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<div class="SSN_title">"THE KEEPING POWER OF GOD."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Many are worried about steadfastness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Can I maintain the Christian life?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. I don't want to start something I can't finish.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Better to start and fail, than to never start at all.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. The forces seeking to pull as down are powerful.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The world, the flesh, the devil.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. The force holding us up is all powerful.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. "Now unto Him who is able."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The Him refers to Jesus Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. I cannot keep myself from falling.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. The forces are too strong.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. The temptations are too great.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">3. Even some of the angels fell.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. The secret is not to hold on to Christ, but to let Him hold on to you.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. "Now unto Him that is able."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The marvelous ability of Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Standing is not a matter of my ability but His ability.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. He has already demonstrated His ability.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. He stood against every combined power of evil and triumphed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Just as it seemed that the forces of darkness had prevailed, He rose from the grave.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Paul tells us, "He is able to do exceeding..."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT HE IS ABLE TO DO.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Keep you from falling.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. You do not have to fail.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. It's only when you try to go it alone.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Beware of self-confidence.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. "Present you faultless."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. But I have so many faults.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. I will be presented in His righteousness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. "Ye are complete in Him."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. "Before the presence of His glory."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Standing there before the throne of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. In the brightness of His glory that reveals all things, nothing is hid.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. I will stand pure, faultless.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. I will be whispering to myself, "Thank you, Jesus."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. "With exceeding joy."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Joy, such as you have never experienced, or could ever experience on this earth.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "And when before the throne..."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "BE GLORY AND MAJESTY, DOMINION, AND POWER."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "O that men would praise the Lord for His marvelous goodness to men."</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">The music of Orpheous.</div>
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