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<div class="SSN_title">"GOD'S METHOD OF VICTORY"</div>
<div class="SSN_subtitle">The vision Zechariah say.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THERE WAS A WORK OF GOD TO BE DONE.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. The task seemed impossible.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The rubble was like a mountain.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. There were a limited amount of workers.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Many forces opposed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Harassment from neighbors.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. The people were discouraged.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. How can man do the work of God?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. I desire to do God's work.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. I want to live the right way.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. The question itself shows the impossibility of the answer.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. God's work is so vast.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. I am so limited.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. The opposing forces are so strong.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">d. I am so weak.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">e. I feel like just sitting on the rubble and crying out of frustration.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. God I want to do your work, I don't know how, I don't know where to begin.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE UNACCEPTABLE METHODS "NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. God's work not accomplished with programs.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Word "might" means army, muster forces.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. How much of man's genius spent in devising a program.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. How are we going to finance God's work?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. How are we going to increase membership?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. How are we going to reach the lost?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. How much effort is spent trying to keep a program alive.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. It worked for them.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. What if the generals in studying Joshua's method in conquering Jericho - thought they found the formula?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. All kinds of success programs and success ideas for sale.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. We have a tendency to always measure the task according to our ability.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "I could never do that."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Sure I can, that's easy."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Not by dogged determination "power."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "I think I can."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. GOD'S METHOD OF VICTORY "BY MY SPIRIT, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. It's logical, only God can do God's work.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. What ever made me think I could?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. No wonder I'm so tired.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Whose work is it?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Building the church.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Saving the lost.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Your righteousness "You are His workmanship."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Look to the Spirit of God for:</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Guidance.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Strength.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Help.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. "Oh God, how can I make them see this truth?"</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">Not by might nor by power.</div>
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