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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. WHY DID GOD ORDAIN HIS SON TO BE CRUCIFIED BETWEEN TWO THIEVES?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. To show the shame to which He descended?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">a. Birth with beast.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">b. Death with offscouring of society.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. To show position as substitute?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">a. Dying on Barrabas's cross.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Was it not to give vivid drama of Salvation and man's response to it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">a. One sinner believing and being saved.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">b. One sinner reviling and mocking.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. LESSONS TO BE LEARNED.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Sovereignty of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Both equally near to Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Both notoriously wicked.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Both suffering and dying.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. Both needing forgiveness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. One died in sins.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Other repented of sins believed in Christ and went with Him to paradise.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. Similar today.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Same set of circumstances melts one hardens another, same sermon one hears another lost.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Victorious Grace. "By grace are ye saved."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Grace planned, grace provided, grace completed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Example Saul and dying robber.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Saul high moral rich service.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Robber neither.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Some think we must fit ourselves for God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Some think we are kept by good works.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Consider time of conversion.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. According to appearances He had lost all power to save Himself or others.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Probably first time to see Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Rejected by people and religious leaders.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Forsaken by friends.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">3. Being crucified contrary to concept of Messiah.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">Even some who believed before doubted now)</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">4. No one in crowd saying "Behold the Lamb of God" Miracle of Grace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Conversion took place prior to miracles of day. Salvation is of the Lord, never magnify human instrumentality above Divine agency.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT THIS TEACHES vs.42,43.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Representative sinner.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. On brink of eternity untied with enemies of Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Demonstration of human depravity.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Same depravity in you.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">"The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. You have to-see yourself as this thief.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Sinner but no thief.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. You have robbed God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Man has to come to end of himself before saved.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He could do nothing to save himself.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. The work of his hands or feet.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Couldn't turn over new leaf he was dying.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. See meaning of repentance and faith.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Realization of lost condition, judging our state, owning lost state.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Active conscience in presence of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "Dost thou not fear God?" not punishment but God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. He apprehends God as judge.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">"And we indeed justly for receive reward for our deeds."</div>
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