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<div class="SSN_title">"REDEMPTION"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: These words express the purpose for Christ coming into the world. Perhaps you felt a little out of place as you came in today. He wants You to feel at home.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. REDEMPTION INVOLVES LOST OR STOLEN ITEMS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. The world was lost.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. It was originally God's by rights of creation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Lost from its original intent and purpose.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Look around and observe conditions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. The savage beasts preying upon weaker animals.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. We have reason to believe God did not create them that way. ("Kingdom age")</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Violent storms.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. Once whole earth of more moderate climate; mammoths in Arctic Circle.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">b. Violent winds caused by hot and cold air masses.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">3. The polluted conditions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. Rivers.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">b. Air.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. I have often thought that I would like to see the world as Adam saw it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. I wish now my children could have seen it as I saw it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. Here in Orange County smog was unheard of.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">b. In spring the whole area smelled of the fragrance of orange blossoms.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. How did it become lost to God?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. God gave it to man as a glorious gift that man might live upon it in fellowship with God and enjoy its beauties.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Man turned it over to Satan at this point, it became lost to God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Man is lost.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Originally God's by right of creation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Lost from original intent and purpose.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. It was God's intent that man should live in harmony and fellowship with one another and with God. Sharing equally in the joys and beauty that God had created.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Look around and observe conditions how far they have fallen from divine ideal.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. See the rich oppress the poor.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. See the strong oppress the weak.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">3. See the corrupting influences of greed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">4. See the envy, strife, bitterness, hatred--man is lost.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. How did man become lost?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Through disobedience to God, caused by:</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Greed, desire for yet something more, not legally his.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Unbelief in the warnings of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. How could a God of love punish for following your natural instincts?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Redemption thus involves you and me and the world around us.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. REDEMPTION IS THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST COMING INTO THE WORLD. "FOR THE SON OF MAN HAS COME TO..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. God was not so interested in redeeming the world as He was to redeem man.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He could have created all the world He desired.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. How many billions of billions of worlds he has created we have no way of knowing.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. He cannot create another you. You are unique to Him.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. To redeem you, He redeemed the world.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Ruth (Elimelech...)</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Kingdom of God like man going through field.</div>
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