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<div class="SSN_title">"GOD'S UNCHANGING PURPOSE"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Why were you born? What is conscious life? What is the purpose of it?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. GOD'S SET PURPOSE VS. 24.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. World not product of chance - fortudious con.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. World conditions are not an accident.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. From the beginning God has known each successive form of govt. men would try.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. God has known the weak points that would deteriorate & ultimately destroy it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. God spoke to Daniel at the zenith of the Babylonian Kingdom.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. In immediate context God speaks of Babylon long before she was a world power.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. He speaks of her utter destruction.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Humanity is running according to pre-determined course.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Peter's sermon at Pentecost.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Present day conditions described in scripture.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT IS GOD'S PURPOSE?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. His ultimate purpose is close fellowship with man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. To achieve this purpose man must be in willing submission to Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. To make man willing to submit, He has allowed him the liberty to rule himself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Man must come to the end of himself before he fully submits to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. This is a problem for many Christians.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The present world chaos should be final proof against all self improvement cults.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">We need more than a minor do-it-yourself adjustment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">We need a major overhaul by the spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Man needs to wake up to his need for God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You might say that God is trying to teach him this fact, but He has to get his attention first - 2x4.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHO CAN FIGHT OR HINDER GOD'S PURPOSE? PEOPLE TRY VS. 27.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. You can stop a fast train by standing on the tracks.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Man trying to move Empire State building.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">"Throw himself at it." "I'll move it if it kills me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Children singing "we got even with the man at the..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. To try to fight the purpose of God is only to destroy yourself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Many churches today seeking to thwart God's purposes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God desires that man should taste the fruit of his rebellion, so that he would cease rebelling.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The church that makes its chief goal the alleviation of suffering humanity is working against God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The true goal of the Church is to point suffering humanity to a Savior who will redeem them if they will only turn to Him.</div>
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