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<div class="SSN_title">"THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Paul was making his defense before King Agrippa, he is relating his call.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE PURPOSE OF THE GOSPEL.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "To open their eyes."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Paul speaks of the god of this world having blinded their eyes.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. The gospel is the best offer ever made.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. A person would have to be blind not to see it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. "Though He was rich, yet for our..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. "And God made Him to be sin..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">d. "He came to earth in order to take us to heaven..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">e. "He tasted of death to give you life."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">f. Once seeing it a person would have to be stupid not to accept it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. "To turn them from darkness to light."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. In a moral sense.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Darkness is ignorance; light is knowledge.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Darkness is evil, light is good, pure.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. In a spiritual sense.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Darkness is death; light is life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Why does a person walk in darkness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. He is evil or ignorant.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Jesus spoke of those who loved the darkness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. They seek for the darkness to hide their sin.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world, He that cometh after Me..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. "To turn them from the power of Satan unto God."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Paul saw all men outside of Christ as being under the power of Satan.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Certainly Satan does not want you to be saved.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. He desires to inspire rebellion against God's laws.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Paul speaks in <a onClick="return mV('Eph',2,'1-3');">Eph. 2:1-3</a>.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. The Kingdom of Satan is one of sorrow, pain, and death, greed, hatred.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, joy, life, love.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Forgiveness of sins."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. <a onClick="return mV('Psa',32,'all');">Ps. 32</a>.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. The guilt complex is the main cause of neurosis.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. The guilt is also one of the hardest things to erase.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. What a relief when God declares me forgiven.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. An inheritance.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Peter speaks of "inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, reserved in heaven..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Paul speaks of "heirs of God..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Jesus said, "Come ye blessed of the Father inherit the Kingdom."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. HOW BENEFITS OF GOSPEL OBTAINED.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Sanctified "by faith in Jesus."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not by our good efforts.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Not by our noble resolves.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Not by changing our thought patterns to positive directions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. By simple faith in Jesus Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Too simple? You want to kill the dragon and steal the golden apples.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Jesus destroyed the dragons' power and is freely offering to you the spoils of victory.</div>
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