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Could I have a volunteer?

Explore the profound understanding of God's omniscience and omnipresence in Psalm 139. Discover how God knows everything about you, including your thoughts, actions, and direction. This powerful insight brings security and challenges us to align our thoughts and actions with His will.

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Could I have a volunteer?

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  1. Could I have a volunteer?

  2. Interacting withGod Psalm 139

  3. Psalm 139:1-12 • God Knows Everything About You (1-6) • God Is Everywhere You Could Go (7-12)

  4. God Knows Everything About You • Searched – “always connotes a diligent, difficult probing.” • Known – come to a full and accurate spiritual assessment

  5. God Knows Everything About You • He knows your thoughts • From afar – even before they are formed (2b) • Before you speak (4)

  6. God Knows Everything About You • He knows your direction • Path: the road to life or death • Prov. 10:17a “He is on the path of life who heeds instruction” • Matt. 7:13-14; 24-27 (cf. Ps. 1)

  7. God Knows Everything About You • He knows your actions • Ways: actions and behaviors • Ps. 25:4 “Make me know Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths.”

  8. God Knows Everything About You • Such intimate knowledge comes with His immanent presence (5) • Omniscience& Omnipresence • Heb. 4:13

  9. God Knows Everything About You • Such intimate knowledge comes with His immanent presence (5) • His immanent presence includes constant leading and restraining (hand; cf. 10)

  10. God Knows Everything About You • Such intimate knowledge is not only unattainable but even incomprehensible for man (6)

  11. “Yes! That’s right! The answer is ‘Wisconsin’! Another 50 points for God, and … Uh-oh, looks like Norman, our current champion, hasn’t even scored yet.”

  12. God’s Omniscience • God doesn’t learn – Isa. 46:10 • God is not deceived – Ps. 44:21 • God understands everything – Ps. 147:5

  13. What About Us? • Question God? Argue with God? • Why not ‘come clean’? • Why pray? • Seek to know, in order to be more like Him

  14. Dr. Thomas Howe “The Bible certainly instructs us in daily living, but it also imparts knowledge of things that are worth knowing apart from any practical application.”

  15. Dr. Thomas Howe [All things are in the mind of God, so] “the acquiring of knowledge is an imitation of God and, in a sense, makes us more like God.”

  16. God Is Everywhere You Could Go • Security or anxiety? • Flee (from an enemy)? • In light of God’s intimate knowledge, we may feel our guilt and wish to hide from God

  17. God Is Everywhere You Could Go • Where could we go?? (7-9) • Heaven? Hell? East or west? • Will darkness hide us? (11-12)

  18. God Is Everywhere You Could Go • Jer. 23:24 “Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

  19. God Is Everywhere You Could Go • ‘No matter where I go You will be there to show me the right way to live’ (10) • Ps. 5:8; 23:3; 43:3 (cf. Prov. 11:3)

  20. God’s Omnipresence • God is everywhere – Jer. 23:24 • God is ‘too big’ – 1 Kings 8:27 • God sustains it all – Col. 1:17

  21. What About Us? • Security or anxiety? • God knows EVERYTHING you do and EVERYTHING you think • Do we consider our thoughts and actions like He does?

  22. What About Us? • Security! • God knows EVERYTHING you do and EVERYTHING you think • and still chooses to love you! • God is always with you!

  23. What About Us? • ‘Fear’! • God knows EVERYTHING you do and EVERYTHING you think • Choose to do and think what pleases Him (Col. 1:9-10)

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