Waiting on God’s Timing, Part 1 – Charles F. Stanley

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next on in touch Christmas the wisdom of

God

it’s always a source of comfort and

peace to know that

Our God every day all day long who’s

guiding our life is god of wisdom

which means he always chooses the best

in every single decision that he makes

Not only does he choose the best but he

chooses the best way for us to get to

the best

not only that wisdom is more than just

the fact that God knows everything but

when you think about the decisions that

God makes

he always makes wise decisions which

always brings the best results so if a

person really wants the best results in

their life they will choose God’s way

they will choose to follow the decisions

that God sets out for their life and

when you think about that I think about

Romans 8 28 when the Apostle Paul who

was affirming this very idea of the

wisdom of God he said we know that God

causes all things to work together for

good to those who love him to those who

are called according to his purpose why

because he’s an all-wise God and he

always chooses the best

likewise if you look around you look at

your life would you not agree that when

you and I follow his will and his

purpose and plan we always come out with

the best

well what I want to talk about in this

message I want to talk about a decision

that God made I want to talk about the

wisdom that is found in this decision

because from Genesis to Revelation

here’s what you’ll find god making

decisions and you see his wisdom all the

way in one event after the other you see

the wisdom of God being expressed and

lived out and played out in life and if

you’ll turn to Romans chapter chapter 11

for a moment and

Paul had been in this Romans epistle

what he had been doing is he had been

expressing and declaring and expounding

the wisdom of God in God’s whole

Redemptive plan have very very wise it

is and so when he comes to this 11th

chapter and the 33rd verse he just burst

out in this awesome sense of praise to

God and he says oh the depths of the

riches both of the wisdom and knowledge

of God how unsearchable are his

judgments and unfathomable his ways so

when I think about God’s wisdom and

think about how unfathomable his ways I

want us to choose one of those events

in history one of those events that

probably as good as any share with us

the wisdom of God look how wise God is

in every single aspect of that well what

is it well the title of this message is

Christmas the wisdom of God and what I

want us to see I want us to see how

God’s wisdom is so clearly and

beautifully explained and expressed in

the whole scene of the birth of the Lord

Jesus Christ beginning with the timing

of it so somebody says well what’s so

wise about the timing of it here’s

what’s wise about it

and Eternity past God the Father God the

son God the Holy Spirit made a plan

and so creation came

and so God let time go by and if we can

just start with some of those

civilizations like Egypt for example and

all of their emptiness and all of their

many many gods that they worshiped that

was not God’s timing

and so then you move on to other

generations and while we’re moving on to

those I want you to turn and follow up

with me because I want you to see

something in Galatians chapter 4.

Galatians chapter 4 look in verse 4 if

you will