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well good morning everyone and welcome to another Sunday school it’s nice to be with you again my second time H teaching this Sunday school series and uh today we’re going to go through chapter eight of our book trus in God uh the title is the wisdom of God so let me pray in order to start the the lesson God uh thank you for H this time this morning that we can spend together to go over this um lesson thank you for this Sunday school and for this church and for all the brothers and sisters who are here the ones who are also connected online I ask you that you please bless this lesson uh bless U my words that uh I will speak and uh this H lesson um can be a blessing for for all of us that we can uh feel your your word and can make it part of our lives in Jesus name amen okay so uh the title is the wisdom of God and um I’m going to start the lesson making a brief recap of some Concepts that we have uh seen in the in Prior lessons starting with this this picture here do you remember this picture piure yeah we saw this in lesson number two Mar presented this this picture here this triangle where we see how the wisdom of God um operates along with the sovereignty of God and the love of God uh we see here this triangle and all of these three concepts were together and uh we saw that um if any of those is missing then this does not operate properly uh for example if there is no wisdom of if what is not fully fully wise then what happens that means that God Can Make Mistakes if God is not fully Sovereign then what happens yeah he’s he’s weak and that means that he does not control everything right and if uh God is not love then means that we there is no forgiveness for us right we would uh be punished and we would disappear so all of these three concepts were together and um there is also a a purpose these Concepts were together to accomplish a purpose and what is the purpose we can see that in the bottom of the of the screen the purpose is that God exercises his sovereignty for his glory and the good of his people so all these three concepts were together side by side towards that purpose the glory of God and the good of his people so the good of us right now let’s look at some definitions of wisdom I think uh we all kind of know what wisdom is we can identify it we can have our definitions we can see when someone is is wise we can identify people in our lives that we can say oh that uh person has a lot of wisdom that uh um relative that Professor that brother or sister his wise um but let’s see what um our book says in um in the in the book y riches provide us two definitions the first one it says wisdom is commonly defined as God judgment on the ability to develop the best course of action or the best response to a given situation the second definition Brides takes it from Theologian JL dag who described wisdom as consisting in the selection of the best end of action and the adoption of the best means for accomplishments of this end so overall I think we can summarize it with um that wisdom is really making the best decisions out of something right and um in the second definition we can see extra step there and uh making actions taking the best actions to towards accomplish that purpose right any other has any ideas of what wisdom is I think it to express what you have learned and put into action yeah what what uh Miss lenda says what you have learned and put it into action yeah use our past experiences to um put it into into action in order to achieve the best result out of that right so now let’s see what the Bible says about the wisdom of God we have seen what the definitions are of wisdom in general now let’s see what um the Bible says about the the wisdom of God I have here three Bible passages the first one Psalm 1475 great is our Lord and abundant in strength his understanding understanding is infinite infinite Jeremiah 10:12 it is he who made the Earth by his power who established the World by his wisdom and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens Romans 11: 33:34 oh the Deep of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways for who has known the mind of the Lord or who became his counselor so when we see these passages we see words or we see expressions like infinite right creator of the world unsearchable on faom takes no counil from anybody and when we compare these definitions to the definition that we can have as human wisdom we see that wisdom that we can achieve as humans is not anywhere near what we have here right it is in fact the opposite of what we see here our wisdom is not infinite it’s not unsearchable it’s not unfathomable and we do take counsel from other people right I mean even prominent people Kings rulers they have counselors they have people who advise them what to do in certain circumstances so the wisdom of God is very different of what we as uh humans can can can have as wisdom now as um we were commenting in the beginning all this has a purpose right and the purpose is the glory of God and the good of his people so let’s see now some passages about um the purpose the purpose that expresses the glor the glory of God I have here Romans 11:36 for from him and through him and to him are all things to him be the glory forever amen 1 Corinthians 10:31 therefore whether you eat or drink or whatever you do do all things for the glory of God Revelation 411 worthy are you our Lord and our God to receive Glory and honor and power you created all things and because of your will they existed and were created Can See Clearly here Express this this U idea of everything for the glory of God is expressed in this in these Bible verses right um now um there is also good point here that uh