An impossible Escape
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Introduction
Introduction
I have been called a know-it-all a few times in my life. When someone calls you that it is often not a compliment though.
There is nothing right then when you are talking to your spouse or a friend and you are so certain that you know something and that you remember something. Like I know you never told me to get milk, and then you go back to your text and your wife shows you the three messages where she talked abut and reminded me to get milk.
We are indeed human and things slip our mind. We forget where thigs are. We forget important details. We forget tons of things.
But today I want to make sure you understand this truth. God is omniscient. He is the ultimate real know it all.
Nothing has ever occured to God.
We have another weakness that I am reminded of often in my frailty. I work a full time job I pastor a church plant and currently seeking a home for said plant. I have 3 kids under 6 a wife, friends, a golf game i want to be improved, a yard that needs mowing, a fence that needs installing, other family, my health. and so on. There are many days Iwish there were more of me. That I could be in multiple places at once and that wuld solve my problems.
Here is the second truth we will look at today. God is also omnipresent. God has no blind spots. He sees everything
The final thing we will discuss is God’s omnipotence. His is all powerful. There is nothing that God cant do or handle. Ultimate control.
Today we will glean from a place that we should all spend more time in. The Psalmist David speaks on all three of these things. There are two ways that you can percieve these three characteristics of God. In fear, or submission.
Turn to Psalms 139:1-6
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
Oh Lord you have searched me. This Hebrew word is to be deep or be cross examined. It is an intense search. Not the type of search that Tripp does when I ask him to find his shows, but a search to the most inmost part. An intense study to see everything.
He knows what you say do think and contemplate. Not just now and before but also what you will do
He is omnipresent
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.
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For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
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O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
For they speak against You wickedly,
And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
I hate them with the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
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