Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God and

put it into practice in your life.

Join me now as we look together into this section of the Bible.

So we've got a great study in store. I want you to be getting your Bible and

having it ready. You may want to take some notes on this. This is going to be a very

powerful study that we'll have. I want to begin in a word of prayer.

So let's pray. Father, as we look now into your word, I ask for your grace and for your guidance

that you would teach us the truth that your Holy Spirit

would be the in-dwelling truth teacher within each one of us and that he would make

the things of Christ abundantly clear to us.

As we approach this text, I pray that there would be a note of genuine humility within our hearts as we would bow before your word.

So Lord, meet with us now in Christ's name, amen.

Okay, well I want you to take your Bible and turn with me to Romans Chapter 11, and I want to begin

by reading this closing Doxology, verses 33 to 36. This morning we're going to be looking at just verse 35.

The title of this message is The Autonomy of God, the autonomy of God and I'll define that word here for us just very shortly.

But I want to begin by reading, and this is really my favorite benediction that's in the entire Bible.

Beginning in verse 33, oh the depths 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, or who has first given to him that it might be paid back to him again, for

from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.

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