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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro. God's offer of salvation and the forgiveness of sins is the most reasonable offer ever made. It makes sense.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 2 God said that He brought up and nourished children that rebelled against Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Have you ever stopped to think how dumb it is to rebel against God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The prophet said, "Woe unto him who strives with his Maker."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. First of all how could you ever hope to win?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The Greeks used to say, "The dice of the gods are loaded." This was to express the fact that it was stupid to think that you could go against God and win.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. To rebel against God is to rebel against your own good, for God wants the very best for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God allows you to do everything that is good and beneficial. To Adam in the garden He said, "Of all of the trees in the garden, you may freely eat."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He only forbids that which is harmful and destructive. "Of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, you shall not eat, the fruit of that tree is deadly." There was probably a bacteria that would cause a break down of the cells and mutations, thus the aging process.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. What a beautiful and glorious world this would be if everyone followed God's rules.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 3 They don't consider. They are not thinking.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Think for a moment, about the sin of fornication, how long does the thrill last?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. 20 seconds, 30 seconds? How long does the guilt, and mental remorse last, days, weeks, years, sometimes a lifetime, especially if in the act you contracted a venereal disease.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. One of the teachers aides that worked at the school years ago was going with this fellow who was not a Christian, and kept pressuring her for sex. One night in a moment of passion she went to bed with him, only to find out shortly after that she now had herpes, a miserable disease for which there is no cure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. One moment of disobedience can cause a lifetime of grief, and even worse, an eternity of torment if you do not repent and receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 4 They made God angry, that is not smart, you depend on Him to sustain your life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Belshazzer was the king of Babylon, he had inherited the throne from his grandfather Nebuchadnezzer. It was one of the greatest and most powerful kingdoms in history.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The walls around Babylon were 80 wide, and 387 feet high. The city was considered to be invincible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When the Medo-Persian armies attacked the city, to show his disdain for his enemy he ordered a great feast in the banquet hall of the palace that was to last for a week.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. When he and the guests were pretty drunk, he ordered that the gold and silver vessels that his grandfather had taken from the temple of Jerusalem when conquered and destroyed the city of Jerusalem be brought in that they might drink their wine out of these sacred vessels.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. As they were drinking from these vessels and praising the gods of gold and silver suddenly there appeared a hand that was writing cryptic words on the wall.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. When none could interpret the words Daniel was called in for help.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Before Daniel interpreted the words to the trembling king, he preached a sermon to him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He spoke to him of the greatness of his grandfathers kingdom and how when he exalted himself against God, God allowed him to go insane for seven seasons.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. He rebuked him for his sacrilege in drinking out of the holy vessels as he praised the gods of gold and silver, then he declared to him, "And the God in whose hands your very breath is you have not glorified."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Your breath is in the hands of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Voluntary and involuntary muscles.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Your lungs are involuntary muscles.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting, you have come up short, you're finished. That's all she wrote, it's over. Tonight your soul will be required of you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 5 Why should you be stricken anymore. It is foolish to continue doing those things that only bring you pain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. In sixth grade they had us memorize a poem called Invictus</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I am captain of my fate, I am master of my soul, My head is bloody but unbowed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. That might be good English literature, but it is stupid thinking.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God said, "You are sick man." Sick in the head.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 6 They have become covered with putrid running sores from head to toe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Your bodies are like bags of puss.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. There is no soundness. We use the phrase of a sound mind. That means you are rational. We also use the phrase "Not of a sound mind." That means you are crazy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 7 Their lives have become a total mess.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. They are so caught up in themselves that they do not even notice it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. There are signs of decay and destruction all around.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Your life is falling apart, and you don't know it. Others around you can see it, but you are blind to it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 9 It is only the goodness of God that you are still around. "Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we would be totally destroyed."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The fact that you are still here is a sign of the patience and mercy of God. He would have been justified to have wiped you out a long time ago.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God is so good, He has delayed His judgment upon you to give you an opportunity to repent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 15 God is saying "I've had it with you." It will ultimately come to this place where God says that His Spirit will no longer strive with man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 16 Clean up your act. "Wash and make you clean."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We know how difficult this is, for many have tried to do it already.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This is why God has provided for us the cleansing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. How can a young man cleanse his way? By giving heed to the word of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus said, "Now you are clean through the word that I have spoken unto you."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 17 Get smart. "Learn to do well." Wise up man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 18 Use your head, be reasonable, think. "Come now let us reason together saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, you can be as white as snow."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God is gracious and forgiving.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth a man from all sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">Vs. 19 Live the good life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. If you are willing and obedient.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Willing to accept God's offer of forgiveness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Willing to surrender your life to the Lordship of Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. You can live the good life. "You will eat of the good of the land."</div>
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