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<div class="SSN_title">"THE GREATEST LOVE."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Who or what is God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The confusion of men's minds then.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. To the Romans and Greeks, many gods.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Sun-moon-thunder-planets-emotions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. "I'm Thor."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The confusion of men's minds today.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. An essence - a creative force.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The scriptural revelation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The conscious, all-intellignet Creator of the universe and all forms of life that exist therein.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The sustaining power in creation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. "By Him are all things held together."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. I doubt if Paul understood what he was writing. 1/454 gram of protrons at N. & S. poles exert repelling pressure of 26 tons.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. God is infinite in knowledge, God is infinite in power, God is infinite in duration, God is infinite in love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Consider the object of His love - "the world."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Nothing here to attract or deserve His love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It was not as He made it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The marks of sin were everywhere.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Man was in rebellion against Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Much here to repel His love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Man's fall was willful and deliberate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The world was indifferent, years more, hated Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Love measured by opposing forces it overcomes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. I could imagine the opposite to be true. "The world so loved God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The world stood to gain the most from the re-establishment of the bridge to span the chasm between God and man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. After all, it was man who broke fellowship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Love is measured by its gifts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. What it cost the giver.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Aristotal Onnasis may give Jackie a $100,000 necklace. Doesn't prove much.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God could not demonstrate love by giving diamonds or gold.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He gave His most-prized and precious possession, "His only begotten Son."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. More! He gave His Son to be a sacrifice to be mocked, despised, rejected, crucified by stupid, ignorant humanity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. "For if God spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, How shall He not with Him also freely give us all things."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT..." - THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF HIS LOVE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. To save us from greatest calamity. "Should not perish."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Destruction inevitable outside of His intervention.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The law would have taken its course.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God under no obligation to interfere.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He had given to man all the essentials for a happy life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Man's ruin was of himself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God under no necessity to interfere.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Should man perish, justice served.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He did not need us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Earth as speck of dust in universe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. To give us greatest good "everlasting life" - quality not just quantity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">V. "WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Essential, reasonable - easy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_notes">Conclusion easier to be saved than lost.</div>
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