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If you're able to remain standing,
please do and let's hear God's word from
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Romans, Romans, chapter eleven,
versus thirty three, through thirty six,
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Romans Eleven, verse thirty three.
Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom
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and knowledge of God. How unsearchable
are his judgments, how inscrutable his ways?
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For who has known the mind of
the Lord, or who has been
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his counselor who has given a gift
to him that he might be repaid for?
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From him and through him and to
him are all things? To him
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be the glory forever. Amen,
please be seated. It was somewhat tempting
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to procrastinate preparing this sermon because when
you read these words, how unsearchable are
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his judgments, how inscrutable are his
ways, initially begin thinking that is going
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to be somewhat difficult to prepare a
sermon. How can I bring before you
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the mind of the Lord when it
is uns Urchabal? How can I talk
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to you and reveal the results of
my reflections on the being of God when
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he is unsearchable? Where do you
begin thinking about these kinds of things?
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But I'll remind you, even as
I had to remind myself that what we're
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given here is not the infinite depth
of God's riches and knowledge, but the
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truth of the depth of the riches
of God's knowledge we are Hivin and in
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addition to that, we are given
a degree of experience with them, participation
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in them. Maybe I can illustrate
it in this way. Growing up in
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Arizona, I never made it to
the beach until I was, I think,
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in high school. Was the first
time I saw the ocean. It
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was a youth group trip to California, and this thing that you read about
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in books and you hear about in
stories was more exhilarating and salty and cold
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and frightening than I could have ever
imagined. The sound of the waves,
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the power of the undertow pulling even
just a few feed in to the water.
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It was easy to be very excited
and and even a little bit scared.
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And as you're standing there on the
shore, you're thinking too about how
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big it is. You can't see
its end and you also know from all
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the things that you've read that underneath
those waters you might be able to see
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a thing of seaweed passed by or
some rocks, but you know that there
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are depths that you can only imagine, animals that you have never seen,
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mountain ranges, volcanoes, entire worlds. And so you're standing there on the
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ocean and you have this experience of
the ocean in a sense, and yet
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in another sense it's entirely something else. Our experience with the riches of God's
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wisdom and knowledge is something like that. We hear of their depth, we
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experience it a little bit. that
a sense of power, it's wonder,
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it's goodness, it's beauty is God
reveals them these things to us, but
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this limited experience only confirms how far
or how much. We don't know how
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far down it goes, how deep
it really is. So while we know
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in part the wisdom and knowledge of
God and we know that it is rich
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indeed, at the same time it
is unsearchable, it is unknowable, it
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is something you can't really grasp.
Now God, of course, grasps these
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things, not only the ocean and
everything in it, but even himself.
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He knows all his ways, he
knows himself in a way that we can
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never know him. What great things
there must be in God that we will
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never know, what awesome possibilities and
powers that are even beyond our imagination.
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And so, when we think about
this, it's really impossible to explore these
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in any kind of complete way,
much more impossible to master them and to
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act. As Paul suggests, that
we might be God's counselor verse Thirty Four.
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Who has known the mind of the
Lord Er? Who has been his
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counselor but the truth of these things, the truth of the nature of God,
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are in a way made very plain
to us. Though we can't search
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the infinite depths of God, yet
we know that it is true that he
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is infinitely deep, though deep,
oh, the depth of the riches and
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wisdom and knowledge of God. And
so this morning, for the good of
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our souls and for the praise and
glory of God, let's give our attention
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to him. Let's spend some time
beholding God. First, the depth of
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God's riches. The depth of God's
riches refers to his inexhaustible wealth and resources.
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Perhaps the easiest way to understand this
is to compare the wealth of God,
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the riches of God, to human
wealth. You can imagine. Try
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to think of the person, the
wealthiest person you know, the richest person
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you know. This is someone who
can probably cover any expense, any bill
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that comes up. A car repair, they could buy a new car,
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nothing's a big deal. If they
need to buy a house, they buy
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a house. There are resources that
are constantly available, and yet even the
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richest person that I can imagine,
the richest person that you can imagine,
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still has limits. As much as
they have available to them, there is
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still an end to it. There's
a number at the bottom that can be
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counted, it can be tallied.
Not so with God, because he owns
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everything. Everything. It's hard to
even wrap your mind around that. Psalm
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for the de tend says every beast
of the forest is mine. The cattle
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on a thousand hills is mine.
Between US humans we partition them off.
