Bill Acton :: Romans 11:33-36 - The Adoration of God

Sermon Outline for Romans 11:33-36

The Adoration of God

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