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THE N. T. WAY&quot; (2 Tim 2:25) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";color:black'>June 28<sup>th</sup>, 2009</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";color:black'>Sunday School Lesson:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I. <b><u>CONSIDER THE WORD  INSTRUCTING (Vr. 25)<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. This word <b><u>&quot;instructing&quot; </u></b>is only found one time in Scripture, which makes it all the more important that we meditate on it some.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. The word <b><u>&quot;Instruction&quot;</u></b> is found 33 trimes.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. <b><u>(Prov 1:7)</u></b> &quot;The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and <b><u>instruction</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>4. <b><u>(Prov 1:8) </u></b>&quot;My son, hear the<b><u> instruction </u></b>of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:&quot;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>5. <b><u>John Gill says</u></b>: &quot;<b><u>Not the law</u></b>, as Jarchi and Gersom interpret it; but<b><u> the instruction of wisdom, the doctrine of Christ or the Gospel</u></b>;&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>6. <b><u>(Prov 12:1)</u></b> &quot;Whoso loveth <b><u>instruction</u></b> loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.&quot;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>7. <b><u>(2 Tim 3:16) </u></b>&quot;All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, <b><u>for instruction in righteousness</u></b>:&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>II. <u>CONSIDER THE WORD  INSTRUCT <o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. The word <b><u>&quot;Instruct&quot;</u></b> is found nine times in Scripture.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>(Psa 32:8) </u></b>&quot;I will <b><u>instruct</u></b> thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. <b><u>F. B. Meyers Daily Homilies pg. 204</u></b> &quot;1 will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. (Psa. 32: 8). &quot;LEARN of Me,&quot; said the Master: and indeed there is no teacher like Him; no school like his. We stand at the door of the schoolhouse, saying, &quot;What I know not, teach Thou me&quot;; and He does not hesitate to undertake our case. But there are several points of difference from our methods.</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>In Christ's school there is but one Master for all the scholars, and they all learn from the same books; the pupils begin with the upper classes and end with the lowest; and those that are most proficient, and have been longest under his tuition, are most conscious of their ignorance. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>There are no holidays; but every day is a holy day. The school never breaks up; but the students leave it for Home, and the prizes are sent after them, and given when they arrive.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>We need more than personal instruction; we are travelling through an unknown land, and require direction for the way. This also is guaranteed; but not as in the cases of tourists, who extract all information from their friends before they start from home, as to the places they are about to visit. Our Guide accompanies us. He counsels us with his eye upon us, detecting every pitfall and chasm, and warning us; perhaps even guiding us by the movement of his eye.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>How greatly then are we in need of the quickened sense! The eye fixed on his eye; the ear open to his slightest whisper; the foot quick to place itself down in his footprints. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The horse and mule need bit and bridle; but it is enough for us if the heart fears to miss the least indication of the Master's will. Be willing to know; it then becomes his part to make thee know somehow. If not in one way, then in another.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>4. <b><u>William Bridge.(S-1-5) .Vol 5 pg. 187 &quot;The Old man's guide.&quot; <o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>&quot;Precious promise God has given</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>To the weary passerby;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>On the road from earth to heaven</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I will guide thee with Mine eye</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>5. <b><u>(Dan 11:33):</u></b> &quot;Those who understand among the people shall<b><u> instruct </u></b>many.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A. <b><u>Horatius Bonar has a sermon entitled</u></b>: &quot;EVERY CHRISTIAN A TEACHER&quot; and took <b><u>(Dan 11:33) </u></b>for his text.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>III. <u>CONSIDER THE WORD  OPPOSE&quot; (Vr. 25)<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. This little word is only found one time in Scripture.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A. The man that is in opposition to the will and salvation of God is actually opposing his own heart and soul.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>IV. <u>CONSIDER THE WORD &quot;PERADVENTURE</u>&quot; (Vr. 25)</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Int. Peradventure is found 32 times in Scripture. <b><u>Consider some of them</u></b>.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(Gen 18:24)</u></b> &quot;<b><u>Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city</u></b>: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>(Gen 24:5) </u></b>&quot;And the servant said unto him, <b><u>Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land</u></b>: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. <b><u>(Gen 27:12)</u></b> (Jacob) &quot;<b><u>My father peradventure will feel me</u></b>, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>4. <b><u>(Gen 42:4) </u></b>&quot;But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, <b><u>Lest peradventure mischief befall him</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>5. <b><u>(Gen 50:15) </u></b>&quot;And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, <b><u>Joseph will peradventure hate us</u></b>, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>6. <b><u>(1 Ki 18:27)</u></b> &quot;And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or <b><u>peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.