man can again be related to God through Jesus Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "He was in the world..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "But as many as received Him to them..."</div>
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