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Text Sermons : Erlo Stegen : The depth of His riches

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Rom 11:33, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”

1) God's unsearchable greatness:

If we can understand everything about God He will be just like us, without Divinity. If a person tries to fully understand the height and depth of God's ways, that person will go mad.

We cannot fathom his judgements and ways. God is much greater than your greatest thoughts about Him.

When the messengers came to Job telling him that all his camels and livestock were killed and stolen, and that his children had all died at once he accepted it. He was also stricken with boils and his wife urged him to curse God and die. But he answered her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” His friends also came to him to comfort and advise him, but they spoke foolishness and fairytales insomuch that God said to them, “My wrath is aroused against you, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has ... go to My servant Job, and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.” God also rebuked Job for the words he had foolishly spoken. And God challenged Job with a series of questions, revealing Job's ignorance and God's greatness. Eventually Job repented in sackcloth and ashes and said, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” And Job also said, “Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth. Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.” God taught Job wisdom and he shut his mouth.
It will be wisdom to us as well to shut our mouths about questioning God's ways.

Scientific knowledge can tell us marvelous things about the earth, the stars and the depths of the sea. Man's knowledge has greatly increased and he has devised marvelous inventions. But when it comes to the knowledge about God man knows nothing and is completely ignorant and foolish.

Job was ignorant of the battle in heaven. Satan accused Job of serving God from impure motives - that he only served God for health and wealth. But God replied that Job served Him from the heart and that he would remain faithful to Him even if he should lose all his health and wealth. And so God allowed satan to take all his possessions, kill his children, destroy his health and even cause his wife to become his adversary. His life became a battleground between God and the devil.

2) His power and judgement:

Why do people fall into gross sexual sin? Because they don't serve God as they should. They are lukewarm and God gives them over to sexual lusts.

God will judge sin whether you're a Christian or not. If you don't break with that sin God's judgement will come upon you. God gave the people in Noah's day 120 years to repent, but they did not. They couldn't fathom how God would judge them until the flood came upon them.

After some years Sodom and Gomorrah came about. They were filled with sexual lust and could only think and speak about sexual relationships. The stormclouds gathered around Sodom and Gomorrah and in stead of rain fire and brimstone rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

3) His Ways are past finding out:

Joseph pleaded with his brothers not to sell him as a slave and separate him from his family. But they sold him after they wanted to kill him. He was sold into Egypt where he worked for Potiphar. In Egypt things also seemed to go from bad to worse. Potiphar's wife was an evil woman. She looked for an opportunity to be alone with Joseph and to go to bed with him. When he refused and fled, Potiphar's wife accused him of trying to rape her and he was thrown into jail. There he remained and served the others for years. It was as if God had forgotten about him. But it was God's way of exalting him and eventually he became the second-in-charge of all of Egypt. He remained faithful, humbled himself and God exalted him.
You must also remain faithful and not think that God had forgotten about you. In the end He will lift you up.

Let us go to Golgotha. Behold the Son of God being crucified, His back plowed like a field and His lungs visible from the back. No one suffered as He did. God had forsaken Him. He carried your and my sin.
The son became dark and covered its face at the sight and the earth shook and trembled.
It was the darkest period on earth. Never before or after had something so evil been done.

But look at God's unsearchable ways. Through this most evil deed you and I are helped and receive salvation, if indeed you had received salvation.

It is so deep. Even angels long to look into God's working of the Gospel in the lives of men (1Pet 1:12). Those in heaven have everything and should desire no more, but they desire greatly to see in you what the grace of God can do. It is worth more to them than the glories of heaven to see what the Blood of Jesus can do in your life. What do they see in your life?

In Is 53:11 we read of Jesus, "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied". When Jesus looks at your life is He satisfied? If it's not so let today be the day that you repent from sin and allow His precious Blood to work in you.






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