&quot;<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>7. <b><u>(Rom 5:7)</u></b> &quot;For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: <b><u>yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.&quot;<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>8. <b><u>(2 Tim 2:25)</u></b> &quot;In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves;<b><u> if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth</u></b>;&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>V. <u>CONSIDER THE WORD REPENTANCE IN (Vr. 25)<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>Thomas Brooks</u></b>: &quot;Repentance is a flower which does not grow in nature's garden!&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. The Greek word for repentance is the military word &quot;Metanoia&quot; and means an about face, or a turning 180 degrees.</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>Matthew Henry</u></b>: &quot;Though it is certain that true repentance is never too late, it is as certain that late repentance is seldom true.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. <b><u>Repentance is a turning from sin (the most darling sin) to God</u></b>. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>4. <b><u>Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. 36 (1889), p. 189 </u></b>&quot;The Lord will accept all who repent; but how do you know that you will repent [on your death-bed]? It is true that one thief was saved--but the other thief was lost. One is saved, and we may not despair; the other is lost, and we may not presume.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>5. You are as well able to melt adamant as to melt your own heart! You are as well able to turn a flint into flesh  as to turn your own heart to the Lord! You are as well able to raise the dead and to make a world as to repent of your own accord.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>6. <b><u>(Jere 13:23) </u></b>&quot;Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>7. Repentance is a gift that comes down from above.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>8. Men are not born with repentance in their hearts, as they are born with tongues in their mouths! It is not in the power of any mortal to repent at pleasure. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>9. <b><u>W. T. Worthan said</u></b>: &quot;Many persons who appear to repent are like sailors who throw their goods overboard in a storm, and wish for them in a calm.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>10. Some have a perverted view of repentance.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(Jack Hyles, Enemies of Soul-Winning, p. 31)</u></b>. &quot;There are those who say we have to repent of our sins in order to be saved. No, we have to repent only of the thing that makes us unsaved, and that is unbelief&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. (<b><u>Curtis Hutson, Repentance - What Does the Bible Teach?)</u></b>. &quot;Perhaps the most popular false idea is that repentance is turning from sin . . . I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>c. <b><u>(Zane C. Hodges, Absolutely Free!). Heresy indeed! </u></b>&quot;To make repentance a condition for eternal salvation is nothing less than a regression toward Roman Catholic dogma . . . Faith alone (not repentance and faith) is the sole condition for justification and eternal life&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>d. <b><u>(Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, p. 376). (More heresy) says</u></b>: &quot;The New Testament does not impose repentance upon the unsaved as a condition of salvation&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>11. <b><u>Thomas Brooks</u></b>: &quot;True repentance includes a sensibleness of sin's destructiveness; how sin cast angels out of heaven, and Adam out of paradise; how sin laid the first cornerstone in hell, and brought in all the curses, crosses, and miseries, which are in the world; and how sin makes men liable to all temporal, spiritual and eternal wrath; how sin has made men Godless, Christless, hopeless and heavenless.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>12. <b><u>John C. Chapman </u></b>...&quot;No repentance is true repentance which does not recognize Jesus as lord over every area of life.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>13. <b><u>Thomas Watson said</u></b>: &quot;Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>14. It is God that gives <b><u>&quot;Repentance&quot; (Vr. 25)<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>15. <b>God calls sinners to repentance.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(Mat 9:13) </u></b>&quot;But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for <b><u>I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>16. <b><u>Repentance is a grace that is granted to men.<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(Acts 11:18)</u></b> &quot;When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles <u>granted repentance unto life</u>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>17. <b><u>John Hill on Evangelical Repentance: &quot;&quot;REPENTANCE&quot; </u></b>&quot;Repentance toward God.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. Augustine has well said, &quot;He hath ill repented whose sins are repeated.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. Repentance is a change of mind wrought by the Holy Spirit and shown in the action.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>c. The word repent means to think differently, to change one's views after consideration, hence to change one's purpose or course of action. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>d. Remorse is sorrow for the consequence of sin, but <b><u>repentance</u></b> condemns the sin which brought the consequence.</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>18. It is the goodness of God that leadeth men to repentance.