God Knows Me; God Is with Me
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What a smelly proposition that must have been. Why did he do that? Because he thought he could run and hide. Let me tell you, I'm an old man now. You can't run and you can't hide. The hounds of heaven will chase you down. It's a measure of God's grace and goodness to you. You may have been brought up in a Christian home, signed up in this school, signed your name to the whole thing, and you are the only person apart from God who knows that you've decided I can hide this. You can't. [00:17:31]
You see, every so often, even now with all of the advances of towers and everything else, every so often you find yourself on the phone and you're saying to somebody, "You're losing me. You're losing me." Or, "I'm just going through a zone where I don't have Verizon or AT&T or whatever it might be." And we understand what that means. We are now non-communicado for the next 100 yards or the next 100 miles, whatever it might be. There is no such notion with God. [00:11:14]
You have grown up in this present generation with three big lies. Three big lies. Number one, there is no creator god. Number two, there is no absolute morality. And number three, there is no ultimate truth. There's no God who made us. There is no reason why I can't sleep with anybody I want to sleep with, male, female, or otherwise because there is no absolute morality and there is no ultimate truth. [00:26:50]
You see, you and I be may be masters of disguise before one another. I can conceal my travels. I can cover my past. I can exaggerate about where I go and what I achieve. I can cover my heart's secret longings. But I cannot hide a single part of any of that from a God whose knowledge of me is so wonderful, so high that the psalmist says, "I barely can get my head around it at all. [00:12:55]
But, you know, along the journey of our lives with God, we're not unfamiliar with the idea of going to try and find a hiding place. In fact, the Bible begins with Adam and Eve hiding. Hiding. That was a stupid idea, wasn't it? He made them. And also when he comes in, he says, "Where are you?" What you mean you don't know? Of course I know. I'm saying that in order that you might say to myself, "Yeah, where am I? Where am I?" [00:15:55]
They have eyes, but they don't see. They have ears, but they don't hear. Nor is there any breath in their mouths. Why? Because they are the work of human hands. Those who make them will become like them, and so do all who trust in him. It's quite absurd, isn't it? And yet not unknown. The absurdity of seeking ultimate answers from substitute gods. [00:06:57]
You see it makes all the difference in the world to me to say for example you know God knows everyone and God knows everything and then to say God knows me in my bedroom. God knows me in my car. God knows me in my aspirations. God knows me in my fears and in my failings and so on. Now, if you just have your gaze at the text, you will see just how comprehensive and how personal this is. [00:08:21]
Selfdeceit is the worst because if I meet you and I sense that you're trying to deceive me, I will push back against that in order to preserve myself. But the subtlety of sin reveals itself in selfdeception so that we convince ourselves. No, I wasn't thinking that way. No, I wasn't saying that. No, I wasn't there. I wasn't this. And David says, you know what I think. [00:09:36]
All desires known, all hearts open, no secrets hidden. In other words, God, you know everything and you know me. Google and other um techy people have all kinds of ambitious plans for collecting data, but they cannot hold a candle to the reality of God's comprehensive knowledge of everyone and everything. [00:05:54]
It's interesting phrase, isn't it? You hem me in behind and before. You can read that in terms of restriction, but you shouldn't. You should read it in terms of protection. I'm in front of you and behind you. Bidden or unbidden, you are with me. [00:14:05]
It is an amazing um portrait, isn't it? It is, if you like, poetic theology or theological poetry. It contains vast truths, the omniscience of God, his omnipresence, his omnipotence, but not conveyed in a way that would be uh if you like academic, but rather in a fashion that puts it down at ground level at just exactly where we're living our lives. And it is intensely personal. [00:04:35]
There's no corner of the universe that God is not sovereign over. And before there was time, and before there was anything, there was God. Now you know that you believe these things and I'm not here ultimately to tell you things you don't know but to remind you of what you mustn't forget and one of the great benefits that you're enjoying as students in this place is not simply the education that you're receiving but the context in which it's coming and also is allow allowing you to think sensibly and deeply and to form an understanding of the world that is so vastly different from that which is the prevailing thought forms of certainly our western culture. [00:26:06]
Unfortunately for Gogan, although he was raised as a catechized Catholic, he had no answer to those questions. If only we might say he had turned to the book of Psalms. If only that he had immersed himself in the things that we have here. Laments, joys, sorrowful tales, grief, doubt, fear, longing, and all said in the context of the infinite and unlimited nature of God's presence, God's knowledge, and God's power. [00:03:36]
How few acknowledge that he who formed the ear, the eye, the mind himself hears, sees, and knows everything. Everything. How vastly different from the idols that we read of in the Old Testament who are present in our contemporary culture. They have mouths, but they don't speak. [00:06:28]
