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Believe it or not, I have been accused of being a know-it-all before.
A lot, actually.
To the point where I stopped speaking up in class.
When I was growing up, and this especially happened in church but to a lesser degree at school, if nobody would speak up or knew the answer, I would always get called on.
And I would typically know the answer.
And people didn’t like that.
Or at least, they liked to tease me about it.
ICEBREAKER: What are you most looking forward to this summer?
Of course, it also didn’t help that I didn’t like people saying wrong things around me.
I had this weird urge to correct people when they said things that were wrong.
And people didn’t like that either.
They would always say “Blake you don’t always have to be, right.”
And I would say, “I know I don’t HAVE to always be right!
It’s not my fault I just always AM right!”
And people didn’t like that either.
But being a know-it-all did have its advantages.
I’m about to admit something to y’all that I don’t normally tell people.
In high school, I was a part of two academic competition teams.
I was all-state in Quiz Bowl, and we won a state championship.
Yeah, I know.
And I was a part of a thing called A.C.E., where we finished 3rd, 2nd, and 1st my 3 years on the team.
And we got money for winning those.
So as much as I was or am, an annoying know-it-all.
I don’t know it all.
As much as I can pretend to know it all, I don’t really know it all.
But, God does.
I don’t alwa
We are in the OMNI series, looking at the theology of God.
The study of God.
And we are looking at three characteristics that separate and distinguish God from the rest of us.
Last week we saw that God is omnipresence, which means that God is everywhere.
He is present in all places at all times.
This week, our theology word is omniscience.
Omniscience.
Omni.
Science.
Omni, as we learned last week, means all.
Science, which you learned in your science class, means to know or knowledge.
So we put it together, and God has all knowledge.
He knows all things.
So our big God word last week was omnipresence.
God is everywhere.
This week, omniscience.
God knows all things.
1 John 3:19-21-
God has perfect knowledge.
God knows all things.
Clear as day.
God is omniscient.
And here’s our working definition of God’s omniscience:
God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.
Explain omniscience in your own words.
What is the definition that Blake gave?
(God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.)
I want to start with the end of this statement.
That God knows it all in one simple and eternal act.
What exactly does that mean?
It means that God knows all things at all times without having to “think.”
If you were able to have a conversation with God and ask him, “How many grains of sand are there in the world?”
He would have to consider the question.
He would not have to try to remember the answer.
He knows it all at once.
If you were to ask God, “Who was the King of England in 1532?” God doesn’t have to think about it.
He immediately knows.
Everything that God knows, he knows in one simple and eternal act.
So as we start going through the Scripture and looking at all the different ways that God knows everything, keep that in mind.
He simultaneously knows it all.
This is why the Bible has verses like this:
Thinking about all that God knows makes your heard hurt.
It is unfathomable.
His limits are boundless.
It is a mystery that we can never fully comprehend.
We can know that God knows all things in one, undivided act.
We can know that God knows all things at all times, but we can never truly comprehend and fathom what that means.
It is a beautiful mystery.
So if God knows all things, then he first must fully know himself.
God fully knows himself
Now this is a little more of a head scratcher than it first appears.
Nobody in this room knows what’s going on in your head and in your heart except for you.
Right?
There is not a person in this room who can look into your soul and know all your emotions and thoughts.
You could be hiding something.
You could be masking an emotion.
You could be here, but be worried all night about a final you have coming up.
The only person in here who truly knows what all is going on inside your head, is you.
What does it mean that God fully knows himself?
And the Bible says it is the exact same way with God.
The only person who can know and search the depths of God and the thoughts of God is the Spirit of God.
This seems pretty obvious, but its actually much more of a head scratcher than we first realize.
God is an infinite being.
He has no beginning, no end, and is not controlled or limited by time and space.
He is fully present everywhere, yet nothing can fully contain him.
And when we say God is present everywhere, we do not just mean heaven and earth.
God is the one who sustains the entire universe.
The vast expanse of the solar systems, stars, and galaxies.
God is infinite, yet he can fully know himself.
His knowledge of himself is infinite.
Stretching from beginning to end, not limited by time or space.
Only infinite knowledge could understand an infinite God.
So while I may not know what is going on in your head, I can understand it because I know what having those similar thoughts are like.
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