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<div class="SSN_title">"THE SEARCH FOR GOD"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Third cycle - Eliphaz final speech speaks of type of sins apt to produce such a calamity, attributes them to Job, offers solution. "Acquaint now thyself with Him and be at peace." Job replies "Oh that I knew where I might find him."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. JOB BELIEVED IN FACT OF GOD, AND IN JUSTICE OF GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The difficulty was reaching God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. vs. 8,9.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Why didn't he look up?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This is ever the consciousness of men who seek God on the human level.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Their search as Job's might result from pressure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The quest of their intellect to understand the mystery of the Universe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Man cannot make contact with God by action that is earth-bound.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. People say they find God in nature.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They may see evidences of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He is never found in such a way as to satisfy the deepest need of the soul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The cry "O that I knew where I might find Him."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Revelation of necessity of a special revelation of God. He the spirit of man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE ANSWER OF JESUS TO JOB.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Gather with men in an upper room, men like ourselves - our humanity - desire the spiritual life of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In the midst One upon whom attention is centered. One whose humanity appeared as theirs yet the One in whom the eternal became visible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. In the company sat also a quiet man with a Greek name "and Philip said, show us the Father and it sufficeth us" much the same as Job, "O that I knew where I might find Him." </div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The answer of Jesus "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Which of you can say that without sounding blasphemous.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Don't try to tell me you are a child of God by mere fact of creation Universal Father of us all.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Certain Jews tried this with Jesus. "You are of your father the devil."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We are children of God only through new birth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Philip one of first disciples with Christ during entire public ministry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4"><i><a onClick="return mV('Jhn',1,43);">John 1:43</a> - Seeking</i></div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The call to Philip "Come & travel with Me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The hungry multitudes - Jesus said to Philip "Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? Not seeking information, seeking to prove Philip. Philip saw Him feed the multitude "He that hath..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4"><i><a onClick="return mV('Jhn',12,1);">John 12</a> - Triumphing</i></div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Certain Greeks came to Philip. "Sir, we would see Jesus." Facing hour of sorrow looking through to triumph. "He that hath seen Me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4"><i>Serving</i></div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Now in upper room Jesus had taken a towel and began to wash disciples' feet. "He that hath seen me." See Him in temple eyes flashing. That is God. See same eyes filled with tears at grave of her brother. God see Him sobbing over Jerusalem because she is lost. God "Come unto me and I will give you rest."</div>
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<div class="SSN_divider">"And the Word was made flesh."</div>
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