Jerry bres mentions in the book um going a little bit back to comparing the God’s wisdom versus human wisdom um it says uh which is on page 112 in the in the middle of the page it says that God never agonizes God never has to agonize over a decision he does not even have to deliver it within himself or conso others outside of himself his wisdom is intuitive infinite and infallible his understanding has no limit s475 um so this again contrast with our wisdom because as humans I think uh we all have fac some situations where we come to a point when we say oh I don’t know what to yeah have you been through that point that situation uh I I have been yeah um several times you came to that point that I don’t know what to do but you don’t see that in the scripture about God he never gets to that point that oh I don’t know what to do oh my plane failed now I have to go to another plan I have to implement the plan B I have to have a backup plan I have to change the course of action no he he you don’t see that in the scripture he proceeds always along his plan right he doesn’t change the course of action um now we said that all this is going to a purpose the glory of God as we see here and the second purpose um do you remember what is the second purpose the good of his people right so let’s see um how this uh purpose can be accomplished and in this case I’m going to take a a paragraph from Bridges that you can see there in the screen this paragraph is on page um this is in the discussion guide section so it’s not part of the lesson it’s towards the end of the book in these sections you have a summary of each lesson and there are also some questions and exercises that you can do in order to go deeper in the lesson and in this uh page in um riches um writes this paragraph the good that uh God works for in our lives is Conformity to the likeness of his son it is not necessarily Comfort or happiness but Conformity to Christ in never increasing measure of in his life most Godly character can only be developed through adversity God In His Infinite Wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow into the likeness of his son he knows when we need it and how to best to bring it to pass on our lives so according to this passage to this paragraph what is the god that God works in our lives what is the the what God is trying to do with us to conform us to his son’s image conform us to his son’s image yeah right um that is um sometimes not um so easy to process right because in our lives we are used to to visualize the good as something that uh will make us happy that provide us Comfort but that’s not necessarily what God is is is um trying to do with us his purpose is to conform us to to cry see much and um how can this be developed through adversity through adversity right in this paragraph it says through adversity so if we want to become like Christ then H we have to go through adversity that’s a a reality that we have to face and um that’s how God um designed it and if God designed it this way then it means it is good um even though sometimes it’s it’s hard I mean it’s not easy but that’s the the purpose that go that God had so in the in the book um then um riches goes through different points on how God works in adversity with us with our lives so I will go through some of these points and then we’ll we’ll explore this u in the lesson so the first point that he makes he um he names this point Beauty out of ashes and we can illustrate this point with this Bible verse Luke 22 3132 uh this is Jesus talking to Peter Simon Simon behold Satan has demanded to sift you men like wheat but I have prayed for you that your faith will not fail and you and when you uh have turned back strengthen your brothers so in this paragraph in this in this verse um as I mentioned Jesus is talking to Peter and this uh conversation happened just be Peter just before Peter denied Jesus right um and Jesus is saying to Peter I mean you’re going to to suffer you’re are going to go through this adversity Peter replied no no no I am ready I’m I’m ready to face anything but we know the story shortly after that Peter denied Jesus not only once but three times so um I think um this situation is like uh God was going to bring Peter to Ashes to bring out a new Peter to bring the Peter the Great apostle that we all know but uh he had to go through through this process it was not going to be easy but he had to go through it another illustration that I think it’s interesting is on the book on page 113 here um riches makes um interesting comment about um how the wisdom of God is displayed so the second from the bottom to top it says the wisdom of a chess player is is play more in winning over a capable opponent than over an noice the wisdom of the journalist is play more in Def defeating a superior Army than in sud doing an inferior one even more so the wisdom of God is display when he brings good to us and glory to himself out of confusion and Calamity rather than our Pleasant times I think we all can agree with this right what good is to um win a chess tournament when the opponent is doesn’t really know how to play chess I mean there is no no no glory on that and when I Was preparing this lesson I remember um my father he U passed away several years ago he was a Believer and um the last um two or three years of his life uh were pretty bad for him he started to develop um a mental illness dementia and then other illness also fell upon him um and we pray for him but um he didn’t get better he only got worse and the last time I visited him he didn’t recognize me he sat in front of me and he asked me who are you was pretty sad but um in the middle of this tragic situation I remember that he used to still sing a couple of verses