Most of you will remember that we are considering these great words which are to be found at the end of the 11th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.

Verse is 33 to 36.

All the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God.

How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor,

or who hath first given to him,

and it shall be recompensed unto him again,

for of him and through him and to him are all things, to whom be glory forever.

Amen.

Now I remember saying when we begin to consider this great taxology that there are some people who in our opinion quite wrongly feel that it's almost

sacrilege to attempt to analyze such a great statement.

I suggested that that is quite wrong, that that is to treat it merely as literature.

The constant danger when we are handling the Holy Scriptures is to deal with them and treat

them as if they were but literature, and to enjoy the sound

of these magnificent terms that the apostle uses and piles up one and another.

I suggested that if we rarely were to enter into the spirit of the doxology, we must

analyze it and consider the various terms that the

apostle uses, because he takes the trouble to tell us exactly how he felt.

And that is what we have been trying to do.

And we come back therefore for this third and last consideration of this tremendous statement.

The apostle here, let me remind you, is standing back as it were.

And looking, first of all, at what he's just been saying about this astonishing and apparently incredible thing

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