Embracing God's Omniscience: Comfort in His Knowledge

"An attribute is something that's true all the time about God. It's not like a mood. God doesn't have moods. God is a being, and God's not segmented. So you can't say, well, I really like to talk about the love of God, but I don't want to talk about the justice of God. Well, they're both equally who He is." [00:13:33] (20 seconds)


"Before words on my tongue, you know it completely. O Lord, you know what I'm going to say. Now he goes on, he's going to talk about beyond the presence of God being everywhere. But this is a God that knows the psalmist. Now. That can create terror. And it can create great security and comfort. The terror would come from, I don't want God to know everything about me." [00:08:48] (25 seconds)


"Now, again, that can be terrorizing. It can be comforting. Remember when Samuel was going to pick the king of Israel, and Jesse brought all his sons, and he said, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, big one, big one, strong one, no, no. He said, that's it. You got nobody else? Well, there's this kind of runt of the litter. There's this, he's out taking care of the sheep, and he brings him, and this is the one God has chosen." [00:12:06] (26 seconds)


"God counts your tears from the day you're born. Now, there's some tears he doesn't count. You know what those are? Self-absorbed tears, self-pity tears, angry tears. Those are like broken-hearted tears, painful tears, tears of grief, tears of joy, tears of gratitude. He's got them. How big's your bucket? He knows. You've never cried a tear that he didn't know it." [00:13:08] (31 seconds)


"and we're just like wow look at that one maybe we get it on our phone whatever but we we're appreciating the bird he's hunting to make a check in his book to get a bird because I said to him what do you do with all these pictures and he says no no really I got some I don't really do anything with them I just I want to notate that I've captured that bird I'm like what a sad and he was disconnected from his wife and and he made it about the the conquest instead of enjoying the beauty of of God's but look what look what Jesus says about this knowledge of God in Matthew chapter 10 it says in the context of not being afraid and Matthew 10 verse uh uh 25 are not two sparrows sold for a penny basically saying they're worthless a penny nothing nothing you can get two for one penny like a piece of gum back in the old day penny then it went up two cents and gum got real expensive and he he's like a sparrow he's basically saying is is of little value to people but he says yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your father the idea here is kind of twofold it's that God knows what's going on in a sparrow's world think about it these they're all over the world and the idea here is not just that God knows it but God's there when they die he's catching them in his hand that's the idea the idea is that they're valuable to him he cares about them and he's there when they die" [00:15:10] (113 seconds)


"That's a sparrow. Now, I know in our culture that we like to make everything the same. A cockroach is just as important as a baby. No, wrong, okay? There are different values. So Jesus will make this clear in the next verse. He says they'll fall to the ground apart from the Father's will. And he says the very hairs of your head are all, if he'd have said counted, counted, that's a mathematical knowledge." [00:17:04] (33 seconds)


"He's the shepherd that guides his sheep. And he says, and after I've gone through the fire, Job says, and he did, after he's tested me, I will come forth as gold. I love that. And when you're in the middle of a trial this year, just know he knows. He knows your heart. He knows your sadness. He knows your pain. He knows what's overwhelming you. He knows your emptiness. He knows your tears. He's counted your hairs. He cares." [00:24:23] (29 seconds)


"It's like telling people, in the old days you can't wear a white dress if you're not a virgin and that's demonic that's not healthy so God knows the way that I take God knows my needs Matthew 6 8 this will change your prayer life he teaches this in light of prayer and Matthew he's talking about don't be like the unbeliever pagans they babble babble babble babble they think all their they say something over and over and over and over and over again they'll wear God down or they'll just got magic formulas or whatever and Jesus said in in Matthew 6 8 don't be like them for say with me your father say with me your father feel that this is the one who knows your heart now you can stand before God as the judge and he can know you as a judge but when you give your heart to Christ he begins to know you" [00:25:40] (58 seconds)


"When the Bible speaks of remembering in light of God, the concept is whenever God remembers something, it means he's going to act in behalf of what he's remembering. It's not just like, oh, yeah, oh, I meant to do. No, when he says, I remembered Noah and the ark, God remembered, I put promises on him. I know where he's at. I'm going to receive. I'm going to respond to what I remember." [00:29:37] (27 seconds)


"But when sin is acknowledged to God, repented of, and cleansed by the blood of Jesus, or another way the Bible speaks of it, being blotted out, God says, the devil says, look what Jamie did. Look what Jamie did. God goes, hmm, I don't remember. What do you mean you don't remember? Look, it's right there. Look what he did. Look at the cross. Look at it. I don't remember. It's gone. It's gone. Where'd it go? On the cross. He nailed our sin. Our sins, our guilt on the cross in Christ." [00:30:50] (33 seconds)