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<div class="SSN_title">"KEEPING OURSELVES IN GOD'S LOVE."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. TO WHOM WAS JUDE WRITING?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Them that are sanctified by God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Kept or "preserved in Jesus Christ."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. "Called."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. To those who were called, sanctified and kept he said, "Keep yourselves in the..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHY THIS INJUNCTION?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It is possible to experience a great blessing of God in our life yet still fail to receive the full benefits of it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Children of Israel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Though delivered from bondage of Egypt, never entered promised land.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Angels who dwelt with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Kept not their first principles, left their habitation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Reserved now in chains awaiting day of judgment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Men of Sodom and Gomorrha.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Why Lot chose that area to live.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Failing to keep themselves in God's love and were destroyed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God's grace is never granted apart from our response to it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Privileges bring responsibilities.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT IS MEANT BY "KEEP YOURSELVES."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It does not mean to keep yourself in such a way as to persuade God to love you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Does God love bad boys?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God so loves the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. His love was unsought and undeserved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Keep yourselves in harmony with that love so as to receive its full benefits, respond.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The case of Patty Hurst.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Examples of those who failed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Cain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. His failure, hatred.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. When manifested? After sacrifice to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Balaam.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. His failure, greed, he loved the reward of unrighteousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. When manifested? After uttering some of the most inspired truths.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">a. His failure, envy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level6">b. When manifested? Right after doing service to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Hatred, greed, envy are out of harmony with God's love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Search your heart just now.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Have you been blaming God for your lack of blessing?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. HOW TO KEEP YOURSELF IN GOD'S LOVE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Building yourself up in God's love."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This done through the study of the Word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Read your Bible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Praying in the Holy Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Asking Spirit to inspire your prayers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Groanings which cannot be uttered.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Praying in tongues.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. His rapture of the church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_notes">"Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless. . ."</div>
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