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Our Awesome God - Part 2
Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith (1927 - 2013). American pastor and founder of the Calvary Chapel movement, born in Ventura, California. After graduating from LIFE Bible College, he was ordained by the Foursquare Church and pastored several small congregations. In 1965, he took over a struggling church in Costa Mesa, California, renaming it Calvary Chapel, which grew from 25 members to a network of over 1,700 churches worldwide. Known for his accessible, verse-by-verse Bible teaching, Smith embraced the Jesus Movement in the late 1960s, ministering to hippies and fostering contemporary Christian music and informal worship. He authored numerous books, hosted the radio program "The Word for Today," and influenced modern evangelicalism with his emphasis on grace and simplicity. Married to Kay since 1947, they had four children. Smith died of lung cancer, leaving a lasting legacy through Calvary Chapel’s global reach and emphasis on biblical teaching
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This sermon reflects on the wisdom and knowledge of God displayed in the intricate details of creation, from the propagation of seeds to the functioning of the human body. It emphasizes God's sovereignty in caring for the wilderness and orchestrating salvation for both Jews and Gentiles, showcasing His unsearchable judgments and perfect ways that surpass human understanding.
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to another island and establishing itself on the islands throughout the South Pacific. Then, of course, there are the glue seeds. They exude a little glue when you walk past them. The glue fastens itself to your clothing, but when the glue dries, the seed falls off. And, of course, you're helping to propagate that particular weed. Propeller seeds. I don't know, we don't see many of them here in Southern California, but you go up into Washington and all, you'll see them on these trees, the propeller seeds. And they have sort of a fin attached to the seed, and when the seed drops from the tree, this little, acts like almost a helicopter blade, and it just pushes itself out away from the tree so that it gets far enough away that it gets enough sun and all that it can grow, and thus the forests are developed. God's ways, you know. The Lord said to Job one day, Job, who waters the wilderness? You've got your garden and you've taken care of your garden, you've got to irrigate it and water it and tend to it and so forth. Who takes care of the wilderness? Who plants the seeds and propagates the trees and so forth throughout the wilderness? But we realize the wisdom of God manifested in these things. It can't just be that it just so happened. It just defies that kind of irrationality. The wisdom of God in the creation of the human body. He created within your body this little pump, weighs about a pound, and it pumps some 100,000 times a day. It doesn't have to take time out for repairs. It just is there day after day pumping the blood through your system and, of course, it is amazing. The blood carrying to every portion of your body, to every cell, the nutrients and the oxygen that the cell needs to keep functioning. As Paul talks about the wisdom and the knowledge, how unsearchable is the wisdom and the knowledge of God. But in this particular passage, in the 11th chapter of Romans, he's talking about the wisdom and the knowledge of God in bringing salvation unto the Gentiles and how that he set aside the natural branch, the Jews, and he opened up the door of salvation and he grafted in, contrary to nature, the Gentile, that we might partake of the richness and the fullness of the covenants and of the blessings of God. But that we shouldn't be proud and saying, well, they were cut off that I might be grafted in because God is able to graft them in again and shall do it. And so as he's talking about this marvelous plan of salvation, how God has revealed his love to us, how he has provided whereby we might have the forgiveness of our sins, oh, the richness of the wonders of the wisdom and the knowledge of God. And then he talks about the unsearchable judgments of God. God declaring to us what is right and what is wrong, the things that we ought to be doing and the things that we should not be doing. The unsearchable judgments of God. And, you know, as I look at the law of God, I have to say that the law of God is perfect. I have to agree to it. God has not forbidden you to do one beneficial thing. If it's good, God says do it. If it can harm you, if it can harm others, then God said don't do it. And so the judgments of God are so perfect. God is right in all of his doings. And oh, the folly of man to really question the fairness of God. As Paul asks back in chapter 9, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing that is formed say to him that formed it, why have you made me thus? The ways of God are beyond our finding out. And this is the fourth thing that he points out here in this verse. But I do not always understand the ways of God or the whys of God. They are beyond my finding out. Why did God allow this to happen to me? Why did God do it this way? And we look at the whys and the ways and many times it leads us into real confusion. I do not know why God allows certain things to happen in my life. But God said in Isaiah 55, my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For Paul goes on to say, for who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor? I need to acknowledge and recognize that God is working in my life to accomplish his perfect will. But I really don't know why God allows certain things to happen.
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Chuck Smith (1927 - 2013). American pastor and founder of the Calvary Chapel movement, born in Ventura, California. After graduating from LIFE Bible College, he was ordained by the Foursquare Church and pastored several small congregations. In 1965, he took over a struggling church in Costa Mesa, California, renaming it Calvary Chapel, which grew from 25 members to a network of over 1,700 churches worldwide. Known for his accessible, verse-by-verse Bible teaching, Smith embraced the Jesus Movement in the late 1960s, ministering to hippies and fostering contemporary Christian music and informal worship. He authored numerous books, hosted the radio program "The Word for Today," and influenced modern evangelicalism with his emphasis on grace and simplicity. Married to Kay since 1947, they had four children. Smith died of lung cancer, leaving a lasting legacy through Calvary Chapel’s global reach and emphasis on biblical teaching