Introduction

Welcome back, church! I’m excited to be with you today as we continue the series we started last week called “Fool’s Gold.” In this series, we are learning about wisdom. What is it? Where can we find it? How do we apply it?

And today, I want us to spend a few moments learning how to dig deeper in our pursuit of wisdom.

STORY: Talk about how people could not find gold simply by looking on the surface when they searched for it. They had to dig deep. They had to wade through rivers, pan it out, dig mines into mountains, etc... This is in part why gold was and is so valuable.

And today is the day we dig deeper together to find something even more valuable than gold. If you have a Bible or Bible app with you, turn with me to the book of Job.

Main Teaching

This is a fantastic book I would highly encourage you to read this week. It talks about a servant of God named Job. Job was someone who was upright and sought to live a life in step with God. But after Satan takes some things away from Job, Job and his friends have an ongoing dialogue about it. We are reading from a passage in Job 28, where he is speaking about wisdom and understanding. And starting in verse 12, here’s what he says:

Read Job 28:12-23

Within this passage, there are a few different things I want to highlight for us. Job tells us where to find wisdom. But, before we can know where to find it, we have to learn where it’s not and what it’s not. So first, where is wisdom not found?

Wisdom is Not Found Among the Living

In this passage, Job is talking to us about the source of wisdom. He makes it clear in verse 13 that wisdom is not found among the living (that means you and I). The reason we can’t produce wisdom on our own is because of our fallen nature. Our understanding is limited and tainted at the same time.

Read Romans 3:23

Paul makes it clear in this passage that every single human being has sinned and has fallen short of God’s glorious standard. It started all the way back in Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve (the first human beings) decided to disobey God’s commands and eat from a certain tree in the Garden of Eden. From this moment on, human beings were infected with this disease called sin. Which means, as Romans says, we have all sinned and disobeyed God.

But how crazy it is how Job, the man speaking in our main passage about wisdom, falls into this category displayed in Romans 3:23 ... View this full sermon with PRO Premium

God alone understands the way to wisdom, He knows where it can be found.