• Intro — Paul —Response to Romans 1:1-11, 32
  • The emotional response to Truth
  • The expression of adoration
    • Define adoration
    • Being — doing
    • Changed — to adore God
  • Why did Paul suffer in serving?
    • The passage
    • Three triple statements
    • Tied together
• Last Week
  • The expression of adoration to God includes —
    • The consideration of God's riches
    • The realization of God's freedom from obligation
    • The acknowledgement that all things are from God
• Today
  • The expression of adoration to God includes "
    • The consideration of the depth of God's knowledge
      • Several categories
      • Science
      • Technology
      • Astronomy — space
      • Geology
      • Medical — body
      • Morality
        • Complete
        • Universal
        • Historical
        • Personal — individual
        • Fore-knowledge
        • Based on predestination
        • Eternal
          • Has always known
          • Knows how
          • Will always know
          • The depth of God's knowledge — Job 38
            • Adoration
• The Expression of Adoration to God Includes — Recognizing God's Knowledge Is Beyond Human Comprehension
  • We comprehend only what He has revealed
    • His judgments are unsearchable
      • We think — but we cannot know all that God knows
      • We can only know what He has revealed
      • We are limited creatures finite
      • No one is at His level of knowledge, intelligence, logic or ability to think
    • His ways are beyond tracing out
      • A track which cannot be explored
      • Isa 55:8-9
      • His ways with His elect
      • His ways with the unbelieving
    • Who has known the mind of the Lord?
      • His intelligence, understanding, thoughts, perception
      • Job 38:1-3; 40:14
      • We think God is just like us
      • God interacts with man only
        • As man with man
      • God can interact with the human will
        • A person chooses what God wants him to do
        • Pharaoh
        • Jos 11:20
        • Daniel
        • Cyrus — Isa 45
        • Exo 12:35-36
        • Pro 21:1
        • The king —heart is in the hand of the Lord
          • He directs like a river wherever He pleases
      • God's ways are beyond us
        • Above us
        • Bow as a creature
        • Give Him adoration
      • "O the Depth of the Knowledge of God" — Adoration
• The Expression of Adoration to God Includes Acknowledgement
  • That all things are through Him
  • "From Him" — the source
  • Through Him — builder, developer, governor, maintainer, sustainer
  • Plan your work
  • Work your plan
  • God's work is perfect!
    • Doing everything perfectly — Eph 1:11
  • The sole executive
    • Carry out His decrees
      • Planner — Builder — Finisher
    • Everything is exactly as God has predestinated it to be
  • His building is perfect
    • Seems in disarray now
  • All things thru Him
    • Creation
    • Redemption
    • History
  • Our personal Life
    • Not chance — good or bad
    • Not accident — calamities
    • Not evil power — tragedies
  • Known unto God Are All His Works from the Beginning
  • God Is Not a Prisoner of Creation, History, or His Church
• Conclusion
  • God is to be adored
  • Give adoration to Him
  • Be the people who adore Him
  • Be the person
• Prayer
  • Father I Adore You
  • Call for response in prayer

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