<b><u> (Rom 2:4)<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>19. The preaching of repentance is based upon the authoritative command of Christ. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(Luke 24:46-47)</u></b> &quot;And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: {47}<b><u> And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations</u></b>, beginning at Jerusalem.&quot;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>VI. <u>CONSIDER THE PHRASE &quot;ACKNOWLEDGING OF THE TRUTH.&quot; (Vr. 25)<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. This word <b><u>&quot;acknowledging&quot; </u></b>is found three times in Scripture. (In our text and:)</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(Titus 1:1) </u></b>&quot;Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, <b><u>and the acknowledging of the truth </u></b>which is after godliness;&quot;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. <b><u>(Phile 1:6) </u></b>&quot;That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the <b><u>acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.&quot;<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. No man will recover himself out of the snare of the Devil through error or lies.(Vr. 26)</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>VII. <u>THAT THEY MAY RECOVER THEMSELVES. (Vr. 26)<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. This phrase is only found twice in Scripture.</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(2 Chr 14:13) </u></b>&quot;And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that <b><u>they could not recover themselves</u></b>; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. Recovery from sin is only found in Christ.<b><u>(Vr. 25-26)<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. Consider that little word &quot;snare&quot; in (Vr. 26)</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>Curiosities of the Bible --J. H. Vincent, D. D. (S-2-7) pg 232 </u></b>&quot;Keep me from the Snare.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>&quot;We have here the picture of a spider's web. The spider is a repulsive insect, and few, indeed, admire him. I have read of a man who had a &quot; pet spider,&quot; and, when a tune was whistled, the little creature would instantly come out of its bole to listen. Few, however, would like such a &quot;pet.&quot; We may dislike the spider, but we cannot fail to admire his work. See the delicate fibres, and the perfect form of this web. What ingenuity and skill it shows. But let us look a little more closely at the spider's work, and see if it has a lesson for us. See, first of all, how orderly and systematic it is. The lines running from the center to the outer edge seem to .be of equal length, and the distance between them seems to be equal also. Then, there are cords that cross the long threads, and these, too, are arranged with perfect order and system. Here is a lesson for us.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. Satan sets his snare for men like the little boy did for the bird. &quot;He put a stick under a net and tied a string to the net. Then he placed some corn etc. under the net and waited. Once the bird was comfortable under the snare, he pulled the string and caught the bird.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>c. In Africa, the natives bore a hole through a hollow log and pour rice in the hole. The monkey comes along and reaches down in the hole and gets a hand full of rice. He is free to turn the rice loose and go free, but he refuses to turn loose and is caught.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>d. So Satan sets all kinds of snares for the souls of men and is very successful in catching his prey. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>e. <b><u>(Psa 91:3) </u></b>&quot;Surely he shall deliver thee from <b><u>the snare of the fowler</u></b>, and from the noisome pestilence.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. Sometimes, they used tame birds to call in wild birds into a caged area and then dropped the door with a string.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>(Psa 124:7) </u></b>&quot;<b><u>Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers</u></b>: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>e. Obama and his crowd have <b><u>made a snare for the American people </u></b>out of <b><u>&quot;his health care plan&quot;<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(Luke 21:35)</u></b> &quot;For<b><u> as a snare </u></b>shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>f. <b><u>Remember how they catch wild hogs in Tenn</u></b>. They put a small pile of corn on the ground near where they see signs of the hogs. Then they build one wall of a fence and wait. When the hogs get used to that wall, they put up another wall etc. until finally, they leave a gate only. Once the hogs are inside, they pull the rope holding the gate and the hogs are caught in their snare.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>g. <b><u>(1 Tim 3:7)</u></b> &quot;Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and <b><u>the snare of the devil</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>h. <b><u>(1 Tim 6:9) </u></b>&quot;But <b><u>they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare</u></b>, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>VIII. <u>TAKEN CAPTIVE BY THE DEVIL AT HIS WILL. (Vr. 26)<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>J. C. Philpot on (Vr. 26) </u></b>&quot;Then they will come to their senses and escape from the Devil's trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. &quot;In our natural state, we are all the slaves of Satan! We love our foul master, hug his chain, and delight in his servitude, little thinking what awful wages are to follow.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. This mighty conqueror has with him a numerous train of captives! This haughty master, the 'god of this world', has in his fiendish retinue, a whole array of slaves who gladly do his behests. They obey him cheerfully, though he is leading them down to the bottomless pit! 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