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<div class="SSN_title">"THE HEAVENLY VISION"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Paul before King Agrippa.</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. The man in sin is blind. "The god of this..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Blind to his need.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. He sees no need of repentance - forgiveness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Blind to his condition.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. He is bound - so blind he talks of freedom.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. He is lost - so often thinks he has found it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Spiritually blind.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. How can their eyes be opened?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Spirit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Word.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Prayer.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. "Turn them from darkness to light."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. John said of Jesus, "He was that true light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Satan's kingdom is a kingdom of darkness and death.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Spiritual darkness and void.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Moral darkness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Fitting that in final judgment shall be cast into outer darkness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. How do we get rid of darkness?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. The futility of trying to drive out darkness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Just turn on the light.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. When Jesus comes in, darkness must go.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. How beautiful to live and walk in the light.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. We now know where we are going.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. No longer groping, we walk with assurance.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Live with confidence.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Turn them from the power of Satan unto God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Satan has power to imprison a life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. He blinds their judgment.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. He destroys their logic.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. He perverts the truth.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Calls evil good and good evil.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Lies concerning the Christian life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">d. Power to hold them captive.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Our duty is to set them free.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. This is accomplished in spiritual warfare.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. "Our weapons not carnal."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Satan a defeated foe yet we must force him to yield.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. How to pray for the lost.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE RESULT OF THE GOSPEL.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Forgiveness of sins."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. God desires to forgive sins.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. To this end Jesus Christ was sent, to give God a righteous basis for forgiveness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Please forgive because I'm a neat person.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. <i>(neg.)</i> Please forgive because I promise to be good.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Please forgive because Jesus died for me.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. An inheritance.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Who hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection...unto an inheritance..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. "Come ye blessed of the Father inherit the kingdom prepared..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. "Inherit everlasting life."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. HOW TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF THE GOSPEL.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Which are sanctified by faith."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Sanctified - to be set apart - from - for.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "By faith."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Simply believe God's promise.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Faith in Jesus.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not faith in a church.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Not faith in a religion.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Not faith in goodness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. "Whosoever believeth in Him."</div>
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