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<div class="SSN_title">"THE NEARNESS OF GOD UNRECOGNIZED"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: A long journey, a hard pillow, an uneasy conscience, a heavy heart, these are the things that make men dream.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. MAN'S UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF THE NEARNESS OF GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God is omnipresent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. <a onClick="return mV('Psa',139,'all');">Psalm 139</a>.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. <a onClick="return mV('Act',17,28);">Acts 17:28</a> "In Him we live and move..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. We are not always conscious of His presence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The place of Jacob's dream.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "The Lord is in this place and I knew it not."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Reasons for the unconsciousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Intellectual limitation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "Who by searching can find God to perfection?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. God will not restrict Himself to the narrow limitations of our minds.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Spiritual dullness which is the result of moral failure, "Your sins have separated between you and God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Results of the unconsciousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Limited vision, "sees only that which in near."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We talk of men with foresight with admiration.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. How far do they see?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. If they do not see beyond the grave and prepare, very short sighted indeed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He loses the glory of the beauty of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The life becomes corrupted.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The search turns to other things which only destroy the life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "THE DISCOVERY OF GOD'S NEARNESS."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It results from an act of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Men are not consciously seeking God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The revelation of the nearness of God is a revelation of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Not intellectual consent to the being of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Actual discovery in the soul of the fact of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. He uses many ways to reveal Himself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Here in a dream.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In the morning consciousness came.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Morning usually time of disillusionment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. You laugh at the terrors of the night.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. That day is not past.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Sometimes through sickness or tragedy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Sometimes in hour of peril.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. In hour of supreme joy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. God approaches each man individually.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Sets aside preacher or priest, or prophet.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT DOES THIS DISCOVERY MEAN TO A PERSON?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. A new interpretation of life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The ladder that connected earth and heaven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You become aware of the heaven earth relation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Two men in the beleaguered city; one cries in hopeless despair the other says Lord open his eyes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You say "Oh, we don't believe that."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The world about you springs forth in new beauty and glory.</div>
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