of a hymn that I think it was his favorite hymn and uh he just started to sing it like randomly out of nothing and uh I was wow impressed by by that uh um other people who visited people from the church that used to visit him they were also Amazed by that because he didn’t recognize anything he was totally gone but in the middle of that hearing him to to sing those couple of verses of that himym was really very comforting it’s like he what was saying hey this is tragic this is sad but I’m still here um he says um I see this as um God who was bringing Beauty out of the ashes shortly after that um my father uh went to the Lord he passed away but still remember that memory of of him of his last days singing those verses of of that that hym so that’s the beauty the beauty of of fases and um as mention is it’s not easy it’s difficult and uh yes we all have our personal stories about that but um that’s that’s that’s a concept um I don’t know if uh anybody would like to comment or have a question about this yeah we yeah just in general uh all of our lives here is an examp are examples of Beauty out of Ashes if you’re born again our Our Lives before that were just death and destruction in ashes and he is raised us out of that yep uh it’s never good to question God as it was saying here God never explained and when we think about job all that job was going through God never explained to job and we can take example from that when we are going through it he don’t have to explain to us but then in the end we can see the outcome and you say you would say to yourself yes this is not this was done done of me but it was done of God so that’s where God get the beauty when we go through it without asking him why or questioning but the outcome we can see it was God that did the work yeah sure and um yeah I think je is a very good example about this and we we’ll talk a little bit more about javah the next points y I remember when first reading through this chapter this point really stuck out to me the whole Beauty out of Ashes thing because I think one of the questions that we often have comes to our minds in the midst of a severe trial is how could this possibly turn to good like I don’t see any way for this to be redeemed but that’s the point of God’s infinite wisdom as you said with the whole chess analogy that when God makes it as he ordains it the circumstance seem like it’s impossible to bring out any good but then he does bring out good then he accomplishes his purpose right his glory and then of course the sanctification of his people even as we see God’s wisdom on display and we learn to trust him so it really is such a practical truth when you say I don’t see how this could work out well that’s the point God brings you there so that he can glorify himself so even for me in some Ministry situations or counseling situations where I’m like God I don’t see how how could this possibly turn around but I’m like but this is an opportunity for God to display his power and his wisdom so that’s a point that I think that we should continue to take with us yeah okay the next point that bries um comments in the book is Holiness out of adversity and I have here um couple of verses from uh Psalm 119 um Psalm 11 119 I think we know is favorite of our brother Mark and in his book he titled this section of Psalm 119 that goes from verse 62 to 71 as treasuring Affliction which I think it’s very proper to to describe this and um verse 67 says before I was afflicted I went astray but now I keep your word verse 71 it is good for me that I was afflicted so that I may learn your EST statutes so Affliction here H has a has a good purpose and we see the purpose in generally is to confirm us to Christ Image and here ER we see that um working towards that purpose it prevent us from going astray and it helps us to keep his word and it help us to keep his statutes right I think um when we go through these trials as you were all commenting we do learn about God and we do learn about uh his his word his his EST statutes um Brides also mentions in the book um commenting about this he Compares this to also to a father who is uh teaching um a son right and he refers to Hebrews um 1210 ER Hebrews 10 I mean 1210 and it says for they discipline us for a short time I seem best to them but uh he deciple he disciplines he disciplines us for our good so that we make sure his Holiness um so yeah we try to also do the same with our children to discipline them to teach them but uh we know as parents evidently I mean we’re not perfect we make mistakes and uh even though we do our best and we prepare as best as we can to educate our children but we are not perfect with make mistakes yet God is doing the same with us when we going through these adversities through these afflictions but uh the difference is that he’s unlike us he is perfect he doesn’t make mistakes now the next um point we have here is probably one of the most uh difficult uh for us to to understand God never explains God never explains and I hear I have here a passage from Isaiah 89 it says for my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are your ways my ways declar the Lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so I so are my my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts so dispers expresses clearly my thoughts are higher than your thoughts reading this passage I can think of a child who is just uh learning mathematics and he’s just learning arithmetics and he demands an explanation to um complex problems that requires to know calculus to explain the problem so if you explain that to a child is he going to understand no right I mean it’s impossible for a young child who is just learning to two basic arithmetics to understand a