• Intro to Preaching
  • Involves lots of time
  • Homiletics
  • Grace Fellowship Method — expository
  • Privilege
  • Responsibility
  • Calling
• The Approach
  • Text entering the heart
  • Must find the purpose
  • Must study the grammar
  • Must study the historical setting
  • Must find the one dominant thought — emphasis
  • Must know the context
  • Must expose the truth
• Real Good Sermon
  • Your job — my job
  • Two ladies
  • Read the text — Romans 11:33-36
• The Context
  • Reveals Paul's response to Rom 1:1-11:32
    • For God's sovereignty
    • For God's grace
    • For God's commitment to His elect
• The Response Adoration
  • Highest form of love, worship, respect, reverence, esteem, honor, praise
• The Proper Response to God Is Adoration
  • This is dominant
• Why important?
  • Because it reveals what kind of people we are to be "
  • People who adore God!
  • Being — doing
    • Explain internal — external
• Our Text
  • The repetitions
  • Sets of triple statements
• The Depth of God's Riches
  • The depth of God's wisdom
  • The depth of God's knowledge
• Who Has Been God's Counselor
  • Who has known God's mind
  • Who gives to God that God should repay him
• All Things Are from God
  • All things are through God
  • All things are to God
• The Weaving Together
  • Related statements
• The Theme — The Adoration of God
  • I want to explain this text in this way
  • The expression of adoration to God includes
• The Consideration of the Riches of God
  • Oh! — The emotional response
    • Response to truth
    • "Oh, my!"
  • The depth of the riches
  • General concept of riches
  • God's riches — in Himself
    • His being
    • His attributes
    • Christ — the revelation
  • Adore Him for who He is in Himself
• The Expression of Adoration to God Includes
  • The realization of God's freedom from obligation
  • "Who has ever given..."
  • Prosperity theology
  • Obligation theology
  • Performance theology
  • Dave Lusk
  • God is free from obligation
• Grace — God Only Gives
  • We only receive
    • Christian giving — 2Co 8:9
  • Generosity — tithing without expectation
    • Includes all believers
    • Proportionate
    • Regular — consistent commitment
    • Generously
  • God's giving
  • God has given His riches to His elect
    • Our inheritance — 2Co 8:9
    • He — Rich became poor
    • We — Poor became rich
  • Oh the depth of the riches of God
• The Expression of Adoration to God
  • Includes acknowledgement — "all things are of and from God"
  • God is God
    • All things from Him
      • Control
      • Authority
      • Power
      • Right
  • 3B.God in relation to
    • Creation
    • Material universe
    • Angels
    • Humans
    • All from Him
  • Problem today
    • God is not really sovereign
      • Less than
      • Limited
      • Dominated by human will
        • God can"t until you...
  • All things include all things "
    • All people and angels
    • Christ — Satan
    • Heaven — Hell
    • Righteousness — Sin and Evil
    • Good — Tragedies
  • Nothing is an accident
    • A surprise
    • No plan B
  • God is perfect
    • Holy and righteous
  • He had to create the opposite of Himself to reveal his perfection
    • All under His control
    • Why? — Rom 9:10-24
      • Display of divine power
      • Name proclaimed
      • Display His right
      • To show His wrath toward the objects of wrath
      • To make known the riches of His glory
      • To reveal His mercy to His elect
• Conclusion — The Response to God Is Adoration
  • The experience includes "
    • The consideration
    • The realization
    • The acknowledgement
  • Oh the depth — Are we being the people who adore God?
    • Being — Doing
    • Prayer
      • "Father I Adore You"
      • "Lord change me"
      • "Cause me to adore You"
      • "Cause me to express adoration"

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