Who am I and why do I matter? It would be naive of us to think that that is just a very contemporary question or that it is a question which only settles in the minds of those who in the pursuit of academic excellence have time to sit and ponder. [00:02:11]
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You see, every so often, even now with all of the advances of towers and everything else, every so often you find yourself on the phone and you're saying to somebody, "You're losing me. You're losing me." Or, "I'm just going through a zone where I don't have Verizon or AT&T or whatever it might be." And we understand what that means. We are now non-communicado for the next 100 yards or the next 100 miles, whatever it might be. There is no such notion with God. [00:11:14]
You have grown up in this present generation with three big lies. Three big lies. Number one, there is no creator god. Number two, there is no absolute morality. And number three, there is no ultimate truth. There's no God who made us. There is no reason why I can't sleep with anybody I want to sleep with, male, female, or otherwise because there is no absolute morality and there is no ultimate truth. [00:26:50]
You see, you and I be may be masters of disguise before one another. I can conceal my travels. I can cover my past. I can exaggerate about where I go and what I achieve. I can cover my heart's secret longings. But I cannot hide a single part of any of that from a God whose knowledge of me is so wonderful, so high that the psalmist says, "I barely can get my head around it at all. [00:12:55]
But, you know, along the journey of our lives with God, we're not unfamiliar with the idea of going to try and find a hiding place. In fact, the Bible begins with Adam and Eve hiding. Hiding. That was a stupid idea, wasn't it? He made them. And also when he comes in, he says, "Where are you?" What you mean you don't know? Of course I know. I'm saying that in order that you might say to myself, "Yeah, where am I? Where am I?" [00:15:55]
They have eyes, but they don't see. They have ears, but they don't hear. Nor is there any breath in their mouths. Why? Because they are the work of human hands. Those who make them will become like them, and so do all who trust in him. It's quite absurd, isn't it? And yet not unknown. The absurdity of seeking ultimate answers from substitute gods. [00:06:57]
You see it makes all the difference in the world to me to say for example you know God knows everyone and God knows everything and then to say God knows me in my bedroom. God knows me in my car. God knows me in my aspirations. God knows me in my fears and in my failings and so on. Now, if you just have your gaze at the text, you will see just how comprehensive and how personal this is. [00:08:21]
Selfdeceit is the worst because if I meet you and I sense that you're trying to deceive me, I will push back against that in order to preserve myself. But the subtlety of sin reveals itself in selfdeception so that we convince ourselves. No, I wasn't thinking that way. No, I wasn't saying that. No, I wasn't there. I wasn't this. And David says, you know what I think. [00:09:36]
All desires known, all hearts open, no secrets hidden. In other words, God, you know everything and you know me. Google and other um techy people have all kinds of ambitious plans for collecting data, but they cannot hold a candle to the reality of God's comprehensive knowledge of everyone and everything. [00:05:54]
It's interesting phrase, isn't it? You hem me in behind and before. You can read that in terms of restriction, but you shouldn't. You should read it in terms of protection. I'm in front of you and behind you. Bidden or unbidden, you are with me. [00:14:05]
It is an amazing um portrait, isn't it? It is, if you like, poetic theology or theological poetry. It contains vast truths, the omniscience of God, his omnipresence, his omnipotence, but not conveyed in a way that would be uh if you like academic, but rather in a fashion that puts it down at ground level at just exactly where we're living our lives. And it is intensely personal. [00:04:35]
There's no corner of the universe that God is not sovereign over. And before there was time, and before there was anything, there was God. Now you know that you believe these things and I'm not here ultimately to tell you things you don't know but to remind you of what you mustn't forget and one of the great benefits that you're enjoying as students in this place is not simply the education that you're receiving but the context in which it's coming and also is allow allowing you to think sensibly and deeply and to form an understanding of the world that is so vastly different from that which is the prevailing thought forms of certainly our western culture. [00:26:06]
Unfortunately for Gogan, although he was raised as a catechized Catholic, he had no answer to those questions. If only we might say he had turned to the book of Psalms. If only that he had immersed himself in the things that we have here. Laments, joys, sorrowful tales, grief, doubt, fear, longing, and all said in the context of the infinite and unlimited nature of God's presence, God's knowledge, and God's power. [00:03:36]
How few acknowledge that he who formed the ear, the eye, the mind himself hears, sees, and knows everything. Everything. How vastly different from the idols that we read of in the Old Testament who are present in our contemporary culture. They have mouths, but they don't speak. [00:06:28]
Who am I and why do I matter? It would be naive of us to think that that is just a very contemporary question or that it is a question which only settles in the minds of those who in the pursuit of academic excellence have time to sit and ponder. [00:02:11]
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