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We say these cattle with these brands
are mine, and these cattle over here
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with these brands are mine, and
God says all the cattle with brands and
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with no brands, they're all mine. Hagu I to eight, the silver
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is mine and the Gold is mine, says the Lord. Psalm twenty four
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one. The Earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof the world and
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they that dwell therein and not just
material things but immaterial things as well,
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eekyl eighteen, for behold, all
souls are mine. This is why we
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pray to God for our daily bread. He owns it, it's his,
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it's his to give, it's his
to share. God, this is why
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we pray for our souls. They're
his, and we a would ask that
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he would save us, bless US
and comfort us. God's wealth, his
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riches, his reeses, sources are
inexhaustible. When we think about that,
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there are a thousand ways to apply
this to our own heart. I'll ask
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you do that homework. Think about
how how it is that the depth of
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God's riches and that thought, that
truth, needs to apply to your own
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life. Are there ways in which
you're selling him short? Are there ways
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in which you don't quite think he
has all that? Or is that capable?
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We all do and something worth meditating
on. Well, Paul not only
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speaks about the depth of the riches
of God, but also the wisdom.
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God's wisdom refers to his understanding of
all things, how he connects the means
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to the ends. My favorite example
of this, you know it's my favorite
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because I've shared it with you before, but is the butterfly effect. For
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you, science fiction fans, you
know what this is about. This is
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time travel. Right. When you
travel back in time, you don't want
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a step on a butterfly. Why? Because, as we know from science
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fiction, when you affect one little
thing in the past, it has repercussions,
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and science fiction writers have a lot
of fun with this. A person
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goes back in time to save their
spouse from death, but along the way
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they, you know, brush a
stranger right and and bump into them.
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But that has an effect because the
stranger was on their way somewhere and they
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didn't quite make it in time,
and then that has an effect and that
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has an effect. The point that
these artists like to explore, if we
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can call them that, is that
the world is connected. There are causes
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and defects. One thing leads to
another. As I was writing this up
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and thinking about this portion of my
sermon, daisy are cat walked into the
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study and now I'm telling you about
it. That wouldn't have happened if she
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hadn't walked in. There are causes
and effects for all of these things.
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It's amazing and mind boggling when we
consider how interconnected and how totally uncontrol of
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any of that we really are.
We try really hard to do the best
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things so that but other things can
happen, but there's so many things that
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are outside of our control. And
yet there's the Lord God, according to
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the depths of his wisdom, saying
things like and a virgin shall conceive and
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then, all this time later,
she does. We just went through a
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large portion of Romans where he's talking
about God's intimate plans with the Jews and
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the gentiles and all of the these
things that he's doing throughout history to bind
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them up all together for this perfect
plan of salvation. How would you even
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begin to do something like that?
How would you even plan for it?
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How many pieces of paper on your
dining room table would it take to plan
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for the salvation of the choose in
the gentiles? Can you imagine? Not
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to mention it's not just a plan
that God comes up with, a perfect
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plan where means and ends are all
wisely and perfectly fitted together, but he
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executes it. He executes it with
this marvelous perfection, having control over the
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past and the present and the future, not being bound by time. We
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can marvel at the depth of his
wisdom when we consider the very shallow pool
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of our own. You think about
people that work, parents, for example,
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who try a million different things to
get so and so to clear their
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spot at the table or clean their
room or stop doing such and such a
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thing. They just can't figure it
out. Dorothy Parker, writer, says
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I can't write five words, but
that I change seven. The revision process
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is a big part of writing.
Over and over and over and over again,
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graphic designers create revised trash. Create
revised trash, focus group it,
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create revised this is our lives.
We're constantly, constantly trying to make it
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work, and God just does it
well, the depths of the wisdom of
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God. Now consider God's inexhaustible knowledge. If God's wisdom is his perfect ability
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to decide, plan and act in
a way that's not partial or reactive or
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carried out or bound by time,
consider his knowledge. His knowledge is similar.
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It's like our knowledge and that it
is aware and understands things. But
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unlike our knowledge, God's knowledge is
completely comprehensive and holy true. Moreover,
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God knows not only what is but
also what is possible. He knows what
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was and what will be, and
it extends beyond creation itself, that is
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to say. God knows himself.
God knows his holy will down to the
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most tiniest of details. So that
means what? While you couldn't find your
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keys this morning, God knew the
exact location of every single humming bird on
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the entire planet for all of history. When you and I can't remember why,
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we decided to buy this particular cell
phone, God knows every single word
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and conversation and almost word and half
formed thought that went out over that phone.
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Every hidden thing is known to God. But let's keep it very personal
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here. God's word from Psalm one
hundred and thirty nine. Oh Lord,
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you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and
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when I rise up. You discern
my thoughts from afar, you search out
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my path and my lying down and
are acquainted with all my ways even before
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a word is on my tongue.
Behold, oh Lord, you know it
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all together. You had me in
behind and before, and lay your hand
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upon me. Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me. It is high.