complex situation that requires calculus is is is useless um but um sometimes um we can kind of know what U what is going on on the situation and we can kind of know what happen why God put us on on a trial and usually we can see that after after the situation has has gone right some time after for example uh in the story of Joseph you remember the story Joseph was sold by his own Brothers into slavery he ended up in Egypt and in Egypt um he became a prominent person he was the second in command just just after faroh and then um when there was a famine in his homeland his brothers had to go to Egypt to get food and then ER they met again his brother the brother that has they have So Into Slavery and after that uh this um family drama that we can see in in Genesis Joseph uh in Genesis 458 he expresses now therefore it was not you who sent me but God and he has made me a father to pharaoh and Lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt at that point he understood right he he was able to to see okay everything that happened to me um why they sold me into slavery and why I ended up here it had a purpose I mean the the purpose of my brothers was an evil purpose but God transformed that purpose and made it a good purpose and now we are all together and now they com to here and now I can help them right so we can see also there the beauty out of fascist and and and and then Joseph um understood why that happened to him that tragic moment in in his life um but some other Mo in some other circumstances there is not really an explanation and uh you were commenting about the Book of Job right in the Book of Job um make a quick recap here of the Book of Job job is a racious man who has a lot of children very nice family he’s a very wealthy man has a lot of possession he’s rich and then all of a sudden he loses everything he loses his children they all die they are killed he loses all his wealth all his possessions and um he loses also his health he gets sick so he’s in a terrible situation and um initially how does job respond he initially he responded properly right he says this outstanding declaration in job 1:21 naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I shall return there the lord gave and the Lord has taken a way blessed be the name of the Lord so that that’s one of the most amazing passages that I think we can find in the Bible in the middle of all the trial and the terrible tragedy he can still say this and express this um but then the situation starts to to change and it changes when three of his friends go and visit him and they go with good intentions they want to come for job and spend time with him because he’s his friend and and he’s going through a terrible time but um the problem with job’s friends um is that um they want to explain why job is going through this difficult situation right and what is the explanation that they gave to to job do you remember that yeah Miss l say yeah they explain to job that he has seen right and that’s explanation they can they can find no I mean if you job are going through this very difficult situation it must be because you are in sin and you have to confess and then you have to repent right and job says no I mean that’s that’s not right I I am I am not in sin um I I you are you are wrong and um doesn’t mean that job was not a sinner I mean he he was a sinner like us but what job is saying the reason for these afflictions is not because I am in I was in sin oh it must must be something else now we know the story when we read the book we know what happened behind the scenes we know that it was was part of a spiritual war and that’s why job was suffering this this trial but job doesn’t know right so now job goes um through different emotions and now job is starts to lament the situation we see for example in JV um 311 job says now after issuing that out the signing declaration now job says in job 311 why did that not die at Birth come out of a womb passes away you see now now he’s lamenting situation he’s going from thirsting and they go to lamenting now lamenting is is not bad and we have seen this in in in Prior lessons of this series lamenting is is not bad you can express your your sorrow to the Lord you can lament your situation that is okay and there are a lot of Psalms that talk about that so lamenting is fine but um after lamenting joob goes to question God sorry um for example in jof Chapter 10: 2 and three um Can someone read that um that passage Job 10 2 and three two and three yes please I will say to God do not condemn me let me know why you contend against me does it seem good to you to oppose to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked thank you yeah now we see here job um is telling God you are condemning me right you are um oppressing me in other words um um you are not being fair with me because now in relation to the claim that job friends were doing to him I mean job’s friends were telling job I mean this happened to you because you sin and he says no I didn’t sin and now job says now um God you are not fair with me because I didn’t sin and then in Des spite of that you are bringing this upon me and you are oppressing me and um and it’s not fair so goes to the love section you remember the three parts of God’s work uh it’s like if job is saying to to love I mean you are not loving me God you are not fair because you’re bringing this upon me and then because of that it means that you are not a loving God because how can a loving God bring this such tragedy on me no I haven’t done anything to deserve this now um in job 169 we can see here another um complaint of God of of I mean of job before God someone would like to read job 169 he has torn me in his wrath and hated me he has nashed