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<div class="SSN_title">"BEHOLD HE PRAYETH"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Mark of conversion -- peculiar meaning for Paul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. IMPLIES HE HAD NEVER PRAYED BEFORE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Striking, for he was a Pharisee.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Regular in prayer, 9 hours per day. </div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. How different does God judge.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Real prayer must he spiritual.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "God is a Spirit."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Soul had never prayed a right prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He had never known the Lord Jesus. </div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Only access to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Wrong target.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Never made use of the name of Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. His character was contrary to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Opposed to Son of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Full of hate and bitterness (persecution).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Must not fight God's battles with weapons of ill will.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Cannot overcome hate with hate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. Love our weapon.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Humility absent from life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Self-righteous.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. IT WAS REMARKABLE THAT SUCH A MAN SHOULD NOW PRAY.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Ecce" Behold a mark of admiration.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Difficult for proud Pharisee to pray like poor publican.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Not half so wonderful that irreligious man should pray as vain profession.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Form religion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Attend church - what value?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Bible reading - mind dozing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Word given - mind wondering.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Easier to go to church every day than to pray.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Hard for those rich in nominal religion to enter kingdom of heaven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Self-righteousness great hindrance to prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Publicans and harlots enter kingdom before Pharisee.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Religious fervency can become hindrance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Interest in externals.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. IT IS A WONDER THAT SAUL PRAYED.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. On Damascus road.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Man's opinion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God's opinion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. AS SOON AS HE PRAYED HE WAS ACCEPTED BY THE LORD.</div>
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