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I cannot attain it. When David
beholds the knowledge of God and sees how
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far it goes, how deep it
goes, he says it's too wonderful for
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him. It's too much, it's
too grand. It's like the Israelites when
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the glory of the Lord Shone on
Moses's face and they looked away. They
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said, cover it up, Moses. David here looks at the glory of
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God in his knowledge and says this
is too wonderful for me, it is
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too high, I cannot attain it. When you hear words like these,
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when you behold the god of the
universe, consider him any the depth of
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his riches and the depth of his
wisdom, in the depth of his knowledge,
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I ask You, do these words
comfort you or do they terrify you?
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To know that the Lord God who
made you knows every single thought of
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yours, to know that he discerns
them from afar, that he knows the
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words you speak before they're on your
tongue, that he sees every action,
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sitting down, rising up and everything
in between. Does that terrify you or
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does it comfort you? God is
not like a sunset that you can look
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at and say wow, that's amazing
and remains somewhat distance from you. Can
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behold a sunset, but the sunset
never beholds you. The sunset never looks
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back and says, I know you. God does, though. When we
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behold the all GNAWLIGIBLE, all wise, all powerful God and know who he
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is, we also know that he
knows us. The David's not terrified.
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As you go on and read the
Psalm, he talks in most intimate and
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wonderful ways. I'll read a little
more to you. For you formed my
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inward parts. You knitted me together
in my mother's womb. I praise you,
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for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My
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soul knows it very well. My
frame was not hidden from you when I
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was being made in secret, intricately
woven in the depths of the earth.
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Your eyes saw my unformed substance.
In your book were written every one of
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them. The days were formed for
me as when, as yet, there
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was none of them. How precious
to me are your thoughts? Oh God,
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how vast is the sum of them? If I would count them,
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they are more than the sand.
I awake and I am still with you.
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David is humbled, he is comforted, but I know for some of
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you that to be known means to
be discovered. To be known is to
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be exposed to be known is to
be embarrassed and shamed. To be known
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by God means that there's no more
hiding, there's no more pretending. To
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be known by God means that he's
seeing you and that has he has found
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you and has brought you very low. The all powerful, all wise,
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all knowing God can be very terrifying. Why is David not terrified? Why
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is he humbled and filled with awe
and yet also comforted? Why is it
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for David that to be known is
to be loved, to be seen,
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to be cherished, to be cared
for? The truth is is that God
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relates to people in both ways.
It's not like I'm presenting before you two
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versions of God, one version of
God versus another version of God. God
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does both those things. God looks
at us in a way that discovers and
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exposes and shames, and God also
looks at some and it's hot. It's
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a loving, a cherishing look.
What makes the difference and how can you
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find God's love and avoid is wrath? How can you find comfort in being
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known and not terror? The answer
and the difference lies with the one whom
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Paul has been writing about throughout the
book of Romans, the difference lies in
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Jesus Christ, because in Jesus God
has made the riches, the depth of
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his riches and wisdom and knowledge known. He is given to us a cup
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from this ocean which is enough to
quench our thirst forever and ever. He
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offers us a way in Jesus out
from shame and embarrassment and wrath into the
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joys and love of eternal life.
Now, I can't explain to you why
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God has done that. I can't
say why he has taken some of us
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and who are dirty and shameful and
exposed, and has clothed us with the
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righteousness of Jesus and has lifted us
up into the highest of places. Why
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God has seen fit to offer US
mercy and tenderness and comfort when we only
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deserve hatred and brokenness. But though
I can't explain it and search it out
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and dissect it and master it,
I can preach it. And there it
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is, nevertheless, God's grace,
fully on display, fully given to you,
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his son, dying on a cross
to bear up all of our sins,
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God's son raising from the dead to
give us victory, a new life,
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God's spirit, that we might be
joined to him and his love for
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all eternity. We're all sinners together, broken and deserving of his wrath,
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deserving to have this all wise,
all powerful, all knowing God come down
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on us like a ton of bricks
or mountains or worse. But won't you
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join me in believing in the son
whom the father has sent? Because he
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has sent him, he has given
us all of these things, all of
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these deep things, in love.
God has come to us in and of
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himself, not a different God,
not a less powerful God, a majestic,
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Almighty, all glorious God, but
in Jesus, he comes to us
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in love. It's not as though
the wisdom and knowledge and riches of God
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are only expressed in his terror or
in his terrifying power and judgment. All
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of them are equally expressed in the
grace and power of his love. You
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remember how Paul started out Romans.
The Gospel is the power of God,
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und salvation for all who believe.
So again I ask, won't you join
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me in believing? Believing in the
inestimable, inexhaustible riches of the wisdom and
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knowledge of God, not that we
might control him, but that we might
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enjoy him and glorify him forever.
Let us pray
