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<div class="SSN_title">"THE WAYS OF GOD"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE ACCUSATION AGAINST GOD. "THE WAYS OF THE LORD ARE NOT EQUAL." OR GOD IS NOT FAIR.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. There was a proverb that was being repeated very often that declared "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge." This same proverb was being used also in Jerusalem for we find Jeremiah chiding the people for this same proverb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. What they were basically saying is that we are being punished for the sins of our fathers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Our fathers sinned, and we are the ones who have been taken captive to Babylon.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. How unwilling we are to accept the blame for the things that we have done.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Have you ever met people who when you talk to them about a situation or problem, it is always the other guys fault.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. If you listen to them, they have never done a wrong thing in their whole life. Their troubles always stem from the other person.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God responded to the people that their ways were not equal. The fault did not lie with God but with them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God said, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The fathers will not be punished for the sins of their children nor will the children be punished for the sins of their fathers. Each man will be punished for his own sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. This proverb that sought to blame the fathers for their problems has been taken up for the most part by the psychologists today.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is not your fault that you are what you are, your parents did not raise you right.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You were emotionally abused as a child, they yelled at you when you spilled your milk for the third time at the same meal. They accused you of being messy, and that is why you have an aversion to fixing meals for your family but send them off to In and Out every night for a hamburger.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE CALL OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE. REPENT, AND TURN FROM YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Every man will be judged for his ways.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Like it or not, you are responsible for what you are, and what you have done.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When you stand before God to be judged, you will only answer for one person, and that is you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. You see, God has offered salvation to every man, He has promised that if you will accept Jesus Christ that you can be a new person, that old things pass away, and all things become new.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Through the help of God and the power of the Holy Spirit you can overcome the past.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. So sin will not be your ruin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Sin will ruin your life, and everything that is worthwhile.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God wants you to have the best life possible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He has listed the things that ruin or destroy a person, and He prohibits your doing them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He has also listed the things that will enhance your life and make it beautiful and fulfilling, and He commands you to do them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. To follow the laws of the Lord will lead to a happy, rich, and fulfilling life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. God has not forbidden you from doing one decent worthwhile thing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. They are classified as sin because they destroy and ruin a person's life. That's what makes them sinful.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God has prohibited;</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. All forms of promiscuity. Sexual activity is a joy and thrill that is reserved for married couples only. Look at how many lives have been ruined by violating God's laws on sex.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. All of the sexually transmitted diseases.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. All of the broken homes because of unfaithfulness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Drug abuse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Hatred, it leads to strifes and murder.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Drunkenness and wild partying.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. All of these things will have a ruinous effect upon your life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. God has commanded us to love one another.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. To be generous toward those in need.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. To be forgiving, and compassionate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. To be pure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Do you have a problem with that?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. God said to them to cast away all transgressions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Get rid of those things that are ruining your life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There is an urgency to the words, cast away. Its like picking up a burning coal, the longer you hold on to it, the more it is going to hurt you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God always points to the urgency of the hour. Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. He promises to make them and new heart and a new spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God has given to us the freedom of choice, and He will not violate that.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He will not force Himself upon you. You must willingly turn to Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In so doing, you then open the gate for Him to do all of those things that He has been desiring to do for your benefit and good.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The next move is yours, "If any man will hear My voice and open the door." The latch is on the inside. He will never force the door open.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He loves you and desires to demonstrate that love. By your opening the door, you allow Him to do those things in you that will bring you to a rich fulfilling fellowship with Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE QUESTION OF GOD, "FOR WHY WILL YOU DIE?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This is spiritual death. We are all going to die a physical death, it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment. We are told that at the judgment those whose names were not found written in the Lamb's Book of Life were cast into Gehenna, this was the second death. The first death is physical death, the second death is spiritual death. They do not always come in that sequence. Some of you are spiritually dead already. He that has not the Son has not life. Jude speaks of people being twice dead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jesus spoke of the necessity of having a spiritual birth beyond your physical birth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He talked about being born again.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. If you are born only once, you will die twice, if you are born twice, you will only die once.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God declared that He has no pleasure in death.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It does not please God that you should be spiritually dead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God wants you to turn from your sin and receive a new heart and spirit and live in fellowship with Him.</div>
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