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Hey there, I'm Christine, and I'm so excited to welcome you to the Equip and Empower podcast.

Now, my prayer is that our time together each week encourages you,

awakens you to the purposes of God in your life,

and activates you to follow Jesus wholeheartedly as you live on mission for

him. I am so grateful that you've joined us today. I know that God has a word for you. We are well and

truly into our series on wisdom. And I don't know that I've enjoyed a series more

than this one because I think one of the most urgent things we need in our day and our age

is wisdom. We've got a whole lot of knowledge. We have a whole lot of information. We've got a

whole lot of technology out there. But the truth is we have so little wisdom. All of us need the wisdom

of God to outwork the purposes of God on this earth in our generation. Now, we have been looking at

the fact that Jesus himself, according to Dr. Luke, grew in wisdom and he grew in understanding. Now listen, if Jesus grew in wisdom

and stature before God and man, if Jesus had to grow in wisdom in his fully human side,

because Jesus, as we learned last week, I mean, you guys, we went to theology school last week.

We talked about Jesus being fully man and fully God. What does that mean for us today?

Well, part of what that means is that if Jesus, in his humanity, had to grow in wisdom,

how much more do we, who are creator, not even the creator, created in the image of God, how much more

would we need to grow in wisdom? What happens? And I'm speaking to you as someone while I'm recording

this today, going to be 58 years old. So I think they're far too often, especially people when

they get up to my age, but it doesn't have to happen at 58.

I've seen some 30-year-olds that have already settled down as followers of Jesus, and 40-year-olds and 50-year-olds. I mean, sometimes I'm running rings around teenagers. It's like, you know,

if I'm going on a ministry trip and I'm doing seven or eight countries and preaching four or five

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