Practical righteousness is beneficial but accept your limitations as a sinner (7:15-29)
1. Don’t be too righteous or too wicked (7:15-18). - Matt. 5:6; Matt. 5:20
  1. Instead, fear God.
2. The Universality of sin. Part 1 (7:19-22).
  The Universality of sin. Part 2 (7:23-29). - I Kings 11:1-3
Practical wisdom is beneficial but accept your limitations to know how things will turn out (8:1-17)
Use wisdom when you’re with the king (8:1-5). - Rom. 13:1-7; I Peter 2:13-17
1. Man’s inability to know the future or control the present (8:6-9).
2. Those who fear God will do well (8:10-13).
3. You can’t know God’s ways (8:14-17).
Trust Christ
1. Christ is the wisdom of God - Matt. 12:42; Col. 3:2
  1. He is ruling in the hearts of his people.
    Are you trusting his wisdom? - Psalm 131:1-2
2. Christ is the righteousness of God
  Christ offers you his righteousness. - 2 Cor. 5:21
  1. Examine your practice of righteousness

Trusting Christ's Righteousness and Wisdom Instead of Our Own