his teeth at me my adversary sharpens his eye against me thank you now now he we also hear job um questioning God and he’s saying to God you have turned me and hunted me down my enemies clear at me so now here job we see Job saying to God um not only you were not fair to me you were not loving to me but you are turning me down you are um giving me more than what I can stand understand I mean God I understand that you you can you can send trials to me but uh in this case you are giving me more than what I deserve you are giving me more than what I can stand so in other words I would say Jo uh job is saying to God God you are making a mistake because you are going too far with me so we see here now job is questioning God’s love and go and God’s God’s wisdom and um I want to make a a pause here because about questioning god um bres also has a good comment in the book page um when we think about questioning God it’s also kind of related to uh expressing our sorrow to to God no when it’s and we said it’s okay to express our Ling to God um but um expressing our complaint to God is a little bit different and uh on the book on page 118 Brides says in like in the middle of the page um it says um so we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explained or Justified his actions or what he permits in our lives then he continues in the next paragraph when I say we should never ask why I am not talking about the reactive and spontaneous Cry of Anguish when Calamity first befalls us or one we love rather I am speaking of a persistent and demanding why that has an accusatory tone towards God in it so I think uh we have a good explanation there right of how we can question God and why uh and and in what circumstances it is somehow fine to question God and but on on what circumstances we may cross the line on questioning God no so going back to the example of job I think uh in the last two verses that we just read job was kind of crossing the line right of questioning God saying God you are you are unfair with me God you are making a mistake with me you are giving me more than than what I deserve and I think uh that explains what happened next in the book of Jo after all this um dialogue between job and his friends that extends for several chapters um basically takes most of a book and um becomes sometimes very philosophical not so much of an easy reading but um very interesting so uh God Appears and then God shows to to job and um does God answers jobs claims all right does God provide an explanation no what does God do with yob he questions job now God is questioning job and um he’s questioning um um basically asking job are you wiser than me yob are you stronger than me yob are you better than me and the series of question is a long series of questions that are really overwhelming and job at the end of all those rhetorical questions job is is totally humbled and uh What uh does job uh says that uh at the end um well we can see job 42 versus uh 4- six and job then finally replies to God and he says uh god listen and I will speak I will ask you and you instruct me I have heard of you by the hearing of the year but now my eyes sees you therefore I retract and I Repent sitting on D and ases so after all this then job goes back to where he was before he circles back to that the first out understanding declaration when he says God uh gave and God took away blessed be the name of the Lord now after all this he basically ends up more or less in the same concept right after being humbled by by God goes back and he says okay God I mean yes you are God and and I still trust in you so in the end there was no explanation for job and um and job was fine with it I was um once he also um some comment from um I think it was Pastor B bman he says that God um will give us what we need he will he will give us what we need and if he doesn’t give us something is because we don’t need it because otherwise if we need something and he doesn’t give it to us then means that he’s either uncapable of giving it to us or he just doesn’t want to give it to us so if God doesn’t give us an explanation then very much it maybe because we don’t need explanation right this is where um then faith comes in place right we don’t need an explanation we just need Faith so I don’t know if would you like to make a comment or question about this story of Job like you know the the the title or the heading here is that God never explains and yes and no I think because he obviously has given us us his word which is the best explanation it’s a complete explanation of everything we need for our lives so he does maybe not explain every particular to job why he’s being Afflicted but he’s given us this story and he’s already he’s given uh job obviously didn’t have the Bible at that point but um but we do and he so therefore he has given us the best explanation and sometimes you know for job uh yes he was a righteous man a famous man very wealthy uh but that verse 13 uh chapter uh 13 verse1 15 was always intriguing to me because it says though he slay me yet shall I worship him but I will maintain my own ways before him so it it did show a bit of a rebellion and a bit of a an arrog an well not an arrogance so much but um but uh yeah it shows us our hearts against God we we are quick to rebel against him and and we’re going to stand firm against God but yeah and and so in the end even the righteous job needed to repent so it’s a lesson for all of us and you know just touching back on Pastor Dave’s comments yeah you know we all have situations in our lives that look Hope hopeless and um you know how how is this going to work out out but sometimes and for most times I think it’s just the process God wants us to go through the process with