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*It’s Time to Grow up!*
When it come to trying to find out what God’s will is for a specific things, I know what I want; I want God to do what He has done for the great founders of and leaders of the Bible and that is to just tell me!
But God didn’t tell them every little thing.
I am sure that they were not given directions as to what camels to buy.
When there was a famine they were not told to go or not to go.
That was a part of their decision unless God had a reason for giving help in that way.
If have a important decision to make then just give me the answer and give it to me now!
Ok, God you aren’t going to do that well them let’s play then hint game.
How about this:
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If I am to take this job offer will you have the next traffic light be all green.
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If I am to take this job offer will you give me peace I my heart.
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If I am to date this person God will you give me a sign?
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I talked to a man who was getting burned-out in ministry.
He put out a fleece.
If the next man offers me a job I will now that this is from God.  Now he was getting burned out because the pastor was sick and he was doing Hs JR High, Sunday School college and sometimes with 2 day notice the message as well.
Quitting might not have bben the answer cutting back may have been.
How would you like to have your kids call up after they have moved out and are married call you and ask you questions like:
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When should I mow the lawn*
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How would you like to have your kids call up after they have moved out and are married call you and ask you questions like Dad shall I buy this car or not?
What would my response be?
Have you asked yourself the obvious questions like:
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Can I afford it?
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How much gas mileage does it get?
3. What the matter with your Nash Rambler?
What is the matter with your old car?
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How much money will you lose in depreciation the first year.
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Does it have a warranty?
I don’t really know if those are the right questions or even if they are wise questions.
But the one thing that phone call tells me is that when that child moved out on their own, I did not give them one tool to live on their own.
I am being a little harsh here.
I did not give them the tool of *Wisdom.*
Maybe I did part some wisdom, at least they are calling and asking advice.
Wow that’s cool!
Now if my kids are calling and asking wisdom about car buying I will be able to pass on all my mistakes in buying cars.
I think over my lifetime I have owned over 35 cars.
I have financed poorly.
In the end, I have two cars running and they are both paid off.
I have a lot of experience!
 
            *Basically what I am saying that it is time for us to grow up and learn wisdom!
It is time to come to maturity!*
Heb 5:14  But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
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So it is obvious the where we are going in the area of God’s will and decision-making.
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Where God commands, we must obey and I you want to.
I know that you do too!/*
 
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Where there is no command from God, I am free to choose and I have the God- given responsibility to choose.
So now I have this great freedom *what will I use *to make decisions?
What one great tool do I have in making use of this newfound freedom?
Man I thought you would never ask!
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Where there is no command from God, God gives the Wisdom to choose.
It is Wisdom!
What is wisdom?
J.I. Packer said,
* “Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of getting it.*
So wisdom in a way also fits under the first principle “ Where God commands we must obey”, because God commands us to be wise!
You cannot love God and not keep his commands and you cannot keep His commands without using wisdom.
So in the areas where God had not commanded us, we have the responsibility to make wise choices not to make stupid ones.
1Co 10:31  Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
In the area of our freedom, our goal is to have our decisions glorify God and please Him.
I have found many of my  choices do very much contain God’s moral will.
Because they involve my motives and my goals as well as my actions.
So I really want the decisions I make be:
1. *“Spiritual”* in that I mean God is going to behind those goals
2. *Useful *– I want to do what ever gets the job done, while staying  in God’s moral will.
*This morning we are going to look at two major things.
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What did the people in the Bible do when God did not give special revelation?
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*Did they use wisdom and if so where did they get it?*
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The OT teaches **wise decision making from:*
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*AS You are reading scripture look for all the examples where decisions were made with out special revelation!
See how they ere done and the consequences of good choices and bad.*
*                        1.  The examples of **wise men.
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The examples of wise men.
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a.  Moses Exodus 18 :13-26 Jethro  gave a advice to Moses
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David 2 Sam 18 1-4 David was being pursued by Absalom his son.
He wanted to go to battle but deferred to the wisdom of the people.
c.  Solomon  1 Kings 3:3-14
(3)  Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
(4)  The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
(5)  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what /you wish/ me to give you."
(6)  Then Solomon said, "You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as /it is/ this day.
(7)  "Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.
(8)  "Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
(9)  "So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil.
For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"
(10)  It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
(11)  God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,
(12)  behold, I have done according to your words.
Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.
(13)  "I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so t            hat there will not be any among the kings like you all your days.
(14)  "If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days."
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Wisdom literature, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes*
*Ecc 2:13*  And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.
*Pro 1:5*  A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
Pro 1:6  To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.
*Ecc 7:11  Wisdom along with an inheritance is good And an advantage to those who see the sun.
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*Ecc 7:12  For wisdom is protection /just as/ money is protection, But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its** possessors.
(money does not!)*
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