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<div class="SSN_title">"FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Today the U.S. has been raised to height & power. Why? To each of us God has given opportunity, talent, and position. Who knows whether thou art come to the Kingdom for such a tim as this.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. HEARKEN.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Will you try to separate your interests from those of your people & your God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the King's house."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. She may have thought, "I am safe."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Do you look at the iniquity around you & say "It doesn't matter as long as I am saved."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. I will live my own faith & life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The Church matters not if it apostasies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Remember, God can do without you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Enlargement & deliverance will come.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God's purposes shall be fullfilled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The lost shall hear of Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. It may be that God will do without us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It may be that God will set aside the United States as unfruitful tree - "cut it down."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Because the church has refused to repent He may come and fight against it with the sword of His mouth."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Saul set aside (would not submit).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. Sampson set aside (lost).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Think of the disgrace if you fail God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. What if Esther had not gone before the king to speak?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. CONSIDER.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The position that God has brought you to.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Salvation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Raised to child of the King; walk worthy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Some of you brought out of poverty to place of abundance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Why has God brought you where you are?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. For your sake that you might practice self-indulgence?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We are like a mesh in a net; cannot move without moving others.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He does not bless the hand for the hands sake but for the body's sake.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Consider the time of God's blessing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. You have been brought to faith when infidelity is growing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You have been brought to full assurance when others are in doubt & trembling.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. You have been brought to knowledge when multitudes perishing for lack of knowledge.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. God has done this for some good purpose.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. If God has blessed you financially, do you think you are a proprietor or steward?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. ASPIRE "WHO KNOWETH WHETHER THOU ART COME TO THE..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Who knoweth" that is what ambitious man says.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Louis Napoleon in prison fortress.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I do not desire to move your ambitions for poor thrones or honors of men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Ambitious for God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God may use you & bless this nation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. No one can know to the contrary.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Billy Graham.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. No one knows the limits of the posibilities of a man should God choose to use him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. You say I am nothing; put the right one in front of you and you are 10; get several nothings with right one.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Aspire great things for God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. CONFIDENCE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Be confident you are safe.</div>
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