him to walk Our Lives before him let him handle the outcome we don’t always get to see the finished product but it is the process that we walk in faith with him yeah thank you m we a working process definitely says yeah that’s right who did that all that was in the God right you on the page of page 119 Pastor Baker says I have long since quit seeking the answer to that question why in my own life God owes me no explanation he has the right to do what he wants when he wants and how he wants why because he’s God mhm yeah I think sometimes um it causes you to examine yourself and to get away from this feeling of entitlement or feel like oh I deserve better from God and we really don’t and as Magna says at the end of it is not about why it’s about who who are you talking into who do you think is in charge why do you feel like you’re entitled to have this or that done I am the one that’s in charge end of statement and so it causes us to reexamine yourself to see that you’re coming before a holy Sovereign God humble yourself and allow him to do what he needs to do in your heart and in your life to conform you to his son yeah right that’s the OB objective in the end conforming to his I have to admit that there’s times often that I ask why and I think I’m asking why because I want to make sure there’s no sin in my life that I haven’t been have wrong motives or disobeyed and once I understand that a little clear then no reason to ask why what he does is always good mhm yeah okay yeah interesting topic the next point it’s somehow related to to this one God’s um ways are incomprehensible here I have a passage of Romans 11:33 on the depth of um the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways so um I think here also bres makes a good comment on page one 121 121 on um the middle of a of the page um bries Brides writes um God’s wisdom is fathomless his decisions are unsearchable his methods are mysterious and untraceable no one has ever understood his mind let alone advise him on the purpose on the proper course of action how fule and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what H is doing in a particular event or circumstance we simply cannot search out the reasons behinds his decisions or Trace out the ways by which he bring those decisions to pass so I think this illustrates um very well the the idea God God’s ways are incomprehensible and related to to the paragraph that um to the point that we saw before that uh does not provide explanations what ways are incomprehensible um going back to job and he didn’t have the rational explanation but he was fine and now in the end we saw the purpose the purpose I mean of everything that happened to to Jo was to U bring him closer to and make him more like like God right so we saw we saw that also the the way to to do that was um somehow um incomprehensible for for god um now here this there is also a good point for for discussion because um this sounds also kind of um um dogmatic idea that um okay you just have to believe and accept and understand that everything is God’s Will and and so on and that’s one of the points that um critics of Christianity of the Bible can say no I mean you just believe it because you just believe it and there is no no rational rational on that um and here while I just um like to to say two points I mean um I would say okay but um if uh you claim that then where are you going to find the truth where are you going to find uh rational explanation for everything that happens in the world and the reality is that uh there is not anyone any man any philosophy any religion any world view that can provide can provide a explanation of what happens in the world there is no one who can who can do that and if we go through human history and we review the people who claim to be the wisest people in human history for example the Greek philosophers we don’t see any any any idea or anyone that can claim that hey this is the full truth and I have the explanation for everything if we move centuries forward to the enlightment of the 18 19th centuries all this group of uh famous philosophers World thinkers scientists claim that um they were going to to fix humanity and and they didn’t either I mean nobody can answer these questions and if we come now to our current time our present time and we see all these these ideas that are going on in the world like uh the the cult cultural marxis Marxist idea the critical race Theory the humanistic worldview that is now going out through this war all the all these ideas pretend to explain this this these questions that humankind has had for forever and uh none of them can do it I mean there is not really an explanation for for anything God does not provide an explanation but uh not any other human or any other idea can provide an explanation and if we see also where this ideas that the world is now promoting uh if we see how they are impacting the society we see that they are not really bringing the society to a better place now we see nowadays ER violence is still ramping up uh there are no world wars in this Century there’s been known but uh there are two major Wars going on um and there is crime social unrest um people rioting on the streets and um drug crime and that is happening in this country and also in many other countries around the world um and um we see the moral decadence we see ER the family breaking down so when we compare the ideas the ideologies that the world is is is putting in place uh we see not only they don’t have an explanation but they are not making the world better they are really making the the the world uh worth and I every time I think about this I uh think of uh that um a verse in in Romans in Romans one where it says that uh when Paul is