The Real God - The Wisdom of God, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What's the biggest challenge you’re facing right now? Finances? A relationship? A health issue? You need strength and you need endurance. Chip suggests that there’s one thing that will revolutionize your approach to this situation. Join him as he talks about God's wisdom.

Introduction: What is the biggest challenge you’re facing in your life right now?

Defining the wisdom of God:

“Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. It sees the end from the beginning, so there can be no need to guess or conjecture… All God’s acts are done in perfect wisdom, first for His own glory, and then for the highest good of the greatest number for the longest time…Not only could His acts not be better done: a better way to do them could not be imagined.” -A. W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy

How has God revealed His wisdom to us?

Through CREATION -Psalm 19:1-7
Through PROVIDENCE -Psalm 33:10-11
Through REDEMPTION -1 Corinthians 2:6-10
Through His SON -1 Corinthians 1:30

How must we respond to the wisdom of God?

We must LEARN to live wisely! -Ephesians 5:15-17

HOW do we do that?

We must REVERENCE God’s ways. -Proverbs 1:7; Job 28:28
We must RECEIVE His Word. -Psalm 119:97-100, 2 Timothy 3:15-17
We must ASK for it specifically. -James 1:5; Colossians 1:9
We must learn to TRUST Him completely… that all that comes our way is from the hand of a good and loving God who knowing all things actual and possible, is exerting His unlimited power to execute the best possible outcomes, by the best possible means, to fulfill the highest possible purposes.

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Daily Discipleship
A.W. Tozer - The Knowledge of the Holy
J.I. Packer - Knowing God

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0:00.0	What is the biggest challenge that you're facing in your life right now?
0:06.6	What relationship, what circumstance, what is so confusing and so difficult that you just
0:13.0	need God's wisdom to know what to do?
0:16.1	Well, today we're going to teach you about how to get that wisdom.
0:19.4	Stay with me.
0:20.6	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:25.6	Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world.
0:33.6	Thanks for joining us as we're a little over halfway through Chip series, The Real God,
0:39.2	as he continues identifying fundamental attributes of God's nature that cause us to worship and appreciate
0:44.8	him even more. If you've missed any part of this intense study, catch up at Living on theedge.org
0:51.4	or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:58.3	Well, if you have a Bible, go to Romans Chapter 11, as Chip begins his message,
1:00.1	the wisdom of God.
1:04.9	I'm going to ask you to go to a little bit different place with me, all right?
1:06.4	Put your pencil down.
1:08.0	I want you to lean back.
1:13.5	And I want you to, in your mind, think of the most difficult,
1:16.7	stressful area of your life.
1:18.0	Okay?
1:23.6	I want you to think of an area of your life that not only is difficult and hard, and maybe it's a relationship, or maybe it's work, or, you know, maybe it's a health issue that you can't get resolved, or maybe it's an aging parent, or maybe it's a relationship or maybe it's work or, you know, maybe it's a health issue that
1:27.6	you can't get resolved or maybe it's an aging parent or maybe it's something with one of your
1:32.3	kids. But I want you to think about something that is not only difficult for you, but it's
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