The Real God - The Wisdom of God, Part 2

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How do ordinary people tap into the wisdom of God for everyday living? Join Chip for a very practical approach to that question.

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	The most common question I get is how can I know the will of God? Like, who should I marry? What school
0:07.8	should my kids go to? What do I do with my money? I've got a big decision. That requires wisdom.
0:13.7	And we're going to learn today how you can tap in to the wisdom of God to make those big decisions.
0:19.8	Stay with me.
0:22.0	Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:26.7	We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry
0:29.8	that encourages and equips Christians to live like Christians.
0:33.9	Well, in just a minute, Chip will pick up where he left off last time
0:36.6	in our series, The Real God,
0:38.5	with the second half of his message, the wisdom of God.
0:41.8	And let me encourage you to stick around after the teaching, as Chip provides some valuable insights
0:47.1	that we can apply to our day-to-day lives.
0:49.8	You won't want to miss it.
0:51.4	Well, with that, here's Chip with the remainder of his talk from Romans
0:54.5	Chapter 11. I did my graduate work at West Virginia University, and I had a kinesiology course
1:04.1	that I took. It's on the human body, how the human body works. And my professor was not a
1:08.7	believer, but she was like the high priestess of the human body.
1:12.3	She had the skeleton, and I'm serious, man, she would talk about how the body works with hushed tones.
1:20.2	And she would talk about, do you understand that one little cell with the DNA of that cell,
1:26.8	that we could take all around this entire room
1:30.3	thousands of times. Do you understand inside one little cell is enough intelligence and magnitude
1:36.2	that when it happens and divides in the human body, that it automatically knows when and how
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