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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE DOUBLE CURSE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Cursed be he that does the work of the Lord deceitfully.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. There is another suggestion for the word deceitfully and that is slackly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Paul said that they that run in a race run all but only one receives the prize, so run that you might obtain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Concerning himself he said, "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. We can see many today who are doing the work of the Lord deceitfully. They are being exposed by the worldly media.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. We see many today who are doing the work of the Lord slackly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Many of you sitting here today are guilty of that.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Your commitment to Christ is half-hearted, on a scale of one to ten, it would fall somewhere under five.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Christ has a place in your heart, but certainly not the first place.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Your rating would perhaps be lukewarm, neither hot or cold.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. It should be noted that God is not satisfied with that kind of commitment, He said that the day that you seek Him with all of your heart, in that day you will find Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. For this cause God often brings tragedy into our lives to pressure us to seek Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The second curse was upon those who kept back their sword from blood.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Those who will not stand up for a cause.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is sort of the peace at any cost mentality, even that of compromise. Evil is tolerated for the sake of peace, its a "Lets not rock the boat attitude."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Evil often prevails in a society because evil men are active while good men are often passive. All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE CONDITIONS OF MOAB.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Moab has been at ease from his youth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Moab occupied the high plains East of Jordan, it was blessed with rain even when there was a drought in the land of Israel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In the story of Ruth we remember how that Elimelech and Naomi decided to leave Bethlehem for Moab because of a drought.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Moab was known as wine growing country, they had the famed vineyards of Sibmah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. It didn't take much effort to farm this agriculturally rich land, thus it was an easy life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Moab also was away from the coastal plains divided by the great Jordan valley, thus it was not subject to attack by foreign forces. Egypt and Syria were ancient competing powers and Israel lay in between, thus often had foreign forces crossing their land. Moab was rather secure from such invasions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Moab was living an easy untroubled life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Moab had never gone into captivity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Being isolated by the great desert on the East side, and the Jordan valley on the West she dwelt quite securely.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The Moabites had never been taken from the land into captivity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS LIFE OF EASE IS DECLARED IN WINE MAKING TERMS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Settled in his lees.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When the grapes had been pressed, the juice was placed in jugs and set there until it fermented. During the process the lees settled to the bottom. The lees were the sediment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. As the lees settled to the bottom, they would then pour off the top pure wine into another vessel, and it would again be allowed to settle. Thus you had a process of disturbances that of being poured from vessel to vessel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The purpose of this process was to purify or refine.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. If this procedure was not followed, the lees would soon begin to sour, and the wine would take on the smell and flavor of the rotten lees. This is what the prophet is referring to as he speaks of his taste remaining in him, and his scent is not changed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Moab had become rotten.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. With no conflict or disturbance, they had become spoiled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They are now to be spoiled, and the vessels are to be broken.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Moab shall cease to be a people.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. How many of you have met a Moabite lately?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. A once numerous and prosperous people have disappeared from the face of the earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. A life of ease, with no conflict can destroy you, it tends toward rottenness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. GODS REFINING PROCESS IN OUR LIVES, HE OFTEN POURS US FROM VESSEL TO VESSEL.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. How we seek for the life of ease. So much of our research and development is for products that will make life easier.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We hear phrases, "Take it easy." or "Easy does it."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Let the average housewife compare her life with the average housewife of a hundred years ago.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Just in keeping her family in clean clothes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Many of the clothes were home made using the treadle sewing machine.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They were washed in tubs of water drawn from the hand pump out in the yard, and heated on the wooden stove.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. They had what they called the scrub board.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. They were then hung out on the clothes line to dry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. The clothes had to be ironed with the iron that was heated on this same wooden stove, for they knew nothing of wash and wear fabrics.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Feeding the family was another time consuming task.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. No box cereals, you cooked the old fashioned oats, they did not even have the one minute variety.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. If you needed something, you could not jump in your car and run to the nearest super market.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. You went out to the barn to milk the cow.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. There was no time to think of how bad your marriage was, and to fantasize of how exciting it might be if you were only married to Tom Selleck, as you read the latest magazine of the lives of the Hollywood stars.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. You wouldn't have the time to pollute your mind with the soaps, and then sit down in the afternoon to watch corrupted America on the Donahue and Geraldo shows.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. An easy life can corrupt, so God sees fit to often pour us from vessel to vessel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When we begin to settle in our lees, God often brings his disturbances into our lives for the purpose of purifying.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. These disturbances can take many forms.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Illness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. Loss of job.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">3. Accident.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">4. Notice from the I.R.S.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The effect of these disturbances is to turn us back to reliance upon God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. To cause us to once again seek Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Our lives were in great danger because we had begun to trust in our own selves. In our idle time we were polluting ourselves. God will take away the idle time. I find I must go to work to help the family budget.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. We do not like the process of being poured from vessel to vessel. I don't think that God does either, yet it is often necessary to keep us from settling in our lees and our whole lives beginning to take the taste of the world.</div>
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