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<div class="SSN_title">"DWELLERS IN FIRE"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: The occasion for this fear, the destruction of the Assyrian army.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE USE OF SYMBOLS TO DESCRIBE GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The purpose stems from the impossibility of the finite mind to comprehend the infinite God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3"> 1. Zophar-"Who by searching can find out God to perfection."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There is no way my mind can conceive of the greatness, vastness, or power of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Other symbols used to describe God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God is light.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Expresses to us truth, purity, understanding as an enlightened mind.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God is love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. His governing emotional attribute.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Prone at time to think that God is cruel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Operating as He does in that higher dimension, do not always understand His dealings with me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. God as fire.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Burning bush (Moses).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Hebrew, "Our God is a consuming fire."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT THIS SYMBOL TELLS US ABOUT GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God is omnipresent, "eremacasis" the slow burning fire of nature.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Entropy the second law of thermodynamics.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The entire universe in a gradual state of decay.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. This file is everywhere.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God is a purifying force.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. As a refiners fire for gold or silver.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE QUESTION OF THE SINNERS IN ZION "WHO AMONG US SHALL DWELL IN THE DEVOURING FIRE."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The word translated dwell.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Difficulty of translation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Sometimes a word has several meanings and its meaning determined by its use in the text. This is such a word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Dwell, conflict (fight) flea.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Who can flee from the fire?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. You can't run from God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">a. Paul to the Epicurean philosophers, "for in Him we live, and move, and have our being."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">b. Some make the mistake of trying to run from God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">c. David in <a onClick="return mV('Psa',139,1);">Ps. 139</a> speaks of the all prevading presence of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. There is no escaping God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Who can fight the fire.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. If God's power can destroy the strong Assyrian army, who are we to fight God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">a. The truth of the matter is you can fight God, but you can never win.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">b. In fighting God, you are destroyed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. A STRANGE CAPACITY OF FIRE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It has the capacity to utterly destroy or to transmit into permanency.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The same fire, it depends on the nature of the material in it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Wood or steel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The real question is this, I am dwelling in the fire, I cannot escape it, what is it doing to me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. That depends on what I am and my relationship to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I am being destroyed or purified and eternalfied.</div>
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