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<div class="SSN_title">"THE PRICE OF UNBELIEF"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: The sin of unbelief has destroyed many lives. It robs and debilitates any life. As a Christian it will rob you of comfort, deprive you of joy, cause you to fear. Zechariah good example of the price of unbelief to a believer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. ZECHARIAH WAS A MAN OF GOD, STILL GUILTY OF UNBELIEF.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He was a man of faith.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Verse 6 called "Righteous before God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. No one has attained that position apart from faith.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. He walked blameless in the ways of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. As a priest his duty was to bring the people to God and God to the people. A leader in spiritual things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Unto whom much is given, much is required."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Greater knowledge creates greater responsibility.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God thus uses harsher measures in dealing with our faults.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. He had been especially favored by God, the angel Gabriel appeared to him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He brought to him fabulous news - his wife was to conceive and bare a son who would be the forerunner of the Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. What exciting words of soothing comfort.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. God was going to soon visit His people.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. His wife's reproach was to be removed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The angel assured him his prayer was heard.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He must have been praying for years.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. It is a wonder he still prayed about this matter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">Nothing would surprise us more than to receive an answer to some of our own prayers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE REASON FOR HIS UNBELIEF.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He was looking at the difficulty rather than to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "I am an old man and my wife is well stricken in years."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. How often we are guilty of this same mistake.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We look at the circumstances, the difficulties.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I would rather take the position of the three Hebrew children.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Our God is able.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Even if He doesn't.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. What if God doesn't answer your prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. What if your loved one dies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. What if you lose your job.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Will you still trust the Lord?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE RESULT OF HIS UNBELIEF.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He sought for a sign.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Now faith is the substance. . ."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Yet he desired to see some evidence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God gave him a sign, he was struck with dumbness also deafness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God was merciful, He could have struck him blind also. "I was going to say dead."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I am surprised that God doesn't strike me deaf and dumb sometimes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "God has failed me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Ok if that's your witness about Me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. It did not invalidate the promise "which shall be fulfilled."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. He lost the blessing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When he came out he could not bless the people</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He could not hear their psalms of praise.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. I fear lest that this has happened to many of you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. You have become deaf, you no longer hear the Word as you once did.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You have lost your speech, no longer witnessing for Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The singing of His praises doesn't excite you as it did once.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. Are you weak in faith? Don't be satisfied.</div>
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