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<div class="SSN_title">"BACK TO EGYPT"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Descendants of Abraham returned after nine hundred years. Their deliverance from strange drawing toward. Local History.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE REASON FOR RETURNING.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Days of degeneration are days of forgetfulness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Forget lessons of history.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Great armies have never made a nation strong.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Savages depend on strength of physical force.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. The strength of a people depends upon their spiritual life - their relation to God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. What was it that made our nation great?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Motive for returning.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Seeking safety from danger.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. No strength to resist - no will to fight.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Here is - Human manipulation of events, instead of Divine guidance - intrigue instead of intercession.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. How is it that they would seek safety in Egypt who had oppressed them?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. The true story - "They obeyed not the voice of Jehovah."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. A failure of FAITH.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Reason for returning.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Failure of faith.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Faith is obedience- conviction is not faith. Belief is not always faith.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Failure of faith speaks then of disobedience.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. They feared - (fear and faith mutually exclusive... Panic is always a sure sign of loss of certainty about God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Failure of faith produces degeneracy of desire.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. In chapter 42:14, Jeremiah tells them what they are thinking.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. What did they desire?</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Ease and bread.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Peace at any price except war and hunger.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. I believe we should stand for right even if it means war.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Degeneration of desire leads to corruption of conscience.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Cynicism instead of faith - Pessimism instead of hope.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE PERSISTENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD. vs. 8.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Message - Egypt shall be destroyed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. When men disobedient to the Word of Jehovah - turn back to the things from which they were delivered, to escape a hardship. The things to which they turn are doomed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. The Word of God is always a message of Grace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. There is still a way out.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Isaiah - Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help... Man not God.</div>
<div class="SSN_notes"><a onClick="return mV('Psa',20,1);">Ps. 20</a> Horses - flesh not Spirit.</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">vs. 7 Some trust in chariots.</div>
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