talking about the the worldly ideas and he says claiming to to be wise um they became full right because those other ideas I mean they they just um don’t explain and they only make the situation worse um but um also I mean it’s not that uh God want so just to believe and and believe and and that’s it and my ways are my ways and and that’s it because on the other hand God also invite us to explore his word to understand his word to go deeper in his word he um invite us to look for wisdom right and if we see the Book of Proverbs there is a lot of invitations from God to seek his wisdom um to explore his his word and in fact what we are doing here Sunday school there’s a reason why it is called the Sunday school because it’s a school it’s it’s a way for us to to learn to uh understand the word of God to grow in his name so it’s not that oh okay you just believe it and that no there are a lot of things that are revealed to us there are a lot of things that we can learn um but we also have to understand that there are some things that are not revealed and and uh can think about that verse in Deuteronomy where it says that uh um there are things that are just for the Lord no and and that’s that’s the way it is his ways are past finding out you know we those of us who have kids and we say to them do this do that and they say to you why and then you say again do this why and then you say because I say to do it so that’s what is that verse is saying his ways are un fathomable we can understand so if he said to do it just as we said to CH because I said to do it he say my word is what you obey so that that’s what I get from that verse his ways a past finding out yep right way yep that um Psalm he quotes Psalm 1311 is I found really helpful he says my heart is not proud O Lord my eyes are not haunty I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me it seems like the root when he examine ourselves could be pride and most times it’s Pride yep good um the last point that I have here is God’s wisdom is greater than our adversary and uh for this I have Proverbs 21:30 for there is no wisdom no understanding and no plan against the Lord um no adversity no enemy not a a man another person or um the nature or the circumstances can be greater than than God right sometimes it feels like but um they are not uh we see examples in the Bible how um for example David was persecuted by Saul and Saul wanted to kill David ER but he didn’t Prevail God still managed to protect David and continue with with his plan um Paul was afflicted uh the Bible says was afflicted with a thorn and um Paul asked the Lord to to have it removed and uh God said no my grace is enough so he didn’t um conceed to Paul with his petition but um still Paul was able to continue his ministry and uh that adversity was not greater than than God and and his plan um so there is U no one that um can can can be greater no adversity that can be greater than God and as um Romans says uh if God is with us no one can be against against us now all we have uh commented here all these points um have to remember they they have the purpose the purpose of all these adversities of all these situations that we face in our day-to-day lives have the purpose of getting more into Christ like right and um if these adversities are going through that purpose then and what do we have to do well have to trust God right the title of the book trus in God that’s that’s um what we have to do in the middle of these adversities and um understand that everything is for our good and for the glory of God um yeah life is difficult but um I Heard once um an analogy that I think it’s it’s nice I mean uh when you when you go to see a movie do you go to see a movie where um the main character has a perfect life and uh he wakes up in the morning goes to work and work is perfect goes back home uh home is perfect family is perfect wife is perfect husband is perfect children are perfect perfect goes to church on Sundays church is perfect and everything is perfect the next day wakes up again and it’s the same and it’s the same and it’s the same at the end of the movie you would say oh what a boring movie right you don’t go to see a movie like that you go to see a movie where the main character faces drama faces adversity faces problems but overcomes all these problems overcomes all these adversities so I guess that’s a nice analogy for our lives and to think what going God is doing in our lives any final questions or comments he He blesses us in every circumstance so we’re going um the Lord blesses us in every circumstance when we’re going through adversity which is what none of us want to go through he Comforts us he guides us he lifts us he carries us through it and brings us closer to himh and and when we’re um he he doesn’t we’re not going constantly through adversity he gives us relief and then those times of um of more seeming peace and Harmony um he’s with us through those two but then he draws us even closer when we’re going through the tough times so no matter what it is he’s still blessing us right got I also was just thinking that there’s also a proper place for lament that leads to trust and praise in the Lord so asking those questions why but not in a way of I have to have these answers but Lord why is this happening um and then turning that to praise yeah right turning into praise okay well thank you let me close in prayer God thank you for this time that we could spend together going through this lesson thank you for all the ER teaching and all the ER ideas the comments the questions everything that we have on through thank you for for um your wisdom and uh we ask that you continue blessing us in the rest of the the service in the worship service in Jesus name