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<div class="SSN_title">"COMING TO GOD."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. WHAT IS MEANT BY "COMING TO GOD?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Communication.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Bringing before God my needs, petitions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Praise, worshipping, thanking, loving.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Listening - receiving His directives.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The lost art of silence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The tragedy of those who never listen.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The example of Enoch.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Lived in Godless generation similar to ours.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Seventh from Adam through Seth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Seventh from Adam through Cain Lamech inventors of arts & sciences, exploiting sex.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. "The imagination of men's hearts evil continually."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. "Every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Relativity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Enoch's testimony "walked with God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He was in touch with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Out of touch with world around him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. A necessity to really walk with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. The cares of life crowd out our time for prayer and praise.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. The noises of the world drown out the voice of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF COMING TO GOD?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Must believe that He is.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is not hard - it is natural to believe in God. Helen Keller, Miss Sullivan.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It takes real effort not to believe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You may be an atheist, but it's a real struggle for you to maintain your position.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He is what?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. How can I know what God is?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. I can know what I would be if I were God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">a. So many people when worshipping God, worshipping own ideas.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">b. When people say I believe in God, can be talking about 1,000 things - force, power, essence, pansy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. I can accept that God revealed in the Bible and believe in Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">a. God has spoken to man - I can accept that, second hard to think otherwise, condition.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">b. <a onClick="return mV('Hbr',1,1);">Heb. 1</a>, "God who at sundry times..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. "That He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." I must more than believe in God, I must trust in Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Trust is greater than faith.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I must believe that He will answer if I diligently seek Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Some come to God on an experimental basis.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Tried everything else.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Better to come on this basis than not to come - diligent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE RESULTS OF COMING TO GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Fellowship established.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Purposes of life experienced.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. His light, love, life imparted. Effect - Peace, joy, hope, meaning, fulfillment. The void within filled, "My cup